List of ice cream flavors facts for kids
This is a list of notable ice cream flavors. Ice cream is a frozen dessert usually made from dairy products, such as milk and cream, and often combined with fruits or other ingredients and flavors. Most varieties contain sugar, although some are made with other sweeteners.
Ice cream flavors
- Bacon – a modern invention, generally created by adding bacon to egg custard and freezing the mixture
- Banana
- Beer
- Biscuit Tortoni – an ice cream made with eggs and heavy cream, often containing chopped cherries or topped with minced almonds or crumbled macaroons
- Black raspberry – especially popular in New England, but can also be found elsewhere. May contain chocolate chips.
- Blue moon – an ice cream flavor with bright blue coloring, available in the Upper Midwest of the United States
- Bubblegum
- Butter Brickle was the registered trademark of a toffee ice cream flavoring and of a toffee-centered chocolate-covered candy bar similar to the Heath bar, introduced by the Blackstone Hotel in Omaha, Nebraska, in the 1920s. Alternately, it is often prepared and sold as butter vanilla-flavored ice cream with tiny flecks of butter toffee instead of chunks of Heath bar.
- Butterscotch
- Butter pecan is a smooth vanilla ice cream with a slight buttery flavor, with pecans added.
- Carrot
- Cheese
- Cake batter
- Cherry – includes variations (e.g. Amaretto cherry, black cherry)
- Chocolate
- Chocolate chip - vanilla base, with chunks of solid chocolate. Declining in popularity in the 2020s.
- Chocolate chip cookie dough
- Coffee
- Cinnamon apple
- Cookies and cream
- Cotton candy
- Crab – a Japanese creation, it is described as having a sweet taste; the island of Hokkaido, Japan, is known for manufacturing it
- Creole cream cheese
- Dulce de leche
- Earl Grey
- Eggnog
- French vanilla
- Garlic
- Goody Goody Gum Drops – unique to New Zealand
- Grape
- Green tea
- Halva
- Hokey pokey – a flavor of ice cream in New Zealand, consisting of plain vanilla ice cream with small, solid lumps of honeycomb toffee
- Lucuma – a popular Peruvian ice cream flavor with an orange color and a sweet nutty taste
- Mamey
- Mango
- Maple
- Mint chocolate chip – composed of mint ice cream with small chocolate chips. In some cases the liqueur crème de menthe is used to provide the mint flavor, but in most cases peppermint or spearmint flavoring is used.
- Moon mist – a blend of grape, banana, and blue raspberry (or sometimes bubblegum) flavors, popular in Atlantic Canada. The flavors are generally blended together to give a mist-like texture.
- Moose tracks
- Neapolitan – composed of vanilla, chocolate and strawberry ice cream together side by side
- Oyster
- Pistachio
- Peanut butter
- Pumpkin
- Raspberry ripple – consists of raspberry syrup injected into vanilla ice cream.
- Rocky road – although there are variations from the original flavor, it is traditionally composed of chocolate ice cream, nuts, and whole or diced marshmallows, or sometimes replaced with marshmallow creme, a more fluid version
- Rose
- Rum raisin
- Spumoni – a molded Italian ice cream made with layers of different colors and flavors, usually containing candied fruits and nuts.
- Strawberry
- Strawberry cheesecake
- Superman
- Teaberry – a flavor particular to Pennsylvania, with a flavor similar to wintergreen
- Tiger tail – a flavor popular in Canada, consisting of orange-flavored ice cream with swirls of black licorice
- Tutti frutti
- Twist – soft-serve ice cream where two flavors (if unspecified, usually chocolate and vanilla) are extruded simultaneously
- Ube (purple yam) – a popular ice cream flavor in the Philippines
- Vanilla
- Watermelon
Gallery
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Bananas foster
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Butterscotch in cone
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Cornflower in cone
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Rocky road with cookie
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Strawberry in cone
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Tutti frutti in cone
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Ube (purple yam)
See also
- List of dairy products
- List of desserts
- List of ice cream brands
- List of ice cream parlor chains
- List of soft drink flavors
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