Across social media, glossy bananas snap open to reveal cream, oranges break into ice cream, and entire families sit around tables filming, reacting, and biting in unison. It’s part ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response), part dessert. And now, after months of everyone looking for it in India, the trend has made its way to Mumbai.
Hazelnut and Peanut
You’ve spotted it on Instagram, paused mid-scroll, and wondered where you can find this ice cream. A local premium ice cream brand, Batch 06 is finally making it in batches for Mumbaikars to come and grab. The Lower Parel-based delivery kitchen (which delivers via Swiggy and Zomato) offers six flavours. Each one is shaped like the fruit, promising a no-artificial-flavour approach. We tried the Shorties box of six, which offers one each of Orange, Banana, Peanut, Hazelnut, Strawberry, and Raspberry flavours. You can order a box of 9 too, which has two pieces of a few flavours from the six.
Hit or a miss?
The banana is the standout pick. Made with Yelakki (Elaichi) bananas, it carries that distinct, unmissable sweetness of the Yelakki. The detailing is playful too; a yellow fondant shell, with the black spots you see on bananas. The ones here are made with chocolate. This is one of the few banana ice creams that taste like the fruit itself, minus the synthetic taste.
Raspberry
The orange follows closely. Visually convincing, with a bright, thin coating, it delivers the sharp citrusy floral note on the first bite. There are visible bits of pulp in the ice cream, which are small but tell that the ice cream is made with real orange.
Hazelnut and peanut are the next two hits. The hazelnut delivers a familiar nutty-chocolate profile. It’s a dependable flavour but doesn’t mirror the real nut aesthetic as convincingly; flavour-wise, it’s a hit. Peanut, on the other hand, surprises. Shaped like a full peanut, shell included, it avoids the usual peanut butter-heavy route. Instead, it tastes closer to the nut.
Less successful are the strawberry and raspberry. Here, the chocolate fondant coating overpowers the ice cream beneath, muting the fruit’s natural sharpness. The flavours feel more subdued, which is perhaps the trade-off when working without artificial enhancers.
Should you order in?
The format of these small, almost one-bite pops is perfectly suited to the unforgiving Mumbai summer. You won’t melt into a mess; simply bite and move on to the next.
Banana and Orange
The ice cream also travels well. It comes in a box, in an insulated bag with dry ice. We ordered it from Lower Parel to Dadar, and the 25-minute delivery time at noon on a weekday did not melt the ice cream. The ice cream begins to melt quickly once you bite in, so it’s best to pop it off fast.
We do wonder if the fondant could be fruit-flavoured too. While the current shells deliver on visuals, they taste uniformly like chocolate. Wouldn’t it be more fun if the coating tasted like the fruit itself? Still, for a first entry into a global trend, Batch 06 gets more right than wrong. The ice cream quality is premium, and the experience is quick, playful, and novel.
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Cost Rs 700 (box of 6) (excluding tax and delivery)
