An ice cream cone, poke or cornet is a dry, cone-shaped pastry, usually made of a wafer similar in texture to a waffle, which enables ice cream to be held in the hand and eaten without a bowl or spoon. Various types of ice cream cones include waffle cones, cake cones (or wafer cones), pretzel cones, sugar cones and chocolate-coated cones.
A variety of double cone exists that allows two scoops of ice cream to be served side by side. Ice cream cones may also be made with a flat bottom instead of the pointed lower part, enabling the ice cream and "cone" to stand upright on a surface without support. These types of wafer cups are called kiddie cups, cake cones or cool cups.
In Britain and Ireland, a "99" is the term for a vanilla ice cream cone with a Cadbury's chocolate flake pressed into the ice cream.
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