Cupcakes

"This whole story started years ago with a wish on a cupcake. When my mom wished not to be alone and we were reunited."

- Henry to Lucy and Jacinda

Cupcakes are a pastry featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. They first appear in the first episode of the first season.

Trivia

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Production Notes

 * The part where Wish Rumplestiltskin samples the icing on the cupcakes in Henry's apartment was pitched by director Steve Pearlman to Robert Carlyle the night they were shooting "Homecoming". Pearlman had asked the prop department to have enough cupcakes available in case Robert Carlyle liked the idea, which he did. While they were filming it, Pearlman was afraid that the actor would get lead poisoning because of the number of times he sucked cream and the make-up off his finger, or get a sugar high. They did at least 20 takes of the scene, where Robert Carlyle ate the frosting every single time.


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Disney

 * Emma wishes on a candle shaped like a blue star, an allusion to the scene in Pinocchio, in which Geppetto wishes on a blue star and his wish is granted by the Blue Fairy.