Just in time for summer, an easy recipe for making your very own Drumstick style ice cream cones - also known in some parts as Cornettos!
You can customize these special treats to suit anyone's tastes. My favorite is half mint chip / half cookies + cream, topped with chocolate and chopped nuts! What will yours be?
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Step 1: Ingredients
To make these tasty treats, round up the following:
- Ice cream cones
- Ice cream in your favorite flavors
- 2 bottles magic shell or make your own! - covers 6-9 cones
- Nuts (opt.)
Step 2: READ THE BOTTLE
Clicquot sez "Very important to read bottle."
Bottle sez "Shake me up good!"
Yes, this warrants its own step.
Mostly so I could use kitten pictures. She iz good halper.
Step 3: Prepare Your Cones
Nestle's Drumsticks have a delicious chocolate-coated sugar cone.
- Drizzle Magic Shell into the cones and swirling to coat.
- For an extra treat, add a maraschino cherry or frozen berry to the bottom of the cone
- Pop 'em in the freezer for a good 10 minutes.
- While you're waiting, take the ice cream out of the freezer to let it soften up.
Step 4: Make the Magical Innards
Drumsticks sometimes have a mysterious, magical chocolate center! They didn't when I was a kid, but I fully support this new addition.
To make our chocolatey guts, we'll need:
Fill the paper cones with Magic Shell and freeze!
To make our chocolatey guts, we'll need:
- Wax or parchment paper
- Scissors
- Tape
- Pencil, pen, chopstick or something similar in shape.
Fill the paper cones with Magic Shell and freeze!
Step 5: Fill With Ice Cream
By the time your ice cream is nice and melty, all of the stuff in the freezer should be ready!
I recommend doing this in a different order than is illustrated, so try to keep up here. Do as I say, not as I did.
I recommend doing this in a different order than is illustrated, so try to keep up here. Do as I say, not as I did.
- Wrap your cones in wax paper, and cut tops to about 2" above the edge of the cone. (I made a template so I could cut 6 at a time.)
- Fill cones with melty ice cream up to the top of the cone.
- Unwrap the chocolate spears you made and place them in the cones
- Top off the cones with remaining ice cream to within 1/2" of the wax paper
Step 6: Top Off
If you're topping with nuts, make sure they're finely crushed.
- Place nuts in a plastic bag
- Smash with a hammer
- Pour a small amount of Magic Shell on top of the cones. Quickly add chopped nuts (now that the ice cream's refrozen, the magic shell will set up quickly!)
- Alternatively, leave the cones in the freezer until very firm, remove wax paper and dip the entire top of the cone into a bowl of magic shell and sprinkle with chopped nuts.
164 Discussions
3 years ago
My problem with melting the ice cream is that when you re-freeze them you get bigger crystals, defeating the purpose of the more-expensive ice cream (which has smaller crystals and is smoother). So I'd skip the expensive stuff myself and just get tasty but cheap ones.
Reply 3 years ago
Don't melt them THAT much! Just enough to be soft to mold
3 years ago
So COOL!!!!! My fav ice cream treat!
3 years ago
Dang, and here I was looking for the recipe for the cone! oh well
Reply 3 years ago
me too...
3 years ago
How much you paid for all this staff , Sugar cones,Magic Shell, Ice-cream, and nuts?
May be better to buy box of drumsticks in Costco? )))
4 years ago
do you have to use peanuts
Reply 3 years ago
she uses peanuts cuz she likes them. i will use pecans {or other actual nuts}, cuz i don't care for peanuts @ all. walnuts are great, but might be a bit over-powering. :^)
3 years ago
They look absolutely perfect!
3 years ago
I came here looking to make drumsticks for my drum kit...
Reply 3 years ago
x^D
3 years ago
Just crumble the sugar cone and use as a topping for a sundae with all the other ingredients!!
3 years ago
Just crumble the sugar cone and use as a topping for a sundae with all the other ingredients!!
8 years ago on Step 5
but theres a tiny problem...
the sugar cones got soaked up!!!
Reply 7 years ago on Step 5
That would be where the "coat the inside of the cone with Magic Shell" step comes in... If you did that and it still soaked up, maybe you didn't get the cone fully coated.
Reply 7 years ago on Step 5
Okay, I posted and then noticed my user name considering the post I was replying to: just for the record... THIS Ken is NOT my hubby. I would've pointed this out in our kitchen, not on the internet if it were. :o)
7 years ago on Introduction
I made these today.. yummo. Discovered a few things though.
1. The small waffle cones are probably the right ones to get because the 2 scoop cones are huge!
2. sticky tape does not stick to baking paper (I had no waxed paper) so I really had to go crazy with the tape around everything.
3. Frozen ice magic spears do not slip out of baking paper easily.
4. Frozen ice magic spears melt very fast once you start handling them, especially when trying to get them out of baking paper cones held together with a mile of sticky tape!
7 years ago on Introduction
what a yummy
7 years ago on Introduction
This is terrific! Thanks for sharing!!
8 years ago on Step 6
For the ultimate ice cream experience, use a GIANT waffle cone! Man, oh man would that be an amazing treat!