Taste of Home

Halloween Witch Hats

TOTAL TIME: Prep: 20 min. Bake: 15 min./batch + cooling YIELD: 24 witch hats and 11 cupcakes.
Kids of all ages love finding the cake inside these cute cones. They're great for class parties. —Betsy King, Duluth, Minnesota

Ingredients

  • 24 ice cream sugar cones
  • 1 package yellow cake mix (regular size)
  • 1/2 cup chocolate frosting
  • 24 chocolate wafers
  • 1 can (16 ounces) vanilla frosting
  • 1/4 teaspoon orange paste food coloring
  • 12 green apple Jolly Rancher Chews, halved
  • Purple nonpareils

Directions

  • 1. Cover the top of a 10-in. fluted tube pan with a double layer of heavy-duty aluminum foil. Using a skewer or paring knife, poke 12 holes in the foil, making one hole in the center and eleven holes around it, about 2-1/2 in. apart. Gently insert a cone in each hole, leaving the top 1 in. of cone above the foil.
  • 2. Prepare cake batter according to package directions. Spoon 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon batter into each cone. Bake at 350° for 14-16 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack.
  • 3. Repeat with remaining cones and additional batter. Use remaining batter to bake cupcakes.
  • 4. Spread 1 teaspoon chocolate frosting onto the center of each chocolate wafer. Top with cone, cake side down.
  • 5. In a large bowl, beat vanilla frosting and food coloring. Cut a small hole in the tip of a pastry bag or in a corner of a food-safe plastic bag; insert a #45 round tip. Fill bag with orange frosting. Pipe around cone rims; attach candies for buckles. Frost cupcakes with remaining frosting; sprinkle with nonpareils.

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