Ice Cream Cone Cookies Recipe
If you are planning an ice cream themed party or a summer celebration, you won't want to miss these adorable ice cream cone cookies! With a sugar cookie base and an ice cream on top, these cookies are so clever!
Ingredients
For Sugar Cookie Base
- 16 tbsp Unsalted butter softened
- 1 cup White sugar
- 1 tbsp Vanilla
- 1 Egg
- 3 cups All purpose flour
- 1 tbsp Baking powder
- Sprinkles colorful (Jimmies)
For the Cream Cheese Frosting
- 8 tbsp Unsalted butter softened
- 8 oz Cream cheese softened
- ½ tsp Vanilla
- 2 tbsp Heavy cream
- 32 oz Powdered sugar
- 12 Ice cream cones mini sized; sugar cones or wafer cones
- Pink food coloring neon
- Purple food coloring neon
- Teal food coloring neon
- Sprinkles colorful (Jimmies)
Instructions
Make the Sugar Cookie Base
- Preheat oven to 350℉.
- In the mixing bowl of a stand mixer, using the whisk attachment, add the butter, sugar, vanilla, and egg. Mix until light and fluffy.
- Add the sprinkles to the butter mixture.
- In a separate medium mixing bowl, add the flour and baking powder, and stir well.
- Next, add the flour mixture to the butter mixture - adding the flour a little at a time until all is incorporated and blended.
- Remove the whisk attachment, and use the paddle. Continue to blend the cookie dough until it's completely blended and a smooth ball starts to form. Scrape down the mixing bowl as needed.
- Next, line two cookie sheets with parchment paper, and roll the cookie dough into small balls, about 1 inch balls, and place the balls on the parchment paper.
- Bake at 350℉ for about 15 minutes, or just until the cookies start to turn a light golden brown around the edges. About half way through baking the cookies, check the cookies. When you see they have cracked a little, remove the trays.
- Take a flat bottom glass and dip it in white sugar before lightly applying to each cookie - smash the cookies very gently, making them a little flatter so they spread out a little more. This will give the cookies the crinkle look. Return the pans to the oven to finish the baking time.
- When the cookies are done, remove from the oven to a wire rack to cool completely. While cookies are cooling, make the frosting.
Make Cream Cheese Frosting
- In the mixing bowl of a stand mixer, add the softened butter, and cream cheese, and blend to combine. Add the vanilla and heavy cream and mix. Add the powdered sugar a little at a time, blending after each addition until the frosting is smooth and fluffy.
- Divide the frosting in half. Leave one half of the frosting in the mixing bowl, and this half will remain white. Divide the other half of the frosting into three equal bowls. To one bowl, add a few drops of neon teal food coloring. To the second bowl, add a few drops of neon pink. To the last bowl, add a few drops of purple food coloring. (Add more powdered sugar if frosting seems too thin after blending.)
Decorate the Cookies
- Frost the cooled cookies with the white frosting, using a metal spatula. Do this by smoothing the frosting along the top of the cookies, stopping just short of the edges. Cut the mini ice cream cones in half, and place half of an ice cream cone, cut side down, on top of the frosting on the cookies.
- Using plastic wrap (Glad wrap) tear off a piece about 12 inches wide, and place all three colors of the frosting length-wise in the middle of the plastic wrap. It will look like three long ribbons of frosting. Then, roll the plastic wrap around the frosting, making sure to keep it long, or length-wise like a long ribbon.
- Snip the end off of the plastic wrap, on one end only of the ribbon and place it in a pastry bag with the large star tip. Pipe the frosting onto the cookies, just above the ice cream cone, using a swirl, and bring it up to a point.
- Sprinkle the colored sprinkles on top of the frosting. The end result should like like sprinkles on a swirled soft serve ice cream cone. Allow the frosting to set or firm up a bit before serving or eating - at least 30 minutes.
Nutrition
Serving: 1cookieCalories: 477kcalCarbohydrates: 119gProtein: 5gFat: 31gSaturated Fat: 19gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 8gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 96mgSodium: 949mgPotassium: 79mgFiber: 1gSugar: 1gVitamin A: 1010IUVitamin C: 0.01mgCalcium: 93mgIron: 2mg
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