Flavour Profile: Raspberry Gelato
Each month, we’ll be highlighting one of our gelato flavours and telling the story behind the recipe. This month we’re looking at our Great Taste Award-winning Raspberry gelato.
With this flavour we wanted to take something familiar and serve it in an unfamiliar way, taking the tangy, sweet freshness that makes Raspberry such a great sorbetto flavour and pair it up with our deep and rich plant milk gelato base.
A subtle combination of diverse yet complementary taste profiles, Beau’s Raspberry gelato is sweet, tart and creamy all in a single mouthful made with real fresh raspberries with a vibrant colour – hitting all the right notes as a stand-out fruity flavour that everyone loves.
Raspberry Gelato: Taste Profile
Bold and robust, as much as forty-one percent of our Raspberry gelato is made of actual fresh raspberries, replicating the authentic sweetness and tart undertones that you would expect when eating an actual punnet of raspberries.
As opposed to a sorbet our Raspberry gelato is balanced with a smooth creaminess courtesy of our ethically sourced cashew milk. When churned with our fresh, organically-grown raspberries it provides a delightful blend of rich velvet and refreshing sharpness, along with a faint floral aftertaste that lingers delightfully on the palate.
Key Ingredient: Raspberry
An edible fruit that is part of the same genus as roses, raspberries have been part of human diets since palaeolithic times and were first widely cultivated in Britain around the 13th Century.
Raspberries are known for their antioxidant properties, which can help reduce inflammation, while a cup of raspberries provides half of your daily recommended dose of Vitamin C.
Despite their innate sweetness, raspberries have only 5g of sugar per cup when fresh and have a low glycemic index (which means they break down more slowly in the body), making them the ideal ingredient for creating a balanced gelato that doesn’t cause a large spike in blood sugar levels.
Flavour Feedback
Our Raspberry gelato is a huge crowd-pleaser and an award-winner to boot – earning two stars at the Great Taste Awards and being a finalist at the World Plant Based Taste Awards. This is what some of our customers have to say about the flavour:
“I loved the Raspberry, so full of flavour and tart! This sounds silly but it tasted of raspberries – not raspberry flavour but actual raspberries.”
“My son said, ‘this is the best raspberry ice cream ever’ – which is high praise indeed!”
“The Raspberry is insaaaaane!! So nice to have a fruity gelato, as opposed to a sorbet (yes I eating ice cream at 10am...).”
I rarely choose fruit flavours but WOW! This Raspberry gelato was a fantastic surprise – delicious!
Recipe Ideas for Raspberry Gelato
Ice Cream Float
Relive your childhood with a delicious twist by substituting raspberry gelato for vanilla ice cream in a soda float. Simply pick your favourite soft drink (we like Dalston’s and Karma Drinks), pour it into a glass and add a scoop of Beau’s Raspberry gelato into the top.
Smoothie Bowl
A tasty alteration to your breakfast smoothie, an ice cream smoothie bowl is a great way to get a hefty chunk of your daily fruit and seed allocation while treating yourself! Try the recipe here.
Ice Cream Milkshake
Beau’s gelato is perfect for making into a plant-based milkshake – simply add a scoop of Raspberry gelato along with a glassful of alternative milk, blend and enjoy! Couldn’t be simpler – or taste better!
Dark Chocolate Hard Shell Sauce
Otherwise known as ‘Magic Shell’, this fast-setting chocolate sauce tastes amazing paired with a strong fruity flavour like Raspberry. Try the recipe here.