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:
Delia
September 17, 2010I love all ice cream, but I try to mainly eat light ice cream as I tend to eat a lot of it!
Jenny
September 17, 2010any type of gelato 🙂
Lauren
September 17, 2010My homemade favorite is absinthe ice cream with dark chocolate chunks. I’m also obsessed with Gelateria Naia’s Ferrero Rocher gelato.
Mellisa W.
September 17, 2010Braums’s German Chocolate. It is creamy chocolate with coconut and pecans. I like to have them make a milkshake and throw in some extra salted pecans. Thanks!
Mackenzie
September 17, 2010My husband makes a peanut butter chocolate ice cream that is delicious! Melted chocolate to make a chocolate base, homemade peanut butter mixed in, and then frozen in our ice cream maker. Yum! I think I need to get a snack. I’m so hungry now!
Kimmy
September 17, 2010I love love love my some strawberry cheesecake at TCBY. Yumm!
Carolyn
September 17, 2010A gelateria in town makes an absolutely delectable chocolate hazelnut flavor called Donatella – it’s smooth and creamy yet light. Twice a year I treat myself to a 5-litre pail! None of my homemade ones can match it.
Shari
September 17, 2010Ben & Jerry’s Chunky Monkey is my all-time favorite! It combines all my favorite things — banana ice cream, chocolate, and nuts (walnuts, to be exact). It rocks!
Jon
September 17, 2010My current fave I think is 7 layer bar from Ben and Jerry’s scoop shop, not sold in cartons.
Katie
September 17, 2010I like all ice cream… but strawberry, or chocolate, or peach or carmel could be my favorite.
Maureen
September 17, 2010I like the Steven Colbert Americone from Ben & jerry’s
Em
September 17, 2010Huckleberry ice cream is amazing whether its homemade or gotten at a local ice cream shop in Montana
Melissa
September 17, 2010My favorite “ice cream” was a Tirimasu gelato I had at a little shop in Italy near the Piazza Novana. Holy cow! Seriously, they must have used holy cows this gelato was so heavenly. It even had lady fingers that got all mushed together into the cone. I think I ate that at least once a day for the 6 days I was there. Mmmmmm, now I need to go back!
Jasmine
September 17, 2010There is this Italian ice and gelato place where I grew up with a blood orange sorbet. It’s delicious, I have it every time I’m home.
Eleanor
September 17, 2010My faaaavorite ice cream comes from a very small shop in Toronto called “Greg’s Ice cream” He makes this one flavor, roasted marshmallow and it’s a dream come true.
Alysha
September 17, 2010My fav is vanilla and chocolate swirl in a waffle cone!
Gwyn
September 17, 2010I love Sorbets or Sorbettos. Any flavor is fine, but my fave is probably Raspberry.
Sarah
September 17, 2010Wild strawberry ice cream from Berthillon in Paris… so good.
Jules
September 17, 2010I adore homemade ice cream that I make at home. With only 4 ingredients (cream, half & half, sugar, kosher salt) it is easy and my kids love to ‘help’ me make it.
Amy
September 17, 2010Chocolate Peanut Butter shake from Freckles Frozen Custard or
Strawberry with Chocolate Flakes Concrete from Custard King. (both in Tulsa, OK)
Can you tell I love frozen custard?
Jodie
September 17, 2010I love Cold Stone’s cheesecake!
Andrea Dorn
September 17, 2010My favorite ice cream is by Blue Bunny and it is their Peanut butter Panic. I just love the taste and great taste. I only get it once a year so my waist doesn’t grow.
jacquie
September 17, 2010peach ice cream from hoffmans in westminster. it says SUMMER to me.
Lorie
September 17, 2010Banana! I love ANY banana. Ben and Jerry’s is my favorite store bought, but we have a great recipe with frozen bananas, honey, and a little cream!
YUM!
Sherry
September 17, 2010I love espresso chocolate chip ice cream that is homemade using dark chocolate chunks! It is honestly the best thing I have EVER eaten!
Margaret
September 17, 2010For homemade I would have to say vanilla bean. YUM!! But I also love making almond chocolate.
What a great end of summer give a way.
Tracy F
September 17, 2010I’ve never tried to make homemade ice cream but pistachio is my favorite.. any brand, any store…. pistachio!
Carrie
September 17, 2010My favorite is Häagen-Dazs Amaretto Almond Crunch!
Of course, it is only a limited edition, so I have been trying to eat as many as I can find!
Jetrina
September 17, 2010My favorite ice cream is a deluxe brand called moon pie! and also chocolate and rocky road =]
Tessa
September 17, 2010homemade cinnamon ice cream with some caramel sauce = heaven
Sophia
September 17, 2010I love homemade white chocolate ice cream!!! (I make David Lebovitz’s) Yum….
amber
September 17, 2010Lately I love Edy’s Mint Chocolate Chip Brownie Blast…it’s so yummy, mint flavored ice cream with mini chocolate chips, with little pieces of brownie mixed throughout the ice cream. Sinfully delish! I used to love this ice cream at a local place called Alinosis Ice Cream Parlor, they made a Orange-Pineapple ice cream that was AMAZING. I’d like to try and make my own sometime!
Katie Bias
September 17, 2010My favorite ice cream HAS to be Graeter’s Black Raspberry Chip. The black raspberry ice cream is rich, creamy, delicious, and super flavorful by itself, but then Graeter’s adds huge chunks of dark chocolate to the mix. The chunks are very rustic and vary in size… you never know what size pieces you’ll find! Also, the chocolate is super rich and melts in your mouth. Definitely the best ice cream I’ve ever had!
Barbara
September 17, 2010Although I’ve made my own ice cream, my fav is Friendly’s Mint Chocolate Chip in a sugar cone. Yummy!
JoVonn
September 17, 2010My first choice would be homemade vanilla bean but Im not up to making my own I buy Mayfield Turtle Tracks.
Jennifer
September 17, 2010homemade vanilla bean ice cream
Flo
September 17, 2010Mint chocolate chip!
Elle
September 17, 2010Home made buttermilk sorbet–I made it for the first time this summer and it is absolutely delicious! 🙂
Suzanne
September 17, 2010Homemade– my boyfriend and I have been making homemade ice cream for a while. We mix all the ingredients in a clean 1 gallon paint tin, put that inside a larger plastic bucket with rock salt and Ice, put the lid on and take turns shaking. Our favorites so far have been pumpkin made with pumpkin spice and a whole can of pumpkin, and a ginger spice where we replaced the white sugar with brown sugar and added spices and crystalized ginger.
Quinn
September 17, 2010Nothing beats homemade for me. I once made a rosemary, carrot and ginger granita and serve it in between entree and the main course, it really whets the appetite and I’ve been making it often ever since then. And what do you really need when it comes to making granita? Nothing more than a fork! Love the Zyliss Ice Cream Scoop!!!
Rebeca
September 17, 2010my favorite ice cream is from Fenton’s Creamery – the coffee cookie dream! It’s delicious because of the richness of the coffee ice cream and the huge cookie chunks filled inside….top it off with a freshly made waffle cone – YUM!
Amanda V
September 17, 2010This is like asking to pick a favorite limb. or a favorite child, if I were to have children, which I don’t. so anyway.
My favorite ice cream would have to be Breyer’s Reese’s Ice Cream. It was a tough choice. Starbucks Java Chip Frappuccino comes in at a close second. But what I love about Reese’s ice cream is the creamy peanut butter ice cream, and of course the Reese’s chunks make it perfect. I just. love. peanut butter. and ice cream. and this puts them together. <3
🙂
Peggy
September 17, 2010Graeters ice cream from Cincinnati, Ohio. It is handmade in small batches. It is very rich, creamy and the chocolate chunks can be the size of your fist! Yum!
JeeAe
September 17, 2010I really love Pumphouse Creamery at 4754 Chicago Ave S in Minneapolis, MN. I usually get their Sea Salt, Caramel and Praline Pecans, but the last time I was there, I got their Local Organic Strawberry, and it was absolutely phenomenal. I’ve never had a strawberry ice cream that tasted as truly of fresh strawberries as that one.
Savannah
September 17, 2010I made a raspberry ripple ice cream once that was absolutely amazing. It was a fairly basic vanilla ice cream with swirls of homemade raspberry sauce through it. I also really love my homemade chocolate cake batter ice cream. I love to mix in tons of colorful sprinkles in it!
bethannw
September 17, 2010I love the salted fudge caramel from Red Trolley in Denver. I had tons of dental work done in the past year, and my brother brought me some every time. It almost made the pain worth it
lauren
September 17, 2010I love homemade ice cream in all kinds of flavors (german chocolate cake yummm) but I also love vanilla and chocolate twist soft serve in a cone! Sometimes with sprinkles 🙂
Stephanie
September 17, 2010I love homemade peach ice cream with ginger cookies. I also love salted carmel ice cream from the Davis Creamery in Davis, CA. DELISH!
Meryl
September 17, 2010My favorite is my homemade bittersweet chocolate ice cream.
LE
September 17, 2010Purely Decadent’s So Very Strawberry. Strawberry is one of my favorite flavors for everything!