It's a bird...It's a plane...It's Superman!

Apparently Superman is a popular super hero. This is the second birthday I have made a Superman dessert...the first was a few years ago for Zach. I made a sheet cake with blue icing and the Superman logo on top. Today I made Superman cupcakes.

To start I made a batch of royal icing and tinted some red and some yellow. I printed out a Superman logo in the desired size and placed under a sheet of wax paper. I then traced the logo with the red and yellow icing. There was a little trial and error...To begin, it works MUCH better if you do the yellow first and then pipe the red around it...once the yellow has hardened of course. Because it has been fairly damp here in College Station lately, it took until Sunday (I piped the logos Friday night) for the logos to fully harden.

Today I made a chocolate cake recipe from the Hershey's cocoa powder recipe (yummy!!) and cream cheese icing from one of my trusty cookbooks. After the cupcakes cooled and the icing was tinted blue, I piped it on top of the cupcakes and added a candy logo. They turned out awesome!

Here are a few pics of the cupcakes...

I have to say...I impressed myself...I was a little nervous that it might not work out or that my scratch cake or icing would taste bad and I would have to make a run to the store for a box mix and canned icing.

Until next time...Gig'em!