Rob Passed Quals Batman Cake

So its been awhile since I've updated again. I really need to keep up with this. Rob passed his quals and ever since I made the pokemon cake I've been wanting to do another. We jokingly talked about having a batman party and I said I would make a cake. Well after Rob passed the quals he wanted to celebrate so it was BATMAN cake at the beer trappe. Hopefully I'll be making another celebratory cake for Dave in a month. This is a chocolate cake with chocolate butter cream filling and store bought white cream cheese icing on the outside.

Chocolate Cake
Ingredients
2 cups sugar
1 3/4 cups flour
3/4 cup cocoa
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup butter, melted
1 tbsp vanilla extract
1 cup hot coffee

Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease two 13x9 (Or 9 inch) baking pans and set aside. In the large bowl of a standing mixer, stir together sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Add eggs, buttermilk, melted butter and vanilla extract; beat 2 minutes on medium speed. Stir in hot coffee.

Pour batter evenly between the two pans and bake on middle rack of oven for 30 to 35 minutes, until toothpick inserted in centre comes out clean. Cool completely on wire racks before frosting


Butter Cream Frosting
Ingredients
2 sticks (1 cup) butter, room temperature
1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 cup whole milk
3-4 cups of powdered sugar (more or less to achieve desired consistency)

Directions
Whip the room-temperature butter on medium speed with the paddle attachment for 2-3 minutes. Shift to low and add cocoa powder slowly, one teaspoon at a time, until fully incorporated. Still on low, add in the powdered sugar (also one teaspoon at a time), alternating with the milk, to achieve desired consistency and taste. Then, beat on medium speed until very light and fluffy, another 3-5 minutes. Add in more sugar if consistency is too thin.

I let the cake cool over night and then took them out of the pan (Well just one of them and the other broke and it was put back together with frosting of course but I have learned my lesson I promise!) I then frosted the middle with the butter cream I cut the recipe in half and used that. Then I frosted the whole cake with store bought cream cheese icing. Then icing on the batman, batman signal, and buildings. Overall I thought it turned out great and so did the rest of the group including Dave. :)

Original recipe came from
http://www.foodess.com/2011/03/moist-chocolate-cake/ and http://confessionsoftart.blogspot.com/2010/05/quick-chocolate-buttercream.html