Gelato is a frozen dessert, made popular in Italy, that is made from water and milk, combined with flavourings, sweeteners, and a stabilizing agent. The gelato ingredients are first pasteurized then super-cooled while stirring to break up ice crystals as they form. Unlike ice cream, gelato machinery whips almost no air into the gelato, resulting in a dense and extremely flavorful product. This allows even non-dairy gelato to match and often exceed dairy-based ice cream for taste. Our Gelato at Solferino is made only using the best natural ingredients, we have a wide variety of fruit based flavours, which are all natural. We do not add to our gelato any chemicals, escences or preservatives.
Gelato can also be about fun, using ingredients such as chocolate (we at Solferino Café use only the finest Belgian chocolate), nuts, candies, sweets or cookies. Gelato made with water and without dairy ingredients is also known as sorbetto.
Gelato typically contains 2–8% fat depending on the ingredients used (for example, nuts increase the fat content of our gelato). North American style ice cream contains far more fats, ranging from a low of 10% to a high of 20% as cream is used in its preparation. In both Canada and the United States a frozen dessert must contain no less than 10% fat in order to be legally called ice cream.
An additional benefit is that Gelato contains far less sugar than ice creams. Put it all together an gelato is thus a much healthier and as well as more flavourful alternative to a popular old favorite.
Milk Base
Madagascar Natural Vanilla
Belgian Chocolate
Belgian Chocolate Date
Chocolate Orange
Vanilla Oreo crunch
Dulce de leche
Mochaccino
Coffee
Passion Fruit
Banana
Guanabana
Hazelnut
Pistachio
Coconut
Mint chocolate
Saffron
Avocado
Sugar Free Chocolate
Sugar Free Vanilla
Sorbetti- Water base
Lemon
Strawberry
Blackberry
Raspberry
Cranberry
Mango
Lulo
Blood Orange
Guava
Specials
Raisin Rum
Ferrero Rocher
Chocolate Orange Ginger
Chocolate Pepperoncino
Pumpkin
Sorbetto- Special
Champagne-Strawberry Sorbetto
Champagne