Unusual coffee creations are increasingly becoming part of everyday life. However, filling a waffle with coffee at coffee time is something very unusual.
Scenic hipster trend or soon in your favorite café next door?
Coffee in an ice cream cone sounds like a pretty simple idea. Nevertheless, it is an extremely successful coffee trend on the Internet. Millions of images can be found on various user profiles on Instagram and Facebook. And as the name already suggests: Here the coffee is really in the cone – or rather in the ice cream cone. It doesn’t get any more unusual than that, does it? But what does it all look like and who comes up with such a strange idea? We will now get to the bottom of these questions.
The inventor of the CoffeeInACone™
Let’s start at the beginning. Dayne Levinrad comes from South Africa, is a barista and at the same time the inventor of coffee in an ice cream cone. Meanwhile, he diligently sells his creation to various cafes and restaurants around the world. He has managed to draw the attention of coffee lovers around the world to him and the coffee in ice cream cones. You no longer have to decide whether you want to drink a coffee or eat an ice cream. The answer is the coffee in the ice cream cone – CoffeeInACone™! This invention made the South African famous around the world and made him a highly respected barista in the coffee industry.
But how exactly does the CoffeeInACone™ concept work? Let’s take a closer look at the structure of the ice cream cone: The conventional ice cream cone is lined with chocolate on the inside. To be more precise, the waffle is covered with four layers, each with a different cocoa content. These layers protect the waffle from soaking for quite some time. The coffee inside quickly melts the chocolate. You should consume your coffee in the ice cream cone within about ten minutes. No problem for true coffee lovers, of course.
Incidentally, the secret of the CoffeeInACone™ lies not only in the chocolatey coating itself, but also in its consistency. Trying such a creation yourself would in most cases end in a true disaster and demand a lot of dirt and mess from the kitchen at home.
Especially in Johannesburg, the personal experiences and moments are shared on Instagram and Co. under the hashtag #coffeeinacone. Of course, this is no coincidence, since the coffee trend is particularly widespread here and sometimes finds its origin.
