The Wonky Cone Real Fruit Ice Cream is an ice cream shop on Brooklands Park Drive in Brooklands, New Plymouth, holding a 3.9 rating from 22 Google reviews, with a Facebook page as its online home.
Real fruit ice cream is a proper New Zealand tradition: vanilla soft serve spun in a mixer with fresh or frozen fruit until it comes out thick, flecked and barely holding its shape. Blends are made to order, so a short wait is usually a good sign, and the fruit follows the seasons, with strawberry and banana the classics. Regulars tend to ask what's in the spinner that day, because the answer shifts week to week. The mark of the real thing is flavour that comes from the fruit rather than syrup.
Tucked by Brooklands Park in the quieter reaches of New Plymouth, it makes an easy stop after an afternoon outdoors.