cupcake
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His obsession with late-night television is almost endearing, like a child who bursts into tears on their birthday because someone smooshed a cupcake into their cheek.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
The movie is called “Yes” but it’s not the kind of yes that comes after someone offers you another cupcake.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
The sensory mismatch — a coconut-flavored “potato” — is a little kid’s dream, like the Jelly Belly “Bean Boozled” pack or a cupcake that looks like a hamburger.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2026
The council has since crammed its operation into an old cupcake shop, and continues to run on a mix of state and federal funding and private donations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
There was only one month left of summer and my internship, and I’d been so absorbed in thinking about Marcus that I hadn’t even come up with my own cupcake recipe yet.
From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks
Café do Capa sells capybara-shaped fried foods, capybara-themed cupcakes, capybara gifts.
From Slate ● May 27, 2026
So the veteran plaintiff’s lawyer from Texas showed them two grocery items: cupcakes and tortillas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026
"Unlike muffins, cupcakes, or biscuits, cakes are designed to be sliced and shared," she says.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2026
In the 2010s, the company debuted a custom-built truck — “the Sprinklesmobile” — to deliver cupcakes to cities without physical locations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2026
He thought about airplanes and video games, pizza and baseball, cupcakes and the Yankees.
From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers
