Vanilla
The classic ice cream flavor, made with real vanilla or vanilla extract. Vanilla is consistently among the best-selling ice cream flavors in the United States.
Ice Cream & Frozen
Every frozen dairy in every form: ice cream, gelato, frozen custard, frozen yogurt, sherbet, soft serve, and novelties. Home of the Flavor Catalog, every ice cream flavor profiled like every other entry.
Chocolate
Ice cream flavored with cocoa or chocolate: one of the two oldest ice cream flavors and a permanent fixture in the top three sellers.
Strawberry
Sweet cream ice cream flavored with real strawberries or strawberry puree. One of the Neapolitan trio and a summertime staple.
Cookies & Cream
Vanilla ice cream loaded with crushed chocolate sandwich cookie pieces. An American invention that rose to fame in the early 1980s and never left the top flavors list.
Mint Chocolate Chip
Cool mint ice cream studded with chocolate pieces, often tinted pale green. Created in England in 1973 and now a global standard.
Cookie Dough
Vanilla ice cream filled with chunks of chocolate chip cookie dough, usually with chocolate chips of its own. An American flavor popularized in 1984.
Butter Pecan
Vanilla or brown-sugar ice cream filled with butter-roasted pecans. A Southern American classic with a deep, toasted-nut flavor.
Rocky Road
Chocolate ice cream with marshmallow and nuts, born in Oakland, California in 1929. One of the first ice cream flavors with mix-ins.
Neapolitan
A tri-flavor ice cream sold in one carton, classically chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry in three distinct bands. It is a sliceable, ready-for-anyone dessert.
French Vanilla
A premium vanilla ice cream made from a cooked egg-yolk custard base, rather than plain sweet cream. It is richer, denser, and yellower than standard vanilla.
Coffee
An ice cream flavored with coffee, ranging from lightly tan and sweet to dark and intense. It is a classic American parlor flavor and a base for coffee shakes.
Pistachio
An ice cream flavored with pistachio paste and dotted with nut pieces. Its flavor is rich, buttery, and unmistakably nutty, with a pale natural green.
Salted Caramel
An ice cream of caramel-flavored base with ribbons of salted caramel sauce. Sweet, buttery, and lightly salty, it is the modern parlor standard.
Moose Tracks
A licensed American flavor: vanilla ice cream with peanut butter cups and a thick fudge ribbon. It is a premium, mix-in-heavy flavor and a consistent top seller.
Black Cherry
An almond-scented or vanilla base studded with dark, tart black cherries. It is pinkish-purple from the fruit, with a sweet-tart contrast.
Rum Raisin
An ice cream flavored with rum and studded with rum-soaked raisins. It is creamy and caramel-like, with a gentle alcoholic warmth.
Butter Brickle
A butter-flavored ice cream with pieces of butter brickle candy, a toffee of butter and brown sugar. It tastes of caramelized butter with a crunchy bite.
Spumoni
A molded Italian-style dessert of layered ice creams, classically chocolate, cherry, and pistachio, with candied fruit and nuts. It is served in slices, not scoops.
Sherbet
A frozen dessert of fruit juice or purée with a little milk, between sorbet and ice cream in richness. It is icy, bright, and usually citrus or berry flavored.
Sorbet
A frozen dessert of sweetened fruit juice or purée and water, with no dairy. It is dense, intensely fruity, and icy-smooth when churned well.
Gelato
An Italian frozen dessert churned denser and served warmer than ice cream, with less air and usually less fat. Flavors taste more intense and the texture is silkier.
Frozen Yogurt
A frozen dessert of yogurt and milk, sold in hard-packed pints and soft-serve shops. It ranges from tart and yogurt-forward to sweet and mild.
Soft Serve
A frozen dairy dessert served directly from a machine that freezes and aerates the mix at once. It is lighter, airier, and warmer than hard ice cream, sold in cones and cups.
Kulfi
An Indian frozen dessert of milk reduced by slow simmering until thick, sweetened and flavored (cardamom, saffron, pistachio), then frozen dense in molds.
Mochi Ice Cream
Bite-sized balls of ice cream wrapped in sweet rice dough (mochi). Each piece is one or two bites: chewy outside, frozen inside.