Bizarre ice cream topping loved by Dua Lipa is the new viral food craze: ‘It’s so addicting’



Can’t decide between sweet or savory?

You don’t have to.

Influencers are topping their traditional vanilla ice cream with a drizzle of olive oil in the latest food trend that is sweeping TikTok.

While the flavor profile seems peculiar, the Dua Lipa-approved dessert has surprised those with a sweet tooth, who admittedly assumed the treat would be “trash” but are now calling the concoction an “elite combination.”

“This has been my favorite late-night snack lately,” influencer Nara Smith said in a TikTok video scoring 7.9 million views.

First, she doles out two scoops — sometimes four — of creamy, vanilla ice cream before adding a generous drizzle of “good” olive oil and a pinch of flaky sea salt.

“It’s so good,” she gushed. “It’s so addicting.”

Olive oil, most commonly drizzled on bread and salads, is now a dessert topping. TikTok / @claudiasulewski
Sulewski touted the dessert on TikTok this month. TikTok / @claudiasulewski

Actress and content creator Claudia Sulewski, the girlfriend of musician Finneas O’Connell, also touted the decadent dessert online this month — but some declared it a luxury snack.

“This is a rich person dessert,” snarked one viewer.

“Hear me out, what if you used hot fudge and whipped cream?” another quipped.

“If I have a sweet tooth and have ice cream in the freezer I will simply eat the ice cream,” argued someone else.

Aghast users were shocked to learn that the ice cream dish is an Italian staple, otherwise known as gelato con olio e sale.

Smith shared the recipe — vanilla ice cream, olive oil and flaky sea salt — with nearly 8 million viewers. TikTok / @naraazizasmith
Some TikTokers declared the dessert a luxury for “rich people.” TikTok / @naraazizasmith

“Dessert can become very unilateral and ice cream can fall into that trap,” Andrew Berinin, the CEO and co-founder of the olive oil brand Graza, told PureWow, calling it an “umami bomb.”

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“The best way to spice things up is to insert unexpected flavors. With good extra virgin olive oil, you add super punchy and grassy notes, which creates a welcome complexity.”

Stateside, the dessert has been around much longer than TikTok. In the early 2010s, Big Gay Ice Cream offered customers olive oil and sea salt as a topping for their soft serve — along with elderflower syrup and wasabi pea dust — and inspired a chocolate-dipped sea salt flavor from Filipino frozen dessert company Sebastian’s Ice Cream.

Dua Lipa has long been a fan of olive oil-drenched ice cream. X / Dua Lipa

In New York City, hungry patrons can find gelato con olio at L’Industrie Pizzeria in Williamsburg or at a walk-up window in Soho belonging to Softside, which offers vanilla soft serve drenched in olive oil and honey.

Last spring, Starbucks brought a taste of Italy to cafes around the country with the introduction of the Oleato — olive oil-infused coffee — which perplexed customers and upset their stomachs.





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