Lactose-free ice cream

Recipes (13)

• Water-based chocolate gelato (cioccolato all’acqua)

  A vegan, dairy-free chocolate gelato: water, cocoa, dark chocolate and sugars. A clean, very intense cocoa flavour.

• Almond granita (granita alle mandorle)

  Milky-white granita made from almonds, water and sugar — a Sicilian classic from around Catania and Etna.

• Mango sorbet mochi

  Vegan mochi filled with creamy mango sorbet — free from milk, eggs and gluten.

• Tomato sorbet with basil and balsamic

  A sorbet that tastes like caprese on a spoon. Sweet, salty and sharp all at once — and surprisingly refreshing.

• Pale lager beer sorbet

  Hop bitterness, lemon and no dairy at all. A grown-up sorbet that keeps the foamy aroma of beer.

• Chocolate sorbet

  Dark, dense and pure chocolate — no milk or cream, yet still creamy.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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• 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.

• PAC and POD: why ice cream is soft and how sweet it tastes

  The anti-freezing power and sweetness of sugars compared with sucrose. How to soften ice cream with dextrose, invert sugar, alcohol or salt, and where the limits are.

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.

• 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 for kids

  Ice cream recipes for children — no alcohol, no raw eggs, gentler on sugar, and what to watch out for with the youngest.

• 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.