Though less devastating than banana-cream pies, cupcakes still provide effective suppressive fire during fancy dinner-party food fights attended by Larry, Curly, and/or Moe. Today's Groupon lets you lock and load with this smile-inducing ammunition. For $15, you get one dozen cupcakes (a $30 value) at Bakery Gingham. This Groupon is good for both the bakery's Short North and German Village locations.

Bakery Gingham owner Amanda Ellis’s life-long love of baking is evident in the tiny cake creations she switches up seasonally and offers in a bevy of flavors. Her cupcakes come in buttercream-iced varieties such as Dreamsicle (orange cake with vanilla icing), Snowball (coconut cake with coconut icing), What’s Up Doc (carrot cake with cream-cheese icing), and Elvis (banana cake with peanut-butter icing). Cookie Monster's blend of buttery yellow cake with homemade chocolate-chip cookie dough and vanilla buttercream icing might give you googly eyes and blue fur, while Grandpa's Coffee splashes a little Kahlua into the icing of an espresso cake. You can also show your Ohio pride with a Buckeye Nation (chocolate cake topped with peanut-butter icing with a homemade buckeye baked into the center). And if your operating policy in life is to order foods based on their names alone, try the Grim Raspberry, LL Cool Cake, or Mutant Turtle.

Cupcakes provide a smart alternative to cake-molded cups, which generally do a poor job of retaining scalding-hot coffee and aren’t dishwasher safe. Instead, bring today's Groupon to Bakery Gingham and load up on conveniently sized midday snacks—or use your dozen to liven up your next gnome birthday party.

Reviews

Bakery Gingham has been featured in Columbus Alive and (614) magazine. Yelpers give the German Village location an average of three stars.

• Bakery Gingham is wisely capitalizing on the single-serve craze that's holding our sweet-tooth nation under its pastel spell: the cupcake. – G.A. Benton, Columbus Alive
• I tried the Mint Chocolate Chip and the Red Velvet. They were delish! So often cupcakes can be dry and one-note, but these cute lil guys were moist and zingy! – Monica L., Yelp

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