PARTY HATS RECIPES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Adjust oven racks so you can bake these on the lowest rack. Stack snow cone cups to make fourteen double-layered cups. Fill fourteen 2 1/2-inch muffin cups with dried beans. Cover pan with heavy-duty foil. (You may need to bake half at a time if you only have one muffin pan.) Press down the foil so you can see the impressions of the round muffin cups. Using the tip of a sharp knife, make a slit in the foil over the center of each muffin cup. Place the double-layered snow cone cup, point side down, in each of the slits. Set aside.
• Prepare cake mix batter according to package directions. Spoon batter into snow cone cups, filling each about half full (1/4 cup). Bake about 25 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted in the centers comes out clean. Cool cakes in muffin cups on wire racks for 10 minutes. Remove cakes from muffin cups. Invert cakes and cool completely on wire racks. Carefully cut or peel paper cups away from cakes.
• Remove some of the Creamy White Frosting and divide into desired number of portions. Tint each portion using a desired food coloring. Frost cakes with the remaining white frosting, spreading frosting as smoothly as possible.
• To decorate cakes, spoon tinted frostings into separate decorating bags fitted with desired decorating tips. Pipe lines, borders, and/or other designs onto frosted cakes. Press candies into frosting on cakes as desired. Insert the ends of a piece of licorice into the bottom of each cake to resemble an elastic strap.

Steps:

• Remove paper liners from peanut butter cups; place upside down on waxed paper. Place a small amount of frosting on each peanut butter cup; center a mint on each. Using frosting, make a loop for each cap's tassel. Place an M&M on top of each loop.