Happy Birthday! Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes!

This weekend we celebrated our little girl's 5th birthday. Since we did a little party, I made ice cream cone cupcakes to serve! I have never made them before so I read up on other sites, reviews and tips before starting them. I used a vanilla cake recipe from Magnolia Bakery and a beautiful frosting recipe for the cones. I only made 12 cones and used the leftover batter for a round layer, that I frosted with a butter cream frosting also from Magnolia Bakery. The cones turned out sooo sooo cute and what fun they were! All us adults even ate one.

So, some tips I have about this entry are, be careful moving the decorated cones, they will tip! Thankfully it was the leftover ones that fell to the floor. I was afraid of them melting (haha!) in our warm house, so I put them in the fridge. The frosting turned a little hard, but was ok. This is a marshmallow-like frosting and is super sticky! Do not overfill your cones, I only filled them to that line, and they were perfect while baking but all of a sudden they grew over the cones in the last minutes. Use a large star tip to achieve the soft serve look, I had to go get a tip just for these, I think it was a 1 M that I got. The cake was wonderful, I really liked it overall! Very easy recipe, except I think it was just a tiny bit dry. I will for here on out, buy better food coloring, like a gel or paste. Those little squeeze bottles are lousy for coloring frosting. I also used too big of a tip (or the cake was too small) to write her name, so it looked like squiggles, haha.
I wish I had all the tools from my cake decorating days in a bakery, 14 yrs ago. I certainly don't get to practice enough, hence the silly decorated cake.

a new photo place

a new oven (I swear it's 100' off!)

I forgot the cherries for the final pictures

yea, I spread the frosting on thick