Without cupcakes, frosting would aimlessly roam the streets, pandering for spare change and smearing itself on stray cats and dogs. Give spreadable sweets a good home with today's Groupon: for $12, you get $27 worth of cupcakes and more from cup.cake bakery in Royal Oak.

cup.cake's brother-sister baking duo, Eva Watt and Leon Ochoa, handcraft a fresh batch of palate-friendly cupcakes daily in-house. Using the finest Michigan-made ingredients, they create a shifting menu of explosive flavor combinations that blow open vaults of hidden taste buds. Pick a polished classic or try one of the unexpected infusions, such as the minty mojito, the savory maple bacon, or the Almost Death by Chocolate ($2.75 each or $27 per dozen). For more adorable bites, order any cupcake in mini form ($1 each or $10 per dozen) and be ready to fight the urge to pinch its frosted cheeks. European palettes can also opt to partake of a scrumptious Parisian macaron, available in a variety of colors and flavors. Specially blended coffee, which is roasted locally by Chazzano Coffee, and a variety of lattes help complement cup.cake's crave-worthy creations and provide energy for hours of scholarly research into the evolutionary biology of the sprinkle.

Reviews

CityVoters named cup.cake bakery Second-Best Place for Desserts in 2010. Nine Yelpers and three Google Mappers give it an average of three stars. More than 1,140 Facebookers like it.

• …my friends used the macaroons as their wedding favors and they were TO DIE FOR! I plan on giving them as favors at my up coming baby shower :) – Jennifer, Google Maps
• Cup.cake has never ceased to amaze me with their fresh, moist and yummy cupcakes. Add in their down to earth and friendly service...you could not ask for more. – Nsannasy, CityVote