Cupcakes!

Today's subject was a bit of a cop-out. I had been skimming through some cupcake cook-books recently, and I saw a couple of recipes for cupcakes- baked inside of ice cream cones. I thought this idea was cool, for a couple of reasons. Firstly, no annoying paper cup-thingie that just rips the cupcake apart. Secondly, if you really, really got detail-specific you could probably trick people into thinking these actually contained ice cream. Thirdly, I think they look cute. Nowly...er...Now, I would have preferred making these with some cake batter made from scratch. The chocolate cake recipes I was seeing sounded delicious, but their baking times were a bit too long for my time frame today. I just used a box-mix. The brand is Duncan Hines: Moist Deluxe- Butter Recipe Fudge.

A tip: do not overfill the cones with batter. Although, if this happens, you can just say that the "ice cream got all melty". It adds to the authenticity. Yeah!


I decided to frost half of the batch with chocolate icing, and the other half with vanilla. For the chocolate, I used a recipe called "Quick Fudge Frosting". Unless I made it wrong, which I probably did, it's not very fudgy and is mostly runny and soft. It hardened well, though.


For the vanilla frosting, I just made a run-of-the-mill buttercream icing. I decided to tint it green, to give a minty look. Why? I like the color mint. I considered using sprinkles, but I don't think I have any. I really piled it on, because the icing was stiff enough. I think it gives a nice scoop-effect as well. My sister approved.


Here is a photo of me trying to show contrast between something white and the green-ness of the frosting. I believe that I have failed. Oh well. It's green-ish, I promise.


These are for the cats at work. Reviews will follow.