Several months ago I came across http://www.bakerella.com/ and I decided to try making my very own cake pops. I made my first cake pops shortly after and while they were tasty they were not the most creative / beautiful things I have ever made so I took a few months off and made different treats trying to use up the cake melts I bought. Fast forward to Easter weekend and I decided to make cake pops again using Funfetti cake and funfetti pink frosting. After forgetting to packs the lollipop sticks I decided to just make cake balls until my mother mentioned the mini ice cream cones she had in her pantry.
Instantly I knew that I wanted to make cake cones. Bakerella has a version of cake cones in her book (which I do own) so it was not a completely unique idea but I was still excited to try out making them. I quickly baked my funfetti cake and after almost cooling it all of the way (I could not wait to get to the next step) I crumbled it all up.
I mixed in the pink frosting (white cake + pink frosting = salmon color deliciousness) and rolled out 40 cake balls. This took longer than expected as there were several breaks to explain what I was doing and giving out samples. I decided to take a break for the night and enjoy dinner with my family (which happened to be my Weekly Fav Restaurant but that post will have to wait until tomorrow).
The following morning I was awake early so I decided to take advantage of the 'quiet time' and work on my Easter treats. One by one I attached the chilled cake balls to the mini cones and dipped them into white candy melts and sprinkled on the funfetti sprinkles. I even cut up a pink jelly bean to make 'cherries' for a few of the cake cones. The first few were not perfect but I slowly figured out a few tricks and suddenly I had 20 or so great looking cake cones. My family was so impressed by mom said I should open a bakery!
Finally a cake cone with a bite taken out...
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