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Sugar Cone Party Horns

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Turn store-bought ice cream cones into brightly colored Sugar Cone Party Horns for your New Year’s Eve celebrations or birthday parties. They are as fun to make as they are to eat and will bring the kid out in everyone.

Sugar cone party horns - white chocolate dipped sugar cones coated in colored sugar with white modeling chocolate blowers

If you are looking for a fun treat to make for a New Year’s Eve party or a birthday party that both kids and adults will love, these Sugar Cone Party Horns are it!

They are bright and colorful and will look so fun on your dessert table. Plus, they are fun to play with and to eat.

You can serve them for dessert on New Year’s eve or at a birthday party or wrap them in cellophane bags, and give them as party favors to your guests. For an extra special treat, you could even fill them with some candies or nuts.

Video

Be sure to watch the video to see how to make your own party horns. I also share step-by-step images and instructions below.

Collage showing how to dip a sugar cone into white chocolate and turn it into a Sugar Cone Party Horn.

Each party horn is made using a sugar cone, the ice cream cones that are pointed on the ends and taste like waffles.

The sugar cones are dipped in white chocolate and coated in colorful sugar. To make the cones look like a party horn, they need a blower. You know the part of the horn you put your lips on to blow?

I used modeling chocolate (candy clay) to make mine because it tastes like chocolate (in this case, it tastes like white chocolate).  As an alternative, you use store-bought fondant, but most people won’t want to eat a big piece of fondant.

A better alternative, if you don’t want to make modeling chocolate, is to use vanilla Tootsie Rolls. You can find them in bags of assorted fruit-flavored Tootsie Rolls.

Brightly colored sugar-coated white chocolate-dipped sugar cone party horns.

Let’s make Sugar Cone Party Horns for New Year’s Eve!

Special equipment needed:

tall glass (a little wider than a sugar cone)
parchment paper or wax paper
rimmed baking sheet (helps to keep the colored sugar contained)
skewer

Instructions:

Dipping sugar cones in white chocolate then sprinkling on colored sugar.

step 1 – dip sugar cones in white chocolate

  1. Pour melted and tempered white chocolate or melted white compound chocolate (also known as confectionery coating, candy melts, melting wafers, or almond bark) into a tall glass.
    • If you don’t have experience melting (and tempering) chocolate, be sure to read my Chocolate-Making Tips page for detailed instructions.
  2. Hold onto the tip of a sugar cone and dip it into the glass. Coat all but the very tip of the sugar cone with white chocolate.
  3. Remove the cone from the glass and allow the excess chocolate to drip off.
  4. While wet, sprinkle colorful sanding sugar all over the cone (inside too, if you’d like.)
  5. Set on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet.
  6. Place the dipped cones in the refrigerator for about 10 minutes until the white chocolate hardens.
  7. Refill the glass with more chocolate as needed. When you start to run out of white chocolate, you’ll need to use a spoon or spatula to get the chocolate up to the tip of the cone.

You will have leftover white chocolate. This could be used to make your modeling chocolate or you can spread it on a parchment-lined baking sheet, harden it, and use it for another project.

step 2 – create the modeling chocolate blowers

  1. Pinch off pieces of white modeling chocolate and roll them into 1 1/4″-1 1/2″ long logs.
  2. Insert a skewer into the log, creating a hole.
  3. Move the skewer around making the hole a bit bigger.
  4. Remove the skewer.
  5. Press one log onto each dipped cone.
  6. It is helpful if you stick the modeling chocolate log on the tip of the cone then twist it upwards until the white modeling chocolate touches the colorful sugar on the cone.
  7. Reshape the log, if needed.

If you use Tootsie Rolls, they will be much firmer. You will need to create a hole on both ends of the Tootsie Roll, then gently push the candy onto the tip of the sugar cone. If needed, use some white chocolate to attach the candy to the cone. The modeling chocolate stuck without using any white chocolate.

Orange, purple, pink, red, green, and yello sugar-coated sugar cone party horns..Tips

Work over a rimmed baking sheet so the sanding sugar doesn’t go all over your floor. As you work with these horns and touch the sugar, some of it will come off, so be careful where you place your modeling chocolate, as you don’t want the sugar to stick to it.

The sanding sugar  may color your fingers (temporarily, until you wash your hands.) So, as to not turn your white modeling chocolate a color, use one hand to hold the white modeling chocolate and the other to hold the cone. Wash or wipe your hands after handling each cone and keep the work surface clean.

I used a variety of colorful sanding sugars, and when I was finished, I mixed the sugars that had fallen onto my baking sheet altogether and sprinkled this mixture over one of my horns (upper left.)

Printable Recipe

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Sugar Cone Party Horns - Toot your own edible horn this New Year's eve!
Prep Time
30 mins
Total Time
30 mins
 
Turn Sugar Cones into Edible Party Horns for New Year's Eve
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: new years eve, sugar cone, sugar cone party horns
Servings: 12
Author: Beth Jackson Klosterboer
Ingredients
  • 12 sugar cones ice cream cones
  • 22 ounces melted and tempered pure white chocolate with cocoa butter OR melted white confectionery coating/candy melts
  • variety of colored sanding sugars
  • white modeling chocolate recipe here - you'll need a 1/4 recipe*
  • * you can also use 1/3 pound white fondant or 12 vanilla Tootsie Rolls or white taffy
Instructions
  1. Pour melted and tempered white chocolate or melted confectionery coating/candy melts into a tall glass.
  2. Hold onto the tip of a sugar cone and dip it into the glass.
  3. Coat all but the very tip of the sugar cone with white chocolate.
  4. Remove the cone from the glass and allow the excess chocolate to drip off.
  5. While wet, sprinkle colorful sanding sugar all over the cone (inside too, if you'd like).
  6. Set on a parchment paper lined baking sheet.
  7. Place the dipped cones in the refrigerator for about 10 minutes until the white chocolate hardens.
  8. Pinch off pieces of white modeling chocolate and roll them into 1 1/4"-1 1/2" long logs.
  9. Insert a skewer into the log, creating a hole.
  10. Move the skewer around making the hole a bit bigger.
  11. Remove the skewer.
  12. Press one log onto each dipped cone.
  13. Reshape the log, if needed.

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Beth Jackson Klosterboer blogger, recipe developer, and chocolatier.

I love making fun food for parties and special occasions and sharing my creative ideas with you.

If you make this recipe and share it online be sure to link back to this post and use #hungryhappenings.

Thanks and Happy New Year!

Beth

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Reader Interactions

Comments

  2. Kara @ Simplistically Sassy

    Beth, I'm doing a round up on my blog of fun food for kids on New Years Eve and wondered if I could include these? I'll have a picture and a link back to this post. Thanks!

    Reply

  4. Cambri

    Hi! I'm a Teenager with a knack for crafts & designing. I'm just starting out with my Blog and I'd really appreciate it if you'd follow my blog. Thanks!
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  5. Sowmya Karthy

    This one looks easy compared to the other tedious ones you have made.. I will try this soon!!! If I get this right, then will I get the courage to try the more tedious ones you have here.. I am just amazed by your conceptual idea..

    Sowmya
    http://nivedhanams.blogspot.in/

    Reply

  7. MiaB

    You make this look so easy.. I'm planning a baking "project" here in a couple of weeks and I'm really hoping that I don't mess up.. I might just have to ask you for some advice 🙂 Thanks so much for sharing this with us at Sharing Saturday. Looking forward to seeing more of your posts.

    ~MiaB
    http://www.mamamiasheart2heart.com

    Reply

  9. Dorothy @ Crazy for Crust

    This is a great idea! I love it, not just for New Year's but for a cheer party too! Thanks for sharing on Crazy Sweet Tuesday. 🙂

    Reply

  11. Beth Jackson Klosterboer

    Thanks everyone!

    Crystal, I'm so happy to hear that this recipe was one of the most clicked posts on your site. How exciting. Thanks for featuring it on Facebook too.

    Reply

  17. Beth Jackson Klosterboer

    Thanks for all the pins and Facebook posts. I really appreciate you sharing this idea. I linked up to several sites too. I wish I had much more time to link up to all the linky parties. I've been in the kitchen today making food for my friend's New Year's party.

    Reply

  21. Jenn "Rook No. 17"

    Your project caught my eye over at "Mom Ideas for Busy Moms". Love these edible horns!! I'm pinning them to my New Year's board.

    Happy New Year!
    Jenn/Rook No. 17

    Reply

  22. Beth Jackson Klosterboer

    Wow, thanks so much everyone. When I create an edible craft, I never know how people will react, but this idea is proving to be a big hit. I've had almost 700 visitors just from Pinterest postings already today with over 4,000 page views. I am so happy to read here and on Pinterests that so many people are planning to make these for their New Year's parties. I'd sure love to see pictures!!!

    Reply

  25. Krista Baum

    What a great idea! I have tons of extra white choclate left over from my holiday baking so i'm going to make these for new years eve. Thanks for posting!!

    Reply

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