These are the best ice creams in Hungary!

Hungary has many special ice cream shops with both traditional and innovative flavours. The six best Hungarian ice cream makers have now been selected to represent their country at the European edition of the Gelato Festival World Masters in 2025.

Gelato Festival World Masters

The Gelato Festival debuted in Florence in 2010. Since then, the event has expanded its borders. It was first introduced to the rest of Italy, then to Europe. From 2017, it was brought to the United States, turizmus.com explains. A total of 80 festivals were held around the world before the Gelato Festival World Masters became a quadrennial world competition. It concluded in December 2021 with a victory for Ádám Fazekas of Budapest.

The final event of the second four-year period, where the world’s best ice cream maker will again be selected, will take place in 2025. Hungarian ice cream makers have already been judged in the semi-finals of the competition, turizmus.com writes. The six best Hungarian ice cream makers will represent Hungary at the European competition in 2025, while the top 100 Italian ice cream makers will compete at the world competition in October 2025.

The 6 best ice creams in Hungary

Here are the 6 best Hungarian ice cream makers who will represent Hungary at the 2025 European final:

• István Felsődiósi from Lufi Fagyizó in Győr with a goat cheese-fig flavour in a pistachio wrapper, called “Go(a)t milk?”;
• László Nagy from Marcipán Cukászda in Dunaföldvár with his almond and white chocolate ice cream;
• Ádám Pataki from Pataki in Budapest with “Frutta di cafè”, a coffee and white chocolate ice cream with lemon confit and salted caramel;
• János Somodi from Florida Fagyizó in Balatonmáriafürdő with his “Torta della nonna” ice cream, featuring lightly salted almonds, spiced pumpkin and roasted pecans;
• Norbert Tóth of Tóth Cukrászda in Dunaföldvár with “Caribbean coffee with miso caramel” flavoured with rum;
• Dávid Wilheim from DaCrema Fagyizó in Nagykanizsa with his ice cream “Il Re del Piemonte”, which pairs Piedmont hazelnut ice cream with blackberries, crispy milk chocolate and caramelized hazelnuts.

The participants were assessed and selected by a jury of food industry professionals at each stage. The ranking was based on taste, texture, creativity and verbal and aesthetic presentation.

Lufi Fagyizó in Győr:

Marcipán Cukrászda in Dunaföldvár:

Pataki Cukrászda in Budapest:

Florida Fagyizó in Balatonmáriafürdő:

Tóth Cukrászda in Dunaföldvár:

DaCrema Fagyizó in Nagykanizsa:

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