Who doesn’t love a themed birthday! My son Max recently turned 3, and in his few years on this earth he’s managed to develop an obsession with a web-yielding man who he’s never seen (on tv or otherwise). Bizarre but true. So to add to the Spiderman mania Willa and I baked him up some Spiderman themed cupcakes for his birthday.

The mommy in me needed to combat all that colored frosting with some semblance of healthy and so I found a recipe for beet red velvet cupcakes by A Nerd Cooks (btw, check out her blog for some really amazing cocktails for the after party!)

I’ve found that if you get excited about anything, the kids will too. So we played up the beets in a huge way and believe me (although I love beets on their own, or with some goat cheese…yummmmy but I digress) nobody will taste or know that there is a healthy serving of beets in this cupcake. And it sure does beat (beet, hahaha get it!) an unhealthy dose of red food coloring in both the cake and the frosting.