Another one from the archives, this was back in 2012, just before the first Avengers movie came out…
Continuing the pattern of being unable to watch a new movie without marathoning its predecessors with themed food, we prepared for Avengers by watching Iron Man, Thor and Captain America (sorry Hulk, there was only so much time and someone had to draw the short straw).
The food wasn’t as elaborate as Lord of the Rings Day, but I still had a great time coming up with ideas.
The food:
- Hulk jelly shots (jello for the Americans) – I drew the (lego-inspired) faces onto paper, then traced them onto the outside of plastic shot glasses with a permanent marker. Next added green jelly. Once the jelly was set, I crumbled flake chocolate for hair (which was actually much darker than the picture shows)
- Captain America shield fruit platter – Blueberries, raspberries and banana…
- Hawkeye pizza toast – toast with tomato paste and herbs, topped with an arrow cut out of cheese. Melted slightly under the grill.
- Liquorice Mjölnir – Thor’s hammer made by melting the end of a liquorice bullet (chocolate-coated liquorice) over a flame then sticking it to a liquorice all-sort
- Black Widow mars bar slice – I made mars bar slice (by melting mars bars and stirring in rice bubbles), and hand-moulded them into spider-ish shapes then coated them with meted chocolate. M&Ms for eyes and liquorice legs. (They didn’t turn out as well as I’d hoped, the Shelob cup-cakes from the Lord of the Rings Day are much better spiders)
- Hawkeye mars bar slice – balls of mars bar slice, coated in chocolate, then adorned with arrows cut from the coloured layers of a liquorice all-sort.
- Nutri -grain – because the ad says it is “Iron Man Food”
- Lolly gobble bliss bombs – yes these are a real thing and my friend brought them to represent the excessive amount of explosions we anticipated…
Hulk jelly shots
Captain America fruit platter
Hawkeye pizza toast
Mjölnir
Black Widow Mars Bar Slice
Hammers, Hawkeye mars bar slice and Iron Man food
lolly gobble bliss bombs