Cooking with Kids: Ice cream cone Christmas trees

momstown Oakville moms and their junior chefs got together this morning to have some festive fun.  We made a simple and easy treat but the kids loved it as they got to do pretty much all the work.  And there was green icing...what's not to love about that!  Here is how you can make your own ice cream cone Christmas trees.

What you need:

-as many sugar cones as you want
-white store bought icing
-green food colouring
-lots of 'decorations' for the trees

We used red, white and green mini chocolate chips, sprinkles, coconut, gummies and white chocolate curls. You can use whatever you have one hand, your favourite candy (maybe some leftover halloween candy?), or only items with holiday flair.

We gave each child two ice cream cones.  We took the white icing and stirred in a few drops of green food colouring until it reached our desired shade of green - nice and evergreen like!  Then we let the kids spread the icing on their cones gently, moms supervised to make sure the trees didn't break.  Next up, the fun part, decorating the trees!  It was great to see the kids each do their own version of their perfect Christmas tree.

The final product is delicious to eat but would also make a really cute centre piece for a holiday meal, don't you think?  You could even just use the white icing to spread on the ice cream cones and make a snow covered tree with decorations.  Lots of options!
 

Ice cream cone Christmas trees

We'll be decorating Christmas cookies in December and having a Junior Chef event with Nutella! All of the supplies for our Junior Chef program are included in your yearly momstown membership of just $45 a year. Sign up now for your free 4 week trial!