Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes!

The Midwest is freezing right now, luckily these delicious ice cream cone cupcakes can be enjoyed all year round! My girls were extremely excited to make this little slice of summer on a cold snowy day. We made these over the summer for my daughter's ice cream themed birthday and they were an absolute hit! Guests thought it was so clever to make cupcakes baked inside of ice cream cones and I was oh so happy that these "impressive" treats were so easy to make!

The hardest part about these beauties is figuring out how you are going to make them stand up in your oven. You could just stand up ice cream cones on a flat baking tray and hope that your arm is steady enough to have only one or two casualties. Since I knew we were going with the ice cream cone theme in advance, I purchased some special ice cream cone baking racks on Amazon which make baking, frosting, transporting and displaying these treats a breeze!

There are no special steps you need to take when actually baking these, you just treat the ice cream cones as you would any cupcake liner! Make your favorite cake batter, pour it into the cones about 3/4 of the way and bake as you normally would.

When cool, simply frost your favorite frosting on top and decorate with sprinkles! I added a little cinnamon candy on top to act as a cherry, although you could probably do a real cherry on top as well if you like! These are so simple to make and you can customize them for any occasion or holiday by switching out the sprinkles and color of frosting. We plan on making red frosted ice cream cone cupcakes with heart sprinkles for Valentines Day! I may even get pink cones as well.