Whether you’re a cup or a cone fan, there’s nothing quite like an ice-cold ice cream to help cool you down after a long, hot day exploring Singapore’s streets. Thankfully, the city-state has an abundance of options when it comes to finding a decent ice cream in Singapore.
From vegan friendly recipes to local inspired flavours, Urban list has indulged in countless scoops to bring you our list of the best ice cream in Singapore—you can thank us later.
Creamier
Various Locations
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In 2011, Creamier opened its doors in one of Singapore’s oldest heartland estates—Toa Payoh—with a desire to bring quality and affordable ice creams to the neighbourhood. Now, with six locations across the island, Creamier is a household name.
Available by the scoop or pint, their bestsellers include roasted pistachio, hokey pokey, chocolate peppermint and sea salt gula melaka. If that wasn’t enough, Creamier also has a line of doggie ice creams (known as Pup Cups) made using lactose free cow’s milk. They are also gluten free and low in sugar so they are totally pooch-friendly.
The Ice Cream Bar
59 Kampong Bahru Road, #01-01
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Just when you thought ice cream couldn’t get any better, the team at The Ice Cream Bar have gone and mixed theirs with alcohol. The boozy handcrafted ice creams, which are made with premium ingredients and top shelf liquors, are the perfect way to end a meal or even a night out.
We recommend the Baileys brownies (Baileys Original Irish Cream ice cream with delicious chocolate brownie chunks) and the Whisky Nuts (bourbon whisky ice cream layered with crushed honey roasted almonds, alcohol infused sponge cake and salted caramel sauce). For teetotallers and those who are underage, The Ice Cream Bar also has a selection of non-alcoholic flavours available.
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The Ice Cream & Cookie Co.
Various Locations
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If you’re looking to fill your freezer with the good stuff, look no further than The Ice Cream & Cookie Co. Since their very first farmers market in 2012, they have become the go-to for wholesome, all-natural premium ice cream cookie sandwiches, pints, cups, ice cream cakes and even bakes.
Available at retailers across the country, you can expect classic flavours like vanilla and chocolate as well as locally inspired flavours like durian, chendol, calamansi and even bubble tea. They also have a growing range of vegan and dairy free ice creams. Our favourites include the vegan dark chocolate pint and the milk and cookies ice cream sandwich.
Birds of Paradise
Various Locations
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Homegrown gelato boutique, Birds of Paradise, is known for its unique botanical flavours and has become so popular there’s often queues out the door. If that wasn’t enough to entice you, the brand is also listed as a Michelin Plate establishment, an accolade given out by the Michelin Guide to recognise good quality food.
Using real, natural ingredients and a range of fruits, flowers, pods, herbs and spices you can expect to see flavours like white chrysanthemum, lychee raspberry, sea salt hojicha, strawberry basil and spiced pear—all of which come served in house-made thyme cones.
Even if you're not a fan of ice cream, you'll want to check out Birds of Paradise just so you can take some snaps inside their dreamy, totally designed for Instragm stores.
Sunday Folks
Various Locations
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From pillows of handmade caramel marshmallows to hand-stirred gula melaka mochi and freshly churned ice cream, Sunday Folks is dedicated to the craft of dessert making. With two outlets across Singapore—Sunday Folks Holland Village and Bynd Artisan + Sunday Folks ION Experience Store—those with a sweet tooth will be spoilt for choice.
Their ice cream flavours include earl grey lavender, creme caramel and dark chocolate Ferrero, but if you’re wanting to try something a little different, we suggest the blue pea coconut which comes with peanut thins, fried anchovies, coconut rice pudding, cucumber slices and a drizzle of sweet chilli sauce—think of it as the ice cream version of nasi lemak.
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Monarchs & Milkweed
802 North Bridge Road, #01-01
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Founded by restaurant veterans Eric Cheah and Mandeep Kaur in 2020, Monarchs & Milkweed is focused on creating new and interesting pairings as well as rediscovering fresh takes on the classics to create ice cream that everyone will love.
Their signature flavours include burnt white chocolate, Ispahan (lychee, raspberry and rose), soursop mint, citrus pistachio swirl, and our favourite, brown butter sage. We recommend enjoying your ice cream with a side of freshly made Belgian style waffles.
Days of Elijah
44 Owen Road, #01-313
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Days of Elijah started life as a humble little online store specialising in artisan handcrafted gelato. Today, DOE has a cute little cafe on Owen Road selling everything from ice cream to waffles and coffee.
With a selection of classic, premium and superior flavours on offer, we recommend the white chocolate raspberry, salted butter caramel, pistachio and coffee break.
Tom's Palette
51 Middle Road, #01-01
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With 36 flavours available at any one time, you’re bound to find something you like at Tom’s Palette. Besides the usual scoops of ice cream, you can also find waffles, floats and affogatos at their art studio-inspired shop on Middle Road.
Six of their signature flavours are available every day, namely chocolate sorbet, granny’s favourite (chocolate malt, cookie dough and chocolate chips), rum and raisin, salted caramel cheesecake, salted egg yolk and yuzu. The rest of their flavours rotate on a daily basis so you never know what you’re going to get. Can’t decide? Their new Tom's Palette is a six-flavour platter that lets you try a little bit of everything.
Kind Kones
Various Locations
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Kind Kones is an all-natural vegan ice cream brand which is focused on being kind to your body, the environment and to others. As well as ice cream, Kind Kones sells cakes, bliss balls, cookies and even merchandise.
As far as their ice cream flavours are concerned, you can’t beat the almond brittle fudge, ashwagandha (a type of herb) chocolate chai, blue planet (a coconut cashew vanilla base which is naturally coloured blue with butterfly pea flowers and mixed with fluffy chunks of matcha cake) and the pistachio oat, which is made with oat milk.
Museum of Ice Cream
100 Loewen Road
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Let's be honest, no ice cream round up would be complete without The Museum of Ice Cream, which is just as fun as it sounds, and even more delicious.
Dive straight into the world-famous sprinkle pool, learn all about ice cream’s history across 12 fabulous interactive installations and of course devour unlimited ice cream served up in all sorts of crazy forms and shapes.
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