Chocolate Ice Cream Cone-Cakes

I have been wanting to make these for ages and as I am thinking about including some as part of Burton's birthday party theme next month, I thought I should have a practice at making them. I have made chocolate ones to start with, but any flavour would work (and could be a recipe post for another time!)

Made 11 cakes

You will need:

for the sponges:

100g caster sugar

100g unsalted butter, at room temperature

2 eggs

100g self raising flour, sifted

25g cocoa powder, sifted

Cornets with a flat bottom

Some pieces of chocolate/chocolate buttons

For the buttercream:

75g unsalted butter

100g icing sugar

25g cocoa powder

2 tbsp milk

To decorate:

Small chocolate flakes, or mini chocolate fingers

Colourful toppings eg. Hundreds & thousands, smarties - whatever you like really

To make the cone-cakes:

Pre-heat the oven to 180oC/160oC fan

Put the butter and sugar in a bowl and beat until pale and creamy

Add the eggs and flour to the butter and sugar and mix well until combined

Add the cocoa powder and mix again

Take your ice cream cones and stand them up in an oven proof roasting tin

Place a small piece of chocolate at the bottom of each cone

Drop 2 tsp of cake batter into each cone

Place the cone cakes into the oven and cook for about 20-25 minutes until cooked and a knife comes out of the sponge clean

Place on a rack to cool down completely

To make the buttercream

Place all of the ingredients into a bowl and beat well (and carefully!) until the buttercream is soft and creamy. If you need a little more milk than what I specified then add some.

Decorate:

Now my decorating skills are not the best, but basically you need to fill a piping bag and you want to make a Mr Whippy ice cream effect on top of each cone with the buttercream.

Once this has been done, simply add your cake decorations to make your own ice cream cone cake designs.

Inside you get a piece of actual chocolate at the bottom of the cone, just like you do with a cornetto ice cream!

They look and taste great, well I think so anyway (and so did Burton)