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-

Unicorn Cake

Wow, I am not good at keeping this blog up to date. Whoops.  I'm always hanging out for other bloggers to post, but forget to do the same :)

Well, here is my latest cake.  I was asked to make a unicorn cake for Alice's 6th birthday.  This was the first cake where I have had issues with air bubbles under the fondant.  Ugh!  It was stressful!  The first one appeared after the icing had dried overnight.  And set.  But it was only a little air bubble and I sorted it out (or so I thought) using a pin and smoothing the icing down.  Then I went to work for the day.  And arrived home to a massive volcano air bubble.  Ok, so it wasn't really the size of a volcano, but it was pretty big.  I thought that I was going to have to pull off all of the purple fondant and start again, because the whole layer had set into something that resembled a hill.  The pale purple layer came in handy to cover the hole that I had to create to get rid of the air bubble!  The rest of the cake was pretty uneventful, but I won't be leaving any cakes anywhere near a window again (curtain closed or not!).

-N-