Rhode Island Bakery Offers 'TSA-Approved' Cupcakes (PHOTOS)

UPDATE, 1/17: Baker Kelly Colgan emails HuffPost Travel to report that one of her cupcakes successfully passed TSA screening at T.F. Green International Airport in Warwick, RI on Sunday. "It successfully passed through all security checkpoints," she reports, calling it "officially TSA-approved." As of Tuesday afternoon, there's been no comment from the agency on the Silver Spoon treats.

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PREVIOUSLY, 1/13: These cupcakes are the bomb.

Rhode Island baker Kelly Colgan has delivered the latest plot point in the on-going saga of Cupcakegate, sparked last month when a woman had her treat confiscated by an officer at a TSA checkpoint in Las Vegas. The media has since gobbled up the story, spurred on by a post on the TSA blog defending the officer's actions.

Colgan, the owner of Silver Spoon Bakery, has created what she's calling a TSA-approved cupcake, topped with "three ounces or less" of frosting and packed in a quart-size zip-top bag. The treats are embellished with a faux first-class boarding pass that cheekily shows the treats' destination as Las Vegas.

"Cupcakes are fun, you can't take them too seriously," Colgan told HuffPost Travel. "There's enough heavy stuff going on in the world."

The baker, who worked in PR before opening Silver Spoon about 18 months ago, says that while she expected the idea to get some local attention, she "definitely didn't think it'd get national attention." Since revealing her newest creation, Colgan has fielded calls from the Los Angeles Times, the New York Daily News and a number of TV stations.

Even Rebecca Hains, the passenger whose cupcake-in-a-jar was denied boarding in December, has given her a nod of approval on Facebook: "This is hilarious! I approve of this message."

Colgan, who says she takes just a few flights a year, has yet to test her cupcakes at an airport security checkpoint: To get to meetings in New York City Friday morning, she took the train.

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Comments

[PedroVision]

02:39 AM on 01/18/2012

And we don't need Ron Paul???

This is utter insanity.

(My apologies for the double post.)

[PedroVision]

02:38 AM on 01/18/2012

We have gone completely insane.

[rayne05us]

10:43 AM on 01/18/2012

I believe the saying goes: "Better to have gone insane whilst eating a cupcake than to not have gone insane at all" Sorry if I mispelled anything

[firstamendment3]

06:21 PM on 01/16/2012

Rhode Island is the crack capital of America so who knows what people from there are hiding.

[bmitche]

02:37 PM on 01/16/2012

TSA has a job to do, and denying something on a flight that looks like a jel is protecting all our lives. It is not a joke.

[Deborah Paley]

03:09 PM on 01/16/2012

Oh for corn's sake....

[bmitche]

03:20 PM on 01/16/2012

OK. So take the cupcakes on the train.

[ms04121966]

01:37 PM on 01/16/2012

I'll have to go get some of those cupcakes. I miss being able to find cupcakes that are more cake than frosting!

[gblank1603]

01:27 PM on 01/16/2012

Number of people who flew in 2011---650,000,000
Number of publicized TSA incidents---less than 50
Number of those incidents that were founded---0

Do the math folks

[dlong0930]

01:01 PM on 01/16/2012

The TSA stole the Texas BBQ ribs my nephew was bringing to me in MA. So I still have not tasted Texas BBQ

[artgrrl74]

01:28 PM on 01/16/2012

"stole" being the operative word here.

[dwardalornt]

12:54 PM on 01/16/2012

TSA, the Government's answer to total incompetence and living proof that the Arabs won on 9/11

[Paul Co]

01:42 PM on 01/16/2012

Best comment so far! In a nut shell!

[David Amaya]

03:23 PM on 01/16/2012

I HATED dwardalornt's comment, but that doesn't mean he isn't right

[scrapbooker]

12:24 PM on 01/16/2012

Before I would hand over my nice cupcake, I would have taken it out of the jar and eaten it right there, holding up the line if necessary. (I know, making other people wait isn't cool, but it's the principal of the thing). I doubt the offending cupcake ended up in the same box with the confiscated "weapons", but rather, in some TSA agents stomach. Unfortunately, TSA agents arn't allowed to use common sense (assuming they have any) but rather, must hold to the letter of the rules and regulations, and apparently frosting is gel to them. Sure glad it isn't to the rest of the world, as I don't think it would taste as good. I'm flying from Dallas to Ontario California this Thursday, and can't wait to see how that goes......I once had a 4 inch hammer used for scrapbooking confiscated because is was a "weapon". It would have taken me an hour to beat someone with it, and at best, all I would have caused is a small bruise. They also tore my carry on apart because they saw "scissors" in it. The "scissors" were a charm about 1/2 inch in size. Come on people, give us a break!

[quicksilver55]

01:18 PM on 01/16/2012

A couple of months after 9/11, I was on line at a fast food restaurant and started talking with the woman behind me. She was on a business trip and carried various tools, such as cutters, a screwdriver, etc. (didn't ask what kind of work she did). The TSA looked at her toolcase and let it pass. However, they confiscated the cuticle scissors she had in her purse.

[ms04121966]

01:35 PM on 01/16/2012

They didn't want her forcing a manicure on anyone!

[Americatheteenager]

08:31 PM on 01/16/2012

Monday morning quarterback comments are always the best.. I would have done blah blah blah...

[hdstylin]

12:10 PM on 01/16/2012

This is simply the result of government out of control. We live at the cusp of a total police state. Every time you turn around there is someone with a badge. The badge carrying folks are higher paid with better life time benifits than most of us. Can we reverse this dangerous trend? I don't think so. Not only do they enforce the laws, they make the laws and the laws never add to our freedom.

[dwbarne]

12:09 PM on 01/16/2012

If you really want to have fun at an airport, walk up to a stranger and say (loudly) HI, Jack!. Then say "Oh I thought you were a friend of mine". They love that, and everyone will start laughing.
People love it when someone starts "Acting the fool" in airports, especially the international terminals.

[nuclearkid]

11:22 AM on 01/16/2012

If you look up neo-nazi it says look under tsa

[dkellhofer]

10:23 AM on 01/16/2012

too funny! great job thinking of this cupcake, is she also a comedian? now we need a cupcake shaped like a cartoon bomb replete with fuse, i think she can do that too! thanx for good monday morning chuckle.

[FLmarebob]

11:33 AM on 01/16/2012

Be careful what you say! You're probably on the TSA watch list now.

[Ossit]

09:48 AM on 01/16/2012

Parodies won't change TSA. It's up to people, serious people to. Everyone takes this as some joke. Molesting children and adults and old people? People accept it. Someone has a harmless cupcake taken it's justified and made fun of. Racial profiling everyone is in favor of it until they're the target, but it's a ha ha moment on others. Going to start laughing if TSA starts inspecting you on the road, probably you'll all accept and it was proposed in one state but I never heard more about it. Endless paranoia and fear and the taking of your rights that you're all so complacent about at the airport, but yap loudly about online, isn't a joke. Want some change, do more than parodies. I'm personally sick and tired when I tell people this that I'm treated like the enemy because I say do something.

[gblank1603]

12:04 PM on 01/16/2012

I'm a very frequent flyer and have never had a single problem the the TSA folks---just treat people like you like to be treated and all will be just fine.

[dwardalornt]

12:58 PM on 01/16/2012

Bet you never had to take off your shoes before TSA. Ahh freedom and sheep. Which column do you fall under?

[Ossit]

05:14 PM on 01/16/2012

Of course you haven't gblank1603. You're lucky not to be that magic random number flyer that's picked for special hassle. From what we all read, TSA doesn't treat people the way they want to be. They make little children cry and become afraid, they hassle old people without cause because of paranoid suspicion, they make rude comments. I read the articles of how they treat people and it ain't a pretty sight. It protects nothing, it fills them with arrogant power and just plain arrogance.

[lohman446]

09:29 AM on 01/16/2012

This is what happens when we create laws that let UNELECTED beurocrats in agency write laws under the guise of regulation.