CT Shop Creates Wild Ice Cream Version of New Haven Apizza

According to Boston.com, a Connecticut ice cream shop has found a way to combine two things people in this state take very seriously: ice cream and New Haven apizza. And somehow, they’ve turned the whole thing into a dessert.

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Kelly’s Cone Connection in Hamden is serving up an ice cream creation designed to look like a classic New Haven-style slice, but there’s no actual pizza involved. Instead, the “crust” is made from a waffle cone, which is topped with strawberry basil ice cream, strawberry sundae sauce and grated white chocolate that is supposed to look like the cheese you’d normally find on an apizza.

They even went the extra mile with the crust. A little cocoa is added to the outside to recreate the dark, charred appearance associated with New Haven’s famous pizza. So yes, you can apparently now eat an ice cream cone and get your fingers covered in “char.”

For anyone unfamiliar with Connecticut pizza terminology, apizza — pronounced “ah-beets” — is the New Haven style known for its thin, chewy, heavily charred crust and sauce-forward approach, often finished with Pecorino Romano.

The bizarrely delicious creation is the latest collaboration between Kelly’s Cone Connection and The Side Dishers, a social media food-review duo. The partnership has already produced ice cream versions of a cheeseburger, clam chowder and a lobster roll, with the lobster roll reportedly becoming the biggest hit.

The idea was to attract more younger customers to Kelly’s, and according to owner Kelly Ciccone, it appears to be working.

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The apizza-inspired ice cream is being offered during September, timed with New Haven’s upcoming apizza festival on September 12.

And if you’re thinking this sounds completely insane, keep in mind: this is Connecticut. We take our pizza seriously enough to turn it into ice cream.

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