Golden buttercake with old fashioned buttercream frosting

Scott Cunningham came to Provincetown in 2008 for a show. He was supposed to stay six weeks. He never left.

Before Provincetown, Scott had spent years in New York City — acting, performing, working as a nanny for families around the city. It was during those nanny years that he perfected the cupcake: a golden butter cake with an old-fashioned pink buttercream swirl, the kind of thing you make for children because it has to be exactly right. Simple. Honest. The kind of thing that makes people stop what they're doing.

When he settled in Provincetown, Scott did something that made a certain kind of sense to people who know him and no sense at all to people who don't: he started selling cupcakes from a pushcart on Commercial Street every night. One kind. Pink frosting. Nothing else.

There are things you do in Provincetown. You walk Commercial Street. You watch the sun go down over the water. You go to ScottCakes. Fifteen years in, people still do a double-take when they find out there's only one kind. Then they try it. Then they come back the next day. Then they bring one home for a friend.

No visit to Provincetown is complete without one.