Foodieleaks Continues: Here's How to Properly Eat a Cupcake

Foodieleaks is in full force. Apparently, there's a proper way to eat cupcakes.

A few months ago we learned about fanning out ketchup cups for maximum dunk surface area, last month we learned how to properly use a Tic Tac container, and today, we're catching wind of a gentleman's technique for cupcake eating. No more awkward nibbling in public, no more frosting in your nostrils, just pure blissful frosting-to-cake ratio in every bite.

Here's how to eat a cupcake, like a gentleman:

[Photography: @PhilGorgeous]

 

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Comments

[michelekay]

04:28 AM on 10/04/2012

I'd rather see him slowly lick off all the icing first.

[GAPEACH39]

09:38 AM on 10/04/2012

That's scary:)

[sylvabugg2]

01:54 AM on 10/04/2012

Matters not how you eat it, it all comes out the same in the "end".

[JulieRinAZ]

08:48 PM on 10/03/2012

My technique has been validated! Everyone wants the most frosting to cake and this works....I don't know if I would've tried it with an Oreo on top though!

[maggiepinkien]

07:44 PM on 10/03/2012

Now i want a cupcake

[mmmkk]

03:41 PM on 10/03/2012

cupcake falls apart when trying to pull it apart

[Caroline Mede]

03:41 PM on 10/03/2012

I've ALWAYS eaten my cupcakes like that!

[mlaiuppa]

09:33 PM on 10/02/2012

You've got to be kidding.

What next? Peeling and eating a banana with a knife and folk? (My Dad actually watched someone do this on a train in europe.)

[GraceNotes]

12:16 PM on 10/03/2012

According to some etiquette books, that is the proper way to eat a banana.

[Marie-France Lesage]

07:20 AM on 10/04/2012

I amused myself no end in Europe by ostentatiously eating cuts of meat the American way (switching the knife and fork, setting the knife down between bites and turning over the fork to lift the food to my mouth.) It drove Europeans crazy, as they keep the knife in the right, the fork in the left and just keep eating, never setting down the knife.

It was a guilty pleasure, which I atoned for by offering to take photos of European couples together with their camera, whenever I noticed one of them taking a photo of their partner in front of a scenic spot.

[tef59]

06:08 PM on 10/02/2012

Now I want a smoked salmon cupcake;)

[Crisdean Wulver]

05:17 PM on 10/02/2012

I was prepared to criticize this article for being so trivial, but his solution is brilliant.

[Phillyfox]

05:13 PM on 10/02/2012

Neeeeed cupcakes...omg

[natejack]

04:58 PM on 10/02/2012

This is only necessary for the recent phenom of icing that is as high as the cake is deep. Cupcakes from "Mom's" kitchen typically constitute a knife swipe of icing that makes a relatively thin layer on top of the cake. Even with a piping bag, most home made cupcakes result in icing that is only a 5th as a high as the cake is deep.

For fancy cupcakes (like my Cupcake Wars winning neighbor), the sandwich approach is definitely the winner.

[Delightful Girl]

04:08 PM on 10/03/2012

Excellent comment. I love icing, but it can be too much of a good thing.

[Marie-France Lesage]

07:23 AM on 10/04/2012

I used to think that the icing was the best part, but commercial bakeries use WAY too much food coloring. I find the taste of these chemicals disgusting.

Give me good, old-fashioned, cream cheese frosting with no coloring or artificial flavoring, please.

[Thumper2]

04:47 PM on 10/02/2012

Hmmmmm.... I was more interested in the guy's technique than the cupcake...

[Noah Cross]

01:14 PM on 10/02/2012

The real best way is to take sideways bites out of the bottom half and then address the top when that's gone.

[Gabriel Sylvian]

07:42 AM on 10/03/2012

But that can be messy unless you use a fork

[peowlemeow]

01:10 PM on 10/02/2012

Get some silverware.

[indiecratublican]

01:03 PM on 10/02/2012

Lame. Just eat the cupcake.