Notice me, they seem to say.īut a cake cone is Switzerland - a neutral vessel. Sugar cones and waffle cones are inferior because they stamp their own authority on the treat. The best cake cones will have a bit of tapioca flour in them, which gives a little bit of plasticity that can almost come across as staleness. It comes down to two things: the texture of the cone and its nooks and crannies dotted throughout.Ī good cake cone has all the best qualities of - and I say this lovingly - a Styrofoam peanut: a perfect blend of snap and chew. Here’s why: Cake cones are, unequivocally, the best vessel for ice cream and soft serve. Sonic’s soft serve is perfectly fine, but I have to dock points for the lack of cake cones. The person who gave me my order explained that they “usually have” cake cones but didn’t today, for whatever reason. Instead, I got a truly mammoth quantity of the stuff in a giant chocolate waffle cone, which was then placed in a big soda cup and given to me. When ordering soft serve the other day, I expected a typical cone, with a typical amount of vanilla soft serve. God bless Sonic, where the carhop experience lives on: You can still order at a kiosk from the comfort of your own automobile and someone will bring your food out to you. There’s another flavor for the dipped cones, Froot Loops, which is good if you happen to like the taste of waxy floor cleaner. Dipping your cone in chocolate melts the soft serve all the more quickly, of course, so plan accordingly. Tastee-Freez’s chocolate shell shatters appealingly and has a slight saltiness as it dissolves on your tongue. The fact that you can get a dipped cone - a dying art - adds to the allure. There’s a smooth texture with minimal iciness and a flavor that resembles frozen whipped cream. It could be tickling the Midwesterner in me, but I loved this cone.
The good news is, you can still get Tastee-Freez - it can be found at Wienerschnitzel (yes, the hot dog place), whose parent company bought Tastee-Freez in 2003. Today, there are just four standalone Tastee-Freez stores left, including one in Anchorage, of all places. The iconic Tastee-Freez brand is something of a classic boom-and-bust story: Founded in 1950 in Illinois, it rapidly expanded to more than 1,700 stores by early 1957.
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