Seemingly impossible birthday cake request

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DS turns 4 in under 2 weeks. Asked him what birthday cake he would like this year. He has decided he wants an Avengers cake. Great I think. Then he asks for Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, Hawkeye, Black Widow, Falcon... ... Red Skull, Murdoch and Ultron.

I cannot find an Avengers cake or cake topper with villains and heroes. And I'm very sure trying to create those myself out of icing is way beyond my ability.

I'm hoping there's a clever MNetter out there who knows somewhere I can go to solve this. Please help!

You can put a photo onto a cake at asda if you can create a collage and somehow print it?

We got DH (yes, DH) an Avengers cake from Asda. Could you do one of those print your own photo / transfer ones?

But mini figures to stick on top of a suitably-coloured cake? E.g. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/2764324901/ref=cmswwrapiin7x2xbEMA6JK8
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/2764324901/ref=cmswwrapiin7x2xbEMA6JK8

This is what we did for my DS this year:

Do they have Avengers Lego?

How about getting minifigures and using as toppers in a sort of montage?

My daughter wanted a whole host of cartoon characters and real toys on a cake. I used Photoshop to make a collage (although I appreciate not everyone has Photoshop but maybe paint or similar would do it) then printed then got it printed onto a cake topper in EBay and put it on to of my own cake.

I meant to say, does your DS have Avengers Lego? They do make it.

Love the mini figures idea - a cake and a toy in one!

Check eBay, I've seen edible printed picture things on there for cakes. Perhaps they do small ones for cup cakes with villains and you can get the big superhero cake from asda?

I had a similar problem when my son asked for a Star Wars cake with all his favourite characters.
I then struck on the idea of buying some little plastic mini figures which I stuck on the top of a cake topped in chocolate. It sounds like a bit of a cop out but he was thrilled and all his friends thought it was 'awesome',

The best part was he could keep the toys (after I'd washed all the chocolate off their feet!)

Image transfer onto a square cake, shitload of icing round the edges and sides, press jelly tots into the icing. Minifigures standing guard round the edges maybe? Be prepared for actual fights over who gets the Captain America figure (or whichever you don't have two of).

Minifigures on cake also = party bag.

Ah cross post, someone else thought of the mini figures. I thought it was my genius idea!

If you want to do a home bake you could do something like a volcano cone shaped cake, lots of chocolate butter cream and crumbled flake, strawberry laces pouring out as lava flow and then the characters dramitically posed around the scene. Crumbled digestives would make a good base layer covering as soil.

4 is great because what ever you do they'll love. Their imagination fills any gaps.

Mini figures is a genius idea! Thank you all. Knew someone (or everyone ) would come up with something.

Our Asda said they wouldn't do a print out because of copyright issues.

ik my DH has had several lego themed cakes, I swear they make the biggest kids.

You're welcome. I thought of it first, I'm just slow at typing.

Flouncing's 'Avengers confronting an erupting volcano' scene sounds amazing if you can pull it off.

Cross posted with flouncing. That's a genius idea too. Managed to located some villain superfigures to add to his good guy collection so if nothing else I'm sure he will be happy with those.

Here's an image of a volcano cake pinched from pinterest. Sparklers really set the scene. Strawberry jam and slightly watered down vanilla buttercream could be the lava.

Its what i class as a rough cake, my kind of baking. It looks better a bit handmade and rough around the edges.

Sorry to revive a dead thread but wanted to thank you all again for ideas and help again.

I had ordered some decorations to hide my shoddy side icing but they haven't arrived but here is the cake totally outs self

That came out really nicely! I can't work with fondant either so I normally just buttercream. Most importantly, did DS love it? I bet he did.

That's great. I love the flying figures .

Hope your son is thrilled.

Thank you

Ds is thrilled. There is now a story behind what happened to the chocolate building and why the avengers are fighting the baddies. 4yo imaginations are brilliant.