Make these mini Batman cakes when you want to impress upon some Superhero action!
It is Superhero time!! These cute little mini cakes are pure superhero material. Such an unique experience making these, special one too. I made them for a friend's birthday during the lock-down in Melbourne.
It helped that he is our neighbor, so we were not breaking any rules, sigh! As you might have guessed, he is a major Batman fan, hence I made these mini cakes for him. I was not going to put them up on my blog, as that was never the intent, but when they came out so cute and tasty, I thought why not!
When making the edges, I was in two minds- whether to use royal icing or the writing icing. Royal icing seemed too much for me at that time, as I was short on time; and as for the writing icing-no luck, it totally dried up on me😢 So in came a third option- to use the buttercream itself. Just had to find myself a small round tip to draw those edges. I did practice on the not pictured here ones, and was satisfied with the result, so I went ahead and used Buttercream frosting to draw up these batman cake edges.
For the Buttercream itself, I used Almond extract and Butter Popcorn flavour, I was honestly not sure of this combo-but it turned out to be delish! Definitely going to mix them to make a popcorn cupcake-my mind is thinking onto next recipes. Have you ever tried not so conventional combinations and they turned out to be much much better than what you thought?
Ingredients
Batman mini cakes
1 ¾ Cup Flour
¾ Cup Cocoa powder
1 tsp Baking soda
½ tsp Salt
1 Cup Caster Sugar
3 Eggs, medium
½ Vegetable Oil
2 tsp Vanilla Essence
1 Cup Milk
1 drops Black food gel
Almond Buttercream
Vanilla Buttercream frosting
2 tbsp Almond extract
1 tbsp Butter Popcorn essence
2 tbsp yellow food gel
Directions
Batman mini cakes
1. Preheat the oven to 180C (356F) or 160C (320F) for a fan forced oven. Grease the 9x13 inch pan..
2. Sift the flour, cocoa powder,baking soda, salt and sugar into a mixer bowl. Mix them at a low speed until well combined.
3. Mix eggs, oil, milk and vanilla essence in a small bowl.
4. Add this mixture to the dry mixture in the mixer bowl.
5. Continue to mix on medium speed until no dry mixture is visible. Add in the black food gel color, mix well.
6. Pour the batter in the greased pan.
7. Bake for 20-22 mins or until the inserted toothpick comes out clean from the centre of the cake.
8. Allow the cake to cool. Refrigerate after 20 mins.
9. Remove the cake from the refrigerator after 30 mins, and using batman shape cookie cutter, press into the sheet cake and take out small batman shaped pieces.
Almond Buttercream
1. Mix all the ingredients in a small bowl. Combine the mixture gently and completely.
Assemble
1. Use a small round tip and frost one side of mini batman cake.
2. Place another cake on top, and pipe along the edge.
You should get 4-5 mini cake pieces.
