Greetings, Crafters! And Bakers! And Marvel-Junkies, too!
When August rolls around, it's time for me to put on my heavy duty apron and roll out the fondant. Each year, we host a themed pool party for my nephew's birthday and this year (he turned 7!! can't believe it!) he chose the Avengers.
I decided to dedicate a layer of the cake to each of the Avengers (excluding Hawkeye and Black Widow, both of whom are pretty bland aesthetically.)
Here's what I came up with:
I sculpted the fist out of fondant (using a tin foil core) and made incisions on the top layer to pull up and create a "bursting" effect. The Iron Man mask is also fondant, as is Mjolnir (Thor's Hammer), which I attached to a cake pop stick wrapped in fondant. I used a toothpick to carve the symbol on the hammer and coated the whole thing in silver edible glitter. The lightening is piped royal icing.
We also made a smaller, individual desserts - decadent mini chocolate fudge cakes with a chocolate ganache topping:
I melted some red chocolate (conveniently found the melting chips in my baking cabinet!) and piped the Avengers symbol onto wax paper. After they hardened, I positioned one on each mini cake and sprinkled red disco dust for the finishing touch!
Needless to say, my nephew was only interested in eating Thor's hammer, in typical 7-year-old boy fashion.
Laila
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