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Ice cream trucks & carts in South Africa

Browse ice cream trucks across South Africa, with menus, photos and the towns they trade in, and send your event details straight to the truck.

listed: 15; listed
towns: 9; towns
for hire: 13; for hire

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Ann's Cafe

Ann's Cafe is a dessert truck in Bloemfontein selling ice cream and Japanese crepes. It trades at markets in and around the city, including the Botanical Garden Market, and can be hired for events. Its Facebook page announces where it will be standing.

Bloemfontein, Free State

DessertsIce CreamPancake

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Crumbs & Cream

Crumbs & Cream makes ice-cream sandwiches from freshly baked cookies and gelato made in store, with vegan cookie and sorbet options. Customers pick two cookies, a gelato flavour and toppings, and the menu also has gelato scoops and tubs, milkshakes, ice-cream cakes, crepes and coffee. In Cape Town they trade from shops in Sea Point, Woodstock and the Watershed at the V&A Waterfront, with further stores in Stellenbosch and Illovo, Johannesburg. For corporate and private events they hire out an ice cream cart that serves made-to-order sandwiches, cones and cups, and they also supply ready-made ice-cream sandwiches.

Cape Town, Western Cape

DessertsIce Cream

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Die Roomyskind

Die Roomyskind is a mobile soft-serve ice cream truck based in Pretoria East. The brightly wrapped van serves soft serve in cones or cups, dipped soft serve, frozen yoghurt, milkshakes, iced coffee and slushies, plus water, energy drinks and chips. It is not a shop: it comes to birthday parties, complex fun days, corporate events, markets, sports days and weddings.

Pretoria, Gauteng

DessertsIce Cream

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Donutella

Donutella is a family-run Durban business that takes soft serve ice cream and mini donuts to events from food trailers and gazebos. It caters for school events, company parties, birthday parties, weddings and corporate gatherings. Bookings are taken by email or phone, and the treats are prepared fresh. Brownie bomb donut treats have also been offered.

Durban, KwaZulu-Natal

DessertsIce Cream

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Everyday We Waffling

Everyday We Waffling is a Cape Town dessert business with stores in Strandfontein and Grassy Park and a food trailer that trades at markets and food truck venues. The trailer serves waffles, waffle bite boxes with ice cream, brownie bites, milkshakes, falooda and fizzy drinks. It has traded at Food Truck Valley sites and the Bayhill football tournament, and in September and October 2026 it was on the Thursday to Sunday line-ups at Trucks Access Park in Kenilworth. Party and event bookings go to their email address.

Cape Town, Western Cape

DessertsWaffleIce Cream

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FrozenYO

FrozenYO is a Durban frozen yoghurt food truck, easy to spot in its turquoise and yellow livery. It serves frozen yoghurt made from locally produced yoghurt with live cultures and probiotics, which the business describes as gluten free and low in calories. The truck travels around Durban and surrounds and is hired out for weddings and engagement parties, corporate functions, birthdays, school events, music festivals, markets and film or advert shoots. Location updates for public trading days are posted on its Facebook and Instagram pages.

Durban, KwaZulu-Natal

DessertsIce Cream

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Ice Cream Man Events

Ice Cream Man Events serves artisanal gelato at events and markets around Plettenberg Bay and the Garden Route, in collaboration with Ice Palazzo Plettenberg Bay. They have set up at the Simola Hillclimb, the Nature's Valley Easter Market, the Knysna Oyster Festival and school food fairs. Message them on their Facebook page to ask about booking gelato for your own event.

Plettenberg Bay, Western Cape

DessertsIce Cream

Let’s Roll

Let’s Roll sells rolled Thai ice cream from a stall that moves between markets, festivals and food truck evenings around Gqeberha. It has appeared at the RHBC Kragga Kamma Food Truck Friday, the Splash Festival at Kings Beach and various family markets.

Gqeberha, Eastern Cape

DessertsIce Cream

Lipt

Lipt is a dessert and coffee truck at Treat Street, the food truck section below The Pearls in Umhlanga. The menu is built around ice-cream treats: pani puri shells filled with ice cream, a funfair ice-cream taco in a waffle cone shell, and waffles on a stick with chocolate and sprinkles. Coffee is served as well. Look for them at the Treat Street trailer park.

uMhlanga, KwaZulu-Natal

DessertsIce CreamWaffle

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Moments Desserts & Beverages

Moments is a mobile dessert and beverage bar business for events. A staffed stand is stocked with the bar of your choice, such as waffles, crepes, churros, mini doughnuts, ice cream, milkshakes, coffee, bubble tea, mocktails or chocolate fountains. Savoury options include pizza, paella, burgers and prego rolls. They cater for corporate functions, expos, weddings, private parties and brand activations in Gauteng, the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.

Johannesburg, Gauteng

DessertsWafflePancake

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Route Café

Route Café is a student-run food trailer based in Cape Town that serves soft serve ice cream, bubble waffles, loaded fries, toasted sandwiches, speciality coffee and slushies. It trades at markets, parks and events listed on its online calendar, works across the Western Cape, and can be booked for festivals, school events and parties anywhere in South Africa. There is also a pet-friendly Pup Cup for dogs.

Cape Town, Western Cape

DessertsIce CreamCoffee

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Something Sweet

Waffles Pancakes Ice cream Crepes Brownies Fruit cups

21 Morning Glory Street, Lentegeur, Cape Town, South Africa

CaribbeanWafflePancake

About ice cream food trucks

Ice cream trucks, soft serve vans and gelato carts bring cold treats to markets, beaches and private events. Some trade from a regular spot, while many are booked for parties and functions, where guests help themselves to cones, cups and toppings.

Popular dishes

Soft serve cones and cups, scooped ice cream and gelato, milkshakes, frozen yoghurt, ice cream sandwiches and waffles with ice cream, with toppings like sprinkles, flake, sauces and sweets.

Events and venues

Ice cream trucks are a hit at kids' birthday parties, school events, weddings, year-end functions and summer markets. Ask about the number of servings included and whether they need power at your venue.

Browse the ice cream trucks below and contact them directly to book one for your event.

Ice cream trucks & carts in South Africa

All ice cream food trucks

Ann's Cafe

Crumbs & Cream

Die Roomyskind

Donutella

Everyday We Waffling

FrozenYO

Ice Cream Man Events

Let’s Roll

Lipt

Moments Desserts & Beverages

Route Café

Something Sweet

Sugar Fix Creations

The Italian Corner

Zoe's Ice Cream Vans

About ice cream food trucks

Popular dishes

Events and venues

Ice cream food trucks by town

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