Is it a Bird or a Plane?.......no its Super Man

I love getting to do boy cakes because its great practice for when my baby boy gets old enough for birthday parties.  This Super Man cake was my first cake that I had to cut into a shape and boy was I worried about how it would turn out.  But as you can see it turned out pretty awesome.

Here is the how to:

1.  Colors of frosting needed: white, blue, yellow, red, and black  (I used Butter Cream)

2.  The Super Man symbol: I used my Silhouette cutter/ program but you can also print off the symbol and then cut out. 

3.   Cake: 12 inch square cake pan and a double layer cake with a filling.  Allow the cake and filling to set in the fridge for a couple hours.  This will help the cake to stay firm when cutting into the shape.

4. Take to shape of the symbol and pin it onto the cake.  As you can see I used tooth picks to keep the symbol in place.  Use a bread knife and saw along each line carefully.  

5.  Time to crumb coat the cake with white frosting.  This is a very important step after cutting a cake into a shape.  Cover whole cake with a very thin layer of white frosting and place back into the fridge. ( You will be putting the cake into the fridge many times so be ready. :) )

6.  Time for the Blue frosting:  Cover the sides with a nice layer of blue frosting.  Smooth out as best as you can. (tip: I use a cup of very hot water, paper towels, and a frosting spatula.  Dip the spatula into the hot water and then dry on a paper towel.  Slowly run the hot spatula edge along the side of the frosted cake to smooth out.)

7.  Add a blue boarder along the bottom edge of the cake.

8.  Cover the top or face of the cake with yellow frosting.  Smooth out and place into the fridge for twenty minutes.
9. Now take the symbol and lay on top of the cake.  I used a tooth pick and traced the out line into the yellow frosting. Place into the fridge for five minutes to help harden the frosting once more and then slowly peal off the paper symbol.

10.  Place the red frosting into a piping bag and fill in the portions of the symbol that are red. Smooth out.  I printed off a picture of the symbol so I could see exactly what should be red.
11.  Place black frosting into a piping bag with a #5 tip.  Outline the red with the black to complete the symbol.  Place into the fridge to set the frosting.