I hate cupcakes.  From the production side, they land in a maximum valley of inefficiency as 12 cupcakes can serve 10 people such that no one is satisfied and such that I have to spend twice as long as if I had made an actual cake decorating them.  Cupcakes have no presence, sure they can be decorated and sometimes you can do some neat shit will fillings but otherwise, I consider them a waste of time.  Today I made red velvet cupcakes in response to a request and wanted to frost them,  but not knowing the appropriate tool, I reached out to my more skilled baking friends and quickly raged when I found that there was an entire specialized culinary armory for topping the lil’ bastards.  Baby offset spatulas, piping bags, icing guns, and legion implements strictly designed to make a hat of sweetened gel were in my future until Grant Keiser proposed a solution, “use a knife, call it ‘rustic’ and charge twice as much”.