ATM for buy cupcake

This article is a longer version of an item that appears in the Guardian’s online food and drinks section, Word of Mouth.
The world now has its first cupcake ATM.  That’s right – a candyfloss-pink hole in the wall dispensing cupcakes 24/7, just in case we need to scratch an itch for garishly-iced sponge confection in the middle of the night. Who’d have thought?
The doomsayers had been predicting a post sugar-rush crash ever since the cupcake surge began around the turn of the millennium. But the canny marketing wheeze by US gourmet cupcake company Sprinkles to install an ATM (or more accurately ACM – Automatic Cake Machine) in the exterior wall of its Beverly Hills store is a custard pie in the face of cupcake doubters.