Regional and international ice cream flavors

15 regional and international flavors

• Spumoni

  Layered pistachio, cherry and chocolate, often with candied fruit

• Dulce de leche

  Tan milk caramel ice cream with a dulce de leche swirl

• Kulfi-style cardamom pistachio

  Dense Indian-style frozen milk with cardamom, pistachio and saffron

• Ube (purple yam)

  Vivid purple, earthy-sweet ice cream made with Filipino purple yam

• Thai tea

  Sweet, spiced and orange-tan, like iced Thai tea with condensed milk

• Dondurma-style (stretchy salep ice cream)

  Chewy, stretchy Turkish-style ice cream thickened with orchid salep

• Stracciatella

  Milk gelato with fine, crisp shreds of dark chocolate

• Blue moon

  Bright sky blue, sweet and famously hard to name

• Midwest tri-color

  Red, yellow and blue ice creams swirled in one scoop

• Grape-nut ice cream

  Vanilla ice cream with malty, crunchy wheat-and-barley cereal nuggets

• Teaberry

  Bright pink, minty and spicy, with a wintergreen taste

• Orange and black licorice

  Orange ice cream striped with a ribbon of black licorice

• Hokey pokey

  Vanilla ice cream studded with crunchy golden honeycomb toffee

• Rum raisin

  Custard ice cream with plump, rum-soaked raisins

• Tutti frutti

  Vanilla ice cream packed with colorful candied cherries and pineapple

What the moon badges mean

1. Rare Rare enough that you would most likely make it at home.
2. Hard to find Look for it in specialty shops and seasonal runs.
3. Sometimes found Found in some shops and some grocery freezers.
4. Easy to find Common in most grocery freezers.
5. Classic A classic you can buy almost anywhere.

Make and serve them with these

• Base Builder and Batch Scaler

  Ice cream base recipe sized to your machine

  Pick a style and your machine, and get a base formula in grams and cups with fat, sugar and solids checked.

• Recipe Scaler and Converter

  Ice cream recipe converter: cups to grams

  Scale an ice cream recipe by a factor, a batch volume or your machine, and see every line in grams and cups.

• Types

  Types of frozen desserts

  Compare 10 frozen desserts side by side, from gelato and sorbet to kulfi, by milkfat, air, serving temperature, U.S. legal status and method.

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• 10 flavors

  Fruit ice cream flavors

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• 6 flavors

  Nut and caramel ice cream flavors

  Toasted nuts, cooked caramel and maple, in buttery, salty-sweet flavors like butter pecan and pistachio.

• 4 flavors

  Coffee and tea ice cream flavors

  Roasted coffee, mocha, green tea and spiced chai, for scoops that taste a little grown-up.

• 8 flavors

  Bakery and dessert ice cream flavors

  Cookies, cake, brownies and pie folded into ice cream, from cookies and cream to key lime pie.

• 4 flavors

  Spice and floral ice cream flavors

  Warm spices, cool mint and gentle florals, from cinnamon and pumpkin to honey lavender.

• 7 flavors

  Modern and unusual ice cream flavors

  Savory, herbal and surprising flavors, from sweet corn and black sesame to olive oil and basil.