Patriotic Red, White, and Blue Ice Cream Cones Tutorial

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Looking for a quick and easy patriotic dessert for upcoming Memorial Day or 4th of July cookouts?  These DIY red, white, and blue ice cream cones are perfect for your patriotic parties.

Tutorial for taking plain ice cream cones and decorating them in edible red, white, and blue decorations for the 4th of July or Memorial day.

You can make these red, white, and blue, chocolate dipped ice cream cones in just a few minutes.

Patriotic red, white, and blue colored ice cream cones for the 4th of July

The fun star and red, white, and blue sprinkles add the perfect finishing touch to these 4th of July ice cream cones.

Materials for making patriotic ice cream cones.

Materials for Patriotic Chocolate Dipped Ice Cream Cones:

red food coloring spray used to color an ice cream cone red for the 4th of July

I used Wilton red Color Mist food color spray to color some of my ice cream cones red.  Once dry, the food coloring doesn't seem to rub off on your fingers, but you do need to be sure to give the food coloring time to truly dry if you decide to do this step.

Ice cream cone edged in blue chocolate melts with white sprinkles.

Melt a small bowl of the chocolate melting disks in the microwave.  Dip the ice cream cone in the melted chocolate, and let excess chocolate drip off before adding sprinkles.

Chocolate covered ice cream cones cooling and setting on a DIY rack made from the ice cream cone box.

You could immediately turn the cones upside down on a piece of parchment paper or waxed paper, but the chocolate tends to puddle a bit and create a kind of chocolate collar.  Not all bad--it does catch drips nicely.  ;-)  But I liked the look of the chocolate better when I let the cones dry upright.

My solution was quick and easy.  I used a sharp knife to cut X-shaped holes in the empty cardboard box in which the ice cream cones came.  This turned the empty packaging into a perfect quick-and-easy cone stand.  

Red, white, and blue ice cream cones with chocolate and sprinkles.

My favorite cones were the ones with the blue chocolate.  

Red, white, and blue ice cream cones with chocolate and sprinkles.

But, hey, anything with chocolate and sprinkles is pretty good!

Red, white, and blue ice cream cones with chocolate and sprinkles.

I also picked up a package of gluten free ice cream cones (I knew I was going to be serving at least one gluten free person), and they turned out to be a really pretty white color.  How perfect for this project!

Red, white, and blue ice cream cones with chocolate and sprinkles.

I didn't try the red food coloring spray on the gluten free cones, but I'll bet they'd show the color even better than the standard cones I used.

Red, white, and blue ice cream cones with chocolate and sprinkles filled with two scoops of ice cream on a red checkered background.

Filled with ice cream:  the true test.

Red, white, and blue ice cream cones with chocolate and sprinkles filled with two scoops of ice cream.

Ah, yes.  Bring on the summer!

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