Have you ever had one of these? I got the idea from the Betty Crocker website, and was happily surprised by how easy and fast they are to make. I did it all two hours before Maya’s birthday party, but I’m sure making them the night before would work just as well. They were a big hit with the kids and the parents, and fun for me to make.
Why did I choose cones over traditional cake or cupcakes?
- I had never done it before and novelty is always good.
- Each cone uses only a little batter, so I got more cones than I would’ve regular cupcakes.
- No messy hands or faces (for the most part).
- You can eat the whole thing! No just eating the top of the cupcake and wasting the rest.
- No cupcake wrappers strewn all over the ground in the party area.
You just need a few ingredients: a box of your favorite cake mix, water, oil, eggs, 30-36 regular ice cream cones (the ones I found were 99 cents for a 24-pack), and frosting and sprinkles to decorate the cones.
Now here’s the hard part –
Prepare the cake mix according to the directions on the box. Fill each cone to about a 1/2 inch from the top. Bake as directed, 20-25 minutes, and that’s it! Use a muffin pan when baking, so if one falls over it won’t be a big deal. I managed to get 31 cones filled, but could have done 36 if I would’ve put less batter in the first batch of 12.
Let cool, and frost with your favorite store-bought or homemade frosting. Applying sprinkles is so easy if you just pour them in a bowl and dip the cone in evenly.
To transport, I stretched a piece of aluminum paper around a baking pan, and cut slits in it for each cone. I placed the baking pan in a box, but just covering the top with more foil would be fine. They were packed in there pretty tightly so none fell over.
Next time I’ll leave them without decoration and set out sprinkles, candy, fruit, etc, and let the kids do it themselves.
Just as fun as an ice cream party but without any melting!
That is such a fabulous idea! I love it! I also like the idea of letting the kids doing the decorating.
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Thank you! It really is so easy to do.
I made those before. My daughter has brought them into school for the past 2 years on her birthday. It is challenging transporting those to school every year. But they are easy to make. She’ll probably want them again this year.
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Oh my girls are about to have a birthday and I have been looking for easy cup cake ideas for them to take to preschool.. thanks so much for the inspiration!
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Kate,
I hope the twins have a wonderful birthday and enjoy their cupcakes 🙂 Oh, and thank you for stumbling!
I WONDER… DOES IT CHANGE THE FLAVOR OF THE CONE? DOES IT MAKE IT HARDER? STALE? FLAKIER? DOES I LOOSE IT CRUNCHINESS?…JUST WONDERING?
Wendy – That’s exactly what I found amazing. The cone didn’t change at all! It stayed crunchy and the flavor didn’t change. Those cones don’t really taste like anything anyway.
That’s awesome! I bet you were the coolest Mom around when you passed these out!
Wow this looks great. Too bad the weather here in Los Angeles has been in high 90s, no way I would turn on oven until hopefully November. I was just adding a weather widget box to my blog, this way I will always know it when son is watching tv instead of going to new sites with all their ads.
I am going to have to try this, might be cheaper than the Stone Cold Creamery cake for birthdays in March and April.
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Cute idea! 🙂
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My daughter’s birthday is the day before Halloween. Her class is having a Halloween party on Friday, so I asked her teacher if she could bring cupcakes for her birthday. When I bought the cones, I grabbed mini’s buy mistake. I didn’t notice till I got home. They are the perfect size for taking to school. Since they are smaller, the kids will have no problem finishing them off before the end of class. (the party is the last 45 min. of the day)
Thanks for the Great Idea!!!!!! My Daughter loves the Idea.
We are topping them with Mini M&M’s
Cary – thank you!
Paula – Using the mini’s might be just right for little hands. Just make sure to keep an eye on the oven so they don’t burn, since it’ll be hard to estimate just how long to bake them. On the plus side, you’ll get a lot more cones out of it 🙂
We add chocolate chips to the bottom of the cone before adding the batter.
Very very yummy.
Oooh.. I never thought of doing that! Great idea. The bottom doesn’t get mushy when the chocolate melts, though?
I always fill up the muffin tin as if baking regular cupcakes and then put the cone upside down over the mix and it’ll back into the cone and give more of a top to cover with icing! But this way works too, bit less messy I’d say 😀