Ice cream dreams in Tasmania

When you're travelling through Tasmania and it's time for a treat, premium Tasmanian ice cream, gelato, and sorbet are always close by. Made with high-quality local ingredients, they could easily be some of the finest in the world. Tassie's freshest berries, honey, and lavender are sourced for delicious ice cream flavours you'll come back for. 

A family business that started at home in 2019, The Devil’s Own Ice Creamery cafe is now Launceston’s dessert destination. There’s nothing naughty about the name; their mascot is a smiling Tasmanian Devil, and a portion of profits is donated to save this endangered marsupial.

Handmade on-site using ingredients mostly sourced from northern Tasmania, their ice-cream is created with rich Jersey milk, while sorbets showcase fruit.

It’s 100% natural and gluten-free, dairy-free sorbets are made in a separate churner, and a new scoop is used for each flavour ... so rest easy if you’ve got allergies.

Established in 2005 by a dairy farming family, Van Diemens Land Creamery is created with local milk and cream, plus other fresh Tasmanian ingredients.

Taste the island across many fancy flavours of ice-cream, gelato and sorbet, including cherry and raspberry ripple, lemon curd or even whisky. There’s nothing more Tasmanian than the pepperberry and leatherwood flavour, made with honey derived from flowering leatherwood trees only found in the state’s western wilderness.

Make a beeline for their HQ just south of Devonport (where you can watch ice-cream being made) or floating punt in Hobart, plus stockists around the state.

Also not far from Devonport, Dixie Blue Gelato Cafe uses produce from the surrounding Meander Valley to make an ever-changing range of flavours.

Their frozen fantasies are available in cones and dixie cups, as well as gelato tasting plates and decadent gelato sundaes. There are pancakes and waffles too, topped with – you guessed it – gelato!

Enjoy your treat inside this shop decked out with superhero icons, on the dog-friendly deck, or across the street by the Meander River.

Tassie’s biggest ice-cream success story is Valhalla. This much-loved brand’s scoops, choc tops and tubs are available all over the state, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t special. Their ice-cream is made with the island’s cream, while sorbets are loaded with local fruit.

It’s easy to find but choosing is hard, with oodles of flavours including Jamaican coffee, macadamia, caramel fudge, passionfruit and rocky road.

One of Valhalla’s most appealing stockists is Ice-Creamery & Co on the Freycinet Peninsula. This colourful cafe offers 24 flavours, from peanut butter chocolate ice-cream to fruit of the forest sorbet.

Enjoy a scoop or three, a sundae, or drinks made better with ice-cream like iced coffee and milkshakes. The proverbial cherry on top is the view from the deck: beautiful Coles Bay with the pinkish Hazards mountains just beyond.

For an extra special ice-cream experience, visit the source of star ingredients. Like Bridestowe lavender farm, whose purple, lavender-licious ice-cream tastes best when the fields are in summer bloom.

Melita Honey Farm serves 12 flavours of ice-cream, all made with various styles of honey plus other ingredients such as chilli and chocolate. The must-try is leatherwood honey flavour.

For berry bliss, pop into Christmas Hills Raspberry Farm Cafe or The Berry Patch, whose homemade dairy ice-cream is sometimes joined by a vegan coconut berry option.

Blac Fig has been a gourmet destination in the capital for more than 40 years, and one of its most popular offerings is Nice Guy Eddie gelato scoops. Shhh! It’s from Victoria, but everyone still loves it.

Information included in this blog is correct at the time of publishing. Please contact individual operators for further information.