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Best Hot Sauce For Ice Cream
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Chris Whitehair
- Last Updated: August 30, 2025
Hot Sauce and Ice Cream: The Perfect Combo
If you’re a hot sauce aficionado like me, you’re always looking to find new applications for your favorite hot sauces.
After countless slices of pizza dabbed, tacos upon tacos smothered, and bowls upon bowls of ramen spiced up, it was time to expand my horizons and find a new application.
Enter: hot sauce on ice cream.
This may seem a weird combination to most people; however, I was intrigued in my quest to try something new.
Now, I’m not dousing a bottle of Frank’s or Tabasco hot sauce on ice cream, but there are so many talented small and medium-sized hot sauce makers that make incredible fruit-based and sweet-style hot sauces.
Check out this list of amazing hot sauces you can use on your next bowl of ice cream!
Flavor: Black Cherry, Bourbon
Heat Level: Extremely Hot
When I first started Flower City Flavor Company, Elijah’s Xtreme was one of the first brands I stocked. Underestimating the “Xtreme” in their name, and not quite being at the level I am today in my heat tolerance, this one lit me up! Nowadays, it’s still a scorcher on my personal scale, but the sweetness of the black cherries pairs wonderfully with the cranberry, bourbon, and vanilla flavors.
Flavor: Papaya
Heat Level: Mild
Papayas aren’t something I regularly have in my fruit repertoire, but that’s where Fat Cat comes in to help me out! The warm weather and fabulous beaches of the Caribbean are captured in a bottle (with a hint of pineapple) for an incredible sweet and spicy hot sauce, perfect on a bowl of vanilla ice cream.
Flavor: Strawberry
Heat Level: Mild
Strawberries are my favorite fruit, so I wanted to review the best strawberry hot sauces to see which one would make this list, and our friends at Fat Cat have the best! This one is mild but full of flavor, which will complement any ice cream nicely.
Flavor: Peach
Heat Level: Medium
A delight it is! Pineapple complements the peach with its sweetness, but the peach is definitely the star of the show. The habanero pepper gives this one a high-medium heat level, so most folks will be able to handle the heat. Try this one, not in plain vanilla ice cream, but in a peach ice cream to enhance the experience of this sauce.
We love this hot sauce because so much of the habanero and chipotle flavors come through without overpowering the banana’s flavor, not to mention the dash of dark-aged rum that’s added in. Speaking of rum, if you’ve ever wanted to have a spicy tribute to a Bananas Foster, use this sauce with PepperNutz Caribbean Rum, and you’ll find it! Delicious!
Flavor: Mango
Heat Level: Medium
PepperNutz gets a double feature! There are numerous great mango habanero hot sauces on the market today, as my best mango habanero hot sauce blog on the subject reviews; however, the best of the best is PepperNutz’s version, which pairs perfectly with ice cream—the perfect balance of sweetness and heat.
Hot Sauce on Ice Cream: In Conclusion
I’m hoping this blog has got your sweet tooth engaged!
A diverse collection of different flavors and heat levels gives many options to try some ice cream with hot sauce.
