Kiefer tackles cupcake mission

Kiefer Sutherland has sent up his role as hardman Jack Bauer in a mission to make the ultimate cupcake, in a new advert.

The 24 star - who played special agent Jack Bauer in the long running and hugely popular TV series - stars in the new commercial for Acer computers, which shows him using his action skills to make tasty treats.

The voice over, in the style of an action film commercial, says the latest ultrabook was designed, "so we can all explore our hidden passions. For Mr Kiefer Sutherland, that passion is a moist fluffy cupcake."

The 45-year-old Canadian actor is shown in a car chase with a cupcake delivery van, before he interrogates the driver, asking "Who is your supplier?"

He then approaches a woman in the supermarket and asks threateningly, "Where's the icing?!" before raiding the baking aisle.

Kiefer then dismisses a picture of a pink, delicate cupcake on the internet, and blows up a car as inspiration to make his cakes in the shape of a mushroom cloud explosion.

In the spoof the action star mixes his cakes with drills and finished them off with a blow torch before finally unveiling his 'Dynamite Cupcakes'.