

When you subtract all the fruit sorbets, there are usually between one and three other vegan choices every day, made with soy, almond or coconut milk.

Nearly half of the assortment is vegan, with pictures of a cow on the menu as if to say no moo-moos hurt here! Maintaining the Italian tradition, her ice cream is made fresh in-house daily. Owner Daniela Teuber, discovered her passion on a trip to Italy when she took a course at Gelato University of Bologna. Judging by the line outside, plenty of other Berliners think so too. It would be a crime against coolness not to include this Eisladen, which is named after the Star Wars spaceport town and has been feeding the fashionable picnickers at Tempelhofer Feld since 2013. Milk alternative: Soy, almond, coconut milk Maintaining Italian tradition, Mos Eisley’s ice cream is made fresh in-house daily. 17, Friedrichshain, Currently opening hours are weather dependent, but generally Mon-Fri 14:00-18:00, Sat-Sun 12:00-18: 00 Come early: it’s consistently busy here and the non-fruity flavours go first! The soy-averse can try lemon and poppy seed, black sesame or espresso and hazelnut, all with an almond base. The main dairy alternative is soy milk, used in Walnuss Brownie, Cookies Cream, Macadamia, Mango Lassi and the best-selling Crazy Peanut, to which you can add extra vegan cream. Because everything here is animal-free, including cones and toppings, you can focus on flavours. If you can handle the frenetic customers, you’ll be rewarded with a tower of icy delight and free toppings such as crushed nuts and gooey caramel sauce (be careful with the sauce though, it overpowers other flavours).Īll of Balaram’s ice cream is manufactured by Kontor Eismanufaktur Berlin, a vegan ice cream maker in Prenzlauer Berg. With 18 regularly changing flavours such as New York Cheesecake and Florentine Hazelnut along with fruit sorbets, it’s no wonder this Eisladen is swarmed by fashionable foodies with their babies and dogs in tow. 9 Kreuzberg, Sun to Wed 12:00 – 20:00 Thu – Sat 12:00 – 22:00, cards only.Įverything at Balaram is animal-free, including cones and toppings. These scoops are a bit pricier than others on this list, but the quality of the ingredients and the final result are definitely worth the extra cents (card only!), as testified by the popularity of the tiny shop located on a pretty side street of the Kollwietz Kiez. Made with organic cocoa beans and sweetened with dried coconut sap and raw chocolate nibs. Raw Chocolate, however, is another story. The Blue Coconut gets its quirky night-purple tinge from the Butterfly pea tea and has a subtle flavour. There’s a great variety of creative flavours, including our two favourites: Salty Maca Caramel, (maca root, cashew milk, salted caramel thickened with locust bean gum), and a satisfying Pistachio Lucuma (organic green pistachios, sweet lucuma powder). Here you’ll find a lusciously creamy, organic ice cream that isn’t only free of milk products, but also gluten and soy- frei, and sweetened with white sugar-alternatives, such as coconut blossom or raw cane sugars, rice or maple syrups.

Milk alternative: Coconut, almond or cashew milk, cold-pressed coconut oil So where do vegans in the know go to get their desserts? When frozen fruit just won’t cut it, here are Berlin’s best vegan ice cream options devoid of funky fillers such as dyes, artificial flavours, emulsifiers or vegetable fats. But too many menus still fall back on fruit sorbets which are only a lip-smacking treat if you’re a fruit bat, scurvy-prone pirate or a Berliner with an allergy to fun.
