Well the Baby asked for a Batman cake – DESPITE the fact that I had made him Batman cupcakes. He’s right though, birthdays are all about cake. He asked for a Cookies n Cream cake, what made him think of that, I have no idea, but luckily I had a recipe on hand!
I had a Batman figure candle and I knew I wanted him to somehow be towering above a city. So my idea was to stack two different shapes of cake. I made two batches of cake. One batch in a 9×13, and on batch in two 8″x8″ square pans. The two squares were going to stack to be the base.
Once out of the oven and cooled, I leveled off the cake so that they were flat.
Using PLENTY of frosting, I stacked the top of one 8×8, then set the other on top. Use a lot of frosting, you can always take it off, you just don’t want crumbs to ‘pull’ and muck up the cake. I then crumb coated the sides and top, then went back in for a final coat of frosting.
Now for the top circular tier I used a small round cake pan as a template, but if you have a cutter you are better off than me – and I cut out two 6″ circles of cake.
Again, I leveled them, placed one top of the center of the top 8×8, put a nice layer of frosting on top – then set the other 6″ circle on top of that.
Again, a quick crumb coat, then a nice final clean layer of frosting. There is your stacked, frosted cake. Yum! But wait…now you have to add Gotham City…
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A good tip for JustJenn’s faithful readers… if your cakes are much bigger than this, the top tier may start to smush the bottom tier. To avoid smush city, place a few plastic drinking straws directly UNDER where the top tier will be, just randomly, and use scissors to snip them off just a hair higher than the height of the frosted cake. Then set the top tier on top of the straws. It’s amazing how few straws it takes to hold up a cake!
Let’s clarify that. You push the straws down into the bottom tier. Don’t just lay them on top of the cake – that would just be weird.
OK, I’m in over my head, gramatically.
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I have been pondering about this for a while, thanks.