Marvel Avengers Cake
Today we are making a Marvel Avengers cake with Iron Man’s mask, Thor’s hammer, Captain America’s shield, Hawkeye’s bow and arrow and of course Hulk’s massive green fist smashing through the top of the cake. HULK SMASH! This one was for a birthday party held at a public venue and it actually created a bit of a spectacle with lots of people stopping to stare and admire the cake. All part of the fun!
To make this Marvel Avengers Cake you will need:
Serves: I always find the number of serves tricky to estimate as it depends on how big you cut your slices and if there’s lots of other food at the party. Is this your only dessert? If so then you will want reasonable slices. However if the kids have already had lots of sweet food then your portions will be smaller.
To give some indication, the cake and frosting used to make this Marvel cake is enough to make 30 cupcakes, so if you’re cutting smaller sized portions you’ll serve 30. If you want dessert sized portions I’d say 20 people will be happy.
Fondant Cutting Templates:
Cake:
1½ x the quantity of my favorite chocolate cake recipe in the world.
Baked in three round cake tins 20cm (7.87 inches) in diameter and one small bowl or large teacup the one I used was 12 cm (4.72 inches) in diameter at the top and 5cm (1.97 inches) at the base.
Simple Syrup:
1/4 cup or 55g (1.94 ounces) sugar mixed with 1/4 cup or 63g (2.22 ounces) of water. Heat until the sugar has just dissolved. Allow to cool and add some vanilla essence.
Frosting:
200g (7.05 ounces) milk chocolate
70millilitres (2.37 fluid ounces) or 1/4 cup plus 1 teaspoon cream (35% fat)
120g (4.23 ounces) or 1/2 cup plus 1 Tbsp margarine or butter
1 1/3 cups or 165g (5.82 ounces) icing sugar
1/2 cup or 50g (1.76 ounces) cocoa powder
Heat the cream and pour over the chocolate. Leave for a minute and then stir until smooth. If you still have some unmelted chocolate microwave for 10 seconds at a time and stir. Leave to cool at room temperature over night or for an hour in the fridge.
Whip together the margarine and icing sugar until light an fluffy. Add the cocoa powder and mix well to combine. Finally add the ganache and whisk until smooth.
Rice Crispies Recipe:
200g (7.05 ounces) or 6 cups of rice bubbles
200g (7.05 ounces) or 2 1/3 cups of marshmallows
Melt the marshmallows in the microwave then stir though the rice crispies. You may want to do this in two smaller batches rather than one large bowl. It will be very sticky. Rub your hands with a little vegetable oil to allow you to handle the mixture.
Fondant and cake decorating supplies:
150g (5.29 ounces) black fondant
20g (0.71 ounces) white fondant
500g (17.64 ounces) green fondant
300g (10.58 ounces) red fondant
50g (1.76 ounces) brown fondant for the bow and arrow
250g (8.82 ounces) blue fondant for the shield and to cover the board
500g (17.64 ounces) ivory fondant to cover the cake
powdered blue food colouring
gold and silver edible luster dust
optional: cake shine spray to spray on the mask.
A strong round cake board 10inch (25.4 centimetres) diameter
Confectionary:
1 large sized kitkat
1 boost bar or similar for the handle of thors hammer.
100g (3.53 ounces) compound white chocolate
Below is a summary of steps please see the video for detailed instructions.
Remember all these fondant details can be made up to a few weeks ahead and just left to air dry for a few days and then stored in a container to protect from dust.
Hulks Fist
Use rice crispies to make the shape of hulks fist. Then add a cake pop stick into the middle of the fist and stand it in a tissue box or similar to hold it upright. Add a strip of fondant along each finger. Then add snakes of fondant for tendons down the back of the hand. Cover the fist in green fondant. Draw in the details on the fist using a knife. Brush with blue powdered food colour to add shading.
Iron Mans Mask
Make the ironmans mask out of rice crispies in the size shown on the template. Then take the side profile template and add/build it up where needed.
Cover the mask in two layers of red fondant. Use the flat part of a knife to make the straight line across where the eyes and mouth are and sharpen the edges around the jaw line.
Then use your knife to indent on each side of the cheek. Roll out some black, cut out the template pieces and brush with gold luster dust.
Place a strip of white across the eye area then add the mask. Use a knife to make indents where shown on the template.
The mask shape is based on the iron man suit Mark 43 from the Avengers Age of Ultron movie.
Thors Hammer
To make Thors hammer (mjolnir) cut the kitkats to the length shown on the template and stack 3 high. “glue” together with some melted compound white chocolate. Take the left over white compound chocolate and add 1 teaspoon of milk to make it seize. We will use this for rocks.
Cut the chocolate bar to the correct length for the handle. Wrap the kitkat stack in black fondant. Roll a snake of black, dust with silver and wrap around the handle.
Add a ball of black fondant to the end of the hammer, shape and brush with silver.
Remove a circle of fondant from the base of the hammer. Turn it upside down and add some compound white chocolate to glue the handle into place. Add a thin strip of fondant around the join.
Hawk Eyes Bow and Arrow
Take a thin strip of black and line it up with the template standing it on it’s side. Then take an extra bit and roll it up at one end, trim it off and add it to the top of the bow on each side.
Roll a thin snake for the arrow, then use your fingers to shape a tip and add it to the end.
Flatten out some brown fondant and trim it to the shape shown on the template. Then using a tiny bit of water join it to the black. Then do the same on the other side. Follow the template to add strips of brown on the other lines and then use a fine piping tip to add an indent on each of the bigger solid sections.
Brush the arrow in silver and the tiny bit at the front of the bow too. Leave to dry out.
Thors Cape Buttons
Flatten out some black fondant, cut out two circles and then using a star piping tip push down into the circle to give indents around the circle. Brush with silver luster dust.
Captain Americas Shield
Cut a small circle of blue then a bigger one of red. Take out the blue sized circle from the centre of the red to make a ring and add around the blue. Cut out a black ring in the next size up, brush with silver luster dust. Then place that over the top. Repeat with red.
Use your template to cut out a star and then brush it silver and add it to the top.
Make a rounded mound of fondant slightly smaller than the shield and add the shield on top. If you don’t have a couple of days to leave this to dry out then you’ll need to add tylose to the fondant so that it dries in time for you to stand it up.
Cakes
Now for the actual cakes, make 1 and ½ times the chocolate cake recipe and bake it three round tins 8inch (20.32 centimetres) in diameter. Then put some mixture into a wide teacup or narrow bowl this is going to be for hulk’s wrist.
Once your cakes are cool, level them off and add some simple syrup to the top of each layer.
Layer the cakes with buttercream in between them, cover the whole cake in a thin layer of frosting. Place in the fridge for 1 hour.
With the teacup cake trim off two sides to make it flatter and then cover in frosting.
Add another coat of frosting over the top of the cake smoothing as shown in the video.
Cover the cake in ivory colored fondant and trim off the excess.
Take a strong cake board and roll out some blue fondant thinly on top. Then trim around the edge using a knife.
Lift up the cake and transfer it to the cake board placing it nearer to the back. Roll out a snake of the ivory fondant and add it around the base of the cake to make the join look neat.
Cover the the tea cup cake in green fondant and make indents for tendons. Place the wrist gently on top of the cake toward the back and mark the outline. Remove the wrist and then using black gel food colour paint ‘cracks’ on the cake.
Add wrist back on top and add two cake pop sticks for support. Then push the fist down into the wrist.
Roll out some thin red fondant for Thor’s cape and drape it over one side of the cake coming up to the base of the wrist. Add the two buttons and then Thor’s hammer.
Roll a little strip of brown fondant and add it to the base of the hammer letting it drape down.
Position iron mans mask on one side of the cake and captain americas shield to the other. Then position hawk eyes bow and arrow on the cape.
Add the seized white chocolate pieces for rubble on top and around the base of the cake.
Add the birthday child’s name to the front of the cake.
Special shout out to Joyce from joyliciouscakes this cake was inspired by a cake she made, design idea used with permission. Please note she does not take orders, but you can go and show her some love on her fb page.
When you make the cake remember to put a photo of your version in the comments below, I’d love to see it.
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Hi Ann I just want to say I love your video’s and thanks for helping me pass my cooking exam that I was failing very badly.
Now that were done with that can you please make a cake where a girl is siting on a swing with her family and friends.If you make this cake you would earn all my support.
Thank you again,
Nimo
Thank you for this great cake idea & templates. I made it for my son’s 3rd Birthday & everyone loved it, especially bday boy! My first proper cake attempt 🙂
Hi Julia, This is fabulous work. Well done!!
I’d like to make this for my son who is going to be 4 on Christmas Day! But I can’t find ‘compound chocolate’ (I’m in the UK)…I’m sure I can substitute something for the glue part of its job, but is there anything else that you might suggest for the rocks? Thank you.
*amazing cakes by the way….I made Baymax for my other son in September and it was a big hit!!!*
Hi Joanne, compound choclate is just chocolate that has vegetable oil added. If you check the ingredients on the packet just choose a wite choclate that has vegetable oil in the ingredients. This is usually cheaper than quality white chocolate. Many melts or buttons will fit this category.
Thank you for that amazing cake.
For my son’s 5th Birthday!
Hi Angelina, this cake looks fabulous! Well done. Hope your son was thrilled.
Not quite to your standard, but for someone who’s just found baking….
This cake looks great Anna. Well done.
Here’s my cake I made for my son for his 6th birthday, he lived it. Thanks 🙂
Hi Chelsea, this cake looks amazing! You did an awesome job. Well done!
Hi there, I am about to attempt this cake for my sons birthday, I have bought the templates from you but am wondering if they print out to scale? When I watch the youtube tutorial some of the items like ironman and the hammer and bow seem bigger than the template I have printed off. Please help!
Hi Mel, Just check that your printer is not scaling the print out. It needs to print at 100%. The template will be a little smaller than the finished product when it is covered with fondant etc.
Finally got there in the end, had issues with Hawkeye’s bow, wayyyy to fiddly .. it kept falling apart lol .. but added the arrows instead .. 🙂
Hi Ivan, It turned out great. I hope the three year old loved it!
Hi Ann, love the look of this cake! .. I was wondering what is the correct height for the Hulks hand to be in proportion for the size of this cake .. I’ve got the width size correct, but for some reason the height on mine doesn’t look right .. thank you for your help ..
Hi Ivan, I am sure your cake is now finished. Ann suggested making the height of the ‘wrist’ at least 8cm.
Hi Ann .. How tall is the Hulks fist, there’s no height template for it. .. thanks! Hope to make this awesome cake very soon,I’ve already made Thors hammer, just hope the rest fall into place just as good … lol
I love this recipe and I want to try it out for my son’r birthday. did you make your own fondant or buy it?
Thanks and love the blog!
Hi Kate, Ann sometimes makes her own fondant and sometimes buys it.
wow really you have to pay to buy a template. what if you are just a kid but your parents do not let you purchase these type things. i thought that you would just have to download i think i might have to move youtube channels to watch different baking tutorials. such as elise from mycupcakeaddiction or ro from nerdy nummies and how to cake that. sorry for the hate though but i subscribed to this channel because i thought it would be easier for people who just do not need to spend money on templates.
I made this cake for my nephews birthday and he absolutely loved it! Your video helped me so much and thank for the recipe! The cake made his party the best!
How awesome does your cake look! Amazing job Shelby!
Hi !! I loved the cake and I want to do for my birthday , but I have a question. With how many days in advance can I make ironman ‘s mask , Thor´s hammer and the hulk ‘s fist?
Hi Ximena, You can make these elements a few days ahead. One subscriber has made them a week ahead without issue.
Please could you repost the templates for this cake as they are not accessible on the website. I’m really looking forward to making the cake…
Hi Clare, If you click on the buy it now button on the blog page, you will be able to purchase the template. If you can’t see the button, go to the shop page: https://www.howtocookthat.net/public_html/shop-cook/
Hi
Probably a silly question but can you eat the rice krispies treats? I researched a little and a few places said not to eat unless they had butter in them as they wouldn’t be very tasty?
Thanks in advance for reply!
Hi Claire, Rice Krispies are a cereal so they are fine to eat, though without anything added they would probably taste a little bland. In this case they are mixed with melted marshmallows so are a lovely treat and very edible.
Hi there, thankyou so much for the idea, you really are AMAZING!
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Hi Hayley, This is such a great Bake! Well done. Your detail is amazing.
my little brother’s birthday is coming up and its a marvel theme so I wanted to make him the avengers cake on your channel. Can I use betty crocker cake mix rather than making the cake from scratch and just to confirm, we have to chill the cake in the fridge until the frosting is firm before putting the fondant right? THANKS 🙂 also can i use white chocolate ganache icing instead as well-will it taste good with cake? (not a fan of chocolate cake/icing)
Thanks, love your ideas and recipes!
Hi there
I followed the cake recipe for this exactly. I’ve just pulled the cakes out of the oven and they don’t feel right. Not springy etc. it seems sticky like and soft do you have any tips?
Hi Ken, I’d suggest inserting a sker in teh centre to check they are done all the way through, it should come out clean. 😀