What happens when you remove the cake from cupcake?

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It had to happen: The demand for more and still more icing and less and still less cake has led Butter Lane, a cupcake boutique in New York's East Village, to serve $1 icing shots in the small paper serving cups ordinarily used for ketchup or mustard. Sadly and predictably, Butter Lane is not alone in this endeavor. Icing or frosting shots are particularly popular in Southern California (why doesn't that surprise me?) at such cupcakeries (that word is not my invention, google "cupcakery" if you don't believe me) as Point Loma in San Diego and Frostings in Lake Forest.