Guide to Ice Creams in Scandinavia

Since travelling to Scandinavia for the first time, i got quite acquainted with ice lollies available there, they have of course the magnum ice creams you see everywhre, but also quite a few interesting national classics, which vary. Here is a guide, so you are prepared..

Typical nordic flavours – Liquorice, pear and berries

• One thing you see everywhere in Nordic countries that is not as common elsewhere is liquorice as ice cream flavour: lakrits/lakrids. In Scandinavia you find a round DAIM chocolate covered cream cone with a few variations, which also come in a salt liquorice version! During a Denmark-Sweden holiday I tried a berry-liquorice lolly in Sweden.
• Pear flavour very common in Sweden (Piggelin is GB pear ice lolly). A friend told me it probably is because you cannot grow many other fruit..
• Solbær – blackcurrant- is a berry I’ve seen quite a lot in Denmark

The Danish Classic ice creams

Frisko in Denmark, GB Glace in Sweden is the ice cream brand with the heart symbol present everywhere with different names, and many Ice creams I will mention are sold by it. Denmark has a set of all-time favourites, some have been around since the 50s!

Københavner stang is just a plain lemon flavor but with the cute royal guard logo; Champagne Brus – I love the contrast of fizzy, acid green lemonade flavour and chocolate on top; Solbær – which changed name from Kæmpe Eskimo for political correctness – is cream and blackcurrant under chocolate. Kung Fu is lime and liquorice, Filur is the cute smiley orange-raspberry water ice cream.

Premier IS is a brand which also features ice creams with black currant, liquorice, and the stang. On the ship between Germany and Denmark I saw Hansens ice creams as well – special mention for the rhabarber ice cream!

Sweden: the most creative ice creams?

SIA is the main competitor of GB in Sweden I guess, based in Halland. notable ice creams are Emil and Pippi ice creams, the Glassbåt (‘ice cream boat’), and of course there is a pear and a liquorice ice lolly.

I would have also tried a Hilda, marshmallow/strawberry-ish? ice cream covered in rainbow sprinkles, or Godisregn (‘candy rain’), basically the same concept but in a cone.

Emil and Pippi ice creams were 2025 novelties!! The former is Krumelurglass, made of 3 fruity ice cream flavours (which i got in the original candy form last year, krumelurpiller), while Emil is a blueberry and cream cone.

More interesting and very Swedish ice creams I have seen around are:

• Konfetti gul & blå (blue-yellow as the Swedish flag) from Hemglass, lemon and blueberry ice creams with sprinkles on them.
• Punschrulleglass, inspired by the green and chocolate dammsugare pastry. Hence it looks like a Danish Champagne Brus.
• a Kanelbulle and a kladdkaka flavour one
• Geisha ice cream- ice cream version of the famous chocolate candy by not Japanese, but Finnish Fazer.

The usual GB ice creams are a thing also in Sweden of corse – but a Swedish all-time favourites are the 88, read åttioåtta. Shoutout to my friend Linda & her husband who made me try it.

Norway’s 17 mai ice creams

In Norway you see Diplom-Is or Hennig Olsen instead, not sure if Unilever is still behind them – Whatever. There are ‘regular’ strawberry or chocolate and cream cones, which around May get fancier for the National Day, 17 Mai, with bunad-like patterns.

I have not eaten any ice creams in Norway, but I have to say I saw nothing that stood out compared to the other countries! Please invite me to Norway to prove me wrong, haha.

That was all for now, I will probably update this post for the future summers…Or add it for Finland and Iceland and hopefully try out their ice creams!!

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