Looking for a Fun Outing?

Pay that a visit to the Bakery and Ice Cream Museum in Hellendoorn. Just a 20-minute drive away is Gerrit Valk's Bakery and Ice Cream Museum. The museum houses an impressive collection of tools, objects and machinery from past bakeries and from the early days of ice cream making.

Take a Look

In the Old Bakery

The interior is filled with items from days gone by, such as a belt-driven dough kneader, beater and machines for peeling and rubbing almonds. The original oil-fired oven is still present, in which currant nougat, apple pastries and other delicacies were baked.

The Old Way

Of Making Ice Cream

In the museum you will find an old Rolo ice cream machine. This machine imported from Sweden produced up to 4,000 ice creams per hour! This part of the museum shows the entire process from the first labor-intensive way of making ice cream to the mass production process.

Fancy Your Own Ice Cream?

Of course, all that playing makes you hungry! Then sit down at Restaurant ‘Bij Ons’. Or choose a tasty snack.

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Don't feel like cooking yourself and is it time for a quick bite?

Enjoy fries and snacks
Choose from various menus
Take away and enjoy

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Lesson

Old-Fashioned Ice Cream Making

The principle for making ice cream is simple:

Mix the necessary raw materials such as milk, sugar and fats. Before there were ice cream machines, people put this mixture into a metal container. This container was then placed in a larger container filled with ice and coarse salt. This allowed the mixture to be swirled around to mix and make it cold. Once the mixture was well mixed and cold you had made your own ice cream, and the feasting could begin!