Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes

These Ice cream cone cupcakes are perfect for summer or any gathering with friends or family as there so cute, fun and absolutely delicious. The best part is that they seem like you’ve spend hours making them, but in reality it only takes a few ingredients and steps.

What Are Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes!

Ice cream cone cupcakes are basically cupcakes, but in an ice cream form. … I know it sounds crazy. They use the same batter as cupcakes or cake, but instead of being added and baked into muffins liners or baking pans there baked in ice cream cones! It’s such a fun and easy way to take a twist on a classic dessert.

Not only are these already so easy and simple to make, but if you want to make them even faster you can use box cake mix. Any kind or flavor will work, all you have to do is follow the instructions as explained.

What Ingredients Are Needed?

1 box cake mix of choice. You can make the cake yourself, however if you trying to make this as easy and quick as possible than box cake mix is the way to go. Any flavour will work just fine for this recipe.
1 box of ice cream cones. The only ice cream cones that will work for this recipe are the ones with the flat bottom as they need to be able to stand up on their own while baking like real cupcakes.
Butter. Room temperature butter is one of the key ingredients to a good buttercream frosting. It’s very important if you want to achieve a soft and smooth buttercream frosting.
Powder sugar. Using powder sugar to sweeten your frosting is probably one of the best and safest ways to go as it’s not grainy and is manageable depending on you’re sweet tooth.
Cocoa powder. In this recipe you can use natural or dutch-process cocoa powder for the chocolate portion of the frosting.
Heavy cream. Using heavy cream is the best way to create a lighter, softer and fluffier frosting without adding any extra sweetness. It also helps the frosting whip up a lot nicer, perfect for piping and decorating with it.
Vanilla. It’s such an easy way to elevate your frosting than it tasting like butter and sugar, but to vanilla. It can also be substituted with any other flavouring of choice.
Salt. Just a small pinch of it can be used to balance out the sweetness of your frosting and make it stand out. It will also draw out the flavors you’ve added in like vanilla or chocolate.

Sprinkles. Can you have ice cream cone cupcakes without sprinkles?…. of course not, they might be optional, however they are highly recommended as they will take them to a whole other level!
Cherries. There’s no need for an explanation because would ice cream be complete without a cherry on top?…… I don’t thinks so.

Tips for successful Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes

Prepare box cake mix according to package directions.
Add batter into cupcake lined with ice cream cones, filling each cone 3/4 of the way.
Beat the butter on medium-high until mixture turns off-white.
Slowly add the powdered sugar until incorporated, mixing on low increasing the speed to high.
Divide the frosting into 2 equal parts.
Use a saran wrap to Place both frosting.
Be sure no air bubble when you roll the saran wrap into a sausage shape.

How To Store Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes?

To keep these ice cream cone cupcakes fresh, store in an airtight container. This keeps the ice cream cones crunchy and not from getting dry. You can also keep at room temperature however, if it’s warm, they should go in the fridge to stay as good as possible.

How To Create The Marble Swirls With Buttercream Frosting?

Creating marble swirls seems hard, but it’s actually so easy and a great way to elevate these ice cream cone cupcakes and get the chocolate and vanilla flavor together. Once you get the trick you will never forget it. All you have to do is place both vanilla and chocolate frosting on saran wrap and scoop a thick amount of each frosting and place in the centre straight down of the saran wrap. Next, roll saran wrap into a sausage shape snipping off one side, adding the snipped side facing down into a piping bag fitted with any tip of choice.

Serving size

Around 7 ice cream cone cupcakes

Ingredients

Cupcakes

1 box cake mix of choice
1 box of ice cream cones

Frosting

3/4 cup butter
2 cups powder sugar
2 tbsp cocoa powder
3 tbsp heavy cream (or 2 tbsp milk)
2 tsp vanilla
1/4 tsp salt

Toppings

Sprinkles
Cherries

Instructions

Step 1

Prepare box cake mix according to package instructions. Place one ice cream cone into muffin tin spot. Fill the cones about 3/4 full with the cake batter. Bake according to package direction. Once baked, cool completely before frosting.

Step 2

For the frosting, beat the butter on medium-high until mixture turns off-white while scraping down the sides of the bowl (about 5 minutes). Then slowly add the powdered sugar until incorporated, mixing on low increasing the speed to high. Add heavy cream, vanilla and salt. Whip the mixture until fluffy. Next, divide the frosting into 2 equal parts. Add 2 tbsp of cocoa powder to one of the sections and mix until combined. Now you have both vanilla and chocolate frosting!

Step 3

To decorate the cupcakes, place vanilla frosting on saran wrap and scoop a thick amount of frosting and place in the centre straight down of the saran wrap. Repeat the same with the chocolate frosting. Next, roll saran wrap into a sausage shape snipping off one side, adding the snipped side facing down into a piping bag fitted with a Wilton 2D or 1M tip.

Step 4

Pipe vanilla/chocolate swirls on top of each ice cream cone cupcake. Top with sprinkles and a cherry on top. Enjoy!