A cool London adventure on a hot summers day, how can I resist my favourite food takes centre stage on this tour around Soho and Covent Garden. Scrumptious ice creams and plenty of irresistible gelatos to taste over two hours of pure indulgence. On this tour, we visited some particular places offering some great flavours gelatos and ice creams.
The different between gelato and ice cream is gelato has less fat (cream) in the base; less air is incorporated while slower churning takes place. In Italy, they have special equipment to make gelato. Ice creams are heavier on cream and have a fat content of at least 10%. A faster churning takes place to quickly whip in a fair amount of air (overrun). A premium quality ice cream has overrun of around 25%. In any case, it’s important to use good quality ingredients and that is what happen at the ice cream parlours and gelaterias we visited.
The Ecstasy Ice cream tour is run by chocolate expert Jennifer Earle, from the Chocolate Ecstasy Tours, which I had the pleasure to review some time ago. Jennifer is very knowledgeable about the area and told us some anecdotes, historical facts and curiosities while on the move between venues. This is a delicious adventure. Highly recommended anytime of the year!
The tours take around 2.5 hours and cost £36.99pp (July2015). The cost includes all samples; we tasted over 20 flavours of frozen treats and vouchers worth more than £10 to use after the tour.
Some tips to get the most out of the tour:
1) have a very light meal prior to the tour; there are quite a lot of tasters to get through
2) wear comfortable shoes as you are going to explore six outlets spread out over Soho and Covent Garden
3) comfortable trousers, again lots of ice cream and gelatos to sample
4) take extra tissues, it can get messy eating all the treats
5) take an umbrella, in case of rain – you are in London after all!
More info: Ecstasy Ice Cream Tour
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| chocolate milkshake |
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| Pistachio gelato, chocolate praline gelato, pear sorbet, mix berries sorbet, sour cherry and Ferrero Rocher flavours |
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| mini cone tiramisu |
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| raspberry sorbet,tiramisu,vanilla,chocolate caramel praline,caramel biscuit |
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| caramel and chocolate |
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| Gianduja sauce poured over some sweet frozen treats |
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| Little cones chocolate dipped and nuts |
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| chocolate ice treats Disclosure: I was a guest of Ecstasy Ice Cream Tour . As usual, all views are my own. |
I really wish I liked ice cream because they do look amazing! I never knew things like this existed!
Georgia
WOW! the ice cream's look amazing, I didn't know things like this existed just WOW!
Hi Georgia, I think you are the first person to tell me that. WOW!
I am sooo hungry after your post! Ps I had no clue whats the different between gelato & ice cream! I worked in italian restaurant! Hhaha ps. love your ring 🙂
Ages ago myself and some friends got into an argument on what was the difference between gelato and ice cream. Thing is, in Italy we only have ONE word, we don't really differentiate, then again our gelati are so good 🙂
WOW! Ice Cream – This is the very beautiful word for everyone, Specially for children. My daughter love butter scotch flavor.