Coyle's Homemade Ice Cream
Arjge Brothers, 12, a frequent visitor to Coyle's Homemade Ice Cream shop, holds a cone with four flavors, from top down: Cherry Vanilla, Strawberry, Peach, and Mint Chip. Credit: Newsday / Ken Spencer
Marty Coyle does not hail from the keep-it-simple school of ice-cream making. At Coyle's, the ice cream parlor that he and his wife, Janice, have owned since 1985, his best-selling flavor - and his personal favorite - is chocolate-raspberry truffle, whose demure name belies its elaborate composition: chocolate ice cream blended with raspberry sauce, and then laced with more raspberry sauce and punctuated with chocolate chunks.
And that's restrained when compared to another top seller, monster mash: chocolate ice cream with broken waffle cones, caramel, peanut butter, crunch topping and marshmallow.
