Ten years of handmade gelato and sorbet from our little lab in Dorset — and a quietly growing shelf of medals to show for it. Here's where Baboo has been recognised, and what people have been saying.
Judged blind, by people who taste for a living. We're rather proud of these.
Farm Shop & Deli Product Awards
Mint Choc Chip — the only ice cream to win Gold
2026
Great Taste ★★★
Double Chocolate · Mint Choc Chip · Crystallised Ginger
2024–2025
Reserve Supreme Champion
Across the range
2020
Champion
Salted Caramel Gelato
2020
Champion
Elderflower Sorbet — Best British Specialty
2020
Champion
Sicilian Lemon Sorbet
2016
A decade of gelato and sorbet, judged blind and brought home medal by medal — every flavour, every result.
| Flavour | Taste of the West | Great Taste |
|---|---|---|
| Gelato | ||
| Raspberry ripple | Gold 2026 | — |
| Blackcurrant ripple | Gold 2023 | ★ 2023 |
| Coconut | Silver 2026 | — |
| Coffee | Gold 2021 | ★★ 2021 |
| Double chocolate | Gold 2020 | ★★★ 2024 |
| Hazelnut | Gold 2025 | ★★ 2019 |
| Maple & walnut | Gold 2017 & 2024 | ★ 2021 |
| Mint choc chip | Gold 2025 | ★★★ 2025 |
| Rum & raisin | Gold 2023 | ★ 2025 |
| Salted caramel | Champion & Gold 2020 | ★★ 2020 |
| Strawberry | Gold 2020 | ★★ 2022 |
| Vanilla | Gold 2019 | ★★ 2022 |
| Vegan vanilla | Gold 2021 | — |
| Vegan chocolate | Gold 2021 | ★ 2023 |
| Sorbet | ||
| Blackcurrant | Gold 2018 | ★ 2019 |
| Sicilian blood orange | Gold 2023 | ★ 2023 |
| Elderflower | Gold 2020 | ★ 2023 |
| Sicilian lemon | Champion 2016 · Gold 2016 & 2024 | ★★ 2023 |
| Mango | Gold 2024 | ★★ 2024 |
| Passionfruit | Gold 2025 | ★ 2024 |
| Raspberry | Gold 2023 | ★★ 2024 |
| Rhubarb | Gold 2026 | ★ 2018 |
| Trade flavours | ||
| Baboos (Bon bons) | Gold 2018 | — |
| Banana gelato | Gold 2025 | — |
| Chocolate orange gelato | Gold 2025 | ★★ 2025 |
| Crystal malt gelato | Gold 2020 | ★★ 2020 |
| Damson ripple gelato | Silver 2022 | — |
| Fennel & orange sorbet | Gold 2023 | — |
| Honeycomb gelato | Gold 2025 & 2026 | — |
| Honeyberry sorbet | Gold 2022 | — |
| Jaffa cake gelato | Silver 2025 & 2026 | — |
| Lemon gelato | Gold 2022 | ★ 2022 |
| Peanut choc gelato | Commended 2018 | ★★ 2018 |
| Pistachio gelato | — | ★ 2016 |
| Raspberry sorbet | — | ★ 2024 |
| Vegan brown sugar gelato | Silver 2022 · Commended 2024 | ★ 2022 |
| Seasonal flavours | ||
| Brandy gelato | Gold 2025 | ★★ 2022 |
| Christmas pudding gelato | Silver 2018 | — |
| Crystallised ginger gelato | Gold 2025 | ★★★ 2025 |
| Hot cross bun gelato | Commended 2024 | — |
| Flu buster sorbet | Gold 2018 | ★ 2018 |
| Humbug gelato | Gold 2019 | — |
| Orange sorbet | Gold 2021 | — |
| White choc raspberry swirl gelato | Gold 2024 | — |
| Pear sorbet | Silver 2018 | ★★ 2018 |
| Plum sorbet | Gold 2018 (Finalist) | ★★ 2018 |
Reserve Supreme Champion
Best British Specialty — Elderflower Sorbet
Best New Product — Sea Pink Sorbet
Best Food & Drink, South West
Dairy — Winner
Dairy — Finalist
Lyme Regis — Champion
Dairy — Finalist
Eco Champion — Finalist
Start-Up Entrepreneur — Finalist
Supercharged Business — Highly Commended
Rural Business — Finalist
A few of the places Baboo has popped up.
Stories, reviews and round-ups featuring Baboo.
Food writer Ben McCormack traced Baboo's story — from Annie's training at Bologna's Carpigiani Gelato University to the Madagascan vanilla, Piedmont hazelnuts and Etna pistachios behind the gelato. (8 June 2026)
Read the round-upTimes food editor Tony Turnbull tasted Baboo at Opera Holland Park and wrote about it in his weekly newsletter, singling out the hazelnut gelato for particular praise.
Read the round-upBaboo's West Bay hut earned a spot in YOU Magazine's guide to a long weekend in West Dorset, with the double-choc rated "outstanding".
Read the guideBaboo was named among the UK makers driving the rise of premium, locally-made gelato as staycationers seek out quality treats. (Oct 2025)
Read the featureBaboo featured in Great British Life's round-up of the best Dorset produce to buy and gift over the festive season.
Read the round-upWhat press, judges and stockists have said.
"Quite possibly my favourite company."Tony TurnbullFood Editor, The Times
"Outstanding ice cream, handmade locally."YOU MagazineMail on Sunday
"What a Scoop."Ben McCormackThe Telegraph · Luxury
"Oh joy! This smooth, velvety gelato is incredible. Creamy, perfectly sweet and with a deep coffee flavour. Complex, warm and clean...Outstanding."Great Taste Judge, 2021 Coffee gelato — Great Taste
"Their chocolate is absolutely knockout, one of the best gelatos I've ever tasted...the Mint choc chip is to die for."Kirk GosdenChef Director, Rockfish Restaurants
"I can't quite believe I'm saying this after probably too many ice creams around the country/world, but this is the best ice cream I've ever tasted."DaveKiosk Customer
"This luxury dark creamy gelato, with its rich aroma of quality chocolate, has a texture that is stunningly smooth, creamy and decadent. The quality of the chocolate shines through, bitter, rich and indulgent with the ribbons of chocolate adding to this excellent gelato, evidencing great ingredients used with skill."Great Taste Judge, 2025On our Double chocolate gelato — Great Taste three stars
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