Though less devastating than banana-cream pies, cupcakes still provide effective suppressing 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 $15, you get a dozen cupcakes at Sparkle Cupcake Company in Lenox Village (a $30 value).

Baking delectable cup-sized treats from scratch daily with the finest ingredients, Sparkle Cupcake Company douses palates in a blissful blend of moist, delicious cake and velvety icing. Out of more than 30 flavors, seven to 10 varieties are available in-store daily for sampling and overly curious finger-prodding. Lift the spirits of crying toddlers and on-strike supervillain henchmen alike with a 12-pack sampler of coconut snowball, sweet potato pie, apple martini, lemonade, watermelon, Vermont maple, German double chocolate, and more. Sparkle’s cheery and helpful staff will offer their recommendations while exchanging witty banter and crumpled-up baseball cards. Sparkle also offers sugar-free, gluten-free, vegan, and deer-luring cupcakes for customers who order a minimum of three dozen in advance.

Cupcake technology has advanced exponentially since frosting was ham-fistedly blasted by artillery cannon into cake-lined fields. Shedding cloying ammunition for high-powered mixers, today's Groupon to Sparkle Cupcake Company offers a convenient way to hand-catapult cup-sized cakes over tooth-walls. Customers are encouraged to call ahead.

Reviews

Seventy-eight percent of Urbanspooners recommend Sparkle Cupcake Company, and nearly 300 Facebookers are fans:

• i'm now a repeat customer...i've been there 3 times this month and have never been disappointed! – allison, Urbanspoon
• This place has quickly become my new hangout! I have lived in Lenox Village and have seen businesses come & go on this corner...SPARKLE IS HERE TO STAY!!! They have great cupcakes & staff is friendly. The free WIFI is why I came the first time, but the cupcakes are why I keep coming back!!!! – cooper, Urbanspoon
• Definitely some of the most AMAZING cupcakes I've ever had. Every time they're fresh and moist. – Christina S., Facebook