Home Sweet Cone Ice Cream — Restaurant in Waukee

Well Home Sweet Cone, Iowa!

Delicious homemade ice cream that brings back some great childhood memories.

Visited in a Friday night and it was packed! So many flavors to choose from!

I ordered the vegan strawberry in a waffle bowl and Mr W ordered a salted Oreo milkshake with Heath bar blended in.

Total came to $14.xx before gratuity.

Shake was a 12oz cup. And my ONE scoop was huge.

Very satisfying. Everything tasted phenomenal.

I appreciated the plant based/vegan options. There was vegan strawberry and vegan Oreo. And cones were vegan.

Service was ok. There were young workers and it was late. I could tell they wanted to go home and their hearts were not into serving customers anymore as it was getting close to closing time. They still maintained composure and served everyone.

Shop decor was minimalistic and reflected a modern farmhouse feel. For seating there were: small kids’ tables and seats, bar height tables near windows and a few tables and chairs. Seating was limited when it was packed. Shop felt small when every table was full and a line all the way to the door.

Overall I highly recommend a visit to Home Sweet Cone. Their ice cream is one of a kind in the...

This was me and my families first time at this place. We came around 8:20-8:30 Tuesday, March 12th. Upon walking inside the lady that served us turned and gave us a dirty look after previously smiling at the customers she was finishing up with. After she got done with them she asked what we wanted in the rudest way possible and I asked for more time to look. Not even a minute late she rushes us to order. We started to order and she was very short with us and treated us like imbeciles. The first person in our group got two scoops on a cone (which I have to admit were the best size/ price ratio i’ve ever seen) but when she got to mine I asked for two scoops in a cup which then she very bluntly and rudely said they were out of one of the flavors I asked for. Which I understand but she gave me no time to look for a replacement flavor, then proceeded to give me one scoop in my cup and we still got charged with two scoops. The entire experience was very unpleasant and I wouldn’t recommend coming to this location to anyone nor myself again. The little lady who served us had blonde hair in a ponytail...

Love this place! Ever since I was told to go dairy free, I kissed ice cream goodbye. However Home Sweet Cone has brought joy in my life again and it's one of the few, if not the only ice cream place in the DSM Metro, that has dairy free ice cream. And not just any dairy free ice cream you can find at Hy-Vee. This ice cream is REALLY yummy! I stopped buying the SO Delicious brand and instead go to HSC when I'm craving ice cream. What's even better, they have listened to their customers and now have a smaller size cup (golf ball size) than their regular 'small' size cups... probably because they're very generous with their scoops😜

The only suggestion is to change their spoons. Their spoons are more hollow than your average spoon, so your lips have a bit of trouble getting all that ice cream goodness from the bottom of the spoon. Otherwise, no complaints. I've enjoyed their dairy free raspberry, "butter"scotch, pumpkin Oreo and salted caramel flavors 🤤 My kids are not dairy free. They tend to order the cotton candy, Butterfinger and Cookie Monster flavors a lot. So yes, this place has our...