Render a more realistic ice cream

Question

I am still typsetting exams, and this time I want to see if I can manage to recreate an ice cream.

While my temporarily solution looks like this

The biggest problem is that my solution -- in lack of a better word -- looks plain. Is there some way to add some texture to the fill, and make it look slightly more realistic?

\documentclass[tikz,border=1mm]{standalone}

\definecolor{brownMedium}{HTML}{623d22}
\definecolor{brownLight}{HTML}{a78d7b}
\definecolor{brownDark}{HTML}{573722}

\begin{document}

    \begin{tikzpicture}
        \edef\w{10} \edef\h{6}

        \begin{scope}[shift={(0,0.5)},scale=1.1]
            \draw[color=brownDark, fill=brownDark,thick] (0,\w) -- (0,0) -- (\w,0)  -- (\w,\w);
            \draw[color=brownDark, fill=brownDark, thick] (\w,\w) arc(0:180:0.5*\w);
        \end{scope}

        \draw[color=brownMedium, thick, fill=brownMedium] (0,\w) -- (0,0) -- (\w,0)  -- (\w,\w);
        \draw[color=brownMedium,thick, fill=brownMedium] (\w,\w) arc(0:180:0.5*\w);

        \draw[color = brownLight, fill=brownLight, thick] (0.65*\w,-\h) arc(0:-180:0.15*\w);
        \draw[fill=brownLight, color = brownLight, thick] (0.65*\w,0) -- (0.65*\w,-\h) --  (0.35*\w,-\h) -- (0.35*\w,0);
    \end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

Maybe you could build on the answers to this post or this post. TikZ is not necessarily made for this. (And you can't believe what happened when my fellow marmots saw the ice cream. ;-) — , May 27 '19 at 18:09
You might try a graphics editor. TikZ is better at illustrations than realism. — John Kormylo, May 28 '19 at 00:14

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered May 28 '19 at 10:01

\documentclass[tikz,border=1mm]{standalone}
\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}

\definecolor{brownMedium}{HTML}{623d22}
\definecolor{brownLight}{HTML}{a78d7b}
\definecolor{brownDark}{HTML}{573722}

%stick
\fill[brownLight] 
(-1,-3.17) -- (-1,-8.48) arc (-140:-39:1.2) -- (0.8,-3.16) --cycle;
%shadow
\fill[brownLight!95!black,rounded corners] 
(0.8,-3.15) -- (0.8,-3.9) -- (0.5,-4.3) -- (-0.8,-4.3) -- (-1,-4.1) -- (-1,-3.1);
%ice cream
\fill[brownDark] 
(-4.2,5.2) -- (-4.2,-3.1) -- (-3.96,-3.24) -- (3.26,-3.21) -- (3.86,-2.9) -- (3.84,5.8) .. controls (3.54,9.77) and (-3.4,10.05) .. cycle;
\fill[brownMedium]
(3.21,5.5) -- (3.26,-3.21) -- (-3.96,-3.24) -- (-4,5.5) .. controls (-2.2,10.1) and (2.41,9.1) .. cycle;

\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

Render a more realistic ice cream

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