Maleficent Waffle Cones: Disney Halloween Magic at Home

Disney hosted the first Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party of the season last week at Magic Kingdom. It was perhaps a tad early, more than two months before the actual holiday, but I don’t mind. Once the parties start, the Disney parks start offering fabulous Halloween treats too! One of the many new temptations this year is the new Maleficent Waffle Cone served in Magic Kingdom’s Fantasyland.

If you’re lucky enough to be headed to Disney World in the next few weeks, you can find the Maleficent Waffle Cones at Storybook Treats. If you’re not, well, you’re still in luck. Today’s post shares how to make a version of these lovely, green and not-so-evil treats at home.

Celebrating Halloween early has its advantages.

Ingredients

Let’s start with the short list of ingredients. All you need is a bag of dark chocolate candy melts (or chips), a bag of white chocolate chips (mistakenly not pictured), a carton of mint chocolate chip ice cream and a box of chocolate waffle cones. I found all of these items, including the chocolate waffle cones, at my regular grocery store.

The Disney World version of the cone features a lime flavored ice cream that gives Maleficent her lovely green glow. I opted for chocolate mint ice cream instead because it’s a similar green and one of my family’s favorite flavors. I love lime too, but I didn’t want to get stuck eating an entire carton of it by myself (not sure “stuck” is the right word there). If you want to make the official Magic Kingdom version of the treat, you could use lime sherbet or sorbet.

I spent less than $10 on all of the ingredients, which was more than enough for eight desserts with some cones and chips leftover. That’s pretty good, considering Disney sells the Maleficent Waffle Cones at Magic Kingdom for around $6 each.

Pattern

The first step, at least for me since I’m not great at winging designs made of melted chocolate, was to make a pattern for Maleficent’s intimidating horns.

I sketched a few designs, then cut them out to make sure they were the right size for the cones. We don’t want Maleficent falling over under the weight of her own head, do we? Wouldn’t be very villain-like. Once I had the appropriate size, I scanned the picture into my computer and kept duplicating it until I had a eight patterns on a single page. Here’s a link to my template, if you want to skip this step and use mine too.

Playing with Chocolate

This next part is a little messy. I may have had to wipe chocolate residual off my phone more than once due to my picture taking throughout the process.

I placed the pattern under a piece of parchment paper on a cookie sheet. Then I melted the chocolate candy in the microwave according to the directions on the bag (20 second increments at 50% power). Once the chocolate melted, I used it to started filling in the patterns with a spoon.

It took some time with a spoon and the chocolate hardens fairly quickly, so I switched methods about half way through. I placed the rest of the chocolate in a Ziploc bag, snipped off a corner and squeezed the chocolate onto the remaining patterns. I still needed the spoon, and an occasional toothpick, to smooth out the chocolate and fill in some gaps. You want the pieces to be kind of thick so they’ll be easier to handle and less likely to break.

More chocolate is pretty much always better than less chocolate, don’t you think?

Speaking of more chocolate, the next step was to add the white chocolate details. I melted the white chocolate chips in the microwave and used another Ziploc bag to draw simple white lines across the horns. I left a few of them blank too, just for variety. You could consider adding purple food coloring for another look too. Ever notice how Disney loves dressing villains in purple?

Once the chocolate started to harden, I slid the parchment paper off the cookie sheet and set it aside. Then I flipped my pattern over, added another layer of parchment and repeated the process of melting the chocolate and filling in the designs to complete the matching sets of horns.

Final Steps

Assembling the treats is easier than declaring Maleficent “the mistress of ALL EVIL!” Just scoop some ice cream into the cones and add her impressive horns!

Here’s the first look at the finished product. Not quite as perfect as the Disney one, but close enough and super fun to make. Plus these Maleficent Waffle Cones are bigger, more chocolaty and way less expensive. (Insert maniacal laugh.)

Of course the outside temperature was as hot as Maleficent’s temper, so I took pictures quickly before the ice cream started to melt. Since I wasn’t planning to serve them until later in the day (wait, what?!) I put them in the freezer in the interim.

Fortunately, the cones held up remarkably well. My kids got their eager happy hands on the evil treats about four hours later.

Based on the looks on their faces, I’m pretty sure they didn’t mind celebrating Halloween early either.

If you want to try these treats for a larger group, you can easily create the horns in advance and just add them to the cones while serving.

Happy Halloween!

And that’s it, an easy way to make Disney’s Maleficent Waffle Cones at home. Of course it’s not exactly like being in the parks, because you can’t fly with Peter Pan or zoom through the Dwarfs’ Mine Train when you’re finished. (Sigh) But if you’re no where near Orlando, these treats aren’t a bad substitute. You also don’t have to fight the crowds or stand in a long line in Fantasyland to get one. (Score!)

Now that I think about it, “Fantasyland” isn’t such a bad nickname for my kitchen.

If I can do it, you can too! Add a little Halloween magic to your world!