Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes

Today we made cupcakes in ice cream cones. I saw the idea on Pinterest awhile ago, and then my sister  reminded me of it the other day. Today seemed like as good a day as any so here they are. I have to say that I mostly supervised the decorating instead of doing it myself, but it was a fun project for the kids. After being up until 1:30am yesterday working on the sleep sack, I needed an easy one today!

I used a box cake mix (Funfetti flavor) and store-bought frosting that I tinted myself. I think I overfilled the cones a little bit – we ended up with 21 cones but probably could have had 22 without some of the overflow problems. We iced them using an icing bag and I put to use another great pin I saw the other day – wrap the frosting in plastic wrap before putting it into the icing bag. Its hard to explain, but so clever with no mess and super easy cleanup. If you’re interested here’s the video that shows how its done. The original post I pinned showed the cones baking in a modified aluminum pan to hold them upright, but I just put them in the muffin tins and transferred them to the oven carefully. That was fine – the only problem came when Viv pulled the pan down to bring it to show Papi and all of her cupcakes tipped over.