All the pink and sprinkle feels with my darling cupcake cones (using this fun Cupcake Cone Baking Rack!) – the perfect way to steal the dessert table show at your upcoming birthday party! With cake baked right into the cone, the cone dunked into white chocolate and then rolled in sprinkles, topped with vanilla buttercream, and then topped with a fun pink shiny gumball, what’s there not to adore about these darling cupcake cones?

As a Mom of little boys, I feel like their requests for pink and sprinkley cupcakes are pretty far between for their birthdays. So when Wilton reached out to me to create something fun to celebrate a birthday with, I jumped right on the opportunity to try something fun and new in the kitchen.

I searched through all their fun ideas on their website on their fun Birthday Page, and immediately found their Cupcake Cone Baking Rack. It reminded me of one week in October when I was a little girl. My Grandma June was in town for a while to babysit me and my siblings while my parents went to Hawaii (at the time I thought they were being mean to leave us all behind, but as a Mom these days, I feel their need to have a bit of an escape with just the two of them!). My Grandma June wanted to bake us something special for Halloween, so she baked cake batter RIGHT inside some ice cream cones! I thought she was a magician. I watched as she carefully filled each cone (the flat kind), and placed them even more carefully on a cookie sheet to bake. The world seemed to stop as she slowly walked the wobbly cake-filled cones over to the oven to bake. She carefully placed them in the oven, and told me I could watch them bake if I wanted to. I sat in front of the oven and watched in amazement while they began to rise, and bake beautifully. I got so excited to see them up close, that when my Grandma June wasn’t looking, I swung open the oven and quickly shut it. Well, I didn’t shut it soft enough, and when the oven smacked closed, half of the Halloween cake cones toppled right over, and Grandma came running.

As you can probably guess, she wasn’t too happy about it.

But as sweet as most Grandma’s are, she quickly forgave me, and let me help frost the not-so-perfect with extra frosting and sprinkles to hide the imperfections.

If only Grandma June had seen this sweet cake-cone-baking contraption!!!

I’ve never seen one of these Cupcake Cone Baking Racks before, and I knew immediately I needed to give it a try. Also with something pink. Pink is always a good idea. 😉

It was simple enough to use. I placed the cupcake cone rack on a cookie sheet, filled each cupcake about halfway full with cake batter, and then baked them in the oven with the oven rack on the lowest height.

The baking rack made it super easy to not have anything wobbling around, and especially making it pretty easy for nothing to tip over. I baked them right up, removed them from the oven, and then let them cool to room temperature. DO NOT store these in the fridge, freezer, or even in a sealed container in the pantry. I learned through 3 separate batches that the soft cake inside the cones quickly turn the cones soft if stored in these three ways. If you’re making them, I would bake & frost them the day of, and then let them sit out at room temperature uncovered (with the AC on, of course! Need to mind that buttercream!).

I added about 3-4 Tablespoons (2 small cookie scoop’s worth) of batter, and they finished baking in less than 10 minutes.

To get those sprinkles to stick on the cone, I dunked each cone into light pink Wilton Candy Melts, and then into these darling sprinkles. Go easy on the melts and sprinkles… you don’t want them gooping all over the place, haha.

I let them set completely, then I added a swirl of vanilla buttercream (using the Wilton 1M tip), and topped them all off with a shiny gumball. Aren’t they just the cutest?! Seriously, I would die to have these at my birthday!

What I loved about these most, is with the use of the wire Cupcake Cone Baking Rack, I could use the cute sugar cones, and I didn’t have to worry about them tipping over while baking, dunking, decorating, and frosting them. It’s a win-win for this baking lady!

You can use your favorite white cake and vanilla cupcake recipe for these cupcakes, just know that you’ll have lots of cake batter leftover for cupcakes, or maybe even 2 6″ rounds worth left to use. More the merrier for a birthday party, eh?

Here’s a quick video going over the easy process:

HERE’S my Studio 5 appearance making them!

If you make these darling Cupcake Cones, let me see! Hashtag #bakingwithblondie or tag my Instagram account @bakingwithblondie (if public account), and I’d love to take a peek. Seeing your BwB inspired creations is a highlight of my day!

*Wilton gifted me the Cupcake Cone Baking Rack. All opinions about Wilton and their products are completely my own & honest experience. To see more about the brands I work with, and what my policy is on the brands I chose to partner with, my “work with me” page explains everything.