🇮🇹 Crema di Caffè: Bringing a Taste of Italy to the UK

From authentic Italian cold creams to Matcha, pistachio and indulgent desserts, SnowShock and Antico Eremo are bringing something different to the UK drinks and dessert market.

✔ Eye-catching in-store
✔ Ideal all year round
✔ Quick and easy to serve
✔ Perfect alongside slush sales

Italy has a way of turning simple ingredients into something special.

Coffee becomes an experience.
Pistachio becomes a dessert.
Tiramisu becomes a café classic.

And one of Italy’s best-kept café favourites is Crema di Caffè — a smooth, chilled coffee cream that sits somewhere between a drink and a dessert.

While familiar to many Italian consumers, it remains a relatively new concept for much of the UK.

That’s something SnowShock is looking to change.

What is Crema di Caffè?

Crema di Caffè is a creamy, chilled coffee creation designed to be served cold rather than as a traditional hot coffee.

It is indulgent, smooth and rich, making it an ideal accompaniment to coffee or a dessert in its own right.

But perhaps the most exciting thing about the concept is that coffee is only the beginning.

The same style of cold-serve product can be developed across a whole range of flavours, opening up opportunities for cafés, restaurants, dessert businesses and other foodservice operators.

🇮🇹 From Italy to the UK

This is where SnowShock × Antico Eremo comes together.

Antico Eremo is a family-run Italian business founded in 1978 in Berlingo, Brescia, specialising in professional products for beverages, desserts and creams.

Its experience in cold creams isn’t new. The company has spent decades developing professional coffee cream products and a wider range of cold dessert solutions for the Ho.Re.Ca. market.

In 2025, SnowShock became the official UK stockist, importer and distributor for Antico Eremo.

For SnowShock, the partnership was a natural fit.

SnowShock has spent more than two decades developing its own position in the UK frozen and chilled drinks market, working across convenience, wholesale, catering, leisure, fast food and other sectors.

Antico Eremo brings the Italian expertise.

SnowShock brings the UK market knowledge.

Together, we’re making these products available to UK operators.

🍨 It's about more than coffee

The Antico Eremo cold-cream range gives operators the opportunity to go well beyond traditional coffee.

☕ Coffee

The classic Crema di Caffè experience — creamy, indulgent and unmistakably Italian.

💚 Pistachio

A premium flavour that has become hugely popular across modern desserts and drinks.

🍫 Chocolate

Rich, indulgent and incredibly versatile, whether served simply or turned into a more elaborate dessert.

🤎 Tiramisu

An Italian favourite in a convenient cold-serve format.

The SnowShock catalogue describes the cold creams as delivering a dense, creamy texture with bold, indulgent flavour, with different products offering yields of approximately 1–2.5 litres depending on the flavour.

🍵 Traditional Italian expertise meets modern flavours

Italian heritage doesn’t mean being stuck in the past.

Consumers are constantly looking for new flavours and experiences, and SnowShock’s range reflects that.

Alongside the Italian classics, SnowShock also stocks Matcha Cold Cream and Matcha Milkshake.

Matcha brings something completely different to the menu — a distinctive flavour, premium appearance and a format that works particularly well for modern cafés and dessert businesses.

It can be served as a cold cream, turned into an indulgent milkshake or developed into a signature creation.

Then there’s the combination of pistachio and chocolate, offering operators an opportunity to create their own take on the increasingly popular Dubai-inspired dessert trend.

Add sauces, toppings, chocolate pieces or pistachio and a simple cold cream can become something entirely unique to the business.

The base is simple. The possibilities aren’t.

💡 Why are cold creams interesting for UK businesses?

For operators, introducing something new needs to make commercial sense.

Cold creams offer the potential to create premium-looking drinks and desserts without unnecessarily complicated preparation.

They can work across:

• Cafés looking for something different alongside coffee
• Dessert shops creating signature products
• Restaurants looking for an indulgent dessert option
• Leisure venues wanting an eye-catching impulse purchase
• Convenience stores looking to offer something beyond traditional drinks
• Takeaway businesses creating premium cold drinks and desserts

And because the products can be prepared using appropriate dispensing equipment or a blender, they can be adapted to different types of operation.

🇬🇧 Is the UK ready?

We think so.

The UK already has a huge appetite for Italian food and drink.

We know coffee.

We know tiramisu.

We know pistachio.

We know chocolate.

And we’re increasingly willing to try new flavours such as Matcha.

Crema di Caffè is simply the next experience waiting to be discovered.

Antico Eremo has been developing professional beverage and dessert products in Italy since 1978.

SnowShock has spent more than 20 years understanding the UK market.

Now those two experiences have come together.

🇮🇹 From Italy. Available through SnowShock.

The SnowShock and Antico Eremo partnership is about bringing something different to UK operators.

Authentic Italian expertise.

Premium flavours.

Modern formats.

Practical solutions.

From classic Crema di Caffè to pistachio, chocolate and tiramisu.

From Matcha Cold Cream and Matcha Milkshakes to new signature dessert creations.

The Italian café experience is evolving — and SnowShock is bringing it to the UK.

SnowShock × Antico Eremo

Premium Drinks. Practical Solutions.

Explore the Antico Eremo range:
snowshock.com/antico