Italian formulation · American production

Gelato italiano, prodotto qui.

Italian gelato doesn't have to cross an ocean.

We are Italians who make gelato ingredients in the United States. The same formulation discipline our founders learned in Italy — running out of a plant in Florida instead of a container ship.

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13 years running gelato shops in the U.S.63 formulations in productionPrivate label — no minimum order

01 — Ice Cream Mix Italia

Wholesale gelato ingredients

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Italian CraftMade in USAFDA-Registered FacilityKosherReliable Delivery63 formulations in productionPrivate labelExpert U.S. SupportCream & Fruit BasesGourmet PastesVariegates & ToppingsCoatings & CrunchesItalian CraftMade in USAFDA-Registered FacilityKosherReliable Delivery63 formulations in productionPrivate labelExpert U.S. SupportCream & Fruit BasesGourmet PastesVariegates & ToppingsCoatings & Crunches

Since 2013

20+Years of expertise

100+Premium products

NationwideReliable delivery

FL · CAU.S. fulfillment

Why choose us

Why leading gelato shops trust Ice Cream Mix Italia

Discover why gelaterias across the U.S. rely on Ice Cream Mix Italia for their gelato ingredients, benefiting from premium quality, unmatched consistency, and personalized expert support tailored to elevate your business.

Guaranteed Consistency

Achieve perfect texture and taste, batch after batch — the same premium result every single time.

Extensive Selection

A comprehensive range of over 100 products covering every one of your gelato-making needs.

Dedicated Expert Support

Personal assistance from experienced gelato technologists, tailored to elevate your business.

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Premium Italian-Style Blends

Crafted the Italian way, made in the USA.

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FDA-Registered Facility & Kosher

Consistent, compliant and reliable, shipment after shipment.

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Reliable Delivery

Reliable nationwide delivery from our U.S. warehouses in Florida & California.

The structural advantage

The ocean is the bottleneck.

Every Italian ingredient house selling into America solves the same problem the same way: they hold what they can in a U.S. warehouse, and everything else comes by sea. We solve it differently. We make it here.

Importing from Europe

Order placed
Production slot in Italy
Consolidation
Ocean freight
U.S. customs
Inland transport
Your door

And if it isn't in the U.S. warehouse, the cycle starts again.

Ordering from us

Order placed
Made or picked in our U.S. plant
Your door

No container. No customs. No re-order cycle.

About nine out of every ten dollars we spend on raw materials goes to suppliers holding stock inside the United States. That does not mean every ingredient is born here — our hazelnuts are Turkish, our amarena cherries come from Europe, and we say so. It means that when you need it, it is already in the country. That is the difference between reordering and importing.

Where to start

Two very different customers. Two very different conversations.

Half the people who call us have never made gelato. The other half have been making it for twenty years. We don't sell to them the same way.

01 / I've never made gelato.

You don't need to become a food scientist.

You have a restaurant, a coffee bar, a hotel breakfast, or an idea. You've never balanced a recipe and you have no intention of learning why sugar depresses a freezing point. You don't have to. You start on a complete base: you add milk, you follow the dosage on the bucket, you get gelato. Then a technician comes to you, in your kitchen, and shows you the rest.

Complete bases — milk in, gelato out
Free training, on site, with your equipment
We start you on four flavors, not sixty

Start from zero →

02 / I already make gelato.

Bring us your recipe. We'll work from yours, not ours.

You're a pastry chef, an executive team, a multi-unit operator. You already have a product you're not willing to compromise, and you've been burned by suppliers who answered every question with a catalog page. Send us the formula. We work backwards from it — and if the result is yours, we'll put your name on the bucket instead of ours.

Co-development starting from your formula
Percentage-written recipes, ingredient by ingredient
Private label on your own product

Bring us your recipe →

Private label

Your name on the bucket.

Most manufacturers will private-label for you — starting at a pallet. We built the opposite.

Every one of our sixty-three U.S. formulations is written the same way: as a percentage recipe, with a live cost against every single ingredient. That sounds like bookkeeping. It is the reason we can quote your product at your volume instead of at ours. Start from your recipe, or start from one of ours and change what you don't like.

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Your recipe, or ours
You send us a formula, or you pick a base and tell us what's wrong with it.
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We formulate and cost it
We rebuild it as a percentage recipe and price it ingredient by ingredient.
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Your label, your bucket
It ships under your name. Not ours.

Start a private label conversation →

We know the current cost of every ingredient we buy. Pricing your formula doesn't take us a week of arithmetic.

The proof

We were our own
first customer.

Before Ice Cream Mix Italia sold a single bucket, the same founders spent thirteen years running gelato shops in the United States — up to twenty of them. Every base in this catalog had to survive a Saturday night in one of our own cases before we offered it to yours. We know which product breaks when the line is out the door, because we're the ones it broke on.

That's the part most ingredient suppliers can't say. They've never had to scoop what they sell.

13Years running U.S. gelato shops

20Shops operated, at peak

63Formulations in production today

Gelato Go — founded and operated by the same team

On the pass

A Miami dining room, on a Tuesday night.

Claudie is a fine-dining restaurant in Miami. Our bases are in their pastry section — not as a finished gelato they resell, but as the raw material their chefs build desserts on.

A kitchen at this level doesn't buy a base off a catalog page. They tell us what the dessert has to do — the texture at plating temperature, how it behaves under nitrogen, how long it holds on the pass — and we work the formulation back from there.

The test isn't whether a chef likes it in a tasting. It's whether it still works on the two hundredth cover.

How we formulate →

What's actually inside

Read the recipe. We'll show you ours.

The pistachio arrives shelled. The hazelnut arrives Turkish and blanched. From there it's our work: the paste, the whole grain, the fine grain, the variegate, the coating. Here is what ends up in the bucket, by weight — because with someone who tastes for a living, percentages are the only argument that works.

Hazelnut Paste

Hazelnut 100%

1,000 grams of hazelnut per kilo of product. No added oil. No sugar. No flavoring.

It's also the ingredient inside four of our other products — in our Gianduia Torino it's 40% of the weight.

Pistachio Paste

Pistachio 99.5% · Salt 0.3% · Spirulina 0.2%

Spirulina is an algae. It's there for colour, and we'd rather say so than let you assume.

Nothing else. No oil, no sugar, no flavoring.

Pistachio Paste, Sweetened

Pistachio 48% · Sugar, sunflower oil

For anyone who wants a ready-to-use product instead of a raw one. Almost half the weight is still pistachio.

Full composition on request, under NDA.

How we make it →

Composition figures, not a specification sheet. Our plant also handles milk, soy, egg and tree nuts. Full ingredient, allergen and specification documentation is issued with your order.

Inside the plant

Every one of those percentages passes through here.

From the floor

Our plant, unedited.

No voiceover, no music, no sales pitch over the top. Just what the room looks like when the paste is being made.

Where to find us

We show up in person.

Three floors in one year. If you want to taste before you talk to us, this is the fastest way.

SIGEP

Las Vegas, 2026

NRA Show

Chicago, 2026

Gelato served at the Ice Cream Mix Italia booth

Summer Fancy Food Show

Javits Center, New York — June 28-30, 2026

Watch

Ice Cream Mix Italia, in action

Inside our world of authentic Italian gelato — from premium ingredients to the finished scoop.

More from our world — see the range, the booth and the craft behind every batch.

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The catalog

Our premium product line

Explore the full spectrum of authentic Italian gelato ingredients, meticulously curated to meet the exacting standards of artisanal gelato makers.

🍦 Bases

Cream & Fruit Bases

Traditional, Vegan, Sugar-Free and Alcohol-Tolerant options.

🌰 Pastes

Gourmet Pastes

Pistachio, Rocher Nuts, White Chocolate and more.

🍓 Fruit

Fruit Pastes

Mix Berry, Passion Fruit, Pineapple, Strawberry and more.

🍯 Toppings

Premium Variegates & Toppings

Salted Caramel, Gianduia, Amarena and more.

🍫 Coatings

Artisan Coatings & Crunches

Dark Chocolate, Pistachio Crunch, Lemon Crumble and more.

🔬 Additives

Quality Additives

Dextrose, Glucose, Inulin, Dietary Fiber and more.

🥄 Accessories

Accessories

Sugar & waffle cones, containers, coffee supplies, spoons and more.

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Ice Cream Mix Italia — Italian craft quality seal

Artigianalità italiana

Crafted the Italian way.Made right here in the USA.

Every base, paste and variegate is crafted the Italian way — to the highest standards of Italian excellence — and made right here in the USA for fast, local delivery. No customs, no delays. Thirteen years of gelato experience, in every batch.

🇮🇹 Italian craft · Made in USA✅ FDA-Registered Facility & Kosher🏭 13 years of gelato experience📦 U.S.-based fulfillment

More than ingredients

A complete platform for gelato professionals

Browse the catalog freely — and unlock the partner portal for training, recipe tools and effortless B2B ordering, all in one place.

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Catalog

Browse the full product range — bases, pastes, toppings & more, with photos and specs.

Public · no login

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Academy

Training, technique videos and gelato know-how from our Italian technologists.

For partners

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Recipe Studio

Build and balance professional gelato recipes with our ingredients.

For partners

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B2B Ordering

See your pricing, order online and reorder in a click — for approved partners.

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🍨 About us

Who we are

Ice Cream Mix Italia is a trusted partner for gelato artisans across the U.S., providing a complete range of authentic Italian gelato ingredients. Backed by over 13 years of hands-on gelato experience, we combine Italian craftsmanship with fast, local delivery from our U.S. warehouses.

Crafted the Italian way, made in the USA — to the highest standards of Italian excellence.

📦 U.S.-Based Fulfillment. Get what you need, when you need it — no customs, no delays.

🤝 B2B-Focused Service. From independent shops to multi-location chains, we provide tailored support to every client.

Bring authentic Italian gelato to your shop.

Request wholesale pricing or a sample — our team replies within one business day.

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