When you've invented a dessert that's so picture-perfect it's racked up nearly 30,000 Instagram followers, you know you're doing something right. That's the case with Cauldron Ice Cream, the California confectionary known for handcrafting ice cream and molding it into a rose shape before piling it atop one of its specialty Puffle cones. A twist on the waffle cone, the Puffle flaunts pockets of dough that rise from warmed egg waffles—a popular street food from Hong Kong. As for the ice cream, it blooms in one-of-a-kind rotating flavors that may include Vietnamese coffee, Earl Grey lavender, or The Cauldron, which swirls with Oreo cookies and Girl Scout Thin Mints. Peruse some of the press outlets that have praised the dessert haven:

"Ice cream wrapped in supersized waffles are sending dessert lovers into a frenzy."—UK Daily Mail

"The ice cream you order is made right in front of your face. Cauldron makes its ice cream using liquid nitrogen, so you get all that cool smoke-effect magic and you know your ice cream is really fresh."—Cosmopolitan

"Until the phenomenon spreads national — nay, global — we’ll just have to peruse cheap flights to L.A. and fantasize about making a pilgrimage to Cauldron Ice Cream."—People Magazine