cakepopcrazy: I always scream! for ice cream!

Especially the adorable ice cream cone cake pop! OMG, the cutest and funnest, right? Every time I see an ice cream cone cake pop, ahhh, I smile. Whenever I made ice cream cone cake pops I went with the classic design on the left. The round cake ball shape inside the adorable mini cone. Last year I was giving my son's teachers some cake pops and a gift card as end of the year gifts. As usual, I wanted to make something fun and summery. The year before I had done the ice cream cone cake pop with some fun summer/school cake pops. See!

June 2013

But this time I was giving them Rita's Water Ice gift cards. YUMMM. I love Rita's, who doesn't?? So I wanted to make something, Rita'sss! They serve, well, water ice and soft serve ice cream. I had never made a soft serve cone cake pop before but just had to see what it would look like. The results, below!

June 2014

I LOVED how they turned out. I have been asked several times how I made this soft serve cone and that is just one part of what this blog post is about. I will show you three different ice cream cone cake pops and then a little bonus...ice cream sundae cake balls! Here we go!

Here is everything you will need all laid out. I am using my

My Little Cakepop molds to shape the ice cream in my cones. If you don't have them, click on the link to purchase! They are an extremely useful cake pop tool (and my favorite). Also, the mini cones. I got those at my local cake and candy supply store. I know you can find them on amazon though, I googled. lol. My cake pop stand is the best there is, KC Bakes. Click on the link to order yours.

See how fun! Ok!

So here is what the sharp little knife is for. Cutting the end of the ice cream cone.

Very carefully cut that little nub on the end of the point. I cut where the line is.

Here is the hole from the bottom view. It does look small but you want your stick snug. It will fit through the hole.

See. I put the stick in through top and push out through the bottom.

Cake pop dough and shaping time!

You will need already made cake pop dough.

Please see my YouTube video Basic Cakepops part 1 if

you need to know how to make cake pop dough.

Next shape your cake pop dough with your molds. I am doing one of each: round, snowman and cone shapes. Simply place some dough in the mold and squeeze. Ready to go. Next we will attach them to the stick and dip! Yipppeeee!

First we are making the classic cake ball ice cream cone cake pop. Let's call it strawberry flavored. K.

Leave some space just like the picture above between the end of your stick and cone.

Dip the tip in first.

Then slide the cone down toward the melted candy to put a coating around the rim of the cone.

Then place the stick into the cake ball.

Great! It should look like this soooo

that you can do...

This! Slide your cone all the way up so that the cake ball is now sitting inside and is adhering to the melted candy on the cone. Great job! Let that dry a little before the next step.

Next we are doing the double scoop of mint chocolate chip. YUMMM :P But in this case...I was out of mini chips so I will be using a substitute. You will see my substitute at the dipping stage.

Again dip the tip of the stick then slide down the cone to coat the rim.

Put the stick in the double cake ball and slide the cone up to your snowman, I mean double scoop of ice cream,

and let that adhere to the rim of the cone.

Set in the cake pop stand to dry.

Finally let's stick this cone shaped ice cream!

This is THE SOFT SERVE CONE!

Dip the tip of the stick and the rim of the cone!

p.s. I know you see that little cake ball and wondering huhhh...

you will see >.<

Stick the cake ball on the stick and slide the cone up to the cake ball, or cake cone. Allow the cake to adhere to the rim and set in stand to dry.

We have one more thing to add before we dip. Back in June I was thinking, hmmm... fondant? Toosie roll? Chocolate? How to get that cool swirl effect. DUH. More cake dough. Cake dough is just freaking awesome isn't it?

Check it out.

That little ball of cake dough you see with the cone shaped ball in the above pictures above is about 1/4 of a cake ball, maybe even less. Honestly I just took a little and rolled it into a ball. Then rolled a tube between my hands until it was too long to hold in my hands anymore.

And then I finished rolling the piece out on the wax paper on the table. Try to make sure it is evenly rolled from end to end. Just do your best and be careful not to break it. Remember its still cake dough which comes with a bit of sass.

When your are done it should be about six inches long. This is the swirl.

Here's how we do it.

With a toothpick dab a little melted candy on the top point of the cone and press one end of the swirl onto it. Slowly and carefully begin to wrap around the cake cone.

At the end of the swirl dab some more melted candy where the swirl stops, up against the rim of the cone, and gently press onto it to lock the swirl in place.

All swirled up!

Ready, set, dip!

We are about half way through this part of the blog. Excuse my excessive pictures and details. I am trying to be thorough so I don't leave you asking how, when, where? But should you have a question, please leave a comment or email me at cakepopcrazy@yahoo.com

Ok, dippppp.

Basic ice cream cone is pretty easy. Dip straight down and submerge up to the rim of the cone.

Tap off most of the melted candy while upside down.

Flip it right side up and tap to smooth out the candy and let it get that natural drippy ice cream cone look. I tap the wrist of the hand holding the cake pop, NOT on the dish of melted chocolate. Be gentle with your babies.

We will be drizzling and sprinkling this one later so set in your stand to dry for now.

Double scoop is up next! I LOVE mint chocolate chip. It is my favorite hand-dipped ice cream. Of course this tastes nothing like it. You could use flavors to make your mint chocolate chip looking ice cream cone to taste like one. But this time, I did not.

Dip your double kinda side ways into your chocolate if you have a shallow dish like this. We don't want any issues pushing up against the dough while submerged. You might feel like there's more to dip because the cone gives that illusion. There is not. Dip this double carefully. Tap off most of the melted candy while upside down.

Then quickly flip right side up and tap to smooth and allow some to run down the cone if it will.

Quick before it dries sprinkle on your chocolate jimmies (my substitute) or your mini chocolate chips if you have those. Set in the stand to dry.

Soft serve is the last of these to dip and also needs to be done carefully especially in a shallow dish.

Slip it in side ways and cover completely to the rim of the cone.

Lift out and hold by the cone and tap off most of the melted candy sideways off this cake pop.

Flip right side up and tap to smooth the melted candy and allow for the natural dripping look. Then sprinkle with as many jimmies as you can. I mean aren't your soft serve ice cream cones completely covered in jimmies?

Just about done! We will take a break with these for a little. Now to show you something I have been thinking about but never tried until today. The natural hand scooped ice cream look. Yesssssss.

Scoop some cake dough into the scooper and press against bowl but do not scrape along side of the bowl - what I usually do to get a perfectly portioned cake ball. Instead press everything up with your hand making that cupping effect for the look of a hand scooped scoop of ice cream.

Release them onto your wax paper. So cute! They really look like scoops of ice cream. Scoop out three scoops of cake for our cake ball ice cream sundae :P

p.s. this is an OXO scoop, the best I have ever used. Follow my instagram +Jessica Velez (cakepopcrazy) for the OXO scoop giveaway I am doing, running til 3/17!

Pop them in the freezer for about 5-10 minutes to calm any wiggly parts because you don't want to disturb the natural look. You don't want any soft chunks crumbling off. So a few in the freezer isn't going to be a big deal. I would say just about enough time to re-situate and reheat your chocolate so that its smooth and ready for dipping. Besides, I freeze my complicated pops so they don't fall off the sticks and just touch up any cracks, if any.

Natural hand scooped ice cream cake balls are ready to dip! This time we are making the good old Neapolitan ice cream sundae. So we have pink for strawberry, white for vanilla and milk chocolate for chocolate.

Dip your cake pop stick in the melted candy and insert into the cake ball. Allow the chocolate seal to dry just for some extra stability. Once dry...

Dip straight into the melted candy and lift right out. You can take a toothpick to run around the base of the stick for a cleaner bottom.

They are perfectly adorable this way. You could take one of your cones, and slide up as instructed in the first part of this tutorial, to make a hand dipped ice cream cone. But we made three ice cream cones already and I want a sundae. Freakin adorable.

We are going to very carefully remove the stick from these. To do that, you need a gentle but firm grip on both the cake ball and the stick. Hold the cake ball still in your hand gently twist the stick. Only twist at first once you have a few rounds twisting start to gently pull out while twisting. There you go. Stickless hand dipped ice cream cake balls. YESSSS.

Here's where you need your scissors and baggie. Fill your baggie with some melted chocolate. Snip and SMALL hole at the corner of the baggy for drizzling. Make sure your cake balls are on the wax paper for easy clean up.

Drizzle your chocolate onto the cake balls. If you want the gloppy fudge look you can also do that with your bag. Just more pressure on the center of the top of the cake ball and thicker splatters.

Sprinkle your jimmies on while the drizzles are still wet. Then put another little drop of chocolate on to stick your cherry (red Sixlets) on the cake ball that will be the top of the sundae.

All done and adorable. The ideas are endless. You can pour, drizzle, sprinkle anything you want on these to customize your sundae. The only thing I suggest is you do all your cake ball decorating on this wax paper. You don't want to do directly in your sundae dish or you may have a hard time getting them out. Especially if you use candy melts - the will stick to the dish when dry.

Lastly finish your first cake pop with the same drizzles, jimmies and cherry. Hey, I was waiting to bag for the drizzles. Plus I wanted to make a pretzel bow for my mint chocolate chip cone with the bag of chocolate.

See...

I LOVE pretzels with my mint chocolate chip ice cream. Yummmo. This was just a pretzel stick broke in half and glued together with melted chocolate and topped with a chocolate chip.

For the sundae I just poured some sprinkles in and piled in the cake ball cuties. You can add any yum decorations to your ice cream to make them awesome :P

Ready, set, smile, ice cream ~ cake pops!