Madagascar Vanilla

Vanilla is only boring when it is cheap.

🥄 Dietary & allergen details ▾

Contains: Milk

Gluten: no wheat in this flavor.
Dairy: contains milk.

Ingredients: Gelato base (milk, cream, sugar, nonfat dry milk, stabilizers); vanilla; vanilla bean specks.

⚠️ Shared facility and shared case. Every flavor is produced in a facility that also handles peanuts, tree nuts, milk, wheat and soy. We cannot guarantee any flavor is free of trace amounts, and the same scoops and case are shared across flavors. If you have a severe allergy, please talk to us before you order — we would much rather have the conversation.

Look for the specks. Those are the scraped seeds of the Madagascar bean, and they are the difference between gelato made with vanilla and gelato made with vanilla flavoring. Roughly 80% of the world's vanilla comes from Madagascar, and its beans are the ones with the deep, creamy, faintly boozy profile most people actually picture when they think 'vanilla'.

It is also the hardest flavor in the case to make well, because there is nothing in it to cover a mistake. No chocolate to mask a thin base, no fruit to distract from a grainy texture. What you taste is milk, cream, sugar and bean, and how well they were churned.

That is why we serve it plain and also use it as a foundation. Fresh berries, a spoon of Nutella, a warm Brodallion® broken over the top — it takes all of them without losing itself.

Good with

Fresh seasonal berries layered in
A dollop of Nutella
Warm Brodallions® — the simplest thing we serve, and the best

Questions we get asked

What are the little black specks?

Scraped vanilla bean seeds. They are the visible sign that the flavor came from a bean rather than a bottle.

Do you have a no-sugar-added vanilla?

We do — it is a separate flavor in the rotation, made with the same imported beans but without added sugar. See No-Sugar-Added Vanilla on the flavors page.

Is vanilla gelato gluten-free?

There is no wheat in this flavor, but it is made in a facility that also handles wheat and shares a case with flavors that contain it. Read the dietary details before you order.

Want this one at your event?

Four flavors ride in the case at a time out of a twelve-flavor rotation. Name Madagascar Vanilla when you book and we will load it — and tell us about any allergies in the same message so we can plan the case around them.

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