The Ultimate Gluten Free Ice Cream Guide
Here’s a few bits and pieces you might find useful to help get the very best gluten free ice cream. Coeliac friendly, dairy free too! From cones and sprinkles to a list of the safe options from the ice cream man!!
(1) List of Coeliac Safe Ice Lollies
Here’s my quick list of the most popular/readily available lollies. You might find some surprising bits!
This list is correct as of July 2022 – as always, check the labels for yourself just incase something has changed.
SAFE – BIG BRANDS
- Most Magnums inc ALL of the new remixes – included a list of the ones that aren’t below.
- Solero (all flavours that I can see!)
- Calippo (all flavours and sizes that I can see!)
- Mini Milk
- Choc ice (yet to find a brand that contains gluten)
- Cadbury Dairy Milk Stick
- Cadbury Crunchie Blast Stick
- Snickers Ice Cream
- Skittles Rainbow Sticks Fruity Flavoured
- Orange del Monte
- Fab
- Rowntree Fruit pastille lollies – NOT the push ups
- Rowntrees Fruit Stack – NOT the push ups
- Rowntrees Watermelon Lolly – NOT the push ups
- Twister
- Mr Jubbly
- Judes “Magnums”
- Haagen Dazs lollies (haven’t found one that isn’t gluten free yet!)
- Smooze lolly
- Little Moons – all except Strawberry Cheesecake and Mango Cheesecake, and cookie dough ice cream bites
- Miiro (like a vegan magnum)
- Wicked Kitchen Chocolate & Almond Sticks (vegan)
- Wicked Kitchen Berry White (vegan)
SAFE – GENERIC
For these, I don’t think there’s 1 famous brand so I’ve just checked all of the supermarket own brands (tesco, asda, m&s etc) and can’t find any that contain gluten…
- Strawberry Spilts
- Screwballs
- Rocket lolly
- Helter Skelter Lollies
- Pink Lemonade Lollies
- Orange Juice lollies
- Most Supermarket Own Brand Magnums (except the obvious “cookies” flavoured etc)
NOT SAFE
- Milky Bar White Chocolate Lolly *NEW for 2022 – this was safe last year but is now a may contain.
- All of the Magnums with cookie in the name & also the ”Billionaire” ones
- Rowntrees Fruit Pastille Push Up Lollies (may contain)
- Feast
- Nobbly Bobbly
- Lemonade (R Whites – May contain)
- Kit Kat Ice Lolly
- Mars Ice Lolly
- Malteser Ice Lolly
- Cadbury Darkmilk Ice Cream Sticks (may contain)
- Cadburys Boost
- Oreo Sandwiches
- Lotus Biscoff Sticks
- Ben and Jerry’s Sticks (havent found any that are safe!)
(2) Gluten free cones exist
Yep, its true!! I’m not going to lie, its a bit like eating gluten free bread… not quite the same but better than missing out! Three to pick from: (1) Tesco Free From or (2) Eskal from Amazon and H&B. (3) Asda Free From
(3) Careful of CC when eating at an ice cream parlour
Two places for cross contamination risk: (1) There’s probably gluten-containing comes being use and (2) some of the ice creams might not be gluten free too.
Standard rules apply – are there crumbs from the cones everywhere? Will they use a clean scoop for you? Have they washed their hands/changed their gloves? Maybe can you even ask them to use a fresh tub of ice cream just incase some crumbs from a cone for a previous customer got into the tub you’re about to be served from?
(4) Want a bit of sauce of on your ice cream?
The Askey’s range is great! They’re all gluten free. The toffee sauce is the only one that contains dairy (yes the choc sauce doesn’t!!!!).
(5) Sprinkles aren’t always gluten free
They sometimes contain wheat. Grrrrr. Here’s one I’ve nearly slipped up on before.
(6) Dairy Free is a little harder – want to know my faves?
Here’s my guide to the best gluten AND dairy free ice creams around!
(7) Dairy free chocolate sprinkles exist!
Wahhooooooo!! Sneaky little find in Asda yesterday.
NB: this particular brand isn’t suitable for milk allergy sufferers but I’m just intolerant and wont be consuming these in any large quantity (or maybe I will :P), so I should be fine!
(8) Want some ice cream based recipes???!
- Artic roll – gluten, dairy free and loads of fun
- My Giant Nice-Cream Choc Ice – love love loveeeee this recipe!!!
Hope this is helpful! Jess x
