Description
Create spooky and delicious Wicked Halloween Witch Hat Cupcake Cones perfect for Halloween parties. These fun cupcake cones combine moist cake baked inside sugar cones with colorful frosting decorations to resemble witch hats. The cones are sprayed black and decorated with bright orange, purple, and yellow icing bands and buckles, making them a festive and eye-catching treat.
Ingredients
Scale
Cake & Cone Base
- Favorite Cake Mix or Wilton’s Chocolate Cake Recipe, prepared as directed
- 12 Sugar Cones
Decorations & Icing Colors
- Black Color Mist Food Coloring Spray, 1.5 oz
- Creamy White Decorator Icing, 4 lb tub
- Lemon Yellow Icing Color, 1 oz
- Lemon Yellow Gel Food Coloring, 1 oz
- Golden Yellow Icing Color, 1 oz
- Rose Icing Colors Pink Food Coloring, 1 oz
- Rose Gel Food Coloring, 1 oz
- Violet Icing Color, 1 oz Gel Food Coloring
- Violet Gel Food Coloring, 1 oz
- Orange Icing Color, 1 oz
- Orange Gel Food Coloring, 1 oz
Tools & Equipment
- Cupcake Cones Baking Rack
- Recipe Right Non-Stick Cookie Sheet
- Unbleached Parchment Paper
- 12-Inch Disposable Decorating Bags, 12-Count
- Large Basketweave Decorating Tip 2B
- Round Cake Decorating Tip 3
- Straight Black Spatula, 9-Inch
- Knife
- Store Bought Chocolate Cookies (to place cones on)
Instructions
- Prepare & bake the cones: Prepare the cake mix according to your chosen recipe’s instructions. Place the Cupcake Cones Baking Rack on a cookie sheet and insert the sugar cones into the rack. Fill each cone with about 2 tablespoons of the cake batter. Bake the cones following the cake recipe’s timing and temperature guidelines, then allow them to cool completely.
- Spray the cones: If the cake has risen above the top of the cone, trim it with a knife to level it. Place the cones wide side down on parchment paper. Using Black Color Mist Food Coloring Spray, spray the cones evenly black. Allow them to dry for 10 to 15 minutes.
- Tint the icing and prepare decorating bags: Tint 1 cup of creamy white decorator icing orange using the orange icing colors. Tint another cup purple by combining violet and rose icing colors. Fill two decorating bags fitted with tip 2B with the orange and purple icings separately. Then tint 1/4 cup of icing yellow by mixing golden yellow and lemon yellow icing colors and place it in a decorating bag fitted with tip 3.
- Assemble the witch hats: Pipe a small dot of orange icing in the center of a chocolate cookie, then place a cone on top, wide side down. Smooth the icing to secure. For half the cones, pipe a band around the base using orange icing with the smooth side of the tip facing out. Use the spatula to smooth the band. Repeat the same process with purple icing on the remaining cones. Let the icing set for 15 to 20 minutes.
- Decorate with buckles: Using the yellow-tinted icing with tip 3, pipe buckles around the bands on each hat. Let them set for another 15 to 20 minutes before serving and enjoying your Wicked Halloween Witch Hat Cupcake Cones.
Notes
- Use the black mist spray carefully to avoid soaking the cupcake cones; a light even coat works best.
- Ensure cupcakes are fully cooled before decorating to prevent icing from melting.
- Chocolate cookies with a flat surface work best to stabilize the cones.
- Adjust food coloring quantities to achieve desired icing color intensity.
- These cupcake cones can be prepared a day ahead and stored in an airtight container.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cupcake cone
- Calories: 320
- Sugar: 25g
- Sodium: 180mg
- Fat: 15g
- Saturated Fat: 8g
- Unsaturated Fat: 6g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 40g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 3g
- Cholesterol: 30mg
