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    Home » Cute Food » Kid's Treats

    Captain America Cookie Cake

    Modified: Aug 17, '23 · Published: Sep 14, '14 · By: Beth Klosterboer · Commission earned on paid or sponsored links.

    Become a superhero to your friends and family and make them a Captain America Cookie Cake decorated with red, white, and blue M&M's or a Captain America Chocolate Canister. These desserts are perfect for a movie night.

    Captain America Cookie Cake on a table with a white chocolate bucket decorated with a Captain American shield and filled with red, white, and blue M&M's.

    Last weekend a group of my friends' daughters flopped on the couches in our basement movie theater and enjoyed these red, white, and blue Captain American desserts.

    I didn't realize Captain America had such wide appeal and was really shocked to see how excited all of the girls were to watch the movie.

    Of course, I knew they'd love the Captain America Cookie Cake that I served along with lots of other movie night snacks.

    Captain America M&M's Cookie Cake decorated with red, white, and blue M&M' with a white chocolate canister and a star-shaped box filled with more M&M's.

    Creating Captain America's shield out of a jumbo cookie was super easy and it really looked amazing on my table. Oh, and it tasted pretty great too. What's not to love about a frosted chocolate chip cookie loaded with M&M's?

    So, let's get busy baking a cookie cake.

    Ingredients

    1 baked jumbo cookie (I made a chocolate chip cookie cake.)
    white frosting
    red, white, and blue M&M's
    white modeling chocolate or fondant

    Instructions

    Frosting a chocolate chip cookie cake

    Frost the top of your baked cookie cake with bright white frosting.

    decorating a Captain America Cookie Cake using red, white, and blue M&M's.

    Then decorate the cookie cake with red, white, and blue M&M's.

    Start by creating a ring of red M&M's around the outer edge of the cookie. Then add another row of red, two rows of white, and two more rows of red. Then fill in the entire middle with blue M&M's.

    If you can't find the white ones, just allow the white frosting to show through.

    adding a white modeling chocolate star to the middle of a Captain America cake.

    To finish the cookie shield, you need to add a white star to the center.

    I didn't think the star would have the right shape if I just used M&M's to create it on top of the cake, so I cut a star out of white modeling chocolate and attached it with a small amount of frosting.

    Captain America Party Food on a table with red, white, and blue decorations and Captain America plates, napk

    Here's the table of all my movie snacks. I served Red, White, and Blue White Chocolate Popcorn along with other patriotic treats including cupcakes, homemade marshmallows, chocolate bark, and more.

    Captain America Sweet Treats | HungryHappenings.com

    I also created a white chocolate Captain America Canister.

    Ingredients:

    white chocolate, melted and tempered
    or melted white confectionery coating (candy melts, melting wafers, almond bark)
    white modeling chocolate
    red and blue food coloring

    Supplies:

    1 plastic canister or jar*
    *the inside needs to be smooth as ridges can keep it from unmolding

    Instructions:

    melted white chocolate in a bowl next to a canister and the canister filled with the white chocolate.

    The first thing you need to do is measure the volume in your jar, by filling it with water and weighing or measuring it. This will give you an idea of how much white chocolate you will need to fill the jar.

    Dry the jar very well, then fill the entire thing with melted and tempered white chocolate or melted white confectionery coating (candy melts.) Let the jar sit for 10-15 minutes.

    The amount of time will depend on the thickness of the chocolate. Thin chocolate will take longer and thin coating may take up to 20 minutes. You can test this by pouring out some of the chocolate into your bowl. If the walls of your jar are too thin, just pour the white chocolate back in and let it sit longer. If it looks about ⅜ of an inch to ¼ inch thick, then it's ready.

    pouring the white chocolate out of the plastic canister into a bowl.

    Turn the jar upside down and allow the melted white chocolate to drip out. You can tap the sides and bottom of the jar if too much is sticking to the sides.

    Use a metal spatula to scrap off the drips from the bottom of the jar.

    a plastic canister filled with a thick layer of white chocolate next to a bowl of melted white chocolate.

    When you turn the jar over, the top edge of the white chocolate should look smooth. If it's not, then either scrape again with the spatula or use your finger to smooth it out.

    Turn the jar upside down on a parchment paper lined baking sheet and put it in the refrigerator if using pure white chocolate or in the freezer, if using confectionery coating. Let it chill for about 10 minutes.

    When you peek in to look at the jar it should not have any dark spots. If it does, the chocolate is not yet hardened. Leave it a few more minutes. Just don't forget about it. If it's in too long it will get sticky

    removing a white chocolate canister from the plastic canister mold.

    When the chocolate is completely set, remove it from the plastic canister. My canister is so smooth, that I can just pull it right out.

    Allow the chocolate jar to sit at room temperate for at least 20 minutes before decorating.

    making a Captain America shield out of red, white, and blue modeling chocolate or fondant.

    To make a Capt. America Shield out of modeling chocolate, you'll need several round cutters. Arrange the round cutter so that you will have even-sized bands of red, white, then red and still have room for a round blue circle in the center. I started out using a set of round cutters and used the largest cutter for the outside and the smallest for the inside.

    Roll out a piece of red modeling chocolate and cut the largest round. Then roll out some white and cut a circle then a smaller circle inside, just creating a band. Attach the white band to the red circle with a small amount of water. Roll out some blue and cut out the center circle. Attach it to the red circle. Cut out a small white star and attach it over the blue.

    If you really want to work at this, you can embed all the pieces together in one flat piece. I didn't bother.

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    Beth Klosterboer
    Beth Klosterboer
    Hi, I'm Beth Klosterboer, a professional chocolatier & baker, cookbook author, and event planner. I love sharing recipes for happy occasions here on Hungry Happenings. I also create easy fudge recipes to share at HowToMakeEasyFudge.com, rice krispie treat recipes at HowToMakeCerealTreats.com, and easy cookie recipes at HowToMakeEasyCookies.com
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    1. Anonymous says

      June 24, 2015 at 3:00 pm

      Your giant Captain America cookie looks great. I am going to make one thanks to your instructions. Did you bake it in a cake pan or pizza pan? If so what size please and how long did you bake it for? Thanks. Kathy

      Reply
      • beth says

        June 24, 2015 at 10:57 pm

        Thanks, Kathy. I baked my cookie in a 10 inch springform pan at 350 for about 30 minutes. Have fun!

        Reply
    2. Amy Fulcher says

      September 17, 2014 at 11:08 pm

      I'm crazy jealous of that movie theater! Wow!

      Reply
      • beth says

        September 18, 2014 at 12:42 am

        Now that the movie theater finally has carpet and painted walls I'm ready to get new furniture! I'd love some really comfy chairs and couches. I do love watching movies down there.

        Reply
    3. Natalie Hoffman says

      September 17, 2014 at 1:47 am

      Aaaand I got the Yellow M&M which is hilarious because I extremely dislike chocolate and peanuts! -__-'

      Reply
    4. Natalie Hoffman says

      September 17, 2014 at 1:41 am

      I got Spider-Man -___- I've watched every Marvel superhero film series but Spider-Man lol :p

      Reply
    5. beth says

      September 16, 2014 at 2:36 pm

      LOL! I'm apparently like the HULK and GREEN. What does that say about me? I'm green!

      Reply
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