Ice cream cone facts for kids
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An ice cream cone is a special dry, cone-shaped pastry. It's usually made from a thin, crispy wafer, similar to a waffle. This clever design lets you hold and eat ice cream without needing a bowl or spoon.
There are different kinds of ice cream cones. Some popular types include wafer (or cake) cones, waffle cones, and sugar cones. You can also find pretzel cones or cones coated in chocolate. Some cones are even designed to hold two scoops of ice cream side by side! Many wafer cones have a flat bottom. This lets them stand upright on a table without falling over. These flat-bottomed cones are often called "cups."
History of the Ice Cream Cone
Edible cones were first mentioned a long time ago. French cooking books talked about them as early as 1825.
A big moment for the ice cream cone happened in 1904. This was at the St. Louis World's Fair in the United States. A Syrian vendor named Ernest Hamwi was selling waffles. Right next to him, an ice cream seller ran out of dishes. Hamwi had a great idea! He quickly rolled up one of his warm waffles. Then, he put a scoop of ice cream inside it. This was a simple but brilliant solution!
Abe Doumar was only 16 years old at the time. He saw what Hamwi did and started rolling up waffles too. He put ice cream on top and began selling these new "cones" at the same fair. They were a huge hit! Because they were so popular, Abe designed a special machine. This machine could bake four waffle cones at once. He had a foundry build it for him.
In 1907, at the Jamestown Exposition, Abe and his brothers sold nearly 23,000 cones! After that, Abe bought a bigger machine. It was semi-automatic and could make 20 cones every minute. He then opened Doumar's Drive In in Norfolk, Virginia. This place is still making and selling ice cream cones today, more than 100 years later!
How Ice Cream Cones Are Made Today
In the beginning, ice cream cones were rolled by hand. People would take hot, thin wafers and shape them. But in 1912, an inventor named Frederick Bruckman changed things. He was from Portland, Oregon. Frederick patented a machine that could roll ice cream cones automatically. This made it much easier to make many cones quickly.
In 1928, Frederick sold his company to Nabisco. Nabisco is a very well-known food company. They are still making ice cream cones even now. Some independent ice cream shops, like Ben & Jerry's, prefer to make their own cones fresh.
Another big name in cone making is the Joy Ice Cream Cone Company. It started in Hermitage, Pennsylvania, in 1918. This company began to mass-produce baked ice cream cones. They sold them to restaurants and also directly to people. The Joy Ice Cream Cone Company makes a huge number of cones every year. They produce over 2 billion ice cream cones! This includes sugar, cake, and waffle cones. As of 2009, it was said that Joy is the largest ice cream cone maker in the world.
Images for kids
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Iced Pudding, a la Chesterfield, from Charles Elmé Francatelli's The Modern Cook (1846). This picture is one of the earliest to show something like ice cream cones. They are arranged around the base of the iced dessert. Francatelli called them "gauffres, filled with some of the ice cream".
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The Ice Cream Sandwich or Ice Cream Cornucopia trademark. It was registered in Missouri and introduced at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904.
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Page 1 of an article from September 1917. It describes Frederick Bruckman's "Real Cake Ice Cream Cone Machine."
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Page 2 of the same article.
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A cherry ice cream cone.
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Sugar cones.
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An unwrapped pre-filled cone.
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Soft serve ice cream in a wafer-style cone.
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A 99 Flake ice cream cone.
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A sugar cone dipped in rainbow sprinkles.
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Waffle cones.
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Chocolate soft-serve ice cream with sprinkles in a waffle cone from Dairy Queen.
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See also
In Spanish: Cucurucho de helado para niños
