Healthier ice cream

Recipe collections

Lists of recipes by what you are after — each with a note on what that kind of ice cream needs.

• Vegan ice cream

  Vegan ice cream recipes built on coconut, cashew and oat bases — no dairy, no eggs, with the mix composition worked out from the ingredients.

• Lactose-free ice cream

  Lactose-free ice cream recipes made with lactose-free milk and cream — and what separates “lactose-free” from “dairy-free”.

• Sugar-free and lower-sugar ice cream

  Ice cream recipes with no added sugar or less of it — and what taking the sugar out does to how hard the ice cream sets.

Healthier ice cream

• Less sugar in ice cream: what works and what’s a compromise

  Sugar in ice cream doesn’t just sweeten – it keeps it soft. How to cut it down without ending up with hard, icy ice cream.

• Sweeteners in ice cream: erythritol, xylitol, stevia and co.

  Which sugar substitutes are permitted in the EU, how they behave in ice cream and what to watch out for — from the laxative effect to dogs.

• Protein and quark ice creams

  Quark (tvaroh) and yogurt ice cream have an official place in both Slovakia and Czechia. What protein does in ice cream and why it isn’t enough on its own.

• Frozen yogurt and live cultures

  Do yogurt cultures survive freezing? What the measurements say, how much sugar frozen yogurt contains and how to make it at home without killing the cultures with heat.

• Lactose-free and vegan ice cream

  How much lactose most people can tolerate, why lactose-free ice cream is softer and what coconut, cashew, oats or soya bring to the table.

• Gluten-free ice cream: watch out for the cones

  Ice cream itself usually contains no gluten. The risk hides in cones, biscuits, malt and the scoop in the display counter.

• Ice cream for children

  How much free sugar the WHO recommends, how much there is in a scoop, why honey is not for children under 1 year and what to look out for with colourings.

• Allergens in ice cream

  Of the 14 EU allergens, the ones most often found in ice cream are milk, eggs, nuts, peanuts, gluten and soya. Where they hide and what an ice cream shop must declare.

• Calories and sugar in ice cream: a comparison

  Cream ice cream, gelato, frozen yogurt, sorbet and “no added sugar” in USDA figures. Fewer calories doesn’t mean less sugar.

Healthier recipes

• Fruit ice lolly for kids, no added sugar

  Four ingredients, no added sugar and the taste of a mango and banana smoothie on a stick.

• Cottage cheese ice cream with raspberries

  The viral cottage cheese ice cream, done our way: quark and skyr blended smooth, about 7 g of protein and around 110 kcal per 100 g.

• Banana nice cream

  A creamy “ice cream” dessert made from nothing but frozen overripe bananas and two dates — no added sugar, no milk and no ice cream maker.

• Chocolate banana nice cream

  Chocolate nice cream made from frozen bananas, cocoa and dates. It tastes like chocolate ice cream but has a fraction of the fat.

• Protein ice cream with quark and skyr

  A fitness favourite for the Ninja CREAMi: quark, skyr and erythritol. Over 8 g of protein and about 65 kcal per 100 g.

• Reduced-sugar vanilla ice cream

  Vanilla cream ice cream in which erythritol replaces some of the sugar. A third less sugar, still creamy and scoopable.

• Vegan coconut vanilla ice cream

  Creamy vanilla ice cream made with coconut milk — free from dairy, eggs and lactose.

• Vegan chocolate cashew ice cream

  Rich chocolate ice cream made with homemade cashew milk, cocoa and dark chocolate. No dairy and no eggs.

• Oat and cinnamon ice cream (lactose-free)

  A light ice cream made with oat drink and lactose-free milk, sweetened with maple syrup, with fibre from inulin.

• Avocado and lime ice cream

  Pale green, creamy avocado and lime ice cream — the avocado provides the creaminess instead of cream.

• Lactose-free cream ice cream

  Classic vanilla cream ice cream made with lactose-free milk and cream — it tastes like the ordinary kind but is suitable for lactose intolerance.

• Mango sorbet with no added sugar

  A sorbet made only from fruit: ripe mango, overripe banana, dates and lime. The fruit itself provides the sweetness and smoothness.

• Fruity frozen yogurt for children

  Mild strawberry and banana frozen yogurt with half the sugar, no honey and no alcohol. It can also be made as ice lollies.

• Matcha frozen yogurt

  Green frozen yogurt with matcha — gently bitter, refreshing and lighter than cream-based matcha ice cream.