Cups provide containment for life-sustaining water, protect the tender nether regions, and allow eavesdropping through walls. Combine these benefits with the scrumptiousness of cake with today's Groupon: for $12, you get delivery of a dozen standard cupcakes from Chesapeake Cupcake (a $24 value). Delivery is available within a 25 mile radius of zip code 21009.

Helmed by a duo of batter-forging sisters, Chesapeake Cupcake infuses family recipes with contemporary flourishes to furnish a menu of scratch-baked gourmet cupcakes. Utilizing fresh ingredients such as Callebaut chocolate, Madagascar vanilla, and local produce, the sisters whip up scores of palatable treats that are delivered straight to their customers' doorsteps. Dessert devotees can free themselves from confectionary compromise by indulging in pastry-case-inspired flavors such as streusel-smothered cinnabon, spicy, cream-cheese frosted pumpkin pie, and toasted-marshmallow-topped s'mores. Cookie-dough cupcakes welcome hungry mouths to feast upon vanilla cake, fudgy filling, and cookie-dough frosting so long as they vow to never ever give one to a mouse, and the Velvet Kiss cupcake seduces chocolate lovers with a filling of salted caramel and a rich robe of chocolate ganache.