Just Bugging You Cupcake Cones Recipes

"JUST BUGGING YOU" CUPCAKE CONES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Make cake batter as directed on box. Fill 12 cones about half full of batter. Stand cones in muffin pan. Refrigerate any leftover batter until ready to fill and bake remaining cones.
• Bake 21 to 26 minutes or until toothpick carefully inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely, about 1 hour.
• Frost with frosting. Decorate with candies and cookies to create bugs and butterflies. Use small cookies or licorice candies for bodies, miniature candy-coated chocolate baking bits for eyes and small pieces of licorice for legs and antennae. Store loosely covered.

CONE CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Cream butter and sugar together well in mixing bowl. Beat in eggs 1 at a time. Mix in vanilla. Measure flour, baking powder and salt into small bowl. Stir. Add milk to butter mixture in 2 parts alternately with flour mixture in 3 parts, beginning and ending with flour.
• Fill cones about 3/4 full leaving the batter 1/2 inch from top. Place filled cones on a baking tray. Bake in oven for about 15 to 20 minutes until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.

CHOCOLATE CUPCAKE CONES

Steps:

• Prepare cake mix according to package directions; set aside. In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese, sugar, egg and vanilla until smooth; stir in chocolate chips. , Place ice-cream cones in muffin cups. Spoon about 1 tablespoon of cake batter into each cone; top with a rounded teaspoon of cream cheese mixture. Fill with remaining batter to within 3/4 in. of top. , Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean., In a small bowl, beat the shortening, confectioners' sugar and vanilla until smooth. Add enough milk to achieve spreading consistency. Frost tops of cooled cones and top with sprinkles.,

MINI CAKE CONES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F.
• Prepare cake batter as directed on package; stir in 2 Tbsp. sprinkles. Cover tops of 2 mini muffin pans with foil, pressing edges of foil around edges of pans to secure. Use sharp knife to poke small hole in foil over center of each muffin cup. Place bottom of 1 ice cream cone over each hole, then carefully press cone through foil so cone stands upright in muffin cup. Spoon cake batter into cones, filling each about 3/4 full.
• Bake 12 to 15 min. or until toothpick inserted in centers of cupcakes comes out clean. Cool completely.
• Spoon frosting into medium bowl. Add COOL WHIP; whisk until blended. Spoon into resealable plastic bag; cut off one bottom corner of bag. Use to pipe COOL WHIP mixture onto cupcakes to resemble swirled ice cream. Top with remaining sprinkles.

CAKES IN A CONE

Steps:

• Prepare cake mix according to directions. Fill each cone about 3/4 full of batter, up to first ridge. Place cones in the cups of a cupcake pan or on cookie sheets.
• Bake at 400 degrees F (205 degrees C) for 15 to 18 minutes.
• Place 10 chocolate chips on top of each warm cone, and in a minute or two spread melted chocolate over top. Decorate with candies.

GHOST CUPCAKE CONES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Cover two 13x9-in. pans with foil, tightly securing edges around pan. For each pan, cut fifteen small holes in foil, about 2-1/2 in. apart. Carefully stand a cone in each hole., Prepare cake batter according to package directions. Fill cones to within 1/2 in. of tops (scant 3 tablespoons); do not overfill. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 17-20 minutes. Cool completely on wire racks., To serve, pipe or dollop whipped topping over tops to resemble ghosts. Decorate with black icing. Refrigerate leftovers.