Chocolate, vanilla, strawberry – no one in Berlin can, but has to, limit themselves to that. Especially in the last few years, Pückler’s classics have had quite a bit of competition: “sesame cucumber”, “pumpkin nougat”, “Madagascar chocolate with goat’s milk and sea salt” – everything has already been seen in Berlin’s ice cream counters.
Even more absurd: “Tannenzäpfle beer sorbet” at Mos Eisley on Herrfurthplatz in Neukölln or “Red bean popsicles” at the TaBangg tea house on Hedwigstrasse in Steglitz. So there is definitely enough variety in Berlin’s ice cream parlors. Only a say in the development of new varieties is rarely granted to those who are supposed to lick it later.
It’s different in the Rausch chocolate house: customers can now request flavors that are then freshly prepared in front of their eyes. Well, there are a few restrictions. The desired ice cream must correspond to a type of chocolate that is available in the Berlin company’s chocolate shop on Charlottenstraße.
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Rolled up: you will look in vain for the classic ice cream cone at Rausch.
Nevertheless, it offers a lot of possibilities: Whether praline or chocolate bar, whether “raspberry marzipan” or “white chocolate coconut-almond” – you can choose everything that is on the Rausch shelves. Anyone who has decided on a type of praline, truffle or chocolate pays for it at the checkout and adds the price for the final ice cream, which is made from the selected chocolate product; 5 euros for the larger portion of ice cream, 3 euros for the small one. The receipt is then taken to the ice cream machine, which Rausch shows as an extremely chilled, rotating plate.
Incidentally, there is no random ice cream parlor behind it. DJ Ice Rolls has been shooting the cold record at Rausch since Saturday: With more than 240,000 fans, he is a star on TikTok; his ice cream making videos have made the Berliner famous on the social media. In his clips, he puts a kind of raw ice mass on the rotating cooling plate, adds random, often unusual ingredients, after a few laps a frozen dessert emerges on the plate, which DJ Ice Rolls scrapes off the plate with a scraper.
The scraped, rolled-up ice cream looks particularly tempting in the sundae – and customers are more or less in control of what the dessert can taste like. In any case, DJ Ice Rolls will be behind the ice plates at Rausch “until further notice” from Tuesday to Sunday from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.