Licorice Ice Cream

Text: CC Bakes


There is nothing better than when two things you love come together. For me, licorice and ice-cream. Now, I know you are thinking, this is the case with any flavour of ice-cream, a fruit or nut or alcohol or chocolate is made icey and creamy to become a delectable ice-cream flavour, but with licorice, it’s original form (black, molasses sugar stick) is something so far different from ice-cream (white, creamy, frozen block) – it feels like a weird union no?

Licorice is, after all, originally a legume (related to beans and peas) and native to southern Europe and parts of Asia. But it is the extract of this roots that makes the sweet black confectionery of a bullet or a licorice allsort. Whatever your feelings on this, mine is simple. If you like licorice, you’ll love licorice ice-cream. It combines the flavour and thick stickiness of licorice with the cold creaminess of ice-cream, and is black bliss.

And I know a place where you can get it that isn’t an ice cream parlour!