From Gelato to Kulfi: 10 best ice creams from around the world
Gelato is a traditional Italian ice cream known for its dense and creamy texture. It's made with a higher proportion of milk to cream, resulting in a lower fat content and intense flavour.
Gelato
Mochi ice cream consists of small balls of ice cream wrapped in sweet, chewy mochi dough. It's a popular Japanese dessert available in a variety of flavours like green tea, mango, and strawberry.
Mochi Ice Cream
Kulfi is a traditional Indian ice cream made with condensed milk, sugar, and various flavourings like cardamom, saffron, or pistachios. It's typically denser and creamier than Western ice creams and often served on a stick.
Kulfi
Halo-Halo is a Filipino dessert that includes a mix of ingredients like shaved ice, sweetened beans, fruits, jellies, and sometimes ice cream.
Halo-Halo
Dondurma is a Turkish ice cream known for its stretchy, chewy texture, achieved through the addition of salep (a flour made from wild orchid tubers) and mastic resin. It's often sold from street vendors who perform playful tricks with the elastic ice cream.
Dondurma
Spaghettieis is a German ice cream dessert that resembles a plate of spaghetti. Vanilla ice cream is extruded through a specialised press to look like spaghetti, topped with strawberry sauce and grated white chocolate.
Spaghettieis
Paletas are Mexican ice pops made with fresh fruit, water, and sometimes milk or cream. They come in a wide variety of flavours including mango, pineapple, coconut, and cucumber with chili.
Paletas
The sundae is a classic American ice cream dessert typically consisting of a scoop or scoops of ice cream topped with syrup, whipped cream, nuts, and a cherry
Sundae
Rasmalai ice cream takes inspiration from this dessert, combining the flavours of creamy milk, cardamom, saffron, and nuts into a frozen treat.
Rasmalai Ice Cream
Gelato affogato is a simple yet delicious Italian dessert consisting of a scoop of creamy gelato "drowned" in a shot of hot espresso.