🍦 Ice Cream Sprinkle Cupcakes
Makes approximately 30
A fun twist on a classic cupcake! These colourful ice cream cone cakes are baked straight into flat-bottomed cornets, topped with creamy vanilla buttercream, sprinkles and a chocolate Flake. Perfect for parties, summer bakes and school fairs.
🧁 Ingredients
For the cupcakes
- 30 flat-bottomed ice cream cornets
- 200g milk chocolate
- 12oz self-raising flour
- 12oz caster sugar
- 12oz butter or margarine
- 6 medium eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
For the buttercream
- 10oz butter — use butter, not margarine
- 20oz icing sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
To decorate
- Chocolate Flakes
- Colourful sprinkles
- Ice cream sauce, optional
🍰 Method
1. Prepare the cornets
Preheat your oven to 170°C.
Melt the milk chocolate gently in the microwave. Dip the flat bottom of each cornet into the melted chocolate and place onto a muffin tray. The chocolate helps the cornets stick to the tray so they don't wobble or fall over while baking.
2. Make the cake mixture
Using an electric whisk, cream together the caster sugar and butter or margarine until pale, light and fluffy.
Add the eggs one at a time, adding a tablespoon of the flour with each egg.
Gently fold in the remaining flour, then stir through the vanilla essence.
3. Fill the cornets
Using an ice cream scoop, spoon the cake mixture into each cornet.
⭐ Top Tip: Don't overfill them! The cakes will rise during baking and can spill over the sides if the cornets are too full.
4. Bake
Bake for approximately 18 minutes, or until the cakes are risen and cooked through.
Leave them to cool completely before decorating.
5. Make the buttercream
Whisk together the butter and icing sugar until very pale, light and creamy.
Add the vanilla essence and whisk again.
6. Decorate
Pipe a generous swirl of buttercream onto each cupcake to make it look like soft-scoop ice cream.
Finish with:
✨ Colourful sprinkles
🍫 A piece of chocolate Flake
🍓 A drizzle of your favourite ice cream sauce, if you fancy!
💕 Sarah's Tip
The chocolate on the bottom isn't just delicious — it helps keep those pesky cornets upright while they're baking!
And that's it — Ice Cream Sprinkle Cupcakes that look just like little ice creams! 🍦🧁
