Batman Cup Cakes

A nice easy one today - Batcupcakes.

I'm Batman...

Today's toy is a Batman cookie cutter!




Cup cakes -
4oz marg
4oz caster sugar
4 eggs
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
4oz self raising flour

Icing (this made loads, most of which I'm saving for next week) -
Big dollop marg  (sorry, that's not very technical.)
1kg icing sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract

100g block of black icing

Make up cakes as usual - cream marg and sugar together, whisk in eggs and vanilla, mix in flour.
Scoop into large cup cakes with you trusty medium sized ice-cream scoop.
Cook for 20mins or so at 190oC until golden brown and cooked through.

Allow to cool on a wire rack (look at my funky new rack! It stacks!!!)

Roll out the icing on a flat surface with a light dusting of icing sugar. Rotate, flip and roll until it's about 2mm thick.

 Buff with polishing tool for a mirror finish.

Doesn't quite show how mirrory this was!

Take the cutter and stamp out many many bats...

 

 

Lift each bat carefully and allow to air dry on a nonstick sheet.

Load a sandwich bag with icing - force it all into one corner, then snip the corner off. Twist the bag until it starts flowing out of the hole.
Holding a cake in one hand, apply firm and constant pressure to the bag and rotate either the cake or the icing to cover the cake in an inwards spiral.

Let the cakes dry for an hour before applying the bats (if they don't quite stick scrape a small amount of icing off the tops. Only a tiny bit. Just enough to stop them wobbling about)

Present cakes to excitable child for his 4th birthday...