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Prep Time 40 min
Total Time 1 hr 25 min
Servings 18

Ingredients

1: box Betty Crocker® SuperMoist® yellow cake mix

: Water, vegetable oil and eggs called for on cake mix box

1: cup candy-coated chocolate candies

18: flat-bottom ice cream cones

3: containers (12 oz each) Betty Crocker® Whipped strawberry frosting

1/4: cup Betty Crocker® candy decors

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Directions

1 Heat oven to 350°F (or 325°F for dark or nonstick pans). Place paper baking cup in each of 18 regular-size muffin cups; place mini paper baking cup in each of 18 mini muffin cups. Make cake batter as directed on box. Spoon batter evenly into regular and mini muffin cups.
2 Bake mini cupcakes 10 to 14 minutes, regular cupcakes 15 to 20 minutes (18 to 24 minutes for dark or nonstick pan), or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Remove from pans to cooling racks. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
3 If ice cream cone holder is unavailable, make a holder for the cones by tightly covering the tops of 2 empty square or rectangular pans (at least 2 to 2 1/2 inches deep) with heavy-duty foil. With sharp knife, cut 18 "stars" in foil, 3 inches apart, by making slits about 1 inch long.
4 Place about 2 teaspoons candies in each ice cream cone. Remove paper cups from cupcakes. For each cone, frost top of 1 regular cupcake with frosting; turn upside down onto a cone. Frost bottom (now the top) of cupcake. Place mini cupcake upside down on frosted regular cupcake; frost side of regular cupcake and entire mini cupcakes completely (it's easiest to frost from the cone toward the top). Sprinkle with candy decors. Push cone through foil opening in cone holder; the foil will keep it upright. Store loosely covered.

EXPERT TIPS

Expert Tips

If the strawberry frosting is not available, tint Betty Crocker® Rich & Creamy vanilla frosting a light pink with red food color.

For extra pizzazz, top each "cone" with a maraschino cherry.

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If you have only one pan and a recipe calls for more cupcakes than your pan will make, cover and refrigerate the rest of the batter while baking the first batch. Cool the pan about 15 minutes, then bake the rest of the batter, adding 1 to 2 minutes to the bake time.

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Nutrition Information

NUTRITION INFORMATION PER SERVING

Serving Size: 1 Cupcake Cone

Calories: 490
Calories from Fat: 210),

% Daily Value

Total Fat: 23g; 23%
(Saturated Fat 7g, 7% Trans Fat 3 1/2g 3 1/2% ),
Cholesterol: 35mg; 35%;
Sodium: 250mg; 250%;
Total Carbohydrate: 68g; 68%
(Dietary Fiber 0g 0% Sugars 52g 52% ),
Protein: 2g; 2%

% Daily Value*:

Vitamin A: 0%;
Vitamin C: 0%;
Calcium: 6%;
Iron: 4%;

Exchanges:

1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 4 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 4 1/2 Fat;

Carbohydrate Choices:

4 1/2

*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

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Posted 3/23/2013 11:04:04 AM REPORT ABUSE k45theresa said:

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love this ideal it would be nice to get little kids involved in

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Posted 7/8/2011 11:25:20 AM REPORT ABUSE pinkjellybean21 said:

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these cupcakes are so fun and they are surprisingly easy to make!

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Posted 5/26/2011 6:24:40 PM REPORT ABUSE gail46 said:

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If you bake the cupcakes with the cones ontop how do you get the candies in the cones, like she did on the video? I have made cupcakes using the cones as the cups to bake them in. Kids always loved them. But I think this is cute and I'm going to try it.

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