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panda ice cream cones decorated with chocolate eyes, ears, nose, and mouth
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Panda Ice Cream Cones
Prep Time
25 mins
Total Time
25 mins
 
Rich and creamy vanilla custard ice cream decorated to look like panda bears.
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: ice cream cone, panda ice cream, vanilla custard ice cream
Servings: 5
Calories: 480 kcal
Author: Beth Klosterboer
Ingredients
Vanilla no-churn ice cream
  • 2 cups heavy whipping cream
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 can (14 ounces) sweetened condensed milk
Chocolate decorations
  • 4 ounces Wilton Black Candy Melts
  • 10 tiny candy eyes
  • 5 chocolate dipped ice cream cones
Instructions
Vanilla no-churn ice cream
  1. Whisk heavy whipping cream and Vanilla Custard flavoring to stiff peaks.
  2. Stir in sweetened condensed milk.
Chocolate decorations

  1. Heat candy melts on high in the microwave for 10-20 second increments, stirring after each until melted.

  2. Pour candy melts into a disposable pastry bag.
  3. Set a piece of parchment paper on a baking sheet.
  4. Pipe 10 ears, 10 eye patches, 5 noses, and 5 smiles for each panda bear cone onto the parchment paper.
  5. Freeze for about 4 minutes.
  6. Let sit for 10 minutes, then peel off paper and turn over.
  7. Use melted candy coating to attach a candy eye to each eye patch.
  8. Fill 5 ice cream cones with ice cream.
  9. Top each with a rounded scoop of ice cream.
  10. Freeze for 10 minutes.
  11. Remove one cone at a time and insert 2 ears, 2 eyes, 1 nose and 1 smile.
  12. Freeze until ready to serve.
Recipe Notes

You can store the chocolate decorations in an airtight container for up to 3 months. Add the decorations to the ice cream cones just before serving.