Summer is quickly melting away and, while some might say that the season for ice cream is ending, I say that there is no reason to put those ice cream scoops into storage until next year. Ice cream is one food that might be good for cooling off, but it is good all year round. In this spirit, I’m hosting a quick little end-of-summer ice cream giveaway for my readers!
The prize is a goodie basket with some ice cream making essentials. It also includes my new favorite Zyliss ice cream scoop, but everything else is a surprise. The only things you’ll have to supply is the actual ice cream because it just doesn’t ship all that well in my experience – not without some fancy ice packs, anyway!
To play, just leave a comment below describing your favorite ice cream. Be specific! I want to know if your favorite is homemade, or a particular brand of ice cream from the market or from a particular store in your city. Gelato and sorbet are fair game, too, if those are at the top of your list. The contest is closing on Sunday, September 19th, so leave your comments before then. Be sure to leave your e-mail address (it won’t be published if you type it into the form) so I can contact a randomly selected winner on Sunday night! Good luck everyone!
For some great ice cream ideas, check these out:
Ryan @ Ryan's Baking Blog
September 17, 2010homemade vanilla bean ice cream is the best, or french vanilla!
Minde Briscoe
September 17, 2010Since I was a wee tyke, my favorite flavor was Mint Chocolate Chip, but since the arrival of Bruster’s Ice Cream in town roughly three years ago I have fallen in love with Key Lime Pie ice cream. I’d never have thought fruit would win over chocolate but it’s a lucious, tangy ice cream with rich swirls of buttery graham cracker “crust.” SO satisfying on a hot day!
Amy
September 17, 2010My favorite is Moose Tracks from Schoep’s Ice Cream 🙂 It’s vanilla with chocolate fudge striped through it, with chunks of chocolate candies. Sooo good! Schoep’s is a local ice cream company here in Madison, WI and they sure know their dairy 😀
Linda
September 17, 2010My favorite ice cream – Mint Chip!
Dena
September 17, 2010Love Mackinac Island Fudge from Jilbert’s Dairy in Marquette Michigan. Also, love cake batter from Cold Stone.
Laura
September 17, 2010My favorite ice cream is “Chockwork Orange” from Creole Creamery in New Orleans. It is dark chocolate orange ice cream. Pure heaven.
zentMRS
September 17, 2010My very favorite is homemade peach ice cream, made the way my dad always made it. The VERY best. Though I recently found a homemade pistachio that is a close second. Yum!
Terri A
September 17, 2010I got an ice cream maker this summer and my favorite out of it was Strawberry Buttermilk Gelato (but I’m still experimenting with all flavors!).
Jenny
September 17, 2010This is our favorite:
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Lemon-Ice-Cream-10427
I’ve also modified it to make vanilla by using a couple of tablespoons of vanilla bean paste instead of the lemon flavorings.
Juli
September 17, 2010I love the Pistachio Gelato at Gelato Gilberto in Louisville, KY – the flavor is amazing!
Lauren
September 17, 2010Oh it has to be this chocolate raspberry ice cream from a local soda shop… it’s been in our town forever. I can’t remember the cute name they had for it, but it was a raspberry base ice cream with little chocolate raspberry cups in it (Like peanut butter cups?) and a chocolate swirl I think! SOOOO good!
Rachel
September 17, 2010My favorite ice cream was one that I’ve only had once- in an ice cream shop called Las Lapas in Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica. It was pumpkin flavored, with big, dark chocolate stars that were made right there, with local caocao.
Melody
September 17, 2010I’ve unfortunately never had the privilege of tasting any homemade ice cream, but of what multitude of store- and shop-bought I’ve enjoyed…
My favorite ice cream will always have chunks and stuff in it–I’m not a fan of plain flavors at all. Currently I’m nursing a resurgence of desire for chocolate-and-nut flavors, such as Turkey Hill’s Coconut Almond Fudge!
terri
September 17, 2010i have to pick a favorite? i love homemade ice cream made with whatever fruit is in season! (maybe that makes me fickle?) but i still dream about the mango gelato i had when i was in rome for a conference…
Jenny
September 17, 2010My favorite ice cream is frozen custard from Shakey’s in Joplin, MO.
Emily Jean
September 17, 2010Ice cream still sounds good even when our high is 45 degrees today [gotta love Montana :)]!
My favorite is the frozen yogurt version of Ben & Jerry’s Half Baked. MMMM!
Lindsay
September 17, 2010An M&M and Oreo blizzard from Dairy Queen!!
Katie Duffy
September 17, 2010My favorite is definitely Coldstone’s Cake Batter ice cream. Sooooooooooo good.
Jenny
September 17, 2010My favorite used to be mint chocolate chip, until I discovered I could make just mint (without chocolate) at home! Previously I could only find peppermint, which is a little different, at stores and ice cream shops; I like the homemade mint better.
Amber Shea @Almost Vegan
September 17, 2010Homemade chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream…but with PEANUT BUTTER chocolate chip cookie dough balls!
Kelly K.
September 17, 2010My favorite flavor is homemade chocolate peanut butter cup ice cream that I made last year. MMMMM
Terri
September 17, 2010My favorite store bought is Häagen-Dazs Chocolate and my favorite homemade is Cinnamon ice cream with anything apple.
LJMH
September 17, 2010My favorite ice cream is homemade at a nearby farm where they scoop and serve their flavors out of a caboose and you get to eat the ice cream while visiting with cows, goats, and bunnies. It’s called Toots.
Rebecca
September 17, 2010Definitely the bowl I had at Berthillon in Paris – pear sorbet and chocolate ice cream (they don’t go – but I couldn’t pass either up). It was a revelation! Strong flavors, perfectly cold and smooth. If only it weren’t an ocean away!
Karen
September 17, 2010I love ice cream! My absolute favorite is the coffee Oreo from Kimball Farm in Westford, MA. It’s creamy and loaded with Oreas. Just thinking of it makes me want to go get some…
Penny
September 17, 2010My husband makes the best homemade ice cream. Chocolate hazelnut made with Frangelico is my current favorite. Sinful!
wooliegirl
September 17, 2010I adore most ice cream, but love Edy’s espresso chip right now and any peanut butter and chocolate concoction!
KB @ Home-Baked Happiness
September 17, 2010My favorite was Wholly Hazelnut from Stewart’s, but it was a limited flavor they don’t make anymore. 🙁 Second pick is Coffee Coffee Buzz Buzz Buzz from B&J’s, which they only sell at scoop shops.
midlfig
September 17, 2010I wish I knew the name of the little roadside shop in Cleveland that we tried last summer. They had an amazing honey ice cream with a honey caramel ribbon… it was like taking a bite of summer sunshine.
My boyfriend loved the place because they had a banana split that came in a pound cake pan… and that was the small size.
Susan
September 17, 2010I don’t discriminate, I eat ice cream year round! For store bought I love Hagan Daz Caramel Cone.
Homemade is a tie between Salted Butter Carmel and the ice cream birthday cake I made for my husband last year – bottom layer dark chocolate gelato, chocolate crunchies in the middle, vanilla on top covered in homemade fudge sauce and topped with tiny Trader Joes chocolate chip cookies!
Kelsi Rose
September 17, 2010My favorite brand is Blue Bell, so good. Their Triple Chocolate is amazing. I love homemade though, I would pick that everytime given the choice. My mom makes this amazing butter pecan. It is one of the few things that I like pecans in.
marla {family fresh cooking}
September 17, 2010I have one of the Zyliss scoops and I love it! You are right, Ice cream is always in style throughout the year. xo
Grace
September 17, 2010Right now Baskin Robbins Cookies & cream. My husband always laughs at me because I take five minutes to decide… but always get the same thing.
Laura
September 17, 2010I made a Peach-Ice Wine sorbet this summer that was amazing!
Cheryl
September 17, 2010Love Gold Medal Ribbon from Baskin Robbins! I always think I will try something else but just don’t want to waste the calories on anything but what I love!
Sandy
September 17, 2010Mine’s very typical, but oh so good! Mint Chocolate Chip, but specifically from a store we have here called “Tutto Freddo”. It’s amazing! Anf you get a double cone for only $0.95!! So I always end up eating way too much of it! Great for my taste buds, not so good for my hips… 😛
Jill
September 17, 2010My fav would have to be the Mounds ice cream at Wentworth’s Homemade Ice Cream in Hamden, CT!! To die for!!
Sarah
September 17, 2010I just came back from a trip to Korea, and it was amazing! I visited the green tea fields of Boseong and made the right choice of tasting their special green tea ice cream! Well, tasting and devouring are pretty much the same thing, right? I usually don’t like green tea, but now I crave green tea ice cream all the time…. not that it’s a bad thing.
Janet Watt
September 17, 2010I love the ice cream from Ice Cream Mountain on the Malahat… My favourite flavours is triple chocolate and moose tracks…..
Karen Waldman
September 17, 2010If it is homemade in my kitchen, hands down my rum raisin takes the cake. However, the best ice cream that I ever had(but it has been awhile) was Babcock Hall ice cream in Madison, Wisconsin. For store bought, I go for Turkey Hill vanilla bean or Edy’s brand cookies and cream.
Terri
September 17, 2010I still have dreams of the Macadamia Brittle Ice Cream that Haagan Dazs used to make. However, I’m also a big fan of vanilla frozen custard
Stefanie
September 17, 2010My new favorite is the Cinnamon flavor at Cold Stone, add in some chocolate shavings! Delish!
Lizzy
September 17, 2010Homemade Strawberry ice cream that isn’t frozen all the way so it is still soft.
Bernice
September 17, 2010I’ve always loved Super Kid from Laura Secord… but when I want something a little more ‘grown up’ I enjoy some white chocolate ice cream.
Kerstin
September 17, 2010Ben and Jerry’s Chubby Hubby!
Schmidty
September 17, 2010My favorite is plain old homemade vanilla bean ice cream – with lots of chopped pecans or walnuts.
Justeen
September 17, 2010this is such a hard decision! i absolutely LOVE haagen dazs green tea ice cream, but hazelnut gelato from my favorite italian bakery shop is a close second 🙂
Jen
September 17, 2010Oh, it’s so hard! I have to go with Chocolate peanut butter ice cream, but peach ice cream is a very close second!
Danyelle
September 17, 2010I had some really good caramel and pretzel.
teacherstacy
September 17, 2010My standby is Breyers Chocolate – after a long day at school, I look forward to a bowl. My cat does, too. He waits right by me as I eat waiting (mostly patiently…) for me to finish and set the bowl down for him 🙂 If it’s a special occasion, Ben & Jerry’s Chunky Monkey is my pick!!