Gothamist: Conecakes, Yay or Nay?

gobbl

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:41:37 -0500

cute but i don't think it'd taste much better than a normal cupcakes...easy of eating though i guess

NannyState

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:40:45 -0500

You could chop up a cupcake, stir it into ice cream, and shove that mess into a cone and ice it with the little sprinkles. Eat it and follow it up with an insulin injection.

fastergrace

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:40:45 -0500

Yay! Boo to the naysayers. Conecakes are freakin' delicious.

MsBathory

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:16:14 -0500

seriously? let's not be total fatties...

JMH

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:25:29 -0500

That's way too much bready material. I'd rather just have some ice cream.

cucarachita

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:36:16 -0500

Nay! nay nay nay! it makes my teeth hurt just looking at that thing. Dry and warm on the outside, and slightly less dry and just as warm on the inside? Yuck! They could call it a Hotsicle.

Whammo

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:49:18 -0500

Everybody be wantin' the ho-cakes

Kevin Walsh

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:38:25 -0500

No -- overkill with the sugar. You want a cone with ice cream in it -- preferably the cone should be less sweet than the ice cream, for the contrast. A cake in a cone? Too much. www.forgotten-ny.com

TimSPC

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:19:33 -0500

I used to bring these to school for my birthday when my mom would make them. This was 20 years ago or so. I haven't had one in a long time, but I remember them being awesome.

SP

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:51:54 -0500

gross. NAY.

Toby von Meistersinger

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:50:22 -0500

Wow, Midwestern food. I think that the Conecake recipe was on a box of some cake mix years ago. That would explain why I encountered these when I was a kid and forced to spend the summer in Wisconsin. Nothing like spending the summer among oodles of white people who like to eat things suggested by packages of food.

MidCFrank

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:35:46 -0500

Remember when NYC was about interesting ethnic and quality food? Now all the transplants want the crap they used to get at bakesales back in the midwest. Don't get me wrong, I love a cupcake as much as the next person -- but why is it such a big deal in the post-SATC NYC???

r_friend

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:25:52 -0500

It kinda looks good, but I'm guessing it would have that surprising effect to the tastebuds... like when you think you're about to bite into an ice cream cone but you're actually not.

handsomedevil

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:24:02 -0500

So how do you bake them in the cones? Are they those flat-bottom cones that can stand up by themselves? Did I just answer my own question? Why are you even reading this?

Shinobi Shaw

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:14:00 -0500

I agree with whoever said that they should add in some ice cream at the bottom of the cone. I mean dry cone? Yuck!

msk

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:06:40 -0500

There are cupcake molds in the shape of cones, so that you can make a cone-shaped cake and frost it, I think that is a lot cuter and probably tastier than the styrofoamy cones...

NYLaughs

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:55:55 -0500

They look cuter than they taste. Recipe: buy a box of cake mix, a can of frosting, and some cones. Make them. Here's the problem--the cones go totally stale in about an hour.

coxx

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:52:44 -0500

my mom made these for me as a kid for a bday party. They were awesome then! I haven't had one in years but I'm sure it's just as good as it was then. Not diet food of course but if you're on a diet you can't have cake plain & simple

Orizaga

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:43:53 -0500

nay... let's come up with something that doesn't make America fatter... thanks New York...

miss mess

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:41:12 -0500

i've never eaten them, but i've always thought that the hand dipped ice cream cone cupcakes at Vegan Yum Yum look amazing: http://veganyumyum.com/2007/01/hand-dipped-ice-cream-cone-cupcakes/

meowster

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:31:56 -0500

really? this is dessert news to you? these were a staple for me as a kid. i never really 'got it'- they are kind of gross. stale cone taste. but yeah- this is nothing new.

tahl

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:28:43 -0500

My mom used to make these for my birthday all the time! So delish, in my opinion.

hoodlum

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:28:11 -0500

This would be perfect if there was ice cream in the bottom. Don't want to be eating plain cone when you finish the cupcake. :S

jgee

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:23:35 -0500

These have been around forever. I don't like them though, they make the cone too soggy/soft.

Snoopy

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:22:08 -0500

It would be interesting if it was layered with ice cream. I remember Larry Goldberg of Goldberg's Pizzeria fame experimenting with making a cone shaped pizza. The idea was interesting but he never got it to work. May he rest in peace, or is it piece?

littlepinkknife

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:21:50 -0500

I made these in a cooking class I taught for little kids. They're fun to eat and bake. They are just regular cupcakes in a cone...nothing too revolutionary (but delicious nonetheless). The fun part is the decorating - they can be made-up to look like ice cream sundaes, oh how the dessert-line has been blurred. yum.

sarahlucy

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:21:24 -0500

unless it's a waffle, the cone is the worst part of an ice cream cone. i always skip it and just do a cup. without the ice crea, why is the cone necessary??

hoodlum

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:17:37 -0500

I think they look delicious. Though I generally prefer sugar cones to wafer cones.

brockart

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:13:07 -0500

I had these at a bake sale in Michigan. They were a Barf-o-rama

VanessaNYC

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 13:25:18 -0500

yuck. nay.