Ice Cream Cone Leprechaun Hats
Candy filled ice cream cone leprechaun hats to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with. Filled with colorful candy, these leprechaun cones are perfect for parties.
If you’re hosting a St. Patrick’s Day party and want to bring a fun treat, these ice cream cone leprechaun hats are fun and perfect for the party.
You can print out a few St. Patrick’s Day activities and serve these cute hats for the party. A few of our favorite printables include a St Patricks Day Fact or Fiction Game, St Patricks Day Word Search, and Shamrock CVC Word Families Activity.
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
Ingredients for Ice Cream Cone Leprechaun Hats
Mini Ice Cream Cones – These can be any flavor or color you want. They will get coated with chocolate so it won’t matter.
Rainbow Candy Sour Belts – For decorating the hats.
Sprinkles – Gold confetti and star sprinkles to mix in with the candy inside the cones.
M&Ms – A mix of green and yellow M&Ms are used to fill the ice cream cones.
Be sure to check out the full recipe and ingredient list below
How To Make the Ice Cream Cone Leprechaun Hats
See how easy this is to make with these step by step instructions!
Cover your cookie sheet with parchment paper. Melt 1/2 c candy melts in the microwave in 15 second intervals decreasing the time between each warming and stirring in between.
Holding the top of the mini ice cream cone dip and twist the bottom half of the cone to the first rim in the melted green chocolate.
Set the dipped cone on the prepared parchment paper upside down to dry. Continue dipping each cone until you have them all finished.
Melt another 1/2 c of candy melts as directed above. Once smooth pour chocolate into a sandwich size ziplock bag and snip a small corner off of the ziplock bag.
Using the ziplock bag filled with chocolate draw small circles on the cookie sheet covered parchment paper. Make the chocolate circles just larger than the opening of the mini cone. Let completely cool.
Working quickly cut a rainbow sour belt to fit the upside down base of the dried chocolate dipped cone. Make some zigzag lines on the cone base to hold the rainbow belt on. Set aside to dry. Continue wrapping each cone until you have them all finished.
Once the rainbow wrapped cones are dry turn them all right side up. Fill each cone about 3/4 full with mini M&M’s and sprinkles, alternating between the two.
Remove the hardened chocolate green circles from the parchment paper and continue to the next step.
Using the same melted chocolate filled ziplock bag trace the rim of the cone with green chocolate then gently lay the circle on top. Be sure to set rough side of the chocolate circle toward the cone. The flat side will help the hats to sit without wobbling.
Let cool completely and they are ready to serve. Each kid can shake or break into their very own candy filled surprise hat.
Store in an airtight container for 3-5 days.
Ice Cream Cone Leprechaun Hats
Ingredients
- Rainbow Sour Belts
- Mini Ice Cream Cones
- Green Candy Melts
- Green & Yellow M&M’s
- Gold Star Sprinkles & Gold Confetti Sprinkles
Instructions
- Cover your cookie sheet with parchment paper. Melt 1/2 c candy melts in the microwave in 15 second intervals decreasing the time between each warming and stirring in between.
- Holding the top of the mini ice cream cone dip and twist the bottom half of the cone to the first rim in the melted green chocolate.
- Set the dipped cone on the prepared parchment paper upside down to dry. Continue dipping each cone until you have them all finished.
- Melt another 1/2 c of candy melts as directed above. Once smooth pour chocolate into a sandwich size ziplock bag and snip a small corner off of the ziplock bag.
- Using the ziplock bag filled with chocolate draw small circles on the cookie sheet covered parchment paper. Make the chocolate circles just larger than the opening of the mini cone. Let completely cool.
- Working quickly cut a rainbow sour belt to fit the upside down base of the dried chocolate dipped cone. Make some zigzag lines on the cone base to hold the rainbow belt on. Set aside to dry. Continue wrapping each cone until you have them all finished.
- Once the rainbow wrapped cones are dry turn them all right side up. Fill each cone about 3/4 full with mini M&M’s and sprinkles, alternating between the two.
- Remove the hardened chocolate green circles from the parchment paper and continue to the next step.
- Using the same melted chocolate filled ziplock bag trace the rim of the cone with green chocolate then gently lay the circle on top. Be sure to set rough side of the chocolate circle toward the cone. The flat side will help the hats to sit without wobbling.
- Let cool completely and they are ready to serve. Each kid can shake or break into their very own candy filled surprise hat.
