Stew Leonard Jr. tried the butter-dipped cone for the first time this week. Now, it's being offered for $5 in New Jersey.

By Cecilia Levine From Daily Voice

Ice cream in a jacket season? Yes... and ice cream dipped in butter season at Stew Leonard's.

The grocery chain’s Paramus and Clifton stores just launched their newest attention-grabber: a butter-dipped soft serve cone that began trending online before most locals even knew it existed.

Stew Leonard’s teased the treat on social media days earlier, saying it would roll out the produc if interest was high enough. 

In New Jersey, it was.

Daily Voice ran its own poll to see if readers were willing to try it, and more than 50 percent said yes, proving that butter does, in fact, make it better.

A small cone costs $5, and early shoppers were quick to get their hands on the salty-sweet swirl after the videos went viral.

The creation comes from Dominique Ansel, the New York–based French pastry chef who invented the cronut and is no stranger to launching internet-breaking desserts.