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Hello Dessert Box!

Rollickin Gelato "make at home Dessert Boxes" are perfect for any dinner party, flat treat, barbecue, date night, friend gift...you name it.Grab a Rollickin Dessert Box from our stores in Christchurch or get delivered by UberEats or DoorDash. Then  blow them away with your baking prowess by serving up a smorgasbord of dessert treats (Super easy HOW TO MAKE dessert instructions in each Rollickin Dessert box). You can choose from the Gerry Brownie (Gluten Free), or the Jacindy&...

Lost in Sticky Date!

Our Rollickin Bakers have been working hard to perfect the best Sticky Date Dessert in Christchurch. That means a lot of taste testing batches (yum, yum I'm always up for a good dessert taste testing) Asking our fabulous customers what they think and what makes a Great Sticky Date Dessert???We think we've nailed it here at our Rollickin Gelato Cafes!Here's an epic Hot Sticky Date Dessert that’s moreishly datey and moisty (as requested by you!) Swimming in house-made Butterscotch sauce (yes, yo...

Doughlene, Doughlene, Doughlene, Doughlene...

Doughlene, Doughlene, Douglene, DOUGHLENE...Your beauty is beyond compare with creamy dreamy Vanilla gelato and flaming locks of ooey gooey caramel and chunks of love-made chocolate chip cookie dough!Skip on in cookie lovers! This is a new and improved recipe!What do you think? Doughlene lickers?Our chefs are always looking for little recipe tweaks that will lift our gelato flavours outta this world and have your tongues begging for more. Every time they whip a batch they are checking flavour co...

Lick Chocflation!!!

Happy Budget week! Our chefs have been creating CHOCFLATION!A four stacked whammy of chocolate gelato to calm the post budget excitement. Whoa! You deserve a treat after listening to all that plethora of theories, predictions, viewpoints...OMG! Let's take a break!Grab a triple scoop and sit back in our cafes and lick inflated creamy milk chocolate gelato and a dark choc Grant Robertson fudge crisis and smashing protesting Oreos and huge sums of white choc Chippy Hipkins thrown in.Pst. Everyone w...

Mum Tips!

It's Mothers Day this weekend (Sunday 14th May!!). Here's some gift tips from our fabulous crew!Go on get yourself prepped for the best Mothers Day ever and nail that favourite child position;)MUM Tip #1Grab a Rollickin gift card. Best thing about this it's like a double gift! You can give her a gift card and then bring her in for a special MUM DATE at one of our Christchurch Cafes. Ooh and you get to spend the gift card together! Wink! Wink!If you're out of town don't stress - we can post it ou...

Stacey's Mom!

STACEYS MOM is back in time for Mothers Day Sunday 14th May licking.The Chefs are churning the creamiest Blueberry Cheesecake Gelato out of nutrient rich organic milk. Adding layers of zesty Lemon Curd, and  yummy mummy Bikkie Butter Crumbles. Yes! I’m in love with Stacy’s Mom!Pst. This flavour has no nuts!Available by the scoop from either cafes, or Rollickin will hand pack a Party Tub on request!Pst. Grab a Rollickin Good Times Gift Card and treat Mum (and yourself;) out for a sp...

Fill your freezers with our groovy new Party Tubs!

Working with our mates at Decent Packaging we now have compostable Rollickin Gelato Party Tub packaging. Whoop! Whoop! Simply everything is made from plants - plant based non toxic inks, plant based dyes and plant based glues. To whiten the paper they do it without bleach - using non toxic oxidation. All sounds rather complicated, but with lots of clever science wisdom behind it to make sure the packaging has the very least amount of impact on our beautiful planet.So now our Party Tubs, Gel...

ANZAC Bikkie!

The Rollickin Bakers are making trays and trays of Chewy Anzac biscuits. Smells so good here!The Rollickin chefs are then having so much fun smashing the freshly baked biscuits and layering them through Golden Syrup and Caramel Gelato. Yes! Golden Syrup gelato!!! Plus layers of Rollickin's special thick gooey Caramel sauce. Lick this ice cream flavour this week, Anzac Day (Tuesday 25th April) and next week. They are baking and whipping this one as a limited edition.Guess what! As a job perk I al...

Happy Easter!

Rollickin's super excited to release our special toasted hot cross buns with a gelato scoop inside.BUNNY BUNS!!!It's toasted joy in every bun bite. Simply, pick your melting scoop and the team will toast it magically inside an Easter Hot Cross Bun!It's smelling delicious toasted Easter Buns everywhere here at Rollickin Gelato Cafes!Also, shake that bunny tail Vegans! Yes! These Easter Hot Cross Buns are Vegan.Bite the toasted bun! Your melting scoop inside;)All the Best Buns are found at Rollick...

Hoppy Easter Everyone! X

Hop on it and lick all your chocolate egg favourites in a scoop or two this Easter. Think creme egg, filled caramel egg and marshmallow egg all in one!Our Easter Bunny Chefs are busy whipping dreamy chocolate gelato, adding layers of house-made fluffy marshmallow and gooey blobby caramel sauce plus drizzles and drizzles of chocolate!What more can you ask for!!?!Easter Gift Cards, Easter Party Tubs and Easter Dessert Boxes?Rollickin has you covered for Easter gifting too!For those allergen tummie...

Lickin Cashew Street in Cashel Street Christchurch!

This gelato flavour was inspired by our Rollickin Gelato Cafe Cashel Street location. We love working and grooving in this busy central city neighbourhood (Yes, we're nuts about you neighbours! X). Whippin caramel and toasted Cashew Gelato with layers of house made Chocolate Cashew Fudge and Rollickin's special gooey thick caramel sauce and toasted cashew pieces. ⁠Our homage to you Cashel Street friends. This flavour is a Greatest Lick (voted by Christchurch) and yes contains NUTS! And is...

Thanks! Thanks! Thanks! for Rainbow walking.

Thank you, Thank You, Thank You to everyone who came along to our Rollickin Gelato and Christchurch Pride Dog Walk! It was so much fun to see so much rainbow love and support in our Christchurch community.Rollickin Gelato was blown away by the turn out (our biggest Dog Walk yet!) and are super pleased to raise $246.70 for our Qtopia friends.Dogs and Humans walked our fabulous city on mass. There was lots of Dog friendly gelato scoops given away, prizes for the best dressed &  lots of Fr...

Let's Dog Walk!

Put this on your social calendars dog peoples!Rollickin Gelato along with Christchurch Pride (& our great friends at Ethique & Sweet as Pup & Furtography) are dog walking with the fabulous 'Little Miss Cinnamon' leading the way.We'll walk 30mins around our fun Christchurch City and return for FREE 'Woof Woof' gelato scoops (yes, dog and human friendly licking) Plus lots of prizes for best dressed pooches and giveaways!Would be super awesome to show your love for our LGBTQIA+ Chr...

Banoffee is back!

Bunches and bunches of bananas are hitting our kitchens for our clever Gelato Chefs to smash through dreamy gelato crumbled with butter biscuits and smothered with Rollickin's gooey caramel TOFFEE SAUCE plus layers of crunchy dark chocolate! Monkey on in peoples, this is one our Rollickin famous Greatest Licks as voted by you Christchurch! XRemember Rollickin has two fun dessert cafes in central Christchurch. And we love to see all your happy faces at 98 Cashel Street and 35 New Regent Stre...

Get a Valentines Card they really really want!

Here's a way to get your dream dates attention!Forget those expensive mushy Valentines Day Cards and Roses - so last year!Send them a message of LOVE and a Gelato first date experience all in one!Pst. We have chocolate (aphrodisiac!!!) flavours too, if they want to go all traditional on you ;)You've got this! Grab a Rollickin Gelato Gift Card from a Rollickin Gelato Cafe from $15 or online (from $25). If you are buying online, yes, we can add your loved up message & post for you.Wee dating t...

Rollickin Gelato Greatest Licks!

Here's to a great dessert licking 2023! It's Year of The Rabbit & all that hopping good stuff!As voted by our fabulous Christchurch peoples (and yes we definitely hear your demands on social media & in our cafes). Love your gelato feedback always! XWe are rolling out all your favourite gelato picks. Starting with Pops Lemon Pie, Oh Snap, Chatty Cathy Coffee, Love Me Tinder, & Banoffee...oh my goodness my desserts!Go on let us know what flavour you keep dreaming of & we will twist...

Rollickin Beer Floats @ The Great Kiwi Beer Festival

Beer & Gelato anyone?Christchurch's Two Thumb Brewing Company and Rollickin Gelato are collaborating and creating new flavour sensations! First up, at The Great Kiwi Beer Festival in Hagley Park on Saturday 28th January. We're teaming up our gelato and sorbet flavours with Two Thumbs White Stout & Cider to make Beer Floats - Yogi Beer White Stout and Frollickin Mango sorbet & Peach Cider. Slurp away people & tell us what you think! ...

Santa's Lick Picks!

Rollickin gelato's  clever Chefs are rolling out all our Christmas dessert flavours. Wrap your chops around Gingerbread Man, a spiced ginger and caramel gelato with lashings of house-made gingerbread cookies and white fudge sauce. Or maybe the Mrs Claus: strawberry cheesecake ice cream, rudolf red velvet cake and more of that delicious white fudge sauce. If you're nuts for nuts, the Nutivity might be your pick: hazelnut and chocolate sauced all brought together with more crunchy, toasted ha...

Our whippin Christmas Gelato flavours :)

Merrily whiskin Strawberries and snowy Cheesecake Gelato with organic milk singing tra la la la lahhh and decking the house-made Rudolph Red Velvet Cake with Santa’s personal favourite - White Chocolate Fudgey Wudgey Sauciness. Mrs Claus really loves you jolly Santa! X"The way to a mans heart is through his stomach" Mrs Claus tells us and we all know Mr Claus is partial to a good dessert treat when he is sleighing across the world.This is the Christmas special ice cream dessert created by the ...

Jolly Good Gift Tips

The perfect pressie for absolutely everyone! Give them a lickin treat experience.Great for your Besties, Work Mates, Nana, the Neighbour, your Secret Crush;) Dad who is always hard to buy for!!! the Family you love so much, your awesome Teacher, that cheeky Postman...you got the gist?They make great stocking fillers too! As a Gift Card starts at $15 (if you buy in store) OR buy on line.  Do we post out? Of course!!! we can send them for you too.  They are like a credit card set in a fu...

Want a ROLLICKIN FUNK TRUNK at your Xmas do?

Perfect for smaller Christmas Gatherings, Xmas Work Shouts, Lickin Client Parties, and  just because 'everyone deserves a treat!’Drop big hints to your boss 'what a great idea a gelato treat for the team would be'The simple details are:• Pricing from $485 includes gst* (If you pick-up and serve yourself)• Serves 50-100 happy peoples with a gelato scoop• Two flavours.Pick from whatever gelato we are whippin’ and yes! we have allergen friendly flavours.• R...

On Show! Vegan gelato!

With Coconut and Raspberries off to a good start with Creamy Pink Gelato - closely followed by Fluffy Marshmallow and Coconut Cake. OMG! You picked the gelato trifecta! And you look fabulous lickin icecream in that cute fascinator!  What a week with so much fun in Christchurch for our Cup & Show week! This winning ice cream is VEGAN!!!, Dairy-free & Gluten-free too!- House whipped @rollickingelato by our clever Gelato Chefs.- Inspired by Vegan fans wanting desserts in a cone &a...

Rollickin Good Times Gift Cards

Rollickin's Gift Cards are perfect for stocking fillers, secret santa gifts, staff pressies, family gifts, neighbour gifts, secret admirer gifts, the gal next door gift, the teachers gift, sucking up to the boss gift, nanas present, brothers gift... What the heck! Smart thinking... you could nail that Christmas gift list in a Rollickin store and enjoy a couple of well deserved gelato scoops for doing all that shopping in one hit!You can buy them in store (they start at $15 & go up to as much...

Lick something wicked!

Double, double toil & trouble, fire burn and gelato churning cauldron!  Brewin milk chocolate gelato and freakin Oreos and spooky house webs of marshmallow and  mystical chocolate for Halloween fun!House-whipped at Rollickin Gelato and  inspired by GhostBusters! See you soon Christchurch for a late night dessert date at Rollickin Gelato. Happy to serve well behaved Vampires, Witches, Ghosts, Goblins & Chuckys who love ice cream!...

Ice cream vs Gelato?

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