Ice cream for kids

Recipes (36)

• Custard “concrete” with chocolate and biscuits

  A custard so thick with mix-ins that you can turn the cup upside down. A quick vanilla base, with mix-ins of your choice.

• Fior di latte

  The purest gelato of all: milk, a little cream and sugar. No eggs, no vanilla — it tastes of fresh, sweet milk.

• Gianduia gelato

  The Turin pairing of hazelnuts and milk chocolate — mellow, nutty-chocolatey and creamy.

• Stracciatella

  Fior di latte with thin shards of dark chocolate, formed right in the machine from melted chocolate.

• Amarena gelato (sour cherries)

  Fior di latte rippled with homemade “amarena” sour-cherry sauce — sweet-and-sour streaks through a milky gelato.

• Strawberry gelato (fragola)

  A milk gelato packed with fresh, uncooked strawberries — it tastes like ripe strawberries and cream.

• Apricot milk gelato

  A summery milk gelato made from ripe apricots — sweet, fragrant and gently tart.

• Sicilian lemon crema (egg-free)

  A milk gelato thickened with cornflour (cornstarch) instead of egg yolks and stabiliser, scented with lemon zest.

• Watermelon granita

  Pink icy granita made from watermelon with lime. The simplest summer refresher.

• Strawberry granita

  A seasonal granita made from ripe strawberries — icy flakes that taste of fresh fruit.

• Strawberry frozen yogurt

  Pink frozen yogurt made with fresh strawberries — a summer classic that children love too.

• Strawberry ice lolly

  A deep red fruit lolly made from fresh strawberries that you can actually bite into — not a block of ice.

• Layered yogurt and berry ice lolly

  White and purple stripes in one lolly: thick Greek-style yogurt and a raspberry and blueberry purée.

• 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.

• Rolled ice cream — basic vanilla base

  The base for all rolled ice creams: cream, milk and condensed milk, with no cooking and no eggs.

• Rolled strawberry ice cream

  Fresh strawberries chopped straight into a cream base on the ice pan — pink rolls with pieces of fruit.

• Rolled cookies & cream ice cream

  Cream-filled cocoa biscuits chopped into a vanilla base — a flavour children especially love.

• Rolled ice cream with banana and hazelnut spread

  Ripe banana and chocolate hazelnut spread chopped into the base — thick, sweet, nutty and chocolatey.

• Rolled mango and lime ice cream

  Ripe mango with a dash of lime chopped into a cream base — yellow rolls that taste of tropical fruit.

• Orange sherbet

  An American classic: orange juice with a little milk and cream. Fresh as a sorbet, smooth as ice cream.

• Raspberry sherbet

  Pink, creamy and full of raspberry flavour — raspberry sorbet softened with milk.

• Rainbow sherbet

  Three colours, three flavours — orange, lime and raspberry in layers. An American children’s party favourite.

• Egg-free vanilla ice cream (Philadelphia style)

  Pure, creamy vanilla with no egg yolks — fresh, milky and ready without cooking a custard.

• Creamy strawberry ice cream

  Ripe strawberries and cream — pink, fragrant and made without cooking the fruit.

• Cookies & cream

  Vanilla cream ice cream packed with pieces of cream-filled chocolate biscuits.

• No-churn ice cream with whipped cream and condensed milk

  Three ingredients, a mixer and a freezer. Whipped cream provides the air, sweetened condensed milk the smoothness.

• Strawberry sorbet

  A no-cook summer classic made from fresh strawberries — it tastes like strawberries straight from the garden.

• Mango sorbet with lime

  Thick, creamy and fragrant — mango has so much flesh that the sorbet is almost like ice cream.

• Apricot (or peach) sorbet

  A velvety sorbet made from briefly poached apricots. Peaches work the same way.

• Watermelon sorbet with mint

  A light pink watermelon sorbet with mint and lime. Summer in a glass.

• Quick frozen fruit sorbet

  Ready in 10 minutes from frozen strawberries and mango in a high-speed blender — no ice cream maker, no waiting.

• Ube (purple yam) ice cream

  A Filipino classic: purple yam, coconut milk and condensed milk. Gently vanilla-and-nutty, and naturally purple.

• 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.

• 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.

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  Why raw yolks don’t belong in ice cream, why 71 °C is enough for safety while 82 °C is the cook’s upper limit for custard, and when to reach for pasteurised eggs.

• Listeria and ice cream: who should be careful

  Listeria survives freezing, and a small dose is enough to make vulnerable people ill. What outbreaks in the US and the UK showed, and who should take more care with 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.

• Ice cream from 2–3 ingredients

  The simplest ice cream recipes — two or three ingredients, most of them with no cooking and no machine.

• Seasonal ice cream recipes

  Ice cream by season: elderflower and rhubarb in spring, strawberries and apricots in summer, currants and pears in autumn.

• Bold flavours

  Savoury, spiced and roasted ice creams — olive oil, miso, goat cheese, wasabi, beer. They sound like a joke, but the mix is worked out to the last gram.

• Trending ice cream

  What people order now and make at home: Dubai chocolate, matcha, ube, mango sticky rice, protein cottage cheese and cookie flavours.