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Batman Gotham City cake, how-to

November 29th, 2009

Posted by : justJENN

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Knowing the Baby wanted a Batman birthday cake, I had visions of Batman standing above Gotham City. I knew I wanted a stacked cake – with various sized tiers…

ingredients:
stacked cake
( I used Cookies n Cream flavor)
frosting
(Chocolate sour cream worked well)
chocolate fondant
fondant dyed with yellow food gel coloring

To start, I assembled my cake and frosted it, then set it aside.

I rolled out the chocolate fondant to 1/8″ – 3/16″ of an inch. I knew I wanted the heights of the buildings to be various sizes, so I tried to keep them within 4″ high. I cut out various widths, different roof variations and shapes. I set those aside.

Then I dyed my fondant yellow and cut VERY TINY little square and rectangle shapes for the windows. I made these various thickness so the windows would pop in and out.

I like to dry out my fondant a bit before I apply it, so I left these lightly wrapped in plastic wrap over night.

The next day they were pretty firm. I laid out different facades for the four sides of the cake.

To apply them I put a touch of frosting on the back and simply pressed them on.

I liked to stagger them a bit, I didn’t want the facades to be all up on each other. I just wanted space between and a nice clean look.

I added a large Bat-logo on the top circular tier, and of course the Batman candle to watch over fondant-Gotham City.