You don’t want them to be all the way to the edge or they might show through if you don’t stack the cakes perfectly. Since these are 9 inch cakes I used 8 inch cake boards. I had precut four holes into my cake boards that would go between each layer. I still wanted them cold and firm but not frozen as I needed to slide them down over the dowels. The day before I started the assembly I moved the cakes from the freezer to the refrigerator. This was going to be a VERY heavy cake so I assembled it on a firm plastic cake separator plate instead of a board. I baked one of the dome shaped using the sports ball pan and five of the round 9 inch layers. I used a 9 inch Wilton sports ball pan and 9 inch round pans. After they had cooled completely I sealed them and put them in the freezer. I knew I was going to need my cakes firm so I baked them a few days ahead of time. You can see that he has settled from the weight of the cake I hope that these birthday cakes are memories he will always remember. The smile on my son’s face made it worth every ounce of frustration. Even though it was a difficult cake it was also funnest I’ve made. In the following steps I’m going to try to explain everything I did the best I can. Everything I had seen or read online about making fondant looked messy and I wasn’t guaranteed results. That saved me not only time but some sanity. I’m sure this will make a few people cringe, but, I just bought a five pound bucket of fondant from Hobby Lobby. However, I knew that I just couldn’t get the details I needed for this cake without it. I don’t care for the taste of fondant so never really had a desire or need to use it until now. I had never worked with fondant ever before this cake. I have made every birthday cake and this Minion was by far the most time consuming and difficult. It’s a tradition that I love to continue with my son. When I was a kid my mom always made my birthday cakes for me. I really wanted to do a test run on this cake before his party but because of the cost of supplies and the time it was going to take it just wasn’t an option. Luckily I started gathering supplies few weeks early because I ended up forgetting things and kept making last minute runs to Hobby Lobby during the last week before I got started on it. I made a list of everything I thought I would need. My son, Ben, looked at some of the pictures and picked his favorite so I set out to duplicate it the best I could. After spending several hours over the course of a few weeks looking at Minion cakes on the internet I decided I thought I could pull it off. More specifically he wanted a one eyed Minion cake. My son requested a Minion party for his 6th birthday.
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