The fruits use are quite exotic due to the climate and can consist of pineapple, water melon, cherries and raisins.

In Italy, you find that Tutti Frutti is a combination of fruits, in fact ‘ Tutti Frutti‘ translates as ‘ all fruits‘ in Italian. Then the fruit is candied in sugar syrup and left to harden. Well you simply add natural food colourings to chopped and blanched papaya. How do you get the different colours? I hear you ask. In India it can be that only papaya is used. Depending on the country of origin, depends on the fruit. Tutti Frutti – is a collection of candied fruits, kind of like a candy mixed salad. The answer to ‘Where does Tutti Frutti come from?’ depends on whether you’re asking about Tutti Frutti, or Tutti Frutti Ice Cream? Where does Tutti Frutti come from originally? Not adding these will not ruin the flavour so if you need an alcohol free/child friendly ice cream simply omit the booze. I’ve gone all in here and added not one but two flavours by adding Amaretto and an orange flavoured gin (Cointreau would work well too but I didn’t have any left). It’s not unheard of that liqueurs are added to Tutti Frutti ice creams to add another level of depth to the flavour. With my recipe you get a different mini taste experience with each and every spoonful of ice cream. However, you’re only going to be adding a glace cherry to the ice cream, and where’s the fun in that? You get green, red and yellow in one pot if you do that. You could go for a cheats version and buy some of those multi coloured glace cherries. In my dairy free Tutti Frutti recipe I’ve tried to add colours from different fruits. Then to that base you add candied fruits, the more the better, in fact a whole rainbow of fruits if you can. The base flavour tends to be a citrus flavour, often orange or another citrus fruit. It’s a well known flavour, take the jelly beans for instance, straight away you know it’s Tutti Frutti but WHAT exactly is Tutti Frutti flavour? The reason it’s so hard to pin down is because it is so many flavours in one ice cream. I think that Tutti Frutti has to be one of the most difficult flavours to pin down. My recipe for Tutti Frutti also has a bit of alcohol in it too but this of course can be kept out if making for children. This is a simple yet indulgent Tutti Frutti Ice Cream recipe packed full with little gems of candied fruits.

Tutti frutti ice cream parlour game