I had a friend in high school who made a business out of making cupcakes and she taught me this method and I’ve past it down to everyone that I have ever eaten a cupcake in front of since!
You take off the baking paper, break the cupcake in half horizontally, flip the top of the cupcake so that the icing is in the middle of two cakes and eat it like an icing/cake sandwich.
Its the best and only right way to consume cupcakes in my opinion. You don’t get the icing just brushing up against the top of your mouth and all up in your teeth and its easier to hold without making a mess.
Trust. Its the right way to go.