Cupcakes are lauded for their portability and versatility, edging out cell phones, snowballs, and the world’s tiniest violin as humanity’s favorite handheld device. Deliciously utilize all of your hand space with today’s Groupon: for $19, you get one dozen gluten-free cupcakes (a $39 value) at Crave Bake Shop in Lake Oswego.

Crave Bake Shop's confectionary crafter chef Kyra Bussanich wields her Le Cordon Bleu training to create pint-sized, gluten-free cakes that earned her a feature on Food Network’s Cupcake Wars. From within a newly erected storefront, fresh, local ingredients beguile taste buds with a mix-and-matchable selection of cupcake flavors, forming a fluffy dream team and non-load-bearing dozen. Gluten-shunning gourmands can decorate their pastry palates with chai spice, blackberry cobbler, and the skinny vanilla latte, splashing a vanilla-bean cake with coffee syrup and fat-free meringue topping. Like messages in beer steins or footballs made from bologna, eclectic cupcake varieties take a spin on old classics, creating sweet smorgasbords such as the spicy hot chocolate or the rasp-mary, a vanilla cake infused with rosemary and topped with a swirling of raspberry buttercream frosting.