Introduction: How to Eat a Cupcake
Summer time and birthday parties can pose us with many challenges, not the least of which comes in the form of the Ridiculous Cupcake. Here I'll show you some quick cupcake kung fu to help you out of these embarrassing situations.
I love cupcakes. I don't love frosting. But too often, store-bought cupcakes are far to dry to enjoy without the aid of buttercream.
So how in the world is the average person expected to navigate a standard sized cupcake with a mountain of frosting precariously perched atop?? Some techniques might include taking one bite of cake, and one bite of frosting. Another might be to try and rotate bites so as to get the perfect ratio of frosting to cake. Inevitably, these methods lead to unintentional sugar overload or a sad mound of frosting at your feet.
Here's a technique I learned on the interwebs about how to manage a monster cupcake without tears.
Step 1: Disrobe and Dismember
Remove all of the non-edible parts of your cupcake. This includes the wrapping and whatever plastic whirligigs have been embedded.
Step 2: Bifurcate
Procure a knife or cutting implement of some sort, and cut that cake across the middle.
Step 3: Invert
Flip the top half of the cupcake over, sandwiching the inhuman amount of icing in between the layers of cake.
Step 4: Eat
Now you've got a perfect (or at least manageable) cupcake sandwich - even amounts of cake and icing in every sloppy bite! While the bite itself might be larger than you're comfortable with, at least you're not left with a giant mound of frosting on a tiny island of cake that no one wants to eat.
Enjoy!
32 Comments
13 years ago on Introduction
I can't believe I've never thought of this before, now my new favorite method! 5 stars!
10 years ago on Introduction
Ok, this is awesome!!! Audrey and you have some kind of competition? LOL!
11 years ago on Introduction
na eat it whole
NOM NOM NOM
11 years ago on Introduction
this is a brilliant idea, 5 stars
11 years ago on Step 3
p.s. i usually just break it.
11 years ago on Step 3
this is the ONLY way to eat a cupcake. i have been doing it for years and years.
12 years ago on Introduction
This is AWESOME!
12 years ago on Step 4
I do this all the time, but I don't use a knife to cut the cake in half. I simply twist off the bottom of the cake and plop it on top of the icing.. Most come off fairly evenly this way.
12 years ago on Introduction
That looks painful.
12 years ago on Step 4
OH man.... I might need to make a midnight run for cupcakes here shortly. *Drools*
12 years ago on Introduction
i've been doing this since i can't even remember. i thought i invented it, then in middle school i found out that one of my teachers ate cupcakes in this way. i was amazed that i was not alone, and kind of disappointed that i hadn't created a new way of eating cupcakes. i'm even more shocked that there's an instructable for it!
oh, and the only issue i've ever had with this method is when the cupcake is too dry and it crumbles in your hands. mini cupcakes always seem to work best.
13 years ago on Introduction
You caught me there for a moment...I paused for a while to think of how I would normally eat a cupcake...
13 years ago on Step 4
But wouldn't the frosting explode everywhere?
13 years ago on Introduction
GENIOUS
13 years ago on Introduction
kinda like eating pizza crust to point.... awesomeeeeeee :) might have to make an "instructable" for that... pretty self explanatory though...
13 years ago on Introduction
This was taken from oddtodd.com, but is still a nice design.
Reply 13 years ago on Introduction
I couldn't find it again. I knew I'd seen it on the interwebs, but I can't even find it on oddtodd now!
Reply 13 years ago on Introduction
Well good thing you posted it. How terrible would it be for the world to forget the awesome cupcake sandwich.
13 years ago on Introduction
This shouold be entered into the cutest instructable ever contest :-)
Reply 13 years ago on Introduction
Thanks! That would be a fun contest. But I don't know if it can beat this one