page_title: Winter ice cream
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Winter ice cream / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Winter ice cream (téli fagyi) in Hungary. A popular snack in communist times. Manufacturer: Linzer Kft.
context_page_description: Winter ice cream 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. 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.
context_section_description: 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).
  The mass-produced variants don't require refrigeration while still having a relatively long shelf life (around 2–4 months). Originally weighting around 40 g or more, modern mass-produced winter ice creams are around 20–30 g.
caption: Winter ice cream in a glass, with flat top visible
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