Ice Cream Cone Cup Cakes

Cupcake wrappers may be pretty, but they sure aren’t pretty for the environment; so the next time you run out, purchase a box of ice cream cones instead. They’ll work just as well, and they can be eaten right along with the cupcake. Yum!

Conecake Baking Instructions:

Fill the ice cream cones with cake batter, stopping an inch from the top. Then, bake at 350 for 30 to 35 minutes.

Photo © Flickr user wrestlingentropy

I love green products, absolutely love them. What I don’t love is all of the advertising designed to convince consumers that the best way to go green is to immediately replace all of your non-green belongings.

That approach may make companies a lot of money, but it won’t do anything for our already-too-stuffed landfills, and it won’t do anything for your pocketbook. There has to be a better approach.

For me, that approach involves maximizing the life of the things that I already own, shopping second-hand for the majority of what I need and, when appropriate, buying those green products that I find so fun.

It’s an approach that favors common sense over spending dollars and cents.

Join me as I explore a more practical approach to going green.