Sugar Cone Party Horns

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.

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.

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.

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:

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 ¼"-1 ½" 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.

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 ¼ recipe*
• * you can also use ⅓ 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 ¼"-1 ½" 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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I love making fun food for parties and special occasions and sharing my creative ideas with you.

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Thanks and Happy New Year!

Beth

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Hi, I'm Beth Jackson Klosterboer, a professional chocolatier & baker, cookbook author, and event planner. I love sharing recipes for happy occasions here on Hungry Happenings. I also create easy fudge recipes to share at HowToMakeEasyFudge.com, rice krispie treat recipes at HowToMakeCerealTreats.com, and easy cookie recipes at HowToMakeEasyCookies.com

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