cupcake hat

Here is one of the many cupcake hats I have made. Writing out a pattern for this one is pretty difficult because, like a lot of my work, it takes checking and adjusting and using your noodle to figure it out on the part of the crochet-er.
We start with the bottom of the hat, the cupcake paper around the forehead. This is actually made traveling around the head, not up it. Start with ch. approx. 10. (how many depends on the height of the cupcake paper) turn work and DC 3rd ch. from hook and across the row. This makes 8 DC. ch. 2 turn work and DC across placing stitches in the back loop only of the bottom st. continue making this elongated rectangle to be long enough to go the circumference of the head. (by placing stitches in only the back loop, it will created the ridged effect) When rectangle is long enough to go around head, sew ends together to form a short tube.
The frosting part of the hat is where the DIY method comes into play. I use the same concept to start this for all my hats, however: On one side of the tube tie your white yarn in and pull up a loop. ch. 2 and start DC around the tube in the side of the stitches of the tube being careful not to stretch the tube out to cram stitches in. In the end, I usually end up with approx. 55 st. In the last st. before connecting back to the start of this white row, instead of DC use a TC to add height to the st. Then instead of connecting ends of the white row, start your next row on top of first row. Here is where you need to start flaring out your work so the cupcake has a puff top. start increasing in size by periodically placing 2 DC in the bottom st. (I use a pattern with this to keep an even feel around the head: 1 Dc, then 2 Dc, then 1 Dc, then 2 Dc, and so on for the entire 2nd round of white, then the 3rd round I switch patterns to 1 Dc, then 1Dc, then 2Dc, and repeat. Fourth round of white is 1 Dc all around.) After an acceptable amount of flare is achieved, you need to start decreasing to close in the top. Decrease by skipping stitches every now any then. If the hat doesn't close in well, you need to skip stitches more often. If it ends up like a dome, you have skipped too often then not often enough. The rate of skipping changes as you work, so don't get caught in a pattern until the end. Take a feel for how flat or or sharp of an angle you want the frosting to be on the head. When you are down to about 5 stitches in circumference at the top of the hat, pull taught and tie off to close the hole. You now have a cupcake shaped hat, all you need is the accessories.
The cherry on top is just a basic ball. With reddish yarn ch.3 and SC 5 st. in first ch. to create a disc. Immediately start to SC on top of first round of the disc but increase in size by adding multiple stitches in each stitch. How many you add will determine how big this cherry gets, it's up to you. To keep this disc from staying flat you will need to only increase for about one round, then switch to one sc per stitch for a round, then start decreasing to close in this newly formed dome into a ball. When you are closed into about 3-5 stitches, pull taught and tie. off. tie cherry to top of hat.
The sprinkles are easy, just loop and tie fun-fetti yarn or ribbon periodically onto frosting part of hat.