Need help! Ideas to put text on top of cupcakes?

i used the same idea for one of my friends birthdays as well. What i did was covered the cupcake in a buttercream base coat that i then smothed over and added food colouring the remaining buttercream and used a thin piping nozzle to ice on the letters. but make sure you have enough letters because i ended up haveting to put C on my second to last one and then 'hloe' on the very last one