These Despicable Me push-up cupcakes are sure to be a hit with every little Minion. Download and print the free Minion printable wrapper.
Disclosure: This Despicable Me 2 party post was sponsored by Universal Pictures.
It’s that time again. Time for another fun Despicable Me Minion party tutorial.
This week I’m bringing you a FREE Despicable Me 2 Minion push-up cupcake wrapper printable.
I asked the amazing Juliann Law to create these for me. She did such a fantastic job.
Minion push up cupcakes
Before I share the free printable though, I want to share yellow cake instructions.
Ingredients
- 2 cups cake flour (and 1/4 cup extra)
- 1 stick butter - softened (and 1 tbs extra - melted)
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 eggs, plus
- 2 egg yolks
- 1 tbs vanilla extract
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 cup buttermilk
- pinch salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F.
- Brush a little melted butter into mini muffin tins, then sprinkle flour over the top, making sure to get rid of any excess - I hold it upside down over the sink and shake it out.
- In a medium-sized bowl combine the cake flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, beat the butter and sugar until combined and fluffy. Beat in the eggs and egg yolks gradually, and then add the vanilla.
- Add about a cup of dry ingredients to the butter mixture and combine on low speed.
- Add in about 1/2 of the buttermilk and combine.
- Repeat until all flour and buttermilk have been completely combined.
- Pour mixture into mini muffin tins and bake for approximately 15 minutes (or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean).
- Once baked, set aside to cool.
While the cupcakes are cooling, make your frosting. I normally make mine according to C&H Powdered Sugar package directions – which is basically a 1lb box of powdered sugar, 1/2 cup softened butter, 1/4 cup milk, and 1 tsp pure vanilla essence. Combine all ingredients, then add Wilton yellow food gel coloring (just a little at a time) until the desired color is reached.
Alternate adding a cupcake and yellow frosting to the plastic push-up cupcake container. You should end up with three layers. Pipe a little extra yellow frosting onto the top cupcake and top with brown sprinkles.
NOTE: I used the Wilton brand of treat pop containers, see how the lid makes a great stand so they don’t fall over.
Free Minion printable wrapper
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Thanks for the printable! Just so you know, they fit perfectly around the Sara Lee brand of individually-wrapped Twinkies too! 🙂
You will LOVE the new movie too, my little man especially loved it, he was giggling away through it.
We just saw Despicable me last night for the first time and we laughed our butts off. Can’t wait to see the new movie and these push pops are awesome! Thanks for sharing.
What a fun movie idea! There’s a drive in about an hour away from us. If it’s still open, I would love to do this! We loved the first movie and are looking forward to the second! Hugs, Leena
Leena,
So another blogger used these when she took her kids to the drive-in, but she filled the push up pops with taffy, you should check out some of her other ideas too: http://www.gallamorewest.com/2013/07/despicable-me-2-at-drive-in.html
Hi Amy,
I’m not exactly sure what you mean. There are two wrappers per sheet, so you need to print out as many sheets as you need depending on how many push-up pop containers you have. If you mean how many cupcakes you need to bake, it depends on whether you use a mini muffin pan, or a whoopie pie pan as that will gauge the height of each one, also what you put in-between. If you don’t use much icing in between then you may need 3 mini cakes per push-up pop container, but if you are laying with thicker icing, fruit, or other items, you may only need 2. I hope that helps.
Tonya,
I was wondering how many total the push pop cupcakes make?
Thanks! Amy
Hi, sorry about that. After I read it again, it wasn’t very clear. If I use the mini muffin pan and it makes about 2-3 mini cakes per push pop, how many will that make total for each guest? Does that make more sense? Also, where did you find the push pop containers?
Thanks!!
These are perfect! Thanks so much for sharing this! My boyfriend’s birthday is coming up this Friday and he loves these minions. I was looking for a minion cake recipe and came across this. This is much easier than what I was planning, and I love that it’s portable so we can take them canoeing with us. Fantastic!
love love these, do you have the template for the purple minions for the push pops, i cant find them anywhere