From olive oil to matcha, soy sauce to sage and onion stuffing, there’s a frozen designer dessert out there to tickle even the most jaded palate. Here’s the best – and worst – of what’s on offer in Britain this summer
Scoop of the year! We taste-test 99 of 2026’s most unusual ice creams, from the unbeatable to the unlickable
From olive oil to matcha, soy sauce to sage and onion stuffing, there’s a frozen designer dessert out there to tickle even the most jaded palate. Here’s the best – and worst – of what’s on offer in Britain this summer What’s with all the...
It feels as if supermarkets and independent companies are vying to make the most novel alternatives to a good old scoop of vanilla. I tried 99 varieties of ice-cream tubs and ranked them from sickeningly sweet to dinner party-worthy.
- Paxo sage and onion stuffing, Anya Hindmarch (One scoop £4.50 or 500ml tub £16, The Ice Cream Project, London) Anya Hindmarch’s Ice Cream Project has become a yearly summer fixture, in...
- This year the flavours skew toward roast dinners, and include Oxo (which I couldn’t try, being vegetarian) and Paxo.
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What’s with all the weird ice-cream flavours this year? It feels as if supermarkets and independent companies are vying to make the most novel alternatives to a good old scoop of vanilla. But which are actually worth having? I tried 99 varieties of ice-cream tubs and ranked them from sickeningly sweet to dinner party-worthy.
99. Paxo sage and onion stuffing, Anya Hindmarch
(One scoop £4.50 or 500ml tub £16, The Ice Cream Project, London) Anya Hindmarch’s Ice Cream Project has become a yearly summer fixture, in which the fashion designer collaborates with well-known brands to create nostalgic novelty flavours (at designer prices) for which customers queue round the block. This year the flavours skew toward roast dinners, and include Oxo (which I couldn’t try, being vegetarian) and Paxo. It tastes exactly like the stuffing … which isn’t really what I want from an ice-cream. Taste 1/10, Value 1/10, Originality 7/10