Hey guys, it’s Ro! Welcome to another Nerdy Nummies!
Today I am gonna be making something that has been requested for such a long time!
And I got so many requests, today I’m gonna be making from scratch, banana cupcakes
and I’m gonna be decorating them to look like…. Despicable Me Minions!
They’re so cute!
The things you will need, will be: Fresh bananas, I have 4 bananas, you might need
more or less, but 4 is a good number, just to make sure you have enough.
Salt, baking soda, vanilla extract, baking powder, regular sugar, flour, 1 stick
of butter, this is unsalted, 2 eggs. I have a spatula for a tool, a whisk, this
is a potato masher, but I’m gonna be using it today as a banana masher, and
a cupcake tray and I’ve lined them all with these really cute, I found these
at Target, they’re bright blue and that's kind of like the color of the Minion’s pants, their little overalls,
so I thought that was so cute lined with those. 2 big mixing bowls, and,
electric beater! Let’s put this all together. Hee-hee-hee-hee!
The first thing we’re gonna do is take our big mixing bowl and we’re gonna mix
together the dry ingredients. We’re gonna mix together the salt, baking soda, baking
powder, flour and sugar. And whisk it all together.
Add 1-1/2 cups of flour, 3/4 cup of sugar, 1 teaspoon of baking powder, 1/2 a
teaspoon of baking soda, 1/4 a teaspoon of salt.
Now you’re just gonna whisk everything together. Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh!
Make sure it’s all combined. This is a Martha Stewart recipe, so it’s pretty good!
I’ll put a link down below to the recipe.
Once that’s all mixed, you’re just gonna set this off to the side and we’re gonna smash
some bananas. I just peeled 4 bananas and put them in this other bowl, and the
recipe calls for a cup and a 1/2 of bananas, recommended about 4 bananas, but I
love bananas, so I’m not even gonna measure it, the more banana the better!
Now we’re just gonna take this potato smasher and mash ‘em up.
Oh yeah!
Now you’re gonna add 1/2 a teaspoon of vanilla extract. We’re gonna add our 2 eggs,
we’re just putting all of our wet ingredients in here. And your butter, it says
melted butter, so I melted it a little bit, it’s just really, really soft.
It should just glide in there. Oh there we go, perfect!
Now I’m gonna mix all this up.
And now we are going to combined our wet ingredients and our dry ingredients.
I’m just gonna pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients bowl because…
It’s bigger.
Oh smells so good!
And now you’re just gonna take a beater, and mix it up until it’s all combined.
Once you got your banana cupcake batter all ready, we’re just gonna scoop it into
these little cupcake trays. And I’m using a tablespoon, and I just use 2 scoops.
Once you’ve filled all of your cupcake trays, you’re gonna heat your oven to 350
and bake for 18 minutes. And, just keep your eye on ‘em, because as soon as they
start to turn a little bit golden, they are done. Every oven is different.
While the cupcakes are baking, we are going to decorate and make some little
Minions! The things you’ll need will be: Twinkies, they are now selling these again,
and, if you don’t have twinkles, a really good alternative are these little
cookies. Anything that will look like the Minion’s body. But today we are gonna
be using Twinkies. What I did is I took a bunch of Twinkies, and I put them in the
fridge, and I just chopped them in 1/2. And that’s gonna be the little Minion’s body.
We are gonna be using sprinkles for the little Minion’s hair, dee-dee-dee!
You can use dark brown or black, whatever you have available, Smarties candy
for their little eyeballs, we’re gonna pick out all the white ones.
And then a little bit of frosting to make their little glasses.
The first thing that we’re gonna do to decorate our little Minions is take our
black frosting, with a number 3 tip, and we’re gonna put some on top of their faces,
and stick on top the white Smarties. I’ve separated a lot of the white Smarties into
this bowl so I could just pull from there. And I’m gonna do a line all the way
around. Now we’re gonna give minion a little smile, because they’re pretty happy
little minions. And little eyeballs!
That’s what he looks like, I’ll pick it up so you can see him. Ta-dew!
Now you’re just gonna decorate all of them. You can make a bunch of them and you
can make their eyes going different ways, and give them different personalities.
And, you can’t forget, the minion that only has 1 eyeball.
I’m gonna do that 1 right now! So just have fun with it and make your little
Minions however you like!
We’ve got all of our little Minions done and our cupcakes just came out of the oven.
They smell so good, they kind of smell like banana bread… Yeah!
So make sure that they’ve had plenty of time to cool before you put frosting on.
And I just have here, vanilla buttercream frosting, I put it in a big plastic bag,
and I dyed it blue, to look like the little minion pants colors.
And I have a big tip at the top, the size that I’m using is an 807.
And it’s just a smooth, a smooth round.
Before I put the frosting on, I decided to level the cupcakes, to make them
a little bit flat by just taking a big knife and just cutting across, so that the Minions
will have a really flat surface to sit on. I thought, yeah, that’s a good idea!
Now I’m gonna frost!
Go all the way around, and then boop in the middle!
Ta-da! Here are the Despicable Me Minion cupcakes that we made!
They are so cute! I love all of their little faces!
I made them all different, some are looking up, down, cross-eyed, a-ha-ha,
they’re so cute!
Thanks you guys for suggesting it, I loved making these, they were super easy,
so if you are a beginner baker, these were super, super easy to make. I would
suggest it. And, I don’t know where the idea for the Twinkie as the Minion
originated from, I saw pictures of it on Reddit, and Pintrest, a ton of different people
making it, so I have no clue who to say thank you to.
So, if you know, leave me a comment down below and I will put credit in there,
I just, I don’t know where it came from!
And, also, leave me a comment down below if you have any other ideas for any
other Nerdy Nummies and I will do my best to make it happen!
OK, thanks you guys, bye-bye!
Huuuuuuh, a-cha-cha-cha-cha-cha-cha, a-cha-cha-cha-cha-cha-cha,
a-cha-cha-cha-cha-cha-cha… That was a Office Steve Karrel joke, but he voices the
character for Despicable…
I have a piece of tape on my shoe…
Side note.