Ice cream cones are made with ingredients that make up other pastries -- milk, sugar, butter, eggs, and flour.
If you're a do-it-yourselfer and want to make your own cones, here's what you'll need:
Home-made cones
A non-stick cookie sheet and a cone-shaped mould (available a bakery supply stores) to make these cones. (If they end up with a hole in the bottom, plug the hole with a mini-marshmallow.)
3/4 cup sugar
1 large egg
2 tbsp. butter, melted
and cooled
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1/4 cup milk
1/2 cup all-purpose
flour, sifted
METHOD
1. Preheat oven to 300ºF.
2. In medium mixing bowl, beat the sugar into the egg until it is thickened and pale yellow.
3. Beat in the butter, vanilla, and milk.
4. Gently stir in the flour.
5. Grease a large non-stick cookie sheet and spread 1 and a half tablespoons of the batter into a 6-inch circle using a thin, flexible spatula.
6. Bake for 15 minutes or until lightly browned.
7. Remove each cookie from the sheet and wrap around a cone shaped mould, sealing the point.
The cookies harden as they cool so work as quickly as you can.
