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Parks sells the funnel cakewiches for $6.50 every Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m. If demand takes off (and honestly, how could it not), they’ll become available more regularly. We fully expect that by June, half the ice cream shops in the country will be trying to duplicate this, so stop by and get the original. If we’ve learned anything from the countless Cronut imitators, it’s that the knockoffs never beat the real thing. _This_ [_article_](http://www.foodandwine.com/fwx/food/yes-we-are-ready-funnel-cake-ice-cream-sandwich-thank-you-asking) _originally appeared on_ [_Food and Wine_](http://www.foodandwine.com/)_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3816567/funnel-cake-ice-cream-sandwich/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3816567/funnel-cake-ice-cream-sandwich/"},"headline":"The Funnel Cake Ice Cream Sandwich Is the Dessert Mashup of Your Dreams","datePublished":"2015-04-09T22:27:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:18:34.540Z","description":"Worth every calorie","url":"https://time.com/3816567/funnel-cake-ice-cream-sandwich/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food & Drink","Food"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta8d59358c748a89f/6987ea7155a859b79ca89807/fwx-funnel-cake-ice-cream-sandwich1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Noah Kaufman / Food & Wine"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta8d59358c748a89f/6987ea7155a859b79ca89807/fwx-funnel-cake-ice-cream-sandwich1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"fwx-funnel-cake-ice-cream-sandwich","caption":"","creditText":"Ice Que","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3816567/funnel-cake-ice-cream-sandwich/","name":"The Funnel Cake Ice Cream Sandwich Is the Dessert Mashup of Your Dreams"}}]}] ```