I know its still chilly outside – I’m wearing extra layers, like a good Green should – but icecream is always a popular pudding at our house, so I thought I’d just mention our favourites.
You may know that you can now buy gluten free icecream cones, ready for stuffing with your favourite icecream – but did you know you can get ready-filled cornets?
Just like ‘real’ ones, there are two basic varieties of icecream cone (that I’ve found, anyway): the simple icecream cone, and the waffle cone. Both are produced by Barkat. The simple cone at least used to be packaged under the Glutano name, but since both Glutano and Barkat are brands from the same company, they’ve clearly decided to rationalise. You can buy direct from Barkat, or from one of the growing number of gluten free shops, such as Goodness Direct.
The waffle versions are far and away our favourite, but they are significantly more expensive. Both kinds are free from gluten, wheat, milk and eggs, but the simple version is apparently also free of lactose, yeast, nut and is GM-free.
We were going to the trouble of melting chocolate and coating the insides of the cones with it to make a home-made version of a Cornetto until we discovered – ta-dah! – the Swedish Glace non-Dairy Strawberry and Vanilla Cornet (also available from Goodness Direct). It is an icecream cone, lined with chocolate flavour coating, and then stuffed with vanilla icecream with a whirl of strawberry sauce. This is a wonderful product – it is just great to be able to give my coeliac daughter something that looks (and is) as good as the ‘normal’ stuff.
You may remember that I gave up dairy products for a while – the Swedish Glace icecream is a wonderful version of dairy-free icecream, and comes in tubs in a variety of flavours. I now prefer it to the usual high-fat dairy versions – and when we have the waffle cones, my daughter chooses to fill them with Swedish Glace icecream from the tub.
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I love the cornets and the ice lollies with ice cream and choclate around from swedish glace but find it nigh on impossible to order them or buy in local shops. They are addictive and when I eat them I forget I’m not normal and can’t eat things as my children want them too and my husband as they taste so good. You see I have so many food allergies it is getting harded to find different things to eat. My allergies are eggs, fish, nuts and dairy (lactose etc) plus intolerancies for other foods that although don’t produce an anaphlactic reaction as the other list does make my lips and mouth swell so I just don’t them. Please make it easier to buy in ordinary supermarkets advertise to a wider area Please!!
Hi Carolyn – that does sound difficult! Are you in the UK? If you are, have a look at http://www.dietaryneedsdirect.co.uk, which is an online shop that tells you which foods are egg-free, dairy-free, wheat-free, gluten-free, nut-free …
Just to let you know that we now have the cornets in stock. They have also brought out a neapolitan ‘ice cream’. We also stock all the Barkat ice cream cones.
I have found a new supplier for Swedish Glace as my previous one didn’t stock the cones :(
http://www.johnsonsprovisions.co.uk
Hi Helen – thanks for letting us know. Neapolitan might be popular with the children …
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Good to see such sites as your to help and inform. I would though like to correct some of your information. The Rolled waffle cone under the Barkat brand is made here in the UK by Antonelli Bros Ltd; they are also free of lactose, yeast, nut and is GM-free (Soya is the only notifiable allergen). Barkat is a brand of Gluten Free Foods Ltd who are one of the trusted brands that are bringing a great variety of gluten free foods to more shelves of local shops.
Hello Mr Antonelli – I’m so glad you visited, and can clarify that for us. I’ve just been over to visit your site; I had no idea there were so many kinds of cones!
I really hope you can persuade more retail outlets to stock your gluten free products (especially the sugar cone, which we love)
has anyone found ‘regular size’ gluten free ice cream cones?
I’m looking for ‘regular size’ gluten free ice cream cones so that I can make ice cream cup cakes for a party. The mini ones just won’t work. I would love any suggestions
I’ve never heard of ice cream cup cakes, but they sound very interesting! All these cones have traditional pointy ends – I’m guessing you’re looking for flat-bottomed ones?
I’m sorry, I’m not aware of any like that. Mr Antonelli, do you know of any?
Could you improvise by cutting off the points and ‘welding’ the cones to a plate with chocolate? Without knowing about ice cream cup cakes it’s a little hard to visualise how it might work …
Please view our web site for information on our new product, Cerrone Cone Gluten Free Sugar Ice Crean Cone. They are now available through Tree of Life. You can request your grocer to carry this product.
Sincerely,
Jody Cerrone
Thank you Jody – will your cones be available in the UK, or are they US only?
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Hi Sofe – I’m sorry to have to disappoint you, but we don’t have any ice cream cones to give away.
I’ve deleted your address to be on the safe side.
I hope you can find some gluten free cones somewhere …
I am looking for cones for my daughter. She has allergies to wheat, soy, eggs, nuts, peanuts, & shellfish…..do these cones exist?
Hi Ed
This is a tricky one, and I think I’m going to fail… but I’ll put my findings up here anyway, in case they’re useful to someone else.
The Swedish Glace cones mentioned above contain soya bean oil in the wafer, so they wouldn’t be suitable.
Here in the UK I’ve found two main brands of gluten free cone: Barkat and Eskal (new). I know that Barkat is available via the US-based Gluten Free Mall, too.
Barkat produce two types of cone. Their standard cone is free from: dairy, egg, gluten, added sugar, nut, wheat and yeast. But the ingredients are: Maize Flour, Potato Starch, Salt, Soya Lecithin. Can your daughter manage soya lecithin?
Their waffle cone is free from: dairy, egg, gluten, nut, wheat and yeast, and its ingredients are Potato Starch, Sugar, Rice Flour, Soya Flour, Soya Lecithin, Vegetable Oil, Raising Agent: Sodium Bicarbonate. I’m assuming that the soya flour would eliminate this one.
The Eskal cone is free from: dairy, egg, gluten, wheat, yeast and is kosher but may contain traces of nuts and sesame. Ingredients: Potato Starch, Corn Starch, Sugar, Water, Vegetable Oil, Emulsifier (Soy Lecithin), Salt, Stabiliser (Xanthan Gum), Raising Agent (Sodium Bicarbonate). I guess the potential traces of nuts and the soya lecithin might rule this one out.
In the States, at the Gluten Free Mall, I can see Goldbaum’s Natural Foods Ice Cream Cones, which are: gluten free, kosher, vegan and gmo-free. Their ingredients are: Potato starch, cornstarch, demerara sugar, water, expeller-pressed palm oil, salt, cocoa powder, xanthan gum, and baking soda, so no soy ingredients, but it says ‘may contain traces of nuts, soy or sesame’. I’m guessing that the ‘traces of nuts or soy’ here would be too much of a risk, even though this may just be the company covering itself… you’d have to make your own call on that one.
So I haven’t managed to find such a cone for you – sorry. If you find one, then do please share the information with us.
And an extra note: the Cerrone Cones mentioned by Jody above contain tapioca flour, sugar, cornstarch, lecithin and salt. Jody’s site doesn’t say what the source of the lecithin is… Jody, can you tell us?
Oils/fats are used as a shortening ingredient to make the biscuit, also it acts a release agent to stop the baked pancake sticking too much to the baking plate. Emulsifers are used to enable the oil to mix into the batter evenly. I am no food scientist but to the best of my knowledge natural emulsifiers are either egg or soya based.
If anybody knows of a cost effective alternative we would consider using it to replace the Soya Lecithin emulsifier we use in making the Barkat Gluten Free rolled waffle cones. So as to make free from Soya also.
Thank you Mr Antonelli – that’s interesting.
Though I’ve never made a cone, I can see that it would be like a biscuit, which would need both fat and egg. I wonder how people who make egg-free biscuits do without egg? Some recipes I’ve seen use silken tofu instead of egg,or ground flax seed + water, but of course tofu is soy-based.
Flax, though, is an oily seed, isn’t it? We need a food scientist!
The lecithin in the Cerrone Cones is soy based.
Thanks Jody!
I hope that helps someone…
I am looking for something similar to the Glutino wafers. They were like a waffle cone but flat. I heard schar took over glutino and have a wafer (ciade or something like that), but I can not find that in the US. My aunt loved the Glutino wafer. They were just a flat wafer with no filling she used for sandwiches. I gave her a GF wafer recipe and she tried them in her pizzel maker, but they just were not the same. any advice?
Dear Kathy
We have make the gluten free waffle cones here for several years.
The best I can suggest for wafers is “Gluten Free Foods Ltd” they are based in London and have an online site to order from.
Best wishes
Mark Antonelli
Antonelli Bros Ltd
“Cones for the Connoisseur”
Since 1912
MEC3 (UK)
“products for Gelato & Pastry”
Thanks Antonelli! I have bookmarked their site. I am looking for a flat wafer (not with any filling in between). I would love to find a place to order the schar cialde waffers from the us. Any info on that would be great.
pleas some one tell me if i can have connoisseur ice cream im sitting here staring at it heeellllpppp im a coeliac
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