Hammond's Issues A Nationwide Recall For Its Mini Waffle Cones

If you've purchased a bag of mini waffle cones from Hammond's Candies recently, you may want to think twice before consuming it. The candy company recently announced a nationwide recall of 4-ounce bags of its Dark Chocolate Filled Mini Waffle Cones. Customers may have purchased these directly from retailers or online via the Hammond's Candies website or Amazon. Technically, the recall currently affects 38 states and Washington, D.C. However, because candies may have potentially been shipped elsewhere as part of an online order, it's better to be safe than sorry and check the product code on the bag (affected codes are listed in the company recall notice posted by the FDA).

The recall was issued after milk was detected in a small batch of the product, though it wasn't disclosed on the label — a major issue if someone happens to have a dairy allergy. How or why this happened is still under investigation, but these sweet chocolate treats don't appear to be going the way of the discontinued Choco Taco just yet and other varieties like the milk chocolate filled mini waffle cones are currently still available.

If you aren't allergic to milk and have a bag of these Mini Waffle Cones, then it's your decision whether or not you return them for a full refund. If you are allergic to dairy, you may wish to take advantage of the company's efforts to keep its customers safe. You should be able to return the product where it was purchased and receive a full refund, with more info on the process available on the FDA website.

There seems to be a renaissance of interest in finding new ways to put ice cream cones to use and we've been loving it. Over the summer, some of us started to use ice cream cones with our morning latte as an edible alternative for single use plastic cups. Meanwhile, TikTok influencers have been getting creative with ice cream nachos. Hammond's version is like a sweet snack, where a miniature ice cream cone is filled with chocolate for a bite-sized treat.

Novelty aside, the production of our food isn't always as perfectly executed as we might expect it to be. For anyone with risky food allergies, knowing that the unexpected can happen is useful. In reality, there is always a risk that the manufacturer accidentally included ingredients that aren't on the label, making things tricky for people with allergies to dairy, nuts, eggs, and more.

Mistakes may happen because modern food manufacturing facilities often produce more than one product. Although we don't yet know exactly how these Mini Waffle Cones came to contain dairy, it might be that the equipment used to make them was contaminated with milk from a different production run. If the machinery wasn't properly cleaned, cross-contamination could have happened. This is speculative, but this is a risk in our food supply that many manufacturers and the FDA work hard to mitigate.