Spice and floral ice cream flavors
Warm spices, cool mint and gentle florals, from cinnamon and pumpkin to honey lavender.
This section holds four flavors that get their character from warm spices, mint or flowers. Cinnamon, pumpkin and honey lavender are three of them.
It is for anyone curious about scoops that taste of the holidays or the garden, and for home makers who like to flavor a plain base with something from the spice rack.
4 spice and floral flavors
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Cinnamon
Warm, sweet-spicy and light tan, with cinnamon all through
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Peppermint
Cool, sweet mint ice cream with crushed peppermint candy
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Pumpkin
Pumpkin puree and pie spices in a custard base
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Honey lavender
Pale, floral and gently sweet, with lavender steeped in cream
What the moon badges mean
- Rare Rare enough that you would most likely make it at home.
- Hard to find Look for it in specialty shops and seasonal runs.
- Sometimes found Found in some shops and some grocery freezers.
- Easy to find Common in most grocery freezers.
- Classic A classic you can buy almost anywhere.
Spiced, cool or floral
These flavors lean on spice, mint or flowers, and none is a classic sold almost anywhere. Lavender splits opinion. In IDFA's April 2026 survey of 2,205 U.S. adults, lavender was the least-picked of 40 flavors, at 1%. Yet in Talker Research's 2025 survey of 5,000 adults, 11% named it a flavor they most wanted to try.
Make and serve them with these
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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.
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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.
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Scoop size chart
Ice cream scoop sizes and the disher number chart
The number stamped on an ice cream scoop tells you how many level scoopfuls fill one quart, so a #8 holds 4 fluid ounces (1/2 cup) and a #16 holds 2.
Other flavor sections
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Classic ice cream flavors
The flavors you can find in almost any freezer case, from plain vanilla to Neapolitan.
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6 flavors
Chocolate and candy ice cream flavors
Mix-in flavors loaded with chips, fudge, marshmallows and candy pieces, from mint chocolate chip to s'mores.
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10 flavors
Fruit ice cream flavors
Peach, cherry, berry, citrus and tropical flavors, from soft summer fruit to bright, tart lemon.
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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.
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4 flavors
Coffee and tea ice cream flavors
Roasted coffee, mocha, green tea and spiced chai, for scoops that taste a little grown-up.
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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.
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15 flavors
Regional and international ice cream flavors
Flavors tied to a place or a tradition, from spumoni and dulce de leche to kulfi and dondurma.
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7 flavors
Modern and unusual ice cream flavors
Savory, herbal and surprising flavors, from sweet corn and black sesame to olive oil and basil.
Sources
- Ice cream preferences of U.S. adults, topline results (Morning Consult for IDFA, April 7 to 9, 2026) International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA)
- New Mexico, New Jersey are America's top ice cream connoisseurs (5,000 adults, June 23 to 30, 2025) Talker Research
Every data source the site uses is on the Sources page.