Winter ice cream

Winter ice cream

Intact and bisected winter ice cream cones, showing a poorly filled, cheap variation
Type	confectionary
Course	snack
Place of origin	Hungary
Associated national cuisine	Hungarian cuisine
Invented	1970s
Serving temperature	at room temperature or cooled
Main ingredients	wafer, ganache or buttercream, dark chocolate or compound chocolate
Variations	multiple cream flavorings
Food energy (per one 30 g serving)	160 kcal (670 kJ)
Nutritional value (per one 30 g serving)	Protein 1.1 g Fat 10.4 g Carbohydrate 15.4 g
Other information	Above nutritional values are based on the cheaper, mass-produced variations with buttercream and compound chocolate.

Winter ice cream (Hungarian: téli fagylalt [ˈteːli ˈfɒɟlɒlt] or téli fagyi [ˈteːli ˈfɒɟi]) is a Hungarian confectionary similar in appearance to ice cream in a cone, but traditionally having ganache or a similar kind of sweet cream filling with usually a chocolate-cocoa flavoring. It gained popularity in the 1970s in communist Hungary, being produced as a winter alternative to "summer" ice creams, which were deemed to be too cold for winter sweets. Apart from grocery shops, it was frequently sold as part of the national railway's catering service (utasellátó). The confectionary's popularity faded in the early 1990s, when, after the end of communism, foreign candy manufacturers and their products appeared on the Hungarian market. However, along with some other snack foods and soft drinks of communist-era Hungary, winter ice cream garnered renewed interest in the late 2000s and 2010s.

Winter ice cream usually consists of a wafer cone with ganache filling in it, with dark chocolate coating being on the flat top of the filling. Cheaper formulations may use cocoa-flavored buttercream instead of ganache for filling and compound chocolate instead of dark chocolate for coating. The confectionary was originally mass-produced to be sold in shops, but it is now also available in pâtisseries, and it can be made at home with various novelty flavorings. Traditionally, the available flavorings were cocoa (kakaós), vanilla (vaníliás), lemon (citromos) and coconut (kókuszos).