Looking to lift your ice cream offer? These indulgent offerings highlight the quality of different regions.
Lick! Ice Cream, Queensland
Described as “real ice cream made differently”, Lick! Ice Cream is promoted as being made from real cream, not milk solids and powders, and supplied in in eco-friendly packaging.
“Most of our signature flavours only contain four ingredients,” says co-owner Kim Douglas “It’s a European method of making ice cream, which makes the ice cream very thick, creamy and decadent. There’s no aerating to fill the tubs.”
All Lick’s main ingredients – cream, eggs and sugar – are sourced locally and the brand makes its own caramels, chocolate fudges and fruit ripples, for example, to flavour the ice cream.
“So, everything is homemade and made on-site in Brisbane with no gelato powders or [artificial] flavourings,” says Ms Douglas.
Lick’s signature range includes a Macadamia Praline, which is one of its most popular ice creams.
“We roast our own macadamias, make our own praline and crush it … on-site and blend it through our decadent base,” says Ms Douglas.
Its strawberry ice cream is also a specialty, having been used as the base for the Ekka (Royal Brisbane Show) Strawberry Sundae Ice Cream, a popular product in Queensland, for the past decade.
Prom Coast Ice Cream & Gelato, Victoria
Prom Coast Ice Cream & Gelato’s story began in 2013 at a tiny seaside kiosk and general store overlooking Wilson’s Promontory.
“We wanted to make products that brought back cherished memories of summer holidays at the beach,” says Daniel Encel, who co-founded the brand with Hilary Skelton.
The brand offers both 150ml single-serve cups and 500ml take-home tubs.
“Our 150ml cups are made of unique, commercially compostable materials and come with a compostable wooden spoon,” he says. “Compostable 500ml tubs will be available in the near future too.”
Prom Coast Ice Cream & Gelato sources milk and cream from farms in Victoria, with all the fruit it uses being Australian grown.
Its most popular products are vanilla ice cream in the 500ml range and single-serve chocolate, with salted caramel ripple the next most favoured.
Read more about local ice cream in the September issue of Convenience World.
