Lovers of chocolate-covered fruit will especially enjoy this cone, which balances out the sweetness of the strawberry ice cream with the usual hardened shell. Most variety packs we found for this taste test incorporated caramel as their specialty flavor we appreciate Drumstick branching out and including strawberry instead. Our only complaint here is that they could include more fudge swirled throughout the cone, instead of concentrating it in the center. Best Fudge Centerĭrumstick’s Super Nugget in Vanilla Fudgeĭrumstick’s fudge center is as delicious as their chocolate coating. The caramel center is also just present enough to lend intrigue to the cone, while still not overpowering the vanilla. Thankfully, the caramel used in Blue Bunny’s cones tastes neither cheap nor flavorless. Best Caramel Centerīlue Bunny’s Caramel Mini Swirls ($5.49 for 8)Ĭheap caramel is a curse upon the earth, and far too often it’s included in sweet treats. If peanut toppings are your speed, then you certainly won’t mind Safeway’s generic. The Safeway cones were so covered in crushed nut topping that our testers could scarcely take a bite without scattering several over the ground. Still, their cones did not have the sheer volume of nut topping that Signature Select managed to pack onto their cones.

Signature Select’s Sundae Cones Variety Pack in Caramel Vanilla, Chocolate and Vanilla ($5.99 for 8)įatBoy’s decision to include nuts throughout their cone was a special stroke of genius, to be sure. If the chocolate shell is your favorite part of the cone, then Drumstick has your back. The texture is closest to a freshly-dipped Dairy Queen cone, which is certainly a plus, and the shell also fell off the cone the least after being bitten during our testing. We will say, however, that Drumstick’s chocolate shell seems to have a superior advantage. Drumstick certainly hypes up its “super nugget” quite a bit on its variety packs, and while that chocolate chunk at the end of each cone is certainly a delicious feature, we can’t say that the nugget is particularly bigger, or better, than the hardened chocolate pool featured at the bottom of some of the other cones we tried.

Vanilla fudge ice cream cone