Fruit Cones
Fruit Cones are a simple treat made from waffle cones and filled with fruit, flavored whipped cream and melted chocolate with sprinkles. A super fun and kid-friendly treat!
Servings: 6 servings
Calories: 495kcal
Ingredients
- 6 waffle cones
- Red melting chocolate
- Blue melting chocolate
- 3 cups of strawberries sliced
- 3 cups of blueberries
- ¼ cup of granulated sugar
- 2 cups heavy cream cold
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons instant cheesecake pudding mix dry
- ½ teaspoon of vanilla extract
- 6 stemmed maraschino cherries
- Red white, and blue sprinkles
Instructions
- Rinse and pat your strawberries and blueberries dry with a paper towel before slicing your strawberries.
- Add sliced strawberries and blueberries to a mixing bowl and toss with granulated sugar. Refrigerate the berry mixture while you prepare your waffle cones.
- In separate mixing bowls, microwave the red candy melts and the blue candy melts, according to the package instructions.
- After you've melted both the red and blue melts, dip the rims of all of the waffle cones in red and blue chocolate about 1-inch down from the top.
- Quickly, add your sprinkles immediately to the melted chocolate so it doesn't have time to harden on the cone before decorating.
- Place the decorated waffle cones in a glass or ice cream cone holder and put them in the refrigerator to harden.
- Now make the stabilized cheesecake whipped cream by adding the cold whipped cream to a mixing bowl and beat on high for about 5 minutes or until stiff peaks start to form.
- Next, add the powdered sugar, pudding mix, and vanilla extract to the mixing bowl and continue to beat it until it's fully combined, fluffy, and stiff.
- Put this flavored whipped cream into a piping bag and cut the tip off or use a large 1A Wilton piping tip. Pipe about an inch layer of the whipped cream into the bottom of each cone.
- Scoop about ¼ cup of berries into each cone using a slotted spoon, filling to the top and making sure to drain them well to avoid adding excess liquid to the cones.
- Add a dollop of whipped cream on top and a cherry.
- Serve these immediately or keep them in the refrigerator standing upright until you're ready to eat them.
Notes
- When dipping your cones in the colored candy melts, you only need a thin layer of candy, just enough for the sprinkles to stick to.
- Be sure to drain and pat the cherries dry with a paper towel because they usually have a lot of excess liquid and you don't need that with the dollop of whipped cream.
- You can make these up to 2 days ahead of time, just be sure to store them properly.
- Don’t OVERHEAT the candy melts! About 30 seconds, microwaved in intervals stirring in between should get them melted properly. If you overheat, they will become clumpy and hardened.
- Use paper bowls if possible so you can just throw them when you are done with the candy melts, they are not fun or easy to clean up.
- Change out the sprinkle colors for different colors and use this Fruit Cone recipe for other holidays.
- Make sure that you are using waffle cones and not sugar cones, see above regarding the differences.
- Change up your fruit for different occasions or use any fruit for this that you'd like.
Nutrition
Calories: 495kcal | Carbohydrates: 54g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 31g | Saturated Fat: 19g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 7g | Cholesterol: 90mg | Sodium: 126mg | Potassium: 259mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 42g | Vitamin A: 1217IU | Vitamin C: 50mg | Calcium: 76mg | Iron: 1mg