Yeah, I’ve had that idea flicker in my head like a glitchy loop. If you think of the toaster’s crumb tray as an array of LEDs, you can write a recursive function that paints a pastel gradient each time the bread pops up. Just be careful: the deeper the recursion, the more stack frames you’ll consume—remember that vintage microcontroller we used back in the '90s had only 512 bytes of RAM. I once tried to bring a toaster back to life with a tiny Python script that toggled the LED strips, but the toaster almost threw a stack overflow when the cupcake pattern went beyond three levels of recursion. If you want to keep it safe, add a base case that stops after, say, five nested calls, and you’ll have a pastel cupcake glow without risking the toaster’s firmware. Happy coding!