While forced confessions are not admissible in criminal trials, forced confections are encouraged to keep both hungry judges and sleepy juries from sentencing the court reporter to 20 years of hard labor. Support the justice system with today’s Groupon: for $6, you get $12 worth of baked treats at Cute Cakes located in Escondido.

The baking wizards at Cute Cakes whip up a plethora of homemade sweet treats composed of the freshest ingredients and blended from owner Jill Reilly’s southern family recipes. Fill dessert plates or water canons with country pear or carrot cake cupcakes ($28 a dozen). Cookie-adorers will revel in the bonbon assortment of huge chocolate-chip, molasses, and sugar cookies or the specialty Cowboy cookie crammed with coconut, oatmeal, chocolate chips, peanut butter, and cinnamon ($2 each). Nature’s multicolored fruit juices ooze from tasty fruit tarts ($3.95 for a four-inch tart) and nature’s best-selling brown food douses the masses with chocolaty goodness in Cute Cake’s Fudgies ($2) and brownies ($2).