Before each bite of a cupcake, I carefully peeled the paper away from the tender buttery cake and billowy buttercream frosting and saved it for last.

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Or that Racine, Wis. boasts SC Johnson and that Tacoma, Wash. lays claim to where, in 1911, Frank and Ethel Mars began making buttercream candy and later chocolate out of their kitchen.

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We picked out a range of flavors, including the "grasshopper" (chocolate cake filled with fudge and topped with mint cream-cheese frosting, cake crumbs, chocolate chips and a buttercream rosette) and the "Elvis" (vanilla cake filled and frosted with banana-cream-cheese icing, with a swirl of peanut butter and peanut-butter chips).

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