Most adults remove most of the icing off a cupcake, right?

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Anonymous wrote:Imagine someone who thinks they're too good for icing, yet thinks cupcakes are a legitimate adult good.

Cupcakes from a good bakery, with butter or cream cheese frostings, are fantastic. Grocery store and low rung cupcake retailers are rubbish.

The ones baked by good home bakers are often the best of all.

In my experience, usually good cake and good frosting go together. So, if the cupcake is worth eating, then I eat the whole thing. If it's not, then I decline the whole thing. Deconstructing the food someone serves you is rude. I guess if you're home alone with the left overs from your kid's birthday you can do what you like.

Home baked?? DCUM says NO. They may have cats or children. They may not wash their hands. I have learned here that homemade food is a death trap.

You'll be shocked to know that when I eat these home baked cupcakes I know whether the person who made them (me or my kid) has cats (nope) or children (me - yes, kid - no) and whether they wash their hands (yep). We haven't died yet. If we do, I'll drop you a note.

You can eat your own. Just don't eat someone else's. I won't eat anything at a potluck if I know the person has dogs or cats in their house. Gross.

You should seek therapy. Anxiety? Something more?

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Anonymous wrote:Obviously most kids just eat the entire thing but most adults know to remove most of the icing first before eating a cupcake, right? Bakers put more than necessary on for aesthetics.

No, lol. You make it sound like there’s only one proper way of eating something. Lame. I’m not a big cupcake person but if I decide to have one I only get good ones and the icing is heaven

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, with my tongue.

+1

I Scooby-Doo that sucker 'till it's naked then I shove it in one bite at a time.

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I don’t even touch your sugar-full cupcakes.

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46-yo guy here. My cupcake days are behind me for the most part.

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Anonymous wrote:Obviously most kids just eat the entire thing but most adults know to remove most of the icing first before eating a cupcake, right? Bakers put more than necessary on for aesthetics.

Why do you care?

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Anonymous wrote:There is no polite way to scrape the frosting off a cupcake so you actually look childish if you do it. Either decline it or eat it.

At least with cake you can kind of discretely do it with your fork, if you must.

Peel off cupcake liner. Use knife. Scrape frosting. Put excess frosting into cupcake liner. Discard.

Sounds like changing a baby’s diaper.

But what knife? If a party is having pizza and cupcakes, which is pretty common, there isn’t a stash of knives anywhere. This is similar to the people that peel that cheese off pizza. Gross. There is no polite way to deconstruct a cupcake at a party without looking awkward and picky.

You don’t need a knife. You can slide most of it off with the liner. Realistically, no one cares that you are taking most of the icing off of a Giant cupcake in the middle of SkyZone or the skating rink at a preschool party.

If you care how other people eat a cupcake, you are a weirdo.

OP clearly cares. And yes, she has some issues.

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Anonymous wrote:Obviously most kids just eat the entire thing but most adults know to remove most of the icing first before eating a cupcake, right? Bakers put more than necessary on for aesthetics.

No, lol. You make it sound like there’s only one proper way of eating something. Lame. I’m not a big cupcake person but if I decide to have one I only get good ones and the icing is heaven

There's probably two ways, American and Continental.

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Anonymous wrote:There is no polite way to scrape the frosting off a cupcake so you actually look childish if you do it. Either decline it or eat it.

At least with cake you can kind of discretely do it with your fork, if you must.

Peel off cupcake liner. Use knife. Scrape frosting. Put excess frosting into cupcake liner. Discard.

Sounds like changing a baby’s diaper.

But what knife? If a party is having pizza and cupcakes, which is pretty common, there isn’t a stash of knives anywhere. This is similar to the people that peel that cheese off pizza. Gross. There is no polite way to deconstruct a cupcake at a party without looking awkward and picky.

Sounds like a "pretty common" menu for children parties. Uncommon for adults. Understandable I suppose why knives aren't available if the parties are for children.

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I do remove most of the frosting on cakes because I find it overpowering. That’s just my preference. But, for some reason, OP’s post sounds unsufferable.

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Anonymous wrote:46-yo guy here. My cupcake days are behind me for the most part.

I'm sad for you. That's no way to live.

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Anonymous wrote:Scraping off the frosting is very nouveau riche.

Seems kind of rude, too, like you're judging the person who gave you the cupcake.

During the big cupcake craze, they did go over the top on frosting. I don't care. I don't often eat cake, I prefer a slice of cake to a cupcake, I love it frozen, but when I do I enjoy the frosting.

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What’s the point of eating the cupcake then?

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Anonymous wrote:I break off the bottom and make a little sandwich.

Do the sandwich as adult here too. For kids have had opposite experience. Kids at bday parties here were taking all icing off so started serving them plain to to kids. Plain pizza and plain cupcakes. I found boring, but so much less wasted food so until tastes change is what going with.

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I am in my 40s and my dad is 80. To this day, he still scrapes the frosting off of his cupcakes to double the amount of frosting on mine (knowing this gave me great joy as a child). Such a selfless act of a loving father= I only enjoy extra frosted dad double cupcakes.