Ingredients

1 scoop Freezer French Vanilla or store-bought vanilla ice cream
1 Wafer ice cream cone
White frosting
Blue fruit leather
Red and blue decorating gels
Red and blue M&M's
Canister of ready-made whipped cream

KIDS' COOKING SKILLS: Use this recipe to teach kids how to creatively decorate desserts with icing and candies, as well as how to squirt whipped cream from a canister.

Directions

Place a scoop of vanilla ice cream on a plate and return it to the freezer to harden. Meanwhile, construct an Uncle Sam hat out of a wafer ice cream cone.

Use frosting to attach a blue band of fruit leather around the bottom of the cone. Squirt vertical stripes of red decorating gel down the sides and blue gel on the top.

Using a star tip, squirt on white frosting stars around the blue fruit leather, if desired.

TIP: To avoid smudging the Uncle Sam hat design, have your child hold the cone from the inside while decorating it with fruit leather and icing.

Remove the ice cream-scoop "head" from the freezer and top with the Uncle Sam hat. Working quickly so the ice cream doesn't melt, add blue M&M's eyes and a red M&M's nose. Finally, add a whipped cream beard. To do this, have your child hold the canister upside down while squirting on a long white beard.

Serve up your Uncle Sam ice cream cone immediately; he goes over well at July 4th celebrations. Makes 1.

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