Cupcakes are a preferable alternative to birthday cakes, whose constant accompaniment by off-key singing has depleted the planet’s finite supply of forced smiles. Garner genuine grins with today’s Groupon: for $12, you get one-dozen assorted mini cupcakes at Sugar Mountain Bake Shoppe (a $24 value). Each dozen will include the following:

Four Very Vanilla mini cupcakes

Four Sinfully Chocolate mini cupcakes

Four Chocolate Peanut Butter mini cupcakes





This Groupon is valid at both the Alexander Street and Monroe Avenue locations.





The expert bakers at Sugar Mountain Bake Shoppe compel mouths to water with an array of delectable gourmet cupcakes baked in small batches daily. Boxes sail home filled with an assortment of Sugar Mountain’s three standard flavors that reliably pop out of the oven every day of the week instead of sporadically whenever they need money from their confectionery parents. The Very Vanilla cupcake wraps its french-vanilla batter around a rich filling of vanilla chiffon and crowns the creation with a sweet headdress of bourbon-vanilla buttercream. A spread of chocolate cream cheese dances atop the Sinfully Chocolate cupcake, which is built on the foundations of chocolate fudge cake and a dollop of chocolate chiffon at its creamy core. The Chocolate Peanut Butter cupcake invites taste buds to work their way through the chocolate cake to the lode of peanut-butter filling after finishing off a bonnet of peanut-butter buttercream rolled in chunks of peanut-butter cups normally saved for pixie elephants.