Pay R45 for six themed cupcakes for any occasion from Sweetsomethings, valued at R90 (save 50%)

There has been much debate about cupcakes or flowers making better gifts. The consensus is that flowers kick the bucket after a few days, require constant attention and cannot be consumed without warranting a “bleugh”, thus they lose the battle. Send a box of six themed cupcakes to someone special (or not so special anymore) for R45 with today’s Groupon.

Not only can they be substituted for flowers, but there is a variety of other uses for these miniature delights. Whether as weapons in a gruesome food-fight, an apology, to score brownie points from your toddler for the cat you accidentally ran over, or to up your game and (falsely) boast your amazing skills as a master cupcake baker to your mother-in-law, cupcakes are perfect for everything. Regardless of the event, little fluffs of saccharine happiness are always the perfect gift for anyone who has a mouth, a digestive system and an appetite. Of course, the Sweetsomethings bakers are completely aware of this fact, making full use of the celebratory factor in any occasion, be it a baby shower, birthday or a “Surprise! I’m sorry, it’s not me, it’s you”.

Though they don’t come enclosed with a box of tissues, each cupcake box of six does come in a choice of two flavours - either the yumminess of a vanilla sponge or the decadence of a heavenly chocolate mini cake.  The toppings range from flowers and hearts to booties and bottles all happily wrapped in a simple paper cup and sealed off into perfection in a handsome-looking box. Perfect as they might be, nothing stops them from being consumed in under a minute.

Most say that once divulged, they sit on your hips, but in actual fact, they prefer sitting happily in your tummy, cracking sarcastic one-liners about the flowers that didn’t quite make it. They ghave a secret war going between them, even the cupcakes used in the line of duty prefer their life of thrills and spills to the dull and dreary lives the stalks lead.

Cupcake Fact: In the Massachusetts Annual Cupcake Challenge, the organisers have resorted to using blind or deaf individuals as judges.  The absence of a sense supposedly enhances one’s taste buds, making it easier for them to judge a true winner. The winner wins a year’s supply of paper cups and a soft serve ice-cream machine with ice-cream flavoured icing.