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105 Cupcake Quotes, Sayings, And Captions For Instagram (2025 Edition)

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Check out the best cupcake quotes, sayings, and captions for Instagram. Copy and share funny cupcake phrases on social media to make your friends and family smile.

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Cupcakes are one of the best desserts for making and eating.

Did you know the world's largest cupcake weighed 2,594 lbs? It was baked by Georgetown Cupcake in Virginia in 2011.

The most expensive cupcake, made in Maryland in 2009, cost $42,000! It was decorated with diamonds, including a 3-carat gem on top.

Here is a fun collection of cute cupcake quotes, sayings, and jokes for all cupcake lovers.

Quotes about cupcakes

1."In my mind, there was nothing better than a cupcake with a funny little twist." - Meg Donohue

2. "Sometimes in the midst of all your boy drama, you just need a cupcake." - Susane Colasanti

3. "Baby, said Ranger. You look a little tense. Is there anything I should know? I'm in sugar withdrawal. I gave up the desert and that's all I can think of. It was true five minutes ago. Now that Ranger was standing in front of me, I thought a cupcake wasn't what I actually needed. Maybe I can help you get rid of the donuts, Ranger said. My mouth opened, and I think drool may have leaked out." - Janet Evanovich

4. "What are their names? Psycho and killer? He shook his head. Cupcake and Twinkie. My mouth opened. You are kidding. A smile crossed his lips. Not afraid. If naming them after dessert snacks had been Miss Marva's attempt to make them look cute, it wasn't working." - Lisa Kleypas

5. "You're only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake." - Emma Stone

6. "Happy birthday," she said. "And next time? Eat the stupid cupcake." - Rachel Caine

7. "Us humans are capable of war and sadness and other terrible stuff. But also cupcakes!" - Rainn Wilson

8. "Hey! Don't laugh at me for that cupcake thing. I enjoy cupcakes, therefore everyone should enjoy cupcakes." - Ray Toro

9. "Some people... some people like cupcakes
Exclusively, while myself, I say,
There is naught nor ought there be nothing
So exalted on the face of god's grey
Earth as that prince of foods... the muffin!" - Frank Zappa

10. "We have cupcakes and, of course, they're decorated with Halloween goodies and they have to eat the cupcake and then ride back out." - Sharon Shaw

11. "He studied the cupcake. "The cake is light, fluffy, and complex, and the creamy, tangy frosting complements it so well." - Rajani LaRocca, "Midsummer's Mayhem"

12. "Claudia knew she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of runaway. In other words, running away in the heat of anger with a backpack on his bag. She didn't like the discomfort, even picnics were messy and inconvenient: all those bugs and the sun melting the ice cream on the cupcakes. Therefore, she decided that her leaving home would not just be running somewhere, but running somewhere." - EL Konigsburg

13. "The little cakes were iced in white, with golden yellow icing roses on top, and instead of ice cream there was sherbet that was a rainbow of colors in each dish." - Jane Louise Curry

14. "While the chocolate cupcakes are baking... mixing some buttermilk into the batter to prevent it from being overly sweet and unbalanced." - Stacey Ballis, "Wedding Girl"

15. "A cupcake is like a great pop song. The whole world in less than three minutes. And it's impossible to have a bad cupcake. In New York you walk everywhere. So I'm always looking, always on the eternal search for the perfect cupcake. I take them very seriously. It's like hunting and gathering for me." - Laurel Nakadate

16. "Well… what you like to bake? 'Lots of things - brownies, cookies, pies, tarts, scones. But cupcakes are my favorite." - Rajani LaRocca, "Midsummer's Mayhem"

17. "Is Valentine's Day a day to make cupcakes with your children? No, Valentine's is supposed to be a day about romantic love." - Ayelet Waldman

18. "Hostess Bakery factories were closed due to a workers' strike. It was divided. The State Department hired all the Twinkies, the Secret Service hired all the HoHos, the Generals sleep with the Cupcakes, and the voters sent all the Ding Dongs to Congress." - Argus Hamilton

19. "Multiply all ingredients by four to get too many cupcakes." - Jenny Colgan, "Meet Me At The Cupcake Café"

20. "All right, cupcakes. You are about to see the Grand Canyon. Try not to break it. The skywalk can hold the weight of seventy giant jets, for you featherweights should be safe there. If possible, try to avoid pushing yourself overboard as this will cause me additional paperwork." - Rick Riordan

21. "We have fans who bake cookies for the team or they make cupcakes or muffins and stuff like that…" - Kyle Busch

22. "Are you crazy? Flirting with Eli Stock in front of Belissa Norwood, in Belissa Norwood's house, while eating Belissa Norwood's cupcakes?" - Sarah Dessen

23. "These are my wake up cupcakes, antidepressants and a cellphone book." - Courtney Love

24. "About this proposal, cupcake… Morelli." - Janet Evanovich

25. "Hide it in a hiding place where no one ever goes Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes." - Paul Simon

26. "I'm definitely into things like vegetables, chicken, brown rice, but I don't deprive myself of anything. If I want a Sprinkles cupcake, I get a Sprinkles cupcake. But I won't have it every day… you just have to have a reasonable view of it all." - Abigail Spencer

27. "I'm not a fan of the cupcake image. This idea that you can distract a girl with something frivolous like a cake or shoes or handbags, and she won't be a threat to men." - Joanna Trollope

28. "I'm wearing an outfit that looks like a cupcake… a sparkling pink blouse, a low cut… it's all a little girlie inappropriately… Pink, pink, lots of pink,… Out of practice." - Jennifer Tilly

29. "Nope! I don't want Ouija board, or do the pendulum thing, and I swear if I see a tarot card or a runestone, I'll do a cupcake all over you. (Grace)" - Sherrilyn Kenyon

30. "America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people." - Gloria Steinem

31. "There's such a buildup of crud in my oven, there's only room to bake a single cupcake." - Phyllis Diller

32. "I checked my phone messages. Three in all. The first was from Joe. "Hey, Cupcake." That was it. That was the whole message. The second was from Ranger. "Yo." Ranger made Joe look like a chatterbox." - Janet Evanovich

33. "Frank looked at her. But you throw Ding Dongs at monsters. Iris looked horrified. Oh, these are not Ding Dongs. She dug under the counter and pulled out a package of chocolate covered cakes that looked exactly like Ding Dongs. These are gluten-free, no added sugar, vitamin-enriched, soy-free goat's milk and seaweed simulation cupcakes. All natural! Fleecy intervened. I am corrected. Frank suddenly felt as uncomfortable as Percy." - Rick Riordan

34. "That's it, cupcake. You going down." - Rick Riordan

35. "New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani fired his wife, Donna Hanover, as official hostess at the mayor's mansion last weekend. He has his own idea of what a hostess should be. He wants a cupcake." - Argus Hamilton

36. "How are you gonna stop me, cupcake? Hit me with your book bag? If I must." - Rachel Caine

37. "I wore a pink Betsey Johnson dress to my prom, and I pretty much looked like a pink cupcake. I loved this dress!" - Sarah Gadon

38. "I love to cook, especially cupcakes. I'm really good at it." - Kim Kardashian

39. "When I was a kid, I loved having muffins and cupcakes and I still like them with coffee." - Gautam Rode

40. "Friends are like cupcakes in my pantry of memories." - Unknown Author

41. "I have this to regret, that too often when I wanted a cupcake, I did not have one." - David Grayson

42. "On Saturday he ate a piece of chocolate cake, an ice cream cone, a pickle, a slice of Swiss cheese, a slice of salami, a lollipop, a piece of cherry pie, a sausage, a cupcake and a slice of watermelon That night, he had a stomach ache." - Eric Carle

43. "I eat cupcakes and I don't work! But if you ask me 10 years from now, I'm going to regret answering that way now. I don't even drink water, I'm terrible! I'm 24 now, so I guess I was very, very lucky that it didn't show that I like to eat. I should probably start training I guess…" - Blake Lively

44. "You know," I told him,"if you don't know how to eat a cupcake, that's nothing to be ashamed of." Now he did smile. "I know how to eat a cupcake." "Sure you do." "I do," he said. "I just don't want one of those." "Yeah? Prove it." - Sarah Dessen

45. "Things are tough everywhere, cupcake, and it's raining on the just and the unjust... except in California." - Alan Moore

46. "All right cupcakes listen up!" - Rick Riordan

47. "Writing is like baking cupcakes, you're trying to make something from the raw. Like with cupcakes, it's flour and eggs and stuff, and with books, it's ideas and words. The end result is the same though, you want people to eat them up." - Emma Shortt

Cute cupcake sayings

1. "You are such a cupcake." - Janet Evanovich

2. "Cupcakes are sweet and even sweeter when shared." - Marie Williams Johnstone

3. "Cupcakes and muffins are like twin sisters…" - Sadao Turner

4. "Because you're as cute as a cupcake, you smell as sweet as a cupcake…" - K.C. Lynn

5. "Cupcakes are the tattooed brunette chick of the baked goods world." - Dov Davidoff

6. "A quality muffin is just a cupcake without frosting." - Erin Morgenstern, "The Starless Sea"

7. "A homemade cupcake deserves a homemade icing." - Kim Knott

8. "My grandmother used to tell me that cupcakes are good for the soul." - Anna Todd

9. "When you look at a cupcake, you've got to smile." - Anne Byrn

10. "Friendship is sharing a sweet cupcake." - Marie Williams Johnstone

11. "What makes life so sweet? Cupcakes to eat and someone to love." -Marie Williams Johnstone

12. "Cupcake, you've been breaking my heart for as long as I've known you." - Janet Evanovich

13. "Cupcakes give me life" - Paul Rudd

14. "Cupcakes are for celebration whenever they appear." - Danielle Steel

Cupcake love quotes

1. "Some people like cupcakes exclusively." - Frank Zappa

2. "When you share a cupcake, you share love." - Anonymous

3. "Sugar makes people happy, but you fall off the edge after a few minutes, so I really cut it out of my diet. Except for the cupcakes. I like those." - David Lynch

4. "I have a constant sweet tooth, so I love anything bakery like cupcakes, cookies." - Carmen Electra

5. "I will never turn down a red velvet cupcake." - Shay Mitchell

Funny cupcake quotes

1. "Inside me there's a thin person struggling to get out, but I can usually sedate him with four or five cupcakes." - Bob Thaves

2. "Sometimes I see really skinny girls. They may look great, but...they're not happy. Have a cupcake." - Kathy Wakile

3. "We have a love party [at home]. It's like, "I'm baking you a cupcake." Then it's like, "Well, I baked you a cake." And it's like, "Well, I made you a cake with a cupcake on top and candles." - Dianna Agron

4. "Cupcakes - when you want to watch your weight, but still feel the pride that comes with eating an entire cake." - Dana Gould

5. "You can run, but you can't hide, Cupcake. Said Morelli. I will find you. You are such a cop. Tell me about that." - Janet Evanovich

6. "I'm not Tom Cruise. I don't have to look that good. I'm always going to have a problem because I'm thought of as someone edgy, but I'm not. I'm a cupcake." - Lance Henriksen

7. "Hell-on-skis, can you hear me? This is flying cupcake." - Joss Stirling

8. "Cupcake, your middle name is trouble." - Janet Evanovich

9. "Do you want me to call you Celery Stick instead of Cupcake or Honey-Pie? It just doesn't inspire the same warm, fuzzy feelings." - Richelle Mead

10. "What can I say? I've never met a cupcake I didn't want to get to know better." - Jasinda Wilder

11. "I bake my daughter cupcakes for her school. I'm very hands-on." - Greg Bryk

12. "By contrast, my method of eating a cupcake was quite straight forward. Step one: gobble it down one large bite at a time until there's nothing left…" - Meg Donohue

13. "Any cupcake consumed before 9AM is, technically, a muffin." - Brian P. Cleary

14. "If there were laws on the amount of chocolate one cupcake could have, molten cakes would break every one of them." - Donna Kauffman, "Sugar Rush"

15. "I've never met a problem a proper cupcake couldn't fix." - Sarah Ockler, "Bittersweet"

16. "The balance to life is kale cakes and cupcakes." - Joe

17. "Cupcakes take the cake." - Anonymous

18. "In the buffet of life, friends are the dessert." - Anonymous

19. "It was the cupcakes that saved her." - Donna Kauffman, "Sugar Rush"

20. "You can't just leave a Mississippi Mud Mountain half-eaten! We leave no cupcake behind!" - Molly Harper, "Rhythm And Bluegrass"

Short cupcake quotes for Instagram

1. "Will work for cupcakes." - Anonymous

2. "All you need is love (but a cupcake would also be nice)." - Anonymous

3. "Life is Sweet. Eat Cupcakes." - Anonymous

4. "It's all about the cupcakes." - Anonymous

5. "The only thing we throwback on Thursdays is a cupcake." - Anonymous

6. "Life is full of questions, cupcakes are the answer." - Anonymous

7. "Be a cupcake in a world full of muffins." - Anonymous

8. "It's been a tough week. Let's celebrate with cupcakes and frosting." - Anonymous

9. "You can't buy happiness, but you can buy cupcakes. And that's kind of the same thing." - Anonymous

10. "Cupcakes make everything better." - Anonymous

11. "A balanced diet is having a cupcake in each hand." - Anonymous

12. "When stressed and in doubt, cupcake it out." - Anonymous

13. "Cupcakes are worth celebrating in all their splendor" - Anonymous

14. "Making the world a better place, one cupcake at a time." - Anonymous

15. "Just a cupcake looking for a stud muffin." - Anonymous

Wow, that makes over 100! But don't stop now. Read the best dessert quotes, delicious cake sayings, perfect phrases about cookies, sweet baking quotes, and the best chocolate quotes and sayings.

Note: The quotes' spelling and grammar match with the source.

If you want to share an ice cream quote or know the author of a quote marked as "anonymous," email me at hello@bakinglikeachef.com.

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I'm Irina, an experienced home baker with over 30 years of expertise and the blogger behind Baking Like a Chef (since 2018), where I share baking recipes, tips, and tricks. My recipes have been featured in the renowned French Chef Simon and Le Journal des Femmes.

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