Six downright silly soft-serve cones from La Carnita spin-off Sweet Jesus
Six downright silly soft-serve cones from La Carnita spin-off Sweet Jesus
This wasn’t the summeriest summer ever, but that didn’t stop the team at Little Italy taqueria La Carnita from debuting a new soft-serve side business. The Sweet Jesus pop-up menu, created by executive chef Jonathan Hamilton and his wife Sasha “Frozen” Bogin, has found a temporary home at Home of the Brave, La Carnita’s spin-off diner on King West. (Come spring 2015, the ice cream biz will become its own irreverent entity.) These towering cones (all priced between $3.50 and $7) channel the CNE with their carnivalesque intensity—they’re injected with gooey sauces and topped with everything from roasted marshmallows to tufts of freshly spun cotton candy. Here are all six of Sweet Jesus’s signature cones, ranked in order of sweet-and-sticky silliness.
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- <strong>1. Banoffee Pie </strong><br /><br /> The chocolate-vanilla twist is studded with chunks of fresh banana and then rolled in a crumbly mixture of crushed graham crackers, toffee bits and sea salt. It's also injected with dulce de leche, making elegant consumption near impossible.
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- <strong>2. Keys to the Condo</strong><br /><br /> This citrusy treat has a molten core of tart lime syrup and a shaggy coat of lime zest and graham cracker crumbs. A splash of fresh lime juices replaces the proverbial cherry on top.
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- <strong>3. Caramel Cone</strong><br /><br /> A diabetic's worst nightmare: chocolate and vanilla ice cream, caramel corn and three (three!) sweet sauces (caramel, chocolate and butterscotch).
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- <strong>4. Rocky Mountain</strong><br /><br /> Another misshapen wonder, the Rocky Road cone takes all the elements of the classic flavour (chocolate ice cream, caramel, roasted nuts, marshmallows) and adds just a touch of crazy.
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- <strong>5. Krusty the Cone</strong><br />While the flavour profile is simple enough (vanilla; sugar), it's the presentation that really matters here. Tufts of pink and blue cotton candy are meticulous arranged to match the shape of <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5a/Krustytheclown.png" target="_blank">Krusty the Clown's silhouette</a>.
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- <strong>6. Chocolate Peanut Butter EpiPen</strong><br /><br /> It may not look totally bonkers, but this cone wins top honours for sheer commitment to a cause (in this case, peanuts). It's coated in peanut crumbs, studded in peanut-butter chunks and injected with a melty peanut-butter core.
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This wasn't the summeriest summer ever, but that didn't stop the team at Little Italy taqueria La Carnita from debuting a new soft-serve side business. The Sweet Jesus pop-up menu, created by executive chef Jonathan Hamilton and his wife Sasha “Frozen” Bogin, has found a temporary home at Home of the Brave, La Carnita's spin-off diner on King West. (Come spring 2015, the ice cream biz will become its own irreverent entity.) These towering cones (all priced between $3.50 and $7) channel the CNE with their carnivalesque intensity—they’re injected with gooey sauces and topped with everything from roasted marshmallows to tufts of freshly spun cotton candy. Here are all six of Sweet Jesus's signature cones, ranked in order of sweet-and-sticky silliness.
See all six soft-serve cones »
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Had one during the pop up shop, really wish the actual ice cream wasn’t soft serve
Sweet jesus is right! Banoffee? Key lime? Peanut butter epi-pen? I WANT TO GO THERE!!!!
Still waiting for Sweet Mohammed…or The Burger’s Imam.