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Paradise and Pennant Candied Fruit

Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes

Cupcakes baked in ice cream cones is fun, add in fruit cake mix and they are exceptional. It all begins with a pound cake mix and our extra-fancy or deluxe fruitcake mix. Use flat-bottom ice cream cones instead of paper cupcake liners for excitement. Finish with a red cherry and you have a treat perfect for a 4 th of July celebration, family reunion or picnic.

 

Ingredients:

• 8oz. cup Extra Fancy or Deluxe Fruit Cake Mix
• 4oz. cup Red Cherries (for decoration)
• 1 box Pound Cake (prepared as directed on box)
• 12 Jumbo Flat Bottom Ice Cream Cones
• Sprinkles
• Icing (see below)

Cupcakes:

• Prepare Pound Cake as directed and add in the Extra Fancy or Deluxe Fruit Cake Mix
• Fill ice cream cones 2/3 full and bake at 350 degrees for 20 – 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
• Cool completely.
• Pipe or frost icing on cupcakes.
• Decorate with sprinkles and a cherry

Icing:

• 4 cups confectioners sugar
• 1/2 cup shortening or butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/3 cup milk or as needed
• Mix sugar, shortening or butter, vanilla, and enough milk to make desired consistency. Frosting must be firm enough to hold a shape when piped through a pastry tip. If frosting is too thin, beat in a little more sugar; if frosting is too thick, beat in milk, adding a few drops at a time.