Anonymous wrote:These types of cupcakes are popular because of aesthetics and because of our sugar addicted society. Obese sugar fiends taking cupcake pictures to put on social media.

Seeing them in the case makes me visualize people actually eating it all. I'm safely all people don't scrape off most of the frosting. Eww, yuck.

I don't really like a ton of frosting either, but my mother and daughter both love it and much prefer it to the cake. So, it appeals to them. We often do what the PP above said she does with her husband, I'll eat the cake and my mom/kid will happily eat the frosting, so it's a win when we're together!

FWIW I always figured the real reason bakeries use so much frosting is it just makes the cupcakes look nicer/fancier, rather than for taste reasons.

Anonymous wrote:Grosses you out? It's just frosting. If you don't like it that way, remove the extra. When you pay $5 a cupcake, I want to have lots of frosting because I enjoy that part. If you don't, this is a very easy fix.

For what it's worth I am also grossed out when people in front of me order venti and trenti (spl?) sized frappucinos at Starbucks.

These types of cupcakes are popular because of aesthetics and because of our sugar addicted society. Obese sugar fiends taking cupcake pictures to put on social media.

We remove most of frosting. Too mcuh for our family taste.

If the icing was whipped (like maybe a frothy cream cheese icing on, say, a red velvet cupcake) or whipped cream based (i love this option at Wegmans), or even a thinner layer of the tradition butter cream I'd be OK.
Otherwise, I respectfully pass bc I'd rather have my fat and calories with something else.

Yep! I've always cringed at the over the top glob of crusty buttercream cupcakes. The cake to icing ratio is way off and the icing is way too rich and blech to compensate for it Way too top heavy cupcake.

Anonymous wrote:Cupcakes are disgusting.

You are very strange!

Anonymous wrote:Grosses you out? It's just frosting. If you don't like it that way, remove the extra. When you pay $5 a cupcake, I want to have lots of frosting because I enjoy that part. If you don't, this is a very easy fix.

+1

Everyone I know scrapes all the frosting off or at least most. It's such a waste of time and money. I agree it's disgusting.

Yes, I always scrape off most of the frosting, except when I'm with my husband. Then he eats the top (frosting) part of both cupcakes, and I eat the bottom (cake) part of both.

I'm a cake person and only like a little frosting. I'm not bothered by the way lots of frosting looks, but I don't want to eat it.

Grosses you out? It's just frosting. If you don't like it that way, remove the extra. When you pay $5 a cupcake, I want to have lots of frosting because I enjoy that part. If you don't, this is a very easy fix.

Cupcakes are disgusting.

Why does it seem like all bakeries sell them like this, with a huge mound of frosting? I don't understand who they appeal to. Bought some delicious well-made carrot cupcakes over the weekend and we scraped off 80% of the frosting. It was delicious frosting but way, way too much. What is the point? It grosses me out when I see the really over the top mound in a bakery case.