Coney Waffle opens first New York shop in namesake Coney Island

However, if you can’t convince 10 friends to help you finish these ice cream sandwiches, you can order their Coney Waffle. The thing that makes these waffles special is their patented waffle iron. Each waffle has those classic ridges as well as plenty of room in the center for three scoops of ice cream. What looks like a cross between a waffle and a hot dog bun makes for the perfect vehicle for enjoying ice cream on the go.

Instead, he entered it into the Belmar Seafood Festival, and other summer festivals where they saw such a big hit he opened his own parlor – just like his grandma. D’Especito said he would always ask his dad to let him rebuild tnifc the waffle machine and update it, but he never would agree to it. “When I was 40, he finally broke down,” he said, adding that his father gave him two months to take one of the machines apart and put it back together again.

And at Coney Waffle Ice Cream Cakery you can choose your own frozen adventure by customizing an ice cream sandwich, cake, or waffle sandwich. The cookie dough cake is based on 2 layers of cookie dough ice cream topped with “chips galore” ice cream sandwiches, cookie crunch, and extra cookie dough crumbles on top and around the sides. D’Especito’s grandmother, Angelina, who opened up her own waffle ice cream shop in the 1940s when it was rare for a woman to have her own store.

“She was a business woman, born in 1912, and it was very unusual to find a business woman back then,” D’Esposito said of his grandmother. Back in the 1940s, Angelina D’Esposito made a living selling ice cream on Coney Island. To save money on the delivery, consider getting an Uber One membership, if available in your area, as one of its perks is a $0 Delivery Fee on select orders.

But her grandson said she was very “before her time,” having been the only school-educated member of her family. “Every Father’s Day, we would cook waffles and ice cream,” D’Esposito said, adding that his father, Joe, helped his grandmother with her business. D’Especito reinvented the machine with the goal of manufacturing it to sell to other ice cream shops, but quickly had a change of heart.