Scarfing down a cupcake left one man with more than a sugar high. He downed a Mother's Day dessert so fast he failed to notice that he had swallowed the 2-inch (5 centimeters) cupcake topper.

A man wolfed down a cupcake, including a 2-inch pastry topper that read "Happy Mother's Day" — but didn't know the plastic object had lodged in his throat for a week. It took a CT scan and ...