I couldn’t let the summer pass without sharing this melting ice cream cone cake with you.

All you need is sprinkles, chocolate, a cone, popsicle stick (opt) and, of course, cake.

Some of these items you may already have in your pantry.

Check out the video below to see how I prepared this cake.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to:

• Add sprinkles to the cake
• Make a cake ball (ice cream)
• Add chocolate drip
• Apply finishing touch

Before we get strated, I wanted to show you some cake basics to get you started on building a cake.

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Let’s get started:

Step 1: Adding sprinkles to the cake

Once I built my cake, I started covering the base of the cake with sprinkles.

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I’m using rainbow nonpareil sprinkles.

I had a bunch of them in my pantry, so that’s what I used.

I started by using a butterknife or offset spatula to push the sprinkles onto the base of cake.

Step 2: Making a cake ball (ice cream)

Before starting on the cake ball, I placed the cake in the refrigerator to harden while getting to work on the ice cream (which is essentially a cake pop, but bigger.)

I mixed about four cupcakes and a little bit of buttercream to bind them together into a ball.

I then set the ball aside and started working on the chocolate drip.

Step 3: Adding chocolate drip

There are two ways to make ganache: one with water and the other with heavy cream.

In the video I used a water ganache, where I melted chocolate and stirred in warm water a little bit at a time until I got the right consistency.

Before getting started on placing the chocolate on the cake, make sure the cake is chilled.

A cold cake will help the chocolate drips fall at different lengths.

I start by placing the cake ball on the top of the cake.

Press the cake ball down gently to make sure it’s stuck to the cake.

I then poured the chocolate over the cake ball until it was completely covered in chocolate.

Once the cake ball is covered, I start working on carefully spreading the chocolate towards the edge of the cake.

I placed my chocolate in a piping bag, but you can use a spoon or squeeze bottle.

To begin piping the chocolate, I focus on the edge of the cake and carefully place the bag on the edge and squeeze out the chocolate going around the cake.

Once you have gone around the cake making the drips, you want to cover the top of the cake.

Fill in the gaps and holes where you see frosting showing.

The chocolate will start to set on its own once completely covered.

Step 4: Applying the finishing touch

For the finishing touch I poured chocolate in a small bowl to dip my cone.

Dip the base of the cone in the bowl of chocolate, then coat it with sprinkles.

Set aside to set.

Next, add sprinkles all over the top and sides of the cake.

That’s it. How cool is this melting ice cream? I think it looks so real.

Which cake should I do next? Let me know in the comments or feel free to message me on the socials.

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