Known as ice cream, gelato, sorbet, granita, frozen yogurt or sherbet all are frozen desserts, prefered by consumers especially in the hot summer days. Ice cream was and is the most popular dessert of all times. Even it ancestor is represented by the sorbet, more and more popularity was gained by the frozen desserts based on milk. This situatiation was changed by the vegan and vegetarian trends. So, sorbet and other frozen desserts with a low content of dairy regained their importance. The consumers care and attention for the products with high fats, sugars and additives dethrones the ice cream against the vegetal frozen desserts. So, this study aims to present and describe the main characteristics of the earliest representative of frozen desserts.