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Dipping a soft-serve ice cream cone into melted butter may have melted the Internet.
Stew Leonard’s said a post of its butter-dipped, vanilla soft-serve ice cream cone has gone viral — to the tune of more than 17.1 million Instagram views.
“The famous BUTTER CONE is now available at our ice cream parlor. Indulge in the soft serve vanilla ice cream you love, dipped in butter and topped with a sprinkle of salt,” Stew Leonard’s said on Facebook.
Stew Leonard’s, which has grocery stores in Yonkers, Connecticut, New Jersey, on Long Island, and famed for its animatronic animals and characters in them, has been offering the cone, in which the butter forms something of a shell. A little salt is sprinkled on top.
Stew Leonard’s eight locations will continue to sell the cones as long as there’s customer demand, a spokesperson said.
Where else can you find a butter-dipped cone?
In New York City, bakery Papa D’Amour, by pastry chef Dominique Ansel, also has offered what it said was a French-butter-dipped cone. The offering was due to end in November.
“A swirl of creamy vanilla soft serve made with organic A2 milk, dipped in a thin ‘shell’ made with Isigny Ste. Mère butter from France and a sprinkle of fleur de sel, and a mochi surprise at the bottom of the waffle cone,” Papa D’Amour said in a November Instagram post.
Perusing Facebook, it was easy to find variations on the theme over the past few weeks.
One person offered video of a brown-butter dipped ice cream cone. Brown butter is butter that’s been cooked until it caramelizes.
Joy Jones Co. Ice Cream Cones, a maker of cones themselves, showed ice cream in a waffle cone getting dipped.
For the last week of November, Mister Softee of Long Island offered butter-dipped cones.
Kroger, a major grocery store chain largely in the Midwest, South and Midwest, posted video of its butter-dipped confection in late November.
Still another post on Facebook, in September, showed an ice cream cone getting dunked in peanut butter.
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