“Oh, but it is. We don’t just make these for nothing,” Mel gestured to the front door where they had put up a picture of a cartoon cupcake in a bath towel frantically running around in search of its clothes that said I’m almost ready! at the top. “One night Angela really didn’t want to listen to Mister Ed’s musings on everything pastry-related, so she wrote TEMPORARILY CLOSED BECAUSE OF CUPCAKE EMERGENCY on a piece of paper and put it on the door and no one came in for the entire night. Of course, it’s not the best business strategy and we had to explain to the worried public that there was no critical shortage of cupcake batter and they shouldn’t resort to rioting just yet. But it works if we really need to close for an hour or so and do something important. Actually,” Mel noticed a famil
