How to Eat a Creme-filled Cupcake

Hostess's second brush with bankruptcy inspired me to pass on this little bit of wisdom(?) that I have spent years acquiring.  I purchased a box of Hostess cupcakes and set out a photographic display of the "correct" way to eat one of these treats.

Once upon a time, long ago but not so far away, Hostess cupcakes were moister and the icing was soft and flexible.  I assume that changed when the partially hydrogenated oils came out of every food on the shelf except peanut butter.  So the current finished product takes a little more patience and skill.  You might have to practice a couple of times to master the current way of getting it done.

Here is a cupcake:

Step 1: Invert the cupcake and peel off the bottom removing as little of the creme as possible.

Eat the bottom part.

Next - and this is the trickiest part - carefully separate the cake from the icing keeping the icing in one piece if possible.

Turn the piece of cake upside down and replace it on the bottom of the icing (squiggle facing downwards) so the creme is nearest the icing.

Pick away at the cake until all that you have left is the icing and the creme filling.

Flexible icing used to make a "soft taco" out of this step of the procedure. Now we'll just have to do it like a "hard-shell taco".  Fold the icing in half along the squiggle line.  It will break, but what can you do?

Take a bit off each end of the icing leaving the creme for the last bite.

And that's the proper way to eat a creme-filled cupcake.
Thanks for visiting with me.

Kathi