Aren't sprinkles just a train wreck waiting to happen??

Okay so as you can see the girls have my talent for cooking:-) We tried making ice cream cone cupcakes. They turned out so-so, not the best looking cupcakes... but once they are iced they look a lot like an ice cream cone. So the girls wanted to decorate them, so I iced them and passed them off to the girls to decorate (on their new picnic table courtesy of Nanni & Poppy!). They were having a ball... that is until Grace had a cone and Eva didn't. So I let Eva have the cake (I'd poured the left cake mix into a round cake pan) Eva was happily sprinkling away when I hear Grace say "NO Eva!"

Eva had poured her entire bottle of sprinkles on the cake and was patting them in - a very skilled technique:-) When she realized the icing was sticking to her hands she started licking it off, of course it didn't take Grace long to realize that was a lot more fun than what she was doing... needless to say I had a huge MESS when they were done. But I guess one of those events that once you're on the train and it's not stopping you might as well enjoy the ride:-)

Here is the recipe for you inspired bakers - courtesy of Mia!

you just do a regular cake mix...
then pour them into the cake cones about 2/3 full
then bake in preheated oven @ 325 for 30 minutes!
put 12 of them in a 9x13 pan standing up side-by-side so that they don't fall.
they don't rise all that much...and after you ice them, they really do look like ice cream cones ;) we used sprinkles but the mini chocolate chips would be cute too :)