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 to Gigi’s Cupcakes. This Groupon is valid only at the South Hurstbourne Parkway location. Choose between two options:

• For $10, you get half-dozen gourmet cupcakes (a $20 value).
• For $19, you get a dozen gourmet cupcakes (a $40 value).

At Gigi’s Cupcakes, dedicated bakers whip up the artistic creations that populate a rotating, seasonal menu of decadent desserts made with fresh ingridients. Moist delicacies congregate in groups of six or twelve, the perfect number for a dinner gathering or holiday gift for Brady Bunch impersonators, and flavors range from boutique takes on classics, including Scarlett red velvet and carrot cake, to inventive originals such as ganache-dipped Hunka Chunka Banana Love or bacon-topped canadian maple. Gigi’s confectioners fight cupcake fatigue by unveiling new flavors regularly and maintaining a vast selection of almost 40 varieties that, like a con artist’s birthday, changes daily.