Maltae

First private batch dropping across Mumbai & Navi Mumbai

Malted ice cream, overthought.

Dense, slow-melting malted ice cream, sweetened only with dates and made in small batches in Navi Mumbai. We do the overthinking. You do the eating.

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Hand-drawn illustration of a scoop of malted ice cream with a dark caramel swirl and biscuit crumbs, melting over a dark waffle cone
The Maltae cow, thinking it over

Batch 01

Malt at the heart  ✳  Sweetened only with dates  ✳  No waste  ✳  Churned in small batches  ✳  Made in Navi Mumbai  ✳  Overthought on purpose  ✳

the origin story

Where Maltae comes from

Hand-drawn illustration of a wooden scoop spilling malted barley grains, with ears of barley beside it

01

It comes from malt.

You know those really good biscuits, the ones you can never stop at one of? That warm, toasty flavour is malt. We thought it deserved an ice cream of its own, so we built one around it and named it after it.

the biscuit flavour. you know the one.

02

It comes from dates.

Dates do all the sweetening in Maltae. No refined sugar, no syrups, nothing else. Just dates, doing what dates do best.

dates only. that's the rule.

Hand-drawn illustration of a pile of glossy dark dates, one split open to show its sticky amber flesh
Hand-drawn illustration of dark date-pulp waffle cones broken into crisp shards, with crumbs scattered around

03

It comes with no waste.

Once the dates have given up their sweetness, there's pulp left over. We don't throw it away. It goes straight into our waffle.

nothing gets binned.

04

It comes from Navi Mumbai.

Maltae is made in small batches in our kitchen in Navi Mumbai, and every batch gets overthought before it gets anywhere near you.

small batches, big opinions.

Hand-drawn illustration of the Maltae kitchen: a steel ice cream machine beside a plate with dates, malt crumb, a jar of date syrup and a scoop in a waffle cone

how to say it

Mal·tae

/ MAL-tay /  noun

  1. Malted ice cream, sweetened only with dates.
  2. (informal) The best ice cream you'll eat this year. Probably.
  3. Rhymes with all day, which is how often you'll think about it.
    "Save me a Maltae."

malt first, always

The churn list

Hand-drawn illustration of a Maltae tub with dates and barley on the label, beside two scoops of malt and dates ice cream with caramel swirl and biscuit crumbs on a plate

Batch 01

The Original: Malt & Dates

Where it all starts. Malted ice cream sweetened only with dates: dense, rich and just sweet enough.

  • Toasted barley
  • Dark amber medjool
  • Slow cream finish

In the R&D kitchen

Purple yam

Ube

Purple yam, nutty and vanilla-soft, folded into malted cream. Malt brings the toast, ube brings the colour.

Roasted tea

Hojicha

Roasted green tea leaves steeped directly into malted cream. Toasty meets toastier.

Deep berry

Blueberry

Jammy blueberries rippled through malt, like berries on a warm biscuit. Sharp, sweet, gone too fast.

Date caramel

Salted Caramel

Dates cooked down until they turn to caramel, with a pinch of salt. Malt and caramel were always going to get along.

you asked, the cow answered

Questions about Maltae

What is Maltae?

Maltae is an artisanal malted ice cream brand from Navi Mumbai, India, founded in 2026 by Sabreena El Siddique. Every Maltae ice cream is built on malt and sweetened only with dates.

How do you pronounce Maltae?

MAL-tay. It rhymes with "all day".

What is malted ice cream?

Malted ice cream is ice cream flavoured with malt, the warm, toasty, biscuity flavour you know from malted milk drinks and malt biscuits.

What is Maltae sweetened with?

Dates. That's the whole list. Maltae uses no refined sugar and no other sweeteners.

Is Maltae a no-waste ice cream?

Yes. The pulp left over from the dates that sweeten our ice cream is used in our waffle, so nothing from the date is thrown away.

Can I buy Maltae yet?

Not yet. Maltae launches with a first private batch and pop-ups across Mumbai and Navi Mumbai, and the waitlist hears about them before anyone else.

the first churn

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