Cupcakes in the Park: Chocolate Ice Cream Cone Cakes

During the first week of August,

our local park hosts an event in conjunction

with the weekly Farmer's Market called

Cupcakes in the Park.

Children and teens are encouraged to enter

either one of two categories:

Market Themed Cupcakes

or

Market Ingredients Cupcakes

The girls entered as a team this year

in the Market Themed category...

...and made

Chocolate Ice Cream Cone Cakes.

(Last year Jungle girl entered by herself, making 

Corn-on-the-Cobcakes,

which you can read more about HERE...)

Since the judges do not taste these cupcakes,

we decided the girls would not make the cupcakes

from scratch to save time.

Using a store bought cake mix,

the girls baked up some mini cupcakes.

They then filled the ice cream cones with

M&M's candies

(to give the cone weight).

Finally,

after using two mini cupcakes,

LOTS of store bought icing,

sprinkles,

and one red M&M,

the girls fashioned up four...

...Chocolate Ice Cream Cone Cakes.

(They would have entered six

to fill up the ice cream cone holder,

but the rules stated they were only allowed

to enter 2 to four cupcakes.)

I found the ice cream cone holder 

on clearance at Target,

and after adding the sign, 

I thought the girls had a pretty darn cute entry...

...and I guess the judges did also,

because the girls placed 2nd in the competition!

They received a bag of goodies for all their hard work...

...and a ribbon, of course!

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Besides enjoying looking at all of the other

creative entries,

the Cupcakes in the Park festival

had other fun activities

for the kiddos to enjoy.

There were milk shots to sample

and

mini cupcakes to decorate and eat,

but the kiddos probably had the most fun at...

...the farming booth.

A young woman was there,

talking to the kiddos about gardening and composting,

and she had a big bin of worms

for everyone to observe...

(They were pretending to be Iron Man,

wearing their stickers like

Tony Stark's heart...)

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After enjoying the festival...

...we all went over to the fountains

at the park,

and enjoyed getting wet.

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It was a good, good day,

and a fun little field trip,

but no matter what place the girls

ended up in at the contest,

the BEST part of the experience...

...was enjoying their hard work!

(Oh dear...)  ;0)