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Hannah's Despicable Me Cake (2013)

This is a Despicable Me cake for our daughter's 9th birthday.  She had a disco dance party this year so I tried to make the cake match the theme.  Strangely we decided on Despicable Me after seeing #2, but somehow not a single character from the 2nd movie made it into the cake, except for some minion costumes.  The basis is that they are having a birthday dance party of their own in Gru's underground lair.  Dr. Nefario is the DJ while Gru, the girls and the minions party.  The minions of course are doing their own strange things.  One is still floating happily on the ceiling.  Another is swinging on the happy birthday sign which broke while he was putting it up.  There is a conga line on the upper catwalk which somehow caught a working minion in the line carrying a rocket.  See test video.  There is one swinging around on the large rocket tip.  The maid is cleaning up popcorn from another.  The birthday balloons are carrying one minion up off the floor while his friend tries to help him.  There are two chasing another that has a giant banana (we like the banana short).  Another is spinning on the record player.  A group is dancing in front of the DJ.  There is a magician trying to show his stuff.  The disco ball has a minion stuck on it somehow.
We were able to buy a kit that had Gru, the girls and 4 minions.  We also made 30 extra minions plus one other giant minion we bought (which was put behind the magnifying glass so he looked even larger).  We also made Dr. Nefario.  They were all sculpted from Sculpey Clay ahead of time.

The cake was really simple, nice and flat, it is actually 8 boxes of yellow cake covered with fondant.  The large rocket is rice krispie treats covered in fondant.
 
Overall it turned out great and our daughter was very happy.  All the girls had a great time dancing (with lights, disco ball and fog).



 



































































































































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