Long ago and far away I helped out with Vacation Bible School. Yes – people actually entrusted me with their children for a whole week of mornings! Ok… I didn’t actually teach them, I did quite a bit of behind the scenes work with my aunt – but I still helped! One year we decided to bake these ice cream cone cupcakes for a snack for the kids. The trial batch went great – they were so cute! Let’s make oodles of them! So when the time came, my mom and I did just that. What a nightmare. We made over a hundred of these and fought them at every step. I think one of the biggest issues was the cones were not flat on the bottom, they had a little extra lip on them from when they were made. Let’s just say… cussing at a Vacation Bible School project – might not be the best course of events. :)
This time around – no issues! I won’t even give a recipe – it’s ridiculously easy. Follow the direction on the back of your cake mix for cupcakes. I added a bunch of chocolate jimmies so the cakes would look like chocolate chip ice cream. They slide easy in the oven with the help of a cupcake tin. I promise, when you try to pull them out of the oven, they will all fall over. It just happens. Laugh and move on. I melted frosting and drizzled it on; you can add whatever topping you’d like.
Oh! One last thing, many of the cakes I make are for my short friends in Iowa (Ok Emily is about to outgrow me at 9 years old!!). These were made for their mom, Dee. They happened to be in Chicago on her birthday – how could we not celebrate?
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