These witchy hats are perfect for your spooky party. With candy hidden inside, Halloween Witches Hats with Ice Cream Cones include a chocolate cookie base and chocolate coating. Yum!
Place the candy melts in a large microwave-safe bowl.
Microwave the candy melts in 30-second bursts, stirring between each one until it's smooth and melted.
Coat the cones:
Place a piece of wax paper on your work surface that is large enough to hold all 12 cones.
Hold a cone by the tip and gently cover the cone with the melted candy melts using a pastry brush to brush it on, or a spoon to smooth it on.
Once all but the tip of the cone is covered in candy melts, stand the cone on the wax paper. Use the brush or spoon to cover the tip in candy melts as well.
Repeat this with the rest of the sugar cones.
Allow the cones to rest until the candy melt coating has hardened and can be touched. Reserve the leftover melted candy melts for assembling the hats.
Assemble the hats:
Have ready the chocolate cookies, the coated sugar cones, the leftover melted candy melts, and the candies to fill the cones.
(If the candy melts have hardened, microwave them in 30-second bursts, stirring between each until melted again.)
Pick up one of the coated cones. Fill it with the candy of your choice, to no higher than just below the inside edge of the cone.
Paint melted chocolate on the rim of the cone. Take one of the cookies and place it on the cone (top of the cookie touching the cone) so that the cone is in the middle of the cookie.
Carefully invert the whole thing and set it down on your work area. It should now look like a witches hat!
If the cone is wobbly on top of the cookie, dab some melted chocolate where the cone meets the cookie.
Repeat these steps to fill all the cones and join them with the cookies. Allow the hats to sit until the chocolate has hardened.
Make the hat bands:
Unroll the fruit roll-ups. (If your fruit roll-ups are sticky and difficult to unroll without tearing, pop them into the freezer for 5 minutes and they will unroll easily.)
Cut each fruit roll-up lengthwise into 3 pieces. Roll each piece up from the long edge into a rope.
Gently twist and stretch each rope (being careful not to tear them) until they are long enough to wrap around the cone.
Wrap each hat with the fruit roll-up rope: the rope should go where the cone meets the cookie so that it looks like the band on a witches hat. Pinch the ends of the roll-up together in the back.
Arrange the hats on a platter to serve immediately, or keep them in a covered container in a cool place out of direct sunlight until it's time to share them.
The assembled hats will last about two days.
Notes
Tips:
The sugar cones can be coated with Candy Melts up to two days ahead.
Semisweet chocolate chips could be used to paint the sugar cones, in place of the Candy Melts, if you prefer. I like using Candy Melts because they melt quickly and smoothly, and they harden very quickly as well. If you use chocolate chips, you will need to allow more time for the chocolate to harden.
Look for orange, orangey-red, purple, red, or green fruit roll-ups for the witch's hat band.
The candy filling is not included in the nutritional info, since the type of candy is up to you.