ice cream cones. but cookies.

First popsicles that don't melt and now ice cream. These little cookies were a special request from a friend for her two-year old's {fun and yummy} ice cream sundae birthday party. I have a little ice cream cone cutter like this one HERE that was perfect to match the theme. The best part about ice cream cookies is you can decorate in any colors and flavors you like.

how to make ice cream cone cookies

you will need:*
dough
frosting
ice cream cone cutter
disposable frosting bags
couplers
tips (sizes "2"s and "4"s)
rubber bands
frosting colors
sprinkles

*Find the bags, couplers, tips and sprinkles in the baking aisle of the craft store. I use Americolor soft gel pastes for coloring, Chocolate Brown, Bright White, Electric Pink, and Electric Green. For tips on finding supplies, click HERE. For tips on food coloring, click HERE. For tips on finding cutters, click HERE.

step one: bake your cookies
Cut out ice cream cone cookies, bake and let cool.

step two: prepare your frosting
Prepare different colors of frosting and fill frosting bags fitted with couplers and size "4" tips. Tie closed with rubber bands.

step three: decorate your cookies
Because these were small cookies and had lots of detail, I piped everything with the frosting bags except the cones, which I flooded. For the ice cream, simply pipe an outline of the ice cream, let set about 15 minutes, and fill with the same color by piping back and forth. You can also pipe a cherry in the center (use a "2" tip for the stem and a "4" tip for the red circle), pipe chocolate syrup on top, or sprinkle with sprinkles right after you pipe the filling (so they stick).
For the cones: Pipe a "V" shape using dark brown. Thin some of the light brown frosting (not all of it! you'll need more later) with water until the consistency of thick glue. Fill an empty frosting bag and snip the corner about 1/8 inch. Loosely pipe to cover the cone, letting frosting flood to edges and encourage with a toothpick as needed. Let set a couple hours. Use the same color light brown frosting (but thicker, not thinned) in a frosting bag fitted with a coupler and size "2" decorating tip and pipe criss cross lines on top.
Some flavor options: