Before cupcakes, the only vehicle for frosting consumption was the bare hand, and the only place to load frosting onto that vehicle was the neighbourhood frosting bucket. Eat frosting the evolved way with today's Groupon: for $4, you get half a dozen mini cupcakes at The Little Cupcake Shoppe (an $8.95 value).

The family-owned-and-operated cupcakery bakes up batches of the cupped cakes fresh every day and uses only top-quality ingredients in its miniature treats. Your Groupon is good for six of the bite-sized confections, and you can mix and match among more than 15 flavours. Stock up on the raspberry vanilla treats, complete with a chapeau of rich raspberry buttercream made from real berries, or try a tender carrot cupcake, topped with tangy cream-cheese frosting, to improve your night vision and lure hesitant rabbits to your bunny bash. Inventive flavours, such as a coconut cake topped with Madagascar-vanilla bourbon buttercream and the chocolate-chip mint beauty, carry enough aesthetic cache to please each member of your X-treme Frisbee and Russian novels club.

Cupcakes, like dogs, European automobiles, and professional basketball players, create a delight in mankind that grows in direct proportion to how greatly they shrink. Half a dozen of the miniature versions of these cute confections are a sweet way to say "I'm sorry" to girlfriends and parole officers alike.

Availability of flavours in-store may vary.

Reviews

Calgary Reviews featured The Little Cupcake Shoppe, and 83 per cent of Urbanspooners like it. The bite-sized bakery has more than 300 Facebook fans:

• The mini cupcakes of varying flavours are absolutely delicious and you can definitely tell them apart. – alexis, Calgary Reviews
• The cupcakes look amazing and they are so so good! – BethL