Blast from the past

This isn't even close to cooking from scratch - this is über processed, in the worst way. Box cake, frosting out of a can with a tip on it. No cleanup whatsoever. So modern and convenient and wasteful.

But it sounded so tasty - I haven't had a cupcake in an ice cream cone in a good twenty years - and I haven't cooked anything in a while because of my work schedule, and I had told a colleague I owed him some cupcakes for his birthday (Happy birthday, Alan!), and I wanted to also cut the grass tonight. So I took a short cut :-/