Love these. Perfect small size. Grease. Wrap strips around. Sprinkle with turbinado sugar. Stand up in pants. Bake. Cool. Slide off. Fill. Just made my first gluten free cream horns.

Make sure you understand these are smaller horns than bakery cream horn size.
Everything is fine about them but I misunderstood their size.
Make sure you use butter or oil before applying pastry or they will stick horribly.

Do you see the pictures of the fat chocolate Christmas trees I made? They are so lovely, aren't they? Thanks to these cream horn molds, I did it!
They are not common cream horns but leavened ones, because I want them to stand like Christmas trees. Do you know how I make them?
First, it is important to choose the molds. They must be good-quality, because they have to stand on the baking tray in the oven. Poor molds cannot keep a balance and may slant in baking. I chose the molds from this seller, because I once bought cannoli tubes here. They worked well and the quality is excellent. I believe this seller's cream horn molds would be wonderful also.
The molds arrived quickly. They are just as expected. The steel is thick. The joint can almost be neglected. The most important thing is they can stand still.
I rolled the leavened dough into strips. Each strip should be from thin to thick. And then I wrapped each strip around the mold. I began from the thin end of the strip and wrapped the strip from the tip of the mold. After finishing all the 16 horns, I put them in a large box with cover. After they swelled, I placed them into the oven and made them keep a distance between each other, because they would further swell in baking.
After taking the golden horns out of the oven for a while, I removed the molds from the shells easily because I applied oil on molds before. I made all shells stand on the baking tray and then pour melt chocolate on each one and sprinkled colorful candy needles on them. At last, I filled the hollow shells with cream. They finally became Christmas trees! I packed each tree in a plastic bag and put "Merry Christmas" stickers on them.
With the cleaning brush, I washed the molds quickly. The brush was very useful for cleaning the tip part.
The next day, I sent these Christmas trees as gifts to my colleagues. All of them were full of praise for my creative cream horns.
This is just a practice. One week later, I will make more for the Christmas eve!

Nice molds but a bit small. 12 were in the package, not 16. But 12 is plenty and still reasonably priced at that.

The material is good
Easy to clean
Size is perfect for what i need.
Cones comes easy out after baking