Here is the Ice Cream of the Year in Hungary!

In 2023, the Hungarian Confectionery Industry Association (Magyar Cukrász Ipartestület) has organised the 25-year-old and very popular Ice Cream of the Year competition. This year’s best ice cream is a really special flavour: pumpkin almond with walnut variations.

The aim of the competition is to promote traditional high-quality handcrafted ice cream, so that the Hungarian confectionery industry can offer its customers better and better quality ice cream, thus creating a demand for healthy and quality handcrafted products, turizmus.com reports.

As in 2019, this year’s competition was once again organised as a festival by the industry association in the framework of a city event. The competitors prepared their entries in front of spectators, so that consumers could learn more about the mysteries of ice cream making. In a fully equipped on-site ice cream laboratory, the competition took place on three professional freezers from morning until early afternoon.

A total of 81 ice creams entered this year’s competition in five categories. There was no compulsory flavour this year either, with no limits to the creativity of the contestants.