Need baking advice?

Question

I like to bake cupcakes inside ice cream cones. However, the cones will get soggy after just 12 hours. Could I use a wash inside the cone to try and prevent the moisture from the cake from making the cone soggy. If so, what? Sugar and egg maybe? Flour and shortening?

Answer 1

try egg yolks beaten with a little sugar brush them over cones and bake them on low heat first before adding cupcake mix
it should work well

Answer 2

Instead of baking the cake inside the cone, try baking the cake like cupcakes and then place the cone upside down on top of the batter before baking. In that way, the batter will rise and get far enough in the cone that, when flipped, the cake will stay in the cone...but then batter won't be all the way through the cone to make the cone soggy hours later.

Here's the recipe from Betty Crocker:

Ice-Cream Cone Cakes

1 package Betty Crocker® SuperMoist® party rainbow chip cake mix
24 flat-bottom ice-cream cones
1 tub Betty Crocker® Rich & Creamy ready-to-spread frosting (any flavor)

1 . Heat oven to 350ºF. Place paper baking cup in each of 24 regular-size muffin cups.
2 . Prepare cake mix as directed on package--except fill each cup 2/3 full of batter (1 heaping tablespoon each). Place ice-cream cone upside down on batter in each cup.
3 . Bake 15 to 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in cake comes out clean (cones may tilt on batter). Cool completely, about 30 minutes. Remove paper baking cups. Frost cake with frosting, and decorate as desired.

I hope this helps!

Answer 3

Try coating the inside with chocolate. That's how drumstick ice cream cones that you buy at the grocery store don't get soggy. It might work for cupcakes too. If not I think the flour and shortening idea would be your best bet. Shortening is less likely to burn than egg and it would probably get crispier in the oven than the egg would.

Answer 4

My mother did that.

She took egg whites and beat them to a froth and brushed the cones inside using a pastry brush.

I think she stuck just the brushed cone in the oven for a couple minutes but I am not positive. Sorry, I wish I could remember for sure.

Answer 5

maybe you could bake the cupcakes alone and then after they're done you could put them into the ice cream comes.

or put them in the over with the ice cream cones, but put them in news ones once they're out so they still have the correct shape you want them to have.

Answer 6

parchment paper! line the cones with parchment leaving enough paper out to pull it out, then bake. when done you can pull the cake out, remove the parchment, then replace the cake back in the cone.

Answer 7

spray the inside with Pam prior to baking

Answer 8

apply just a whee bit of butter in the inside of the cone... i guess it should work.....

Answer 9

egg white

Answer 10

try flour and see if that does not work