president eisenhower and me

It's my birthday; along with the traditional blow-out (as in party, not as in blowing out your hair), come the traditional cupcakes. This year, I have decided to make it all about the icing. Therefore, the actual cupcakes will be very simple vanilla cupcakes, so that the eater concentrate on the flavour of the icing. (Let's get real for a second, peeps: I'm just using the cupcakes as an excuse to eat icing.)

The icing is, as they say, the icing on the cake: I'm making a very time-consuming, complicated frosting, recommended by the inimitable kat (not dr kat, the fab writer kat), purported to be President Eisenhower's favourite icing. I have to say, people, that if you're not at my birthday party tomorrow, you will really be missing out. These cupcakes are gonna be awesome, and historical, and who can beat that?