Doctor Doom Cake

My hubby is a comic book nerd - I say that with affection :)  Last year I made this Spider-Man cake for his birthday, using the Wilton 3D Skull pan (I have no idea how to carve cakes so the tin was very helpful).  This year he wanted a Doctor Doom cake for his birthday.  And yes, his birthday was in September - I'm just super-slow at posting.

Who is Doctor Doom?  I know him from the Fantastic Four movie (he's the bad guy), but apparently he is in lots of Marvel comics.. I think.

Doctor Doom Cake

So, I was given a Doctor Doom figurine as a guide, used the trusty 3D Skull pan again, and this was the result.  My hubby was pretty happy with the cake, although it did cause me a couple of headaches - I didn't realise that his eyes were supposed to look like that, so I had to add in the bar bits after I thought that I had finished the cake!  But it was all finished in time for his surprise birthday dinner.  

This is a chocolate mudcake, filled with chocolate buttercream.  The icing is all edible fondant, including the silver food-safe paint.  Having said that, there is a whole lot of food colouring in the icing, so I just ate the cake :)

Here are the pictures which show the step-by-step process for anyone who is interested:

Join the two halves of cake together & cover in buttercream

Add the extra shape with fondant (or cake if you'd prefer) - Doctor Doom has a big chin :)

Cover the whole cake in fondant

Add extra fondant to make the shape of the mask - I made a pattern first with baking paper

Paint with edible silver paint (from cake shops)

Add the green fondant for his hood.  Tissue helped to hold the fondant while it dried

Almost finished

Paint the eyes and mouth in a darker silver

My hubby's friends from Comic Zone think that I should give them some business cards and specialise in comic book character cakes.  Let's see what I have to make next year!

-N-