These super easy ice cream cone cupcakes are the perfect way to make any birthday party truly special!
Looking to make your little one DIY cupcakes that they will never forget? Ice cream cone cupcakes are so easy to make! Not to mention they will have everyone talking about how fun and creative you are!
I am not by any means an expert baker. Honestly, while I love cooking and love simple desserts, I actually don’t love baking. Baking tends to be too technical for me. I don’t like to measure ingredients and with baking, that is pretty important. So when I needed cupcakes to send to school for my daughter’s birthday, my first instinct was to buy them.
Buying store-bought cupcakes just isn’t as fun though. I wanted to do something fun and special for my little birthday girl, so I decided to make her cupcakes myself. I have made simple at-home cupcakes before, specifically for her unicorn birthday party. One year I even made a donut drip cake. The one thing that all of these baked goods have in common though, boxed cake mix!
I love a good boxed cake mix. All of the guesswork is taken out! I don’t have to worry if I have enough or too little flour or baking powder. Just add water, egg, and oil, and BOOM! You’ve got yourself a perfectly delicious ready-to-bake cake!
So for these ice cream cone cupcakes, I went with a funfetti cake mix. Willow is actually the one who decided on ide cream cones as the theme for this year’s birthday, and how could I say no to an adorable almost 7-year old who wants to show off her fancy cupcakes to all of her school friends?
Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes Recipe
If you want to recreate these cupcakes, all you will need is a few simple ingredients.
- Boxed Cake Mix
- Vegetable Oil
- Eggs
- Frosting
- Sprinkles
- Ice Cream Cones
How to Make Ie Cream Cone Cupcakes
These adorable creations are much easier to make than you may expect. Seriously, If I can make them, I guarantee yours will look fife times better!
While they are super simple, I still like a good step-by-step recipe recreation with pictures… So that is just what you are going to get!
First, you want to make your box cake mix as per the instructions on the box. Usually, this is just adding in eggs, water, and oil.
Preheat your oven to 350°.
Place your empty ice cream cones into your cupcake pan. Pour the cake batter into the ice cream cones until they are about three-quarters of the way full.
Bake the ice cream cone cupcakes for 20 minutes at 350°.
When your cupcakes are done, let them cool for about 10 minutes before icing.
When cool, ice the cupcakes. I used a ziplock back with the corner cut off to apply my icing, but you can use an actual piping bag if you have one.
Pipe on the frosting to look like ice cream! Top with sprinkles and your cupcakes are party ready!
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Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes
These Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes are easy to make and perfect for a birthday party!
Ingredients
- 1 box Cake Mix
- 2 Eggs depending on the cake mix
- 1/4 cup Vegetable Oil depending on the cake mix
- 1 pack Ice Cream Cones flat bottom cones!
- 1 container Frosting
- Sprinkles
Instructions
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Preheat your oven to 350°
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Make the cake mix according to the box instructions.
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PLace your ice cream cones standing up in your cupcake pan.
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Fill the cones up 3/4 of the way.
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Bake for 20 minutes.
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REmove from oven and let cool.
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Fill your ziplock bag with icing and cut off the corner (or use a piping bag).
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Pipe icing onto your cooled cupcakes and top with sprinkles!
I promise everyone will love these super simple cupcakes! I mean, can you argue with this happy face?
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Jessi is a working mom to two living in Central Florida. She has a Master’s Degree in Legal Studies but decided to make her career in social media marketing and content writing. When she isn’t cooking up something new in the kitchen, she is traveling with her family and looking for new adventures!
I love making these! I made them with my daughter a few years ago and they were amazing. We’ll have to make them again! It seems she’ll be off school for a bit, so it’ll give us something to do.
I bet my kids would love these! I’ll have to give them a try
I had these for my 6th birthday party and LOVED them!!! I can’t wait to make these for my kids this week and share a bit of nostalgia with them. 🙂
These are adorable! I’ll have to try this!
Funfetti is the best! They’re colorful, delicious and perfect for those cute ice cream cone cupcakes. 🙂
These cupcakes are so cute! I love how you’ve got creative and made them inside ice cream cones, they are adorable and I bet they taste delicious.
Looks so so delicious. Will definitely try this at home!
My mom made these cupcakes once for my birthday. They were so delicious
Yummm. They look so good but I can not make them because I stay alone… I have no one to cook for.
These look super delicious and tasty. Will definitely try out this recipe. Thanks
These cupcakes look super delicious and tasty. Must try out this recipe sometime 🙂
These are SO CUTE. I would love to make these for my nephew! Thanks so much for sharing this with all of us!
How cute. I loved that you followed through with her birthday wish and that they came out so delectable looking. Funfetti is actually my favorite cake mix to use. Definitely will try this.
Thanks! It was a lot of fun and she loved getting to help make them.
What a fabulous idea! I never realised that the batter is placed in the cones and the cones are baked in the oven as well. Somehow I thought the cup cakes were placed in the cones after baking.
These look so cute and seem so easy!
Absolutely LOVE ice cream cone cupcakes. We may be making these during quarantine.
They are a great quarantine treat!
I’ve made these for kids parties before and they are always a hit!
I love baking! I think being precise is what draws me in. I find it so relaxing. I love the cupcake cone idea. It looks like so much fun. I bet they taste great.
Oh I totally have to make these!! They look so good!