It’s hard to find an adult these days that isn’t utterly committed to their one reprieve through trying weekdays – coffee hour! This of course excludes those who are on a brutal no-caffeine bender. But coming back to the coffee-cultured lot adulting around the world, the same sip of reprieve through the week turns into an escape portal of sorts on the weekends. That first sip of coffee – however it is that you like it – on a weekend however, especially knowing you don’t really have to do anything for the rest of the day is a portal experience in itself.

Now true coffee connoisseurs that aren’t hell-bent on being purists can confirm: you drink your super-specific coffee long enough and you’ll eventually pick up a snack – the snack – that you must savour with it, every time. For some it’s something crunchy, for some its something mushy, for some it’s something savoury. But it’s their coffee’s plus-one and the whole routine feels incomplete without it. Well, the internet is currently having a field day with the latest viral food trend and if the plus one to your cup of coffee is a warm, buttery croissant, you ought to try this decadent upgrade everyone’s losing their minds over.

Start with a warm and flaky croissant. If ordering from outside, these tend to come in hot – but that’s not what we’re after. It should be at a temperature you can bite into easily without burning the roof of your mouth, while still feel the flakes and folded in streaks of butter melt. Use a pair of kitchen shears to cut just one conical end of the croissant off. The goal is to create a hole big enough to shove an ice cream bar through – because that’s exactly what’s up next! Take a nice, cold ice cream bar – most have been using Magnum bars in this case though realistically speaking, any ice cream will do – and just push it in. It won’t be neat, and will likely create a little bit of a mess in your hands and on the table, but the payoff is going to be delicious. While the ice cream bar should of course be cold enough to hold its form, you don’t want something that frozen rock solid. That’s because the next step involves pulling out the ice cream stick which is what will truly turn it into an ice cream ‘sandwich’. Next and last step: bite in!

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Come to think of it, croissants and cream have in fact, had a long association. Across France and Italy, dunking a fresh off-the-oven buttery croissant into a peak of whipped cream, serving it on the side or piped into its fold has been part of European breakfast culture for eons now, something that is having a very aesthetic-first social media movement. This viral trend just takes the combination of crisp pastry and silky sweetness to a whole new level of decadence.