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The bakery is known for its bite-size cupcake-style cookies that are made daily using a family recipe.
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Richard Guzman, Daily News, 23 Mar. 2026
From the top of the mountain at Palisades Tahoe, the surrounding Sierra peaks glistened in the sun like frosted cupcakes.
—Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2026
The show’s cringe comedy was trendsetting, too — the image of Valerie voting in a cupcake outfit is more exquisitely painful to behold than anything on The Office — and perhaps because of its acid tone, it wasn’t picked up for a second season by HBO.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026
Adults would line up around the block for cupcakes that came out of vending machines; a company selling jumbo cupcakes with custard filling IPO’d at $13 a share, and people raced to buy a sheet of miniature tie-due cupcakes for $45.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2026
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Richard Guzman, Daily News, 23 Mar. 2026
From the top of the mountain at Palisades Tahoe, the surrounding Sierra peaks glistened in the sun like frosted cupcakes.
—Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2026
The show’s cringe comedy was trendsetting, too — the image of Valerie voting in a cupcake outfit is more exquisitely painful to behold than anything on The Office — and perhaps because of its acid tone, it wasn’t picked up for a second season by HBO.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026
Adults would line up around the block for cupcakes that came out of vending machines; a company selling jumbo cupcakes with custard filling IPO’d at $13 a share, and people raced to buy a sheet of miniature tie-due cupcakes for $45.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2026
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“Cupcake.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cupcake. Accessed 26 Mar. 2026.
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cupcake
noun
cup·cake
ˈkəp-ˌkāk 
: a small cake baked in a cup-shaped mold
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