Frozen Uncle Sam's

Submitted by lazyme

"From Family Fun, this looks like it would be a hit on the 4th of July. Recipe is for one cone, but can easily be increased for a crowd since almost everything is done ahead. The picture on this is adorable."

 

• Ready In: 45mins
• Ingredients: 7
• Serves: 1

ingredients

• 1 scoop French vanilla ice cream or 1 scoop vanilla ice cream
• 1 wafer ice cream cones
• white frosting
• blue fruit leather
• red and blue decorating gels
• red and blue M&M'
• 6 1⁄2 ounces canister of ready-made whipped cream

directions

1. Place a scoop of vanilla ice cream on a plate and return it to the freezer to harden.
2. Meanwhile, construct an Uncle Sam hat out of a wafer ice cream cone.
3. Invert the cone so it's upside down.
4. Use frosting to attach a blue band of fruit leather around the bottom of the cone. (Which is actually the top of the cone turned upside down).
5. Squirt 6 vertical stripes of red decorating gel down the sides and blue gel on the top.
6. Using a star tip, squirt on white frosting stars around the blue fruit leather, if desired.
7. TIP: To avoid smudging the Uncle Sam hat design, hold the cone from the inside while decorating it with fruit leather and icing.
8. Remove the ice cream-scoop "head" from the freezer and top with the Uncle Sam hat.
9. Working quickly so the ice cream doesn't melt, add 2 blue M&M's eyes and a red M&M's nose. Finally, add a whipped cream beard.
10. Serve up your Uncle Sam ice cream cone immediately; he goes over well at July 4th celebrations. Makes 1.