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From my experience in the floral world, here's what I would do- buy a sheet of styrofoam from Michael's. Wrap it in birthday wrapping paper, tissue, whatever. Buy some bamboo skewers, like you would use for shish kabobs. Poke the skewers in the foam at regular intervals, chop them down to just below the total height of the iced cone cupcakes, slide a cupcake onto each skewer, voila!

Don't ice them at home. Take to them to school packed in a box stacked on top of each other. Then, when you get to the school, go to the teachers' lounge (after pre-arranging it with the secrectaries or whomever) and ice the cupcakes there. Then you can hand carry the cupcakes to the classroom a few at a time.

OR, tell your daughter she can have them for her party at home, but, sorry, it's too complicated to do it for school, but isn't she happy she can get cupcakes at school, what color icing does she want?

I think this would be fairly easy to transport :

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/373446994072211412/

Peace and Blessings,
Mom2M&Ms

I googled "how to transport cupcake cones" and clicked on [images] and there were a bunch of ideas.

My children's school no longer allows any outside treats in the classrooms, so I can't do this any more. But for one birthday, I made small rectangular cakes (they were legos) and instead of icing I used tinted white dipping chocolate. They were perfect!!! Because the dipping chocolate was firm, they didn't smudge or stick together or anything - I probably could have tossed them across the room! It was great for transporting (the party was at an indoor pool). The cake stayed moist inside and they had a beautiful finish. I don't make cupcakes often, but I will always used dipping chocolate from now on if they're traveling!

If the solo cup idea won't work, I think you could do the same idea as the last time, but make sure to make an inner layer with holes cut in it in the box to stabalize the cupcakes... Just the hole in the top of the box leaves them dangling, and let's them wiggle and fall over;especially with a top-heavy treat like cupcakes.

You could try decorating the cupcakes upside down on a paper plate. (Google Baskin Robbins' clown cones and you will see what I mean.) then you could just stick them in a box without worrying about them tipping over.

Google this and you'll get many tips.
Best O. I saw? Put each cake cone into a Solo cup, put the cups in boxes.

I'm sure you could slide them out & put on a tray at school, right?

Or.....

http://cdn.cakecentral.com/d/d8/d8b78894_take_a_long_ice_...

Don't have an answer for you but can you actually still send in home baked goods to her school? Here you can send in cupcakes, etc but they have to be store bought (due to Board of Health and allergy type of reasons).

They eat the ice cream cones. My cousin did that for her daughter's birthday.

Can you make something like this out of cardboard? http://www.katom.com/151-1265.html?zmam=29342707&zmas...

Make cake pops,or just plain old cupcakes.

I agree about checking on the school's policy for home baked goods.

If it's okay, I'd go to the liquor store where they have free boxes. Get a divider that's used in cases of wine (12 slots to a case) and cut that folded divider down to size. Put one cone in each section in a large box. You could even cut the wine box itself down to size and it won't even be obvious what the original contents of the box was. If you buy cases of any drinks in the warehouse store, the low trays for holding 24 cans of soda are just the right height. I've even used those for centerpieces and just thrown a strip of wrapping paper over the visible sides - but you could also use a little foil, wax paper, or parchment paper. You could even stick the cones in there, with the cones' flat bottoms on the paper and some plain tissue paper or even paper napkins in between to keep them upright. A dot of icing under each cone will help hold it in place if you let it harden for an hour. In any case, this is a sturdier box than a shirt box, and it's free.

In your SWH, you ask how they get them out of the cups. Do you mean getting the cupcake out of the cone? They don't! They hold the cone and bite into it. That's the point - a nice and delicious crumbly mess!

Wow! Your school still allows home baked goods?????

Most schools don't allow this and I am sooo glad. I was at a friends house that "I" wouldn't eat anything she made in her kitchen and she was baking cupcakes for her kids class.

I sort of puked into my throat a bit.

We really don't know the condition of that person's kitchen, we don't know if the routinely wipe their nose then put their hands on the food, a person can also have mice residue on their countertops and utensils, or black mold on their backsplash, it's just way too nasty for kids to bring stuff from homes.

I think you got some good advice below. Happy birthday to little one!

Try a shipping box instead of a shirt box so that the inside of the box is deeper and more room for the cone. You can wrap the cardboard in foil or plastic wrap to make it look nicer.

You can find shipping boxes for less then a dollar at Home Depot or Lowes.

I'm glad your school still allows this. Some things need to stay quaint.

http://cdn.cakecentral.com/c/ce/cec4eb7a_cupcake_box_172....