Cupcakes, like babies, are smaller, cuter, and more tempting to nibble on. Indulge your maternal/carniveral instincts with today's deal. For $16, you get one dozen cupcakes (a $33 value) at Trophy Cupcakes and Party, Citysearch’s pick for Best Seattle Bakery in 2010. Groupon customers can take home their cupcakes from one of three bakery locations: Wallingford Center, University Village, or The Bravern.

Like a neurotic shapeshifter or the rules of Calvinball, Trophy Cupcakes’ menu of flavors changes constantly, but perennial gourmet flavors such as triple chocolate and red velvet are available every day. Likewise, you can fuse a vanilla chocolate cupcake and a chocolate vanilla cupcake at their frosting for a Venn diagrammatical double-decker of deliciousness. Complementing the traditional staples is a rotating cast of creations ranging from the hummingbird cupcakes—banana-pineapple-coconut cake topped with cream-cheese frosting—to Samoas cupcakes—Valrhona chocolate cake filled with caramel cream and topped in coconut buttercream, toasted coconut, and a drizzle of house caramel sauce—that would make a Girl Scout rip her honor badges off her uniform and drum herself out of the corps.

Trophy Cupcakes makes all its cupped cakes from a mildly addictive deweaponized explosive known as “scratch,” which is itself made of premium ingredients such as free-range eggs, organic peanut butter, local sweet-cream butter, fresh fruit, even fresher first kisses, and starlight (when in season). To make sure you get the flavors you want, feel free to order your dozen by phone at least 48 hours in advance, then pick them up in-store at Trophy Cupcakes and Party.

Reviews

Trophy Cupcakes and Party was voted Best Seattle Bakery 2010 by Citysearchers and featured on the Martha Stewart Show. Seattle magazine featured it in their "Best Desserts" issue. More than 530 Yelpers and nearly 46 Citysearchers give the Wallingford location an average of four-stars. One hundred-twenty Yelpers rating the University Village location and 75 Yelpers rating The Bravern location give each an average of 3.5-stars.

• This shop is so cute, the turquoise ice cream parlor feel is enough to make you smile on even the worst day. The cupcake flavors are anything but normal and so good. – Carissang, Wallingford location, Citysearch
• Best cupcakes I've ever eaten! Yummy yummy to my tummy! – Christina S., Yelp, University Village location, 9/23/2010
• Best cupcakes. The cake is perfectly moist and the frosting is a little on the thick side, but makes it great for everyone. The staff at Bravern and Wallingford are great. Definitely the best gourmet cupcakes in Seattle, and with creative flavors! – Jen L., Yelp, The Bravern location, 1/16/2011