The Bottom Line
If you're a grown-up, these gluten-free cones will make you feel like a kid again. If your kids have celiac disease, you can send these cones along to birthday parties and ice cream parlors.
Pros
- Texture and taste like "regular" ice cream cones
- Reasonably priced
- Packaged well -- Cones don't come out of the box in little pieces
Cons
- Can be hard to find in local stores
Description
- Taste and texture reminiscent of "regular" waffle cones
- Sturdy when filled with ice cream -- Won't crumble or fall apart
- They don't get crushed in the box
Guide Review - Let's Do... Gluten-Free Ice Cream Cones
Let's Do...Organic, the company that already makes my favorite gluten-free gummy bears, sent me a box of their new gluten-free ice cream cones to review. I've been gluten-free since 1999, and even back then it had been years since I'd eaten ice cream in a cone. Last week, the Let's Do...Gluten-Free Ice Cream Cones arrived in the mail. I opened the box, unwrapped a stack of cones from their cellophane wrapping, loaded one with ice cream, sat down at the kitchen table, and started to lick my ice cream... and all of a sudden I was transported back to summer nights in my parents' kitchen, when I was a little kid and my dad would put ice cream into cones for my brother and me. I had forgotten what it was like to revolve an ice cream cone in your hands so you can lick methodically to keep it all from melting. When I got down to the place where you have to break off some of the cone, the texture was just like I remembered. These cones are wonderful.
The next night, I took a cone over to my local Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream store (where all the allergens are posted for every flavor). The guy who worked there happily loaded my ice cream into my gluten-free cone.
I've seen gluten-free ice cream cones before, but I've always been put off by the price. In this case, the manufacturer's recommended price for 12 cones is $3.99 -- still more expensive than "regular" ice cream cones, but not exorbitantly so.
A representative of the company told me that these cones can be found "in mainstream supermarkets such as Stop & Shop, Wegmans, Hannaford Bros, Albertsons, Shaws, QFC, Ralphs, Publix, and Safeway." My local Stop & Shop doesn't carry them, but I am going to march over there with a copy of this review and ask the manager to start stocking them.
