Lucy Wang’s Ice Cream Cake Pops

Total Time Prep: 40 min. Bake: 30 min.
Yield 2 dozen
Are you still bringing store-bought cupcakes to birthdays and baby showers? Try this recipe instead, because I guarantee you it’s so much cuter. Yes, it’s a cake pop, but it looks like an ice cream cone. You can do tons of variations, like Oreo cake with chocolate coating, confetti with strawberry, or red velvet with white chocolate. You can also do half-and-half color combos for a snow cone look. —Lucy Wang, Los Angeles, California

Ingredients

  • CAKE BATTER:
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/4 cup cornstarch
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/2 cup butter, softened
  • 1/4 cup vegetable oil
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 cup milk or water
  • FROSTING:
  • 4 ounces cream cheese, softened
  • 1/4 cup butter, softened
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • DECORATION:
  • Candy melts, or white chocolate or semisweet chocolate chips
  • Sugar sprinkles
  • Trader Joe’s Hold the Cone Tips (or Muddy Bites Waffle Cones filled with chocolate)

Directions

  1. Mix all the wet ingredients from the cake batter in one bowl, and mix all the dry ingredients in another bowl. Sift the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and mix until smooth.
  2. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and evenly distribute the cake batter. Bake at 350°F for 30 minutes. I used a 10x15 baking sheet; the time may vary depending on the size and depth of the bakeware. If you poke a toothpick in the center and it comes out clean, then it’s good to go! Allow the cake to cool to room temperature before the next step.
  3. For the frosting, mix cream cheese, butter, sugar and vanilla extract. You can also completely remove the sugar since we’ll be adding icing and sugar sprinkles later. Crumble the sheet cake and add the frosting. Massage everything until it feels like dough. Roll into 1-inch balls.
  4. Microwave candy melt at 30-second intervals and mix until smooth (but still fairly firm—you don’t want it to be runny yet). Dip the bite-sized chocolate waffle cones in the candy melt and place one cake ball on top. Place on a baking rack to allow the icing to harden.
  5. Once all the cake and cones are used, microwave candy melts for 30 more seconds. This time, add 1 teaspoon of coconut oil at a time, stirring between additions, until it becomes runny. Grab a cake pop cone and dip it in the warm and liquid candy melt, then immediately dunk it into the sugar sprinkle to coat generously. Place it back on the baking rack to cool completely. Repeat for all the cones.
Are you still bringing store-bought cupcakes to birthdays and baby showers? Try this recipe instead, because I guarantee you it’s so much cuter. Yes, it’s a cake pop, but it looks like an ice cream cone or snow cone. You can do a ton of variations, like Oreo-flavored cake with chocolate coating, confetti cake with strawberry coating, or red velvet with white chocolate coating. You can also do half-and-half color combos for a snow cone look. —Lucy Wang, Los Angeles, California
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