Indulge in Vegan Ice Cream for a Cool Summer Treat

Come summer, cold treats beckon. Those seeking dairy-free options have often pursued fruity sorbets. But a growing number of ice cream shops are now offering creamy versions based on an oat, coconut, soy, cashew or peanut base, or a blend of those. Here’s a roundup of Rhode Island creameries offering vegan ice cream alternatives.  

• Providence’s Like No Udder has been the vegan ice cream standard bearer, beginning in 2016 with a mobile truck, they’ve just relocated their storefront to 783 Hope St., carrying up to 14  flavors, plus a vegan soft serve!
• Lincoln is home of The Lincoln Creamery, which offers oat-milk ice cream in vanilla and “classic cookie.”  
• Cranston’s Udder Delights offers vegan vanilla, chocolate and Oreo. (Remember, Oreos are vegan!)
• East Greenwich has both Hill-Top Creamery with vegan vanilla and chocolate-peanut-butter—and Clementine’s, which rotates vegan black raspberry, mud slide, coffee Oreo and others.
• Wakefield also has two shops with vegan ice cream: Brickley’s makes coconut-milk-based strawberry, blackberry Oreo and orange-pineapple; Green Line Apothecary churns out oat-milk-based chocolate, strawberry, vanilla, cof-fee and caramel.
• Westerly and Galilee are both home to Nana’s Ice Cream, which scoops coconut-milk-based cookie dough, chocolate, chocolate-peanut-butter swirl and Oreo. 
• Westerly’s Pompelmo Gelateria created a vegan gelato from dragon fruit, passion fruit, pineapple, mango and ginger.
• Newport’s Get the Scoop offers one vegan flavor a day—vanilla, cookie dough, cookie Oreo and others.
• And Tiverton Four Corners offers an ol’ favorite, Gray’s Ice Cream, which has vegan vanilla, coffee or Oreo in the summer season.