Cake Cones and Drumsticks.

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I saw a posting on Twigg Studios for Ice Cream Cone Cake Pops.  I thought they were the cutest things!  After you get done drooling over those, come back and finish reading this.

You back?  Here's a picture to make sure you are on board.

So those little delicious creations gave me my own idea. What if you put cake balls in cake cones, so they had flat bottoms?  What if you dipped them in chocolate and nuts and made "Drumsticks"??

Honestly, I could never get into the whole cake ball thing before. I've never made them, never wanted to.  But those two ideas had me running to the store for ingredients. And yes, I totally made it up as I went along.

Ingredients:

Butter Pecan cake mix, and made a sheet cake as directed.
1 tub of Buttercream flavored frosting
Mini Cake cones - ours were made by Joy
Dark chocolate chips
Pecan pieces

Directions:
Crumble up the cake, and mix in icing until it's a less dry and more wet/crumbly.  There's an ideal consistency here.  I learned a couple things on this one.  Go easy on the frosting - start slow.  Or else you'll be adding more and more cake to make it work right.  I used about a half tub of frosting for 3/4 of the sheet cake.  I still could have been stingier with the icing.

I used a rubber spatula to fill the base of the cone with cake, and then used a small cookie scoop to make an "ice cream" style scoop on top.

I left some of them just like this, and called them "Cake Cones".  Here's their class photo:

I'm amazed at just how much these look like real butter pecan ice cream!  Such a cool trick!

If you want to continue on to "Drumstick" stage, pull out the chocolate chips and pecan pieces.

I melted my chocolate in the microwave via the package instructions.  Then I went through a series of failed applications - here's what didn't work.

Dipping - I was sad.  Dipped cones  = dipping.  Alas, the cake is too heavy and gets pulled out with the chocolate.  No dice.

Spooning - no. you can drip the chocolate on with a spoon, but as soon as you start pressing on with the spoon, the crumbs mix into the chocolate and don't look good.

Cookie scoop - I used the cookie scoop to apply chocolate to the tops.  Works better, but not perfect, pushes it all to one side.

The best solution for me was the "icing bag" - a zipper bag full of chocolate with a corner snipped off.  Just be gentle and don't put on too much at a time. It'll drip down the sides a bit, but it just looks delicious for it.  Like this:

Add the nuts while the chocolate is still wet, then throw in the fridge or freezer for a while to harden the chocolate up.

My recipe made about 1 dozen Cake Cones/Drumsticks, but I didn't use the whole cake or all the frosting.  I wanted butter pecan, but you can totally make it your own - What about:

Creamsicle - Orange Cake and Vanilla frosting
Double Chocolate - Devil's Food and Fudge frosting
Rocky Road - Chocolate Cake and mix in nuts and marshmallow cream

And so on. Possibilities are endless.  Just don't blame getting tubby on me.  :)  We all know these aren't healthy!

Have a great one!

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