These homemade choco tacos are a great treat, and can be personalized with any ice cream flavor. Fun to make and delicious the perfect Taco Tuesday treat!
Why make homemade choco tacos?
For fun! As you know I love making homemade versions of fun treats. I make homemade peeps, and homemade hostess sno balls! I make homemade eggnog and butterbeer… all things you can get someplace else but fun to make at home.
At home you can personalize it by using your favorite ice creams! Any brand, any flavor or of course any homemade Ice creams! I’ve used my Toasted Marshmallow ice cream and my Strawberry Ice cream (with the traditional waffle cone instead of chocolate) and my Peanut Butter Ice cream and loved each one!
You can change up the shell flavoring as well! And of course the topping/coating too! No reason it has to be a chocolate taco (other than the name) or chopped peanuts!
Just take me to the ice cream tacos already!
If you’d rather skip my tips and tricks for homemade choco tacos, along with links to other ice cream recipes and get straight to this delicious choco taco – simply scroll to the bottom of the page where you can find the printable recipe card.
Tips to Make the Perfect choco taco
There are two ways you can make these choco tacos
– the first time I made them I sliced through the ice cream container and cut slivers of the half circle ice cream and refroze. Then once the waffle cone was cooked I quickly wrapped it around the ice cream half moons. I will say I was able to get a narrower choco taco this way, but it added additional freezing times. and was quite messy
– The second way was to make and shape the taco shells first, then scoop in softened ice cream. I felt it was easier to do it this way, just don’t let the ice cream get TOO soft and runny. I used two different ice creams and I alternated between being out and filling the shells and being in the freezer to stay cold. Rotating about every 2-3 tacos.
– Freezing – if you find the ice cream is getting too soft, either in the bowl or in the tacos just toss in the freezer. Don’t let them start to melt (vs being soft) as it creates problems down the road in terms of shape (you don’t want the ice cream running out of the taco shells on one side). Plus refrozen soft ice cream is totally okay, refrozen MELTED ice cream is nasty.
– The taco shell recipe – you can use this chocolate waffle cone recipe or a more traditional waffle cone recipe if you prefer. I like this traditional recipe for some flavors. Like when I used my strawberry ice cream recipe! Either way you need a good waffle cone maker!
– The Chocolate – I like to use Chocolate wafers or bars – they are made for melting and they coat beautifully. I like to mix different brands so the chocolate doesn’t taste like just one thing. The brands I like are Merkens, Trader Joes, Peters Chocolates, Ghiradelli, Guittard or Callebaut!
– The nuts – you can use any nut you like, the classic choco tacos have chopped peanuts, but you can use anything really, I like candied pecans chopped up, or even toffee bits, or candied bacon chopped up… It all depends on the flavor you are going for!
– Keeping the shell crunchy. After a while the shells will become soft from the ice cream. If you want to try to avoid this you can paint the inside of the shells with a thin layer of chocolate. It adds another step and isn’t traditional, but it will keep the ice cream from soaking into the shell. But be careful not to get it too thick or it get really hard to bite through!
To make these ice cream tacos you’ll need
- waffle cone maker
- raised shelf (for cooling rack)
- Chocolate wafers
- Chopped Peanuts
- Your favorite Ice cream (store bought or homemade)
Homemade Choco Taco
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If you love ice cream tacos you’ll love these other ice cream recipes!
Cheesecake Ice Cream | Peanut Butter Ice Cream | Strawberry Ice Cream
Almond Cherry Ice Cream | Chocolate Ganache Ice Cream | Pina Colada Ice Cream
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Homemade Choco Taco Tutorial
Equipment
- waffle cone maker
Ingredients
Chocolate Waffle Cone
- 1 C granulated sugar
- 4 lrg egg whites
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 4 Tbsp butter melted
- 6 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
- 11 Tbsp all-purpose flour
Choco Taco
- 1 gallons Ice cream - any flavor softened
- 16 oz Chocolate wafers
- 1 1/2 C Chopped peanuts
Instructions
- Mix all the chocolate waffle ingredients together, until smooth
- In a waffle cone maker pipe a log of batter into the machine (about 2-3 Tbsp)
- Cook for about 40-45 seconds on medium
- Hang on rack so it will cool in taco shell form.
- soften the ice cream - stir to make sure it's consistent (not half runny and half hard)
- Take shell and scoop the ice cream ice cream into it, place back in the freezer
- work with 2-3 tacos at a time, you don't want the ice cream to melt; it will make the waffles too soggy.
- Melt the chocolate wafers and let cool slightly, then dip the open ice cream side of the taco into the chocolate, covering all the exposed ice cream.
- Then immediately dip into the chopped peanuts
- Keep frozen until you are ready to serve
Video
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Tara
I feel like these would be a fabulous way to end a Mexican-themed dinner party. Or even just a girls’ night….. they look positively decadent!
Ashlee
so so SO good! and yes, perfect taco tuesday dessert!
Amy Anderson
These look AMAZING! OMG!!
Ashlee
Thank you so much! They seriously turned out so good!
Catherine
Dear Ashlee, these look fantastic! What a fun summer treat…I love choco tacos. Have a wonderful weekend dear, Catherine
Ashlee
Thank you so much! you are right, they are a great summer treat!
Pooja Malvia
Please tell wat can be used in place of egg
Ashlee Marie
I don’t substitute egg for anything typically so I don’t have the best advice – I assume anything you use in egg substitution in other baked goods would probably work here
Julie @ Julie's Eats & Treats
These are AWESOME! LOVE The video!!!
Ashlee
Thank you! videos are so much fun!
DiAnne
You just made my (also purple-haired) daughter absolutely delighted. Choco-Tacos were her reward when she was a kid and needed incentives to do things. Now, at 22, I’ve promised her that we will make these together…as soon as she cleans her room. (Some things never change!)
Ashlee
YAY for purple hair! I hope you enjoy making them together!
Kiara Buechler
We made these today, soooooooooo good!
Ashlee
YAY! so glad you made them and liked them! We’ve made them at least once a month!
Brenda Hanna
Can you use a regular waffle iron
Ashlee
no, it has to be the very flat waffle cone iron
Cindy
I am wondering what kind of waffle maker you used. I have never seen one so shallow. Please share! Does it work with a regular waffle maker? Seems it would be too thick.
Ashlee
it’s a waffle cone maker, just for waffle cones. http://bit.ly/waffleconemaker and no a regular waffle maker won’t work.
elaine
can you use pizzel iron. they are pretty thin.
Ashlee
yes – they would just be really small taco’s!
Cindy
Thanks, Ashley, I had aleady figured it out. Now I need to buy one bc this recipe looks fabulous!
Ashlee
hope you try it! they are so delicious
Cindy
How could I spell your name wrong!? Haha. ASHLEE. Sorry.
Ashlee
happens all the time! no biggie
DessertDamage
Hey these look great. Will try them out ASAP. You put so much effort into your blogs i was randomly reading the comments and you’ve replied to every one of them. This level of efficiency is quite rare. Keep up the good work ! 🙂
Ashlee
thank you so much! your very sweet.
Eden Passante
OMG! These look so amazing! Love this!
Ashlee
thx!!! we love them too!
Gail Dickinson
I’m pretty sure a pizzelle maker would work as well. They’d be smaller but every bit as tasty.
Ashlee
totally! just be VERY small!
Larry
Those Choco Tacos look good ..Ashlee.
Ashlee
thank you so much! we love them
Linda
Will a Pizzelle iron work?
Ashlee
for smaller taco’s yes
steph
too bad the blue bunny containers are wasteful plastic now.
Ashlee
right? GAH now I just cook the shells and let them dry over the thick handle of one of my wooden spons, then soften the ice cream and fill the hard shells, then freeze and dip.
Jenn
This is a great tip. I’m gearing up to make 50+ of these for a family reunion.
Judy
I LUV choco tacos!!! Do you think a regular waffle baker would work by using a small amount of the mix and smearing it into an oval shape?
Ashlee
no the crevices are too deep you need something super flat like a wafflecone waffle maker
MEAL5
I love choco tacos., thanks for great ideas!
Fran
Pizelle irons are made for small and for larger ones which would certainly be excellent size.
Ashlee
good to know!
Ravi
Really choco taco. You have really done a nice job. As you have shared the best things for me. Even this recipes can be made in busy time also. It’s really special for me. thanks for sharing it here on this site.
Lauren
Yum! Can I use this recipe in my waffle bowl maker? I have your recipe for that and they seem the same offhand but for the cocoa. I’m diabetic and will use Splenda instead of sugar and the chocolate flavor will make it taste even better!
Ashlee Marie
yes, obviously it won’t be shaped like a taco but this is how I make my chocolate waffle cones