1 cup sugar
3/4 cup flour
1 T corn starch
2 T melted margarine
1/2 cup water
If flavoring is desired, use 1/2 t extract flavoring or 1/4 t candy flavoring
Whip egg whites until soft peaks form. In a separate bowl mix remaining ingredients until smooth. Add desired flavoring and color. Combine with egg whites and mix well. Makes 5 large or 10 regular size cones.
This recipe was part of a kit from "The Cone Factory" which consists of a microwave safe plastic semi-circle grid with 3 plastic cone forms. The idea here being that you grease the grid, pour 1/4 cup batter and spread out and bake in the microwave for about 3-1/2 minutes, peel off and form around cone shapes to cool. This turned out to be quite a comedy of errors. First I tried putting a nonstick spray on the first batch, no good. The batter was totally stuck. Then I tried basting the grid with canola oil, no good, stuck again. Then I tried 1/2 cup batter on a Crisco-slathered grid, this time coming off a little bit better. I finally resorted to just a big cookie sheet with Crisco on it and baked at 300 watching it till it turned a little brown on top and cut off hunks and wrapped it around the cone shapes (which is what you would have to do if you didn't have this kit circa 1987.) The cones (or pieces of cones) did taste good, so we just ended up putting the hunks in the bottom of an ice cream bowl with the ice cream on top, but I have relinquished the kit over to my daughter-in-law Lauren who will have much more patience to maybe try again.
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