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Anonymous wrote:Something about the question makes me sad

Me, too. Ugh, what a way to go through life.

You are both as ridiculous as the OP.

Anonymous wrote:I skip the cupcake and just eat the icing straight out of the can. No guilt.

I don't need the cupcake, either.

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

Same here, which is why I just don’t have a cupcake instead of acting like a picky kid in front other people by scraping off the icing.

Anonymous wrote:Something about the question makes me sad

I agree. And what makes me sad is that cupcakes used to have a normal amount of frosting.

Once they became trendy, social media worthy, and capable of supporting stand-alone stores, it became popular to put an insane amount of frosting on them.

At many cheap locations, the frosting isn't as delicious as the cake because it needs to stay tall and peaked like soft serve or it's just plain cheap ingredients. So adding more of it makes the dessert worse. I'd gladly eat an imbalanced amount of delicious frosting but I scrape away sub-par frosting so I don't eat empty calories.

Anonymous wrote:Who doesn’t eat icing on a cupcake? Just get a muffin instead if you’re opposed to icing

Cupcakes are mini cakes, and cakes are not muffins. Muffins are made differently. I enjoy plain cakes but do not like icing.

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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.

I've found that when we've offered both decorated and plain, a lot of kids choose plain cupcakes, too. The first time I made both, I was thinking the parents staying would prefer non frosted ones, but they were split. These were fresh homemade cupcakes though, so the cake stood well alone.

Yeah I’ve noticed this too. My kid will not eat any icing ever, so I always get to work removing it whenever the cake slice or cupcake comes around. Sometimes I just eat it myself.

Anonymous wrote:Something about the question makes me sad

Me, too. Ugh, what a way to go through life.

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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.

Yes. Make sure you ask for a knife and fork and slice it into small pieces.

Something about the question makes me sad

Who doesn’t eat icing on a cupcake? Just get a muffin instead if you’re opposed to icing

I didn’t know I was supposed. I eat it.

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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.

I've found that when we've offered both decorated and plain, a lot of kids choose plain cupcakes, too. The first time I made both, I was thinking the parents staying would prefer non frosted ones, but they were split. These were fresh homemade cupcakes though, so the cake stood well alone.

I eat a cupcake once or twice a week and I eat the icing unless it’s nasty

Type 2 diabetes though

Anonymous wrote:What’s the point of eating the cupcake then?

So you can really savor the red dye no. 40

Anonymous wrote: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.

Awwww!