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We’re nearing the end of National Ice Cream month, I hope you’ve enjoyed all the sweet Ice Cream treats as much as I do! BUT don’t think for one second this means I’m done eating OR SHARING Ice cream treats with you guys! Today’s sweet treat features Blue Bunny Ice Cream! I love homemade ice creams but some treats need the strength you get from buying ice cream, like my Ice Cream Cake, these Choco Taco’s are the same.
Blue Bunny Ice cream containers had a great shape for the sized taco’s I wanted to make, not too big, just right for my kid’s. So we ran by Walmart and I let the kids pick out flavors they wanted to try! My choice was Bunny Tracks, hard to go wrong with peanut butter filled bunnies and ribbons of caramel! Baby Boy picked out Birthday party, I think he liked the bright colors! AND we grabbed some Mini dipped cones while we were there for another easy, sweet, summer treat.
These are easy to make, I think it almost took more time to write out than make them, thus the video. AND super fun cause you can make them in any flavor you want, BUT they are a bit (okay a LOT) messy! I made a video for you guys, super short, and you can see I made a big mess. I will say I tried to make 10 at once and I suggest if you are going to make that many keep all but 2 or three in the freezer while you work on the rest, pulling all 10 out made it messier than it needed to be.
The kids enjoyed these so much I was able to bribe them into cleaning the living room just to enjoy them! AND they are already asking when we can make them again! That’s always a win in my book! I can’t wait to try out more flavors, maybe a frozen yogurt even, or a cinnamon waffle cone? Mmmm I love recreating fun treats because you can personalize it so much. What flavor combo of ice cream/cone/topping would you make a choco taco with?
- 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
- Ice cream - any flavor I used blue bunny
- Chocolate waffle cone recipe
- Chocolate wafers
- Chopped peanuts
- Slice the rounded side off the ice cream, straight through the container
- Then cut half circle "log" into 5-6 slices.
- Lay them out and refreeze
- Mix all the chocolate waffle ingredients together, until smooth
In a waffle cone maker pipe a log of batter into the machine (about 2 Tbsp)
- Cook for about 40 seconds
- Pull out the waffle cone "oval" and place one of the frozen ice cream half circles onto it, and wrap it up
- Place back in freezer, work about 3 taco's 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 to room temperature, 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
Recipe Video
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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!
so so SO good! and yes, perfect taco tuesday dessert!
These look AMAZING! OMG!!
Thank you so much! They seriously turned out so good!
Dear Ashlee, these look fantastic! What a fun summer treat…I love choco tacos. Have a wonderful weekend dear, Catherine
Thank you so much! you are right, they are a great summer treat!
These are AWESOME! LOVE The video!!!
Thank you! videos are so much fun!
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!)
YAY for purple hair! I hope you enjoy making them together!
We made these today, soooooooooo good!
YAY! so glad you made them and liked them! We’ve made them at least once a month!
Can you use a regular waffle iron
no, it has to be the very flat waffle cone iron
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.
it’s a waffle cone maker, just for waffle cones. http://bit.ly/waffleconemaker and no a regular waffle maker won’t work.
can you use pizzel iron. they are pretty thin.
yes – they would just be really small taco’s!
Thanks, Ashley, I had aleady figured it out. Now I need to buy one bc this recipe looks fabulous!
hope you try it! they are so delicious
How could I spell your name wrong!? Haha. ASHLEE. Sorry.
happens all the time! no biggie
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 ! 🙂
thank you so much! your very sweet.
OMG! These look so amazing! Love this!
thx!!! we love them too!
I’m pretty sure a pizzelle maker would work as well. They’d be smaller but every bit as tasty.
totally! just be VERY small!
Those Choco Tacos look good ..Ashlee.
thank you so much! we love them
Will a Pizzelle iron work?
for smaller taco’s yes
too bad the blue bunny containers are wasteful plastic now.
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.
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?
no the crevices are too deep you need something super flat like a wafflecone waffle maker
Pizelle irons are made for small and for larger ones which would certainly be excellent size.
good to know!