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 $7, you get a half dozen cupcakes at Batch Cupcakery, located in the Shoppes at the Village on the corner of Booth and California (up to a $16.50 value).

Batch's gourmet mini-cake batches are created fresh every day using high-quality, organic ingredients that include pure Madagascar vanilla, unsalted butter, and dark Belgian chocolate. Silence chatty sweet teeth with any six of the dessert smithy's daily (a $2.25 value each) and specialty (a $2.55 value each) cupped cake flavors, such as Bugs in Mud, Strawberry Shortcake, and PB, no J, perfectly sized to be individual desserts or decadent pincushions. There are also vegan, gluten-free, and sugar-free options ($2.75 each) offered for proud owners of more particular palates.

Snag a delicious sextet of pillowy delights to treat a special someone to something special, wisely keep them to yourself, or hand them out to coworkers for all their hard coworking. In a similar showing of generosity, Batch Cupcakery donates any leftovers to local homeless individuals.

Reviews

KOLO-8 and Reno News & Review profiled Batch Cupcakery. Local food blog Constructing food and articles reviewed the bakery. Yelpers give it an average of 3.5 stars.

• They make a point of using organic ingredients: pure Belgian chocolate, local eggs, organic raisins and Madagascar vanilla. They even offer up some vegan cupcake options, like “Peace of Chocolate,” a vegan dark chocolate cupcake. – Brad Bynum, Reno News & Review
• The Dark Knight is a match for any chocolate lover–tender chocolate cake with a swirl of chocolate frosting with chocolate sprinkles. I’d almost choose it over actual chocolate. – Constructing food and articles