Spaghetti Ice Cream

Spaghettieis

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Preparation info
  • Yield:

    4

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      45 min

Appears in
German Home Kitchen: Traditional Recipes That Capture the Flavors of Germany

By Sophie Sadler

Published 2025

  • About

Spaghettieis (pronounced “spaghetti ice”) may look like a plate of pasta with tomato sauce from a distance, but don’t be fooled. This playful dessert, said to be invented by a seventeen-year-old named Dario Fontanella at his father’s ice cream shop in Mannheim, Germany, skillfully combines vanilla ice cream pressed through a spätzle press, arranged over whipped cream, and topped with strawberry sauce (wannabe tomato sauce), grated white chocolate (wannabe Parmesan cheese), and fresh mint le