Avengers Cupcakes

After Batman and with the release of the film, it only seemed right that my next task would be Avengers cupcakes. Let me just start by saying they were bloody hard! Pretty much all of them had to be made completely free hand and I'm not the best drawer. But I'm pretty pleased with the way they turned out.

Used this recipe which is super standard and what I use for a lot of cakes I make.

• 200g self raising flour
• 200g sugar
• 2 eggs
• 200g butter
• little bit of vanilla

Just creamed together sugar and butter, added the eggs, sifted in the flour and then mixed it all together. Alternatively you can add chocolate chips, any kind of flavouring you want, cocoa powder instead of some of the flour to make whatever cupcakes you wanted.

Then they were put in the oven on 190 for 20 minutes. Once they were cool, it came to the tricky part. Had to cut out all the icing and delicately place it all together. Took about 2 hours all together but it was worth it.

Giant Kit Kat Chunky

So for a friend's birthday, she decided she wanted me to make her a special cake of some kind. Knowing she loves kit kat chunkys, especially peanut butter ones, so I figured what better birthday treat than a big, special, kit kat chunky.

For this you'll need a hell of a lot of chocolate (I think I went throuh 28 big bars), a bag of ice cream wafers and a jar of peanut butter.
You'll wanna use a mould that's as close to the shape of a kit kat chunky as possible. I used a long rectangle mould but it was a little fatter than I would have liked. Melt some chocolate and allow a layer of about 1-2cm to set in the bottom of the mould by putting it in the fridge for a little while.
When that has set, start building up the filling of your kit kat. I'd put down a line of wafers, then a VERY thin line of melted chocolate, then another line of wafers and finally a pretty thick layer of peanut butter. Once you've done that, repeat until you've nearly filled to the top of the mould.

Once the filling is complete, melt the last of the chocolate and completely fill up the mould. Set the bar in the fridge and once it's finished it should be good to take out of the mould.

Final stage that I did was cutting in the Kit Kat logo and then glossing the bar with sugar and water so it was shiny. The picture was taken before the glossing so it still looks pretty rough but you get the idea.

Batman Cupcakes

Anyone who knows anything about me knows that Batman is my all time favourite superhero. I love the movies, I love the games, I love the merchandise, I love everything everything everything. So, what better way to celebrate that than with some Batman themed cupcakes?

I basically just made some standard chocolate cupcakes, nothing fancy

• 150g butter, room temperature
• 300g caster sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 280g plain flour
• 50g cocoa powder
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 350ml water

Whisked all that stuff together in a bowl then put the mix into cases and into the oven on 180 degrees for around twenty minutes. Obviously you could do any kind of cakes, vanilla, chocolate chip etc. But I opted for chocolate.


Then came the hard part. I had to make stencils for all of the toppings and used roll out icing in a variety of colours to make all the different shapes. I made four different kinds in the Batman theme: Batman, Robin, The Joker and The Riddler. I'd make the top of each cake by cutting a circle using a mug and then adding it on before applying all of the shapes for the different logos.


The end result came out looking like this ...

 I had a stencil for the Robin logo but I kind of messed it up so I just made them free hand. I had a different stencil for the Joker but couldn't find any purple icing in the shop I went to, bummer. But I'm pretty pleased with the end result!