Perfect Cupcake Puns

People are crazy for cupcakes! From the Food Network’s Cupcake Wars to the explosion in cupcake cookbooks to the proliferation of cupcake bakeries around the country, it’s clear that these tiny treats have carved a niche for themselves in Western culture.

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One thing is sure—where popularity happens, humor is sure to follow. Whether it’s cupcake puns or classic cookie jokes, people are now sharing their pastry obsession on everything from cards and t-shirts to posters and internet memes. You can find the perfect funny birthday card for your cupcake-loving friend, or take her to a specialty shop with the kind of name that will make you smile, like Sprinkles Cupcakes in Beverly Hills, CA, or Cape Cod’s Miss Cupcape.

To jump on the food truck with the rest of the virtual world, we’ve gathered the ultimate list of cupcake puns, jokes, sayings and memes we’ve cooked up for all the cupcake fans out there. Don’t go off half-baked—we have the right pastry humor for every occasion.

Every-Occasion Cupcake Puns

These cupcake puns are the bread and butter of the batch, and may or may not be the perfect secret ingredient for a killer T-shirt:

Some only dream of cupcakes—others bake it happen.
Cupcakes are good for muffin.
What did one cupcake say to the other? Absolutely muffin!
I am so baked right now.
What’s up, cupcake? Muffin much.
Cupcakes are just muffins that believe in miracles.
You bake me crazy. (Cue Britainy Spears.)
Go ahead—bake my day.
Life is what you bake it.
Life is good—bake the most of it.
I’m just a cupcake in search of a studmuffin.
Cupcakes pave the way for legalized frostitution.

Cupcake Puns To Inspire You

Need a pick-me-up pastry pun for a friend in need? These couldn’t be any sweeter:

Keep Calm and Eat a Cupcake
Coffee makes it possible to get out of bed. Cupcakes make it worthwhile.
A meal without Cupcake is like a day without sunshine.
Cupcakes are Sweet and even Sweeter when Shared
Dream as if you’ll live forever, eat Cupcakes as if you’ll die today.
Muffins are just ugly cupcakes.
You’re the frosting to my cupcake.
Some days you eat salad and go to the gym, some days you eat cupcakes and refuse to wear pants. It’s called balance.

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Cupcake Puns

In addition to the cupcake puns and sayings that stand on their own, you can find a whole world of cupcake memes that combine wordplay with illustration for maximum effect.