Why Cupcakes Wear Crowns — Behind the bakery counter, Pippa stacked paper cups and sniffed the warm vanilla air. Read the full story →
Behind the bakery counter, Pippa stacked paper cups and sniffed the warm vanilla air. She wanted the silver opening bell to ring before the first customer peeked in, but the bell stayed quiet as a spoon. Then—psst—something fluttered from the flour bin: a sugar moth, white as powdered sugar, carrying a red cherry stem in its tiny feet.
“Don’t blink,” Pippa whispered. The moth landed on the tallest cupcake, dipped the stem into a swirl of icing, and tugged upward. The frosting rose in soft loops, higher and higher, until the cherry sat on top like a little red crown. Ding! The bell rang by itself, and every cupcake in the case puffed up proudly. Ever since, cupcakes wear frosting crowns, because one curious sugar moth needed a place to perch before breakfast. Next time you spot the cherry, can you keep the secret too?
