The Dark Knight Batman Cake

by Holly

(Irvine, CA)

Batman Cake

I bought a pan years ago in the shape of Batman’s torso. I baked the batman cake using a homemade chocolate cake batter recipe.

I made two different types of icing for the coating. One was vanilla and one chocolate. I bought a food coloring package of the typical colors and a separate package of black food coloring and a flesh colored food coloring. The black food coloring was added to the chocolate icing, since this was the simplest to change to black. I also added the black food coloring to the vanilla icing to make grey. I also used the yellow and flesh colored food colorings with the vanilla.

Using my cake decorator, I outlined the separation of colors with a straight tip. The black to the hands and face was done with a flower tip to give it a bit of a raised look. The yellow inside the belt and bat emblem, face color and grey were also done with the straight tip and then were pressed down using a knife first soaked with water. The bat was drawn, filled in and also pressed down in the same manner. The yellow background was simply spread on with a large cake spreader. Finally, the “Happy Birthday Sam” was written with the straight tip.