Rock Climbing Minions Cake

This cake was sour cream chocolate cake with vanilla bean Italian meringue buttercream. The theme for the birthday party was minions and it was being held at a climbing gym so the two themes were combined in the cake!

The cake is composed of two 9" round tiers stacked on top of each other covered in one giant piece of grey fondant. The cake was carved before being covered in fondant to give the illusion of a climbing wall. Small pieces of brightly covered fondant were added to look like the hand grips.
Pieces of grey fondant were used to make the ropes for the minions to climb up.

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The minions are made with fondant. Three of the minions were stacked to be 'climbing' up the wall on the side and two minions are posed in celebration on top of the climbing wall. 
I was so excited when I heard the theme was minions for this cake! I think it might be the theme I've been most excited about to date! I hope Kai is as happy with this cake was I was to plan it!