You can use any type of cookie, sweet biscuits, donuts, crisp waffles, or wafers to hold the ice cream. You will find all kinds of different combinations around the world. -In the US anything goes chocolate chip cookies, sugar cookies, chocolate dipped wafers, graham crackers, or any kind of baked chocolate rectangle thin cookie. -In the United Kingdom, a small block of ice cream is placed between two rectangular wafer biscuits. It was a popular alternative to a cone up until the 1980s. A "nougat wafer" has a layer of marshmallow sandwiched between two wafers and coated with chocolate around the edges. -In Scotland, a single nougat" is a vanilla layer of softer serve made into a sandwich with one plain wafer and one chocolate-covered nougat one. A double nougat (pronounced nugget) having nougat wafers on both sides. Raspberry sauce is also a common topping. Nougat wafers came in double or triple varieties, depending on the number of nougat wafers in the construction. -In Uraguay, they prefer Neapolitan ice cream in a sandwich prepared with wafers. -Vietnam serves theirs with a French flair, they put scoops of ice cream stuffed inside a bánh mì, topped with crushed peanuts.