The man behind the Cronut is back with another viral gut-busting dessert concoction: soft-serve ice cream dipped in butter.
And while Leonard joked that his doctor might not approve of the dairy-rich concoction, which he topped with a generous sprinkle of kosher salt, the trend won the approval of the Connecticut grocer.
“Who doesn’t like ice cream? Who doesn’t like butter? Who doesn’t like salt?” he wondered after sampling the cone. “That’s it, butter, salt, and just sheer enjoyment.”
This dessert trend originated at Papa d’Amour, a new bakery from James Beard Award-winning French pastry chef Dominique Ansel, whose greatest claim to culinary fame is inventing the Cronut (a croissant-doughnut hybrid), in 2013, which was named one of the best inventions of the year by Time Magazine.
The butter-dipped ice cream is on the menu at Ansel’s latest project, a casual bakery in Manhattan that sells hybrid Taiwanese-French pastries and sweets. The butter ice cream that Ansel serves is Hokkaido milk soft serve dipped in melted, salted French butter with mochi in a waffle cone.
“I love that hard-shell butter, it’s good!” said food reviewer Sam Goldberg in one such video, which racked up more than 3.2 million views on TikTok.
And while Leonard’s sampling of the dessert was just out of curiosity, a spokesperson told CT Insider that if the grocer gets enough demand from customers, it will sell butter-dipped ice cream in its stores.
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