Now that the Ice Cream Social Wrap-Up‘s have been delivered, it is now about that time to send some further shouts out to the folks who are getting served here! So, with the few Sur-PRIZES that were on hand, we split them up accordingly, just as was previously noted at Tangled Noodle and Savor The Thyme..

Congratulations to the following winners* of coupons for free Stonyfield Farms’ ice cream and frozen yogurt!

#3 Greg of SippitySup and At Home Cherry Garcia
#61 Fearless Kitchen and Almond Ice Cream with Strawberry-Amaretto Sauce
#27 He Cooks, She Cooks and Dulce de Leche Ice Cream
#46 Marillyn of Just Making Noise -Pomegranate Ice Cream
#31 Phyllis of me_Hungry – The Princeton Ice Cream Crawl

(*Recipients were chosen at random using random.org’s number generator to draw winners from a list of all dessert entries. Stonyfield Farms Coupons will be mailed directly from the company.)

For three remaining prizes, it proved to be unbelievably difficult to pick from among all of the outstanding entries we received. So, in addition to the winner of each prize, we decided to name a runner-up, who will receive Stonyfield Farms coupons.

Best Photograph

Prize: Susan Kare-designed Ice Cream Cone Wall Graphic, courtesy of LTLprints.com

1st Runner-up: Denise of Chez Us, for a gorgeously vivid Boysenberry Sorbet on a cone.

Winner: Deeba of Passionate About Baking, for a sublime photo that hints at the lovely flavors of her Roasted Peach & Plum Ice Cream.

Most Unique Ingredient

Prize: Hand silk-screened T-shirt with original design by Penelope of neenacreates

1st Runner-up: Leela of SheSimmers, for turning what is normally a side dish into an treat – Baked Purple Potato and Sour Cream Creamsicles!

Winner: Anna of Very Small Anna, for her use of the relatively obscure herb, angelica, to update a classic pie combination into Strawberry-Rhubarb Ice Cream.

Best Use of Adult Libations

Prize: “Ice Creams & Sorbets: Cool Recipes” by Lou Seibert Pappas

1st Runner-up: Paula of Ambrosia Quest, for her sophisticated and refreshing Lemon Sorbetto Cocktail.

Winner: Wizzy of Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Punch, for a double-dose of Guinness in her Guinness Brown Bread Ice Cream.

Congratulations to all of our winners! Please email your Name and Address to icecream-at-scottysnacks.com so we can send you the GOODS (feel free to leave a comment here if you are experiencing trouble with emailing and I’ll reply back ).

And, regardless of these Sur-PRIZE’s or not, you are all winners in My Snack Book – thanks so much to ALL for enjoying National Ice Cream Month with us all, we are honored to have you! And, last but not least, remember to keep an eye on @SavorTheThyme and @TangledNoodle, you never know what those 2 might be up to!

With an idea about SWEET ice cream celebrations & YUMMY content surrounding around it all and the stellar assistance of Tracey from Tangled Noodle and Jennifer from Savor The Thyme paired up with all of the participant support, Our Ice Cream Social has been officially carried out. I, personally (along with Jennifer and Tracey), would like to thank each and everyone for their part in National Ice Cream Month’s Festivities – we really appreciate it. We went ahead and divided up all of the entries and each took a handful to announce and commemorate for their TASTY efforts so go ahead and check out Tracy’s Final Scoop and Jennifer’s Round Up to see who they covered! *Lastly, there are still some Sur-PRIZES to be given out – we plan to list those selected tomorrow so, please stay tuned. Thanks again to all who were involved, the turnout was great.. Hershey’s Hugs & Kisses!

And now for some of the real good stuff…

• Home Made Nuts Ice Cream (Kulfi) from A2Z Vegetarian Cuisine
• Tin Roof Ice Cream from Brown Eyed Baker
• Almond Ice Cream with Strawberry-Amaretto Sauce from Fearless Kitchen
• Meet My New Toy from Cooking To Procrastinate



• The Lemon Sorbetto Cocktail from Ambrosia Quest
• Vanilla Ice Cream Layered with Strawberry: Guilty Pleasure from Cook’s Hideout
• Vegan Ice Cream: Coconut, Cherry & Almond from eCurry
• Marshmallow Chocolate Malt Ice Cream from Tinkering With Dinner



• Currant Sorbet from Shiny Cooking
• Curried Banana Frozen Yogurt from Uncovering Food
• Photos of XTC Gelato from Kenny!
• Strawberry Sour Cream Ice Cream from Cupcake Muffin



• Meyer Lemon Blackberry Swirl Ice Cream and Brain Freeze from Very Small Anna



• Linda Evans with her Fizz-Nik Recollection!
• Meringue ice-cream (gelato meringato) from Rum & Reason

And, I can’t forget about the folks at Cool Haus and Get Shaved who came out and rocked it for The Ice Cream Social In Los Angeles – thanks again team!!

In case you missed the previously mentioned word from Tangled Noodle and Savor The Thyme regarding the first two #icsocial Sur-PRIZES, let me expand on just how sweet these treats are – First up for grabs are coupons for ice cream (and yogurt) by the pint from Stonyfield Farms. Next on the Sur-PRIZE list is an organic, cotton tee-shirt that will contain a creative design made by Penelope at the eco friendly, organic boutique tee-shirt, neena creates. Furthermore, for the remainder of the month, neena creates is offering 10% OFF all orders that add the promo code, #icsocial, to their order message! So, join the Ice Cream Social and get to ice cream and/or yogurt and sorbet snacking (while entering to win BIG sweet Sur-PRIZES !!).

*Remember: To enter is SUPER simple!! Simply submit your ice cream blog post url’s, ice cream photos and/or ice cream videos to icecream-at-scottysnacks.com. And, if your email just doesn’t seem to work, use the hashtag, #icsocial, through Twitter and @TangledNoodle, @SavorTheThyme and I will count you in!

With The Ice Cream Social officially upon us and the month of July quickly passing by, I figured I might as well go on and document some ice cream snacking of my own. That being said, let me trace back to the evening after @PaigeCraig’s 4th Of July #BadAssBBQ2 whereby I made some post party sugar cookies (but instead of making Skittles Cookies With Blueberries And Strawberries I went with Raspberry and Blueberry Sugar Cookies ) and added some Heath Bar Ice Cream on top to make a crafty Sugar Cookie & Ice Cream Snack! *Remember folks, there is still plenty of time to have some pure yum fun with The Ice Cream Social so get to ice cream snacking (and up your chances of winning a sur-prize or two)!

It is the first of the month of July and thank the lucky snack stars that back in 1984, President Ronald Reagan claimed July as National Ice Cream Month and positioned the third Sunday of July as National Ice Cream Day (via IDFA story). And, if that ain’t some good-grub news (especially for the dairy snack folks), I don’t know what good-grub news is. Furthermore, I’m thinking I might as well go on and have me some (plenty of) ice cream this month. Snack. I’m even going to try and craft up some home-made batches myself. IN FACT, with the help of Savor The Thyme and Tangled Noodle (who you may recall were both behind the Eating Your Words Challenge where I submitted my Mardi Gras Flavored Beignets to), there will be an Ice Cream Social carried out for the entire month of July whereby anyone and everyone can participate by simply submitting photos of ice cream, URL’s for your videos of ice cream and/or URL’s of your home-made ice cream recipe posts to icecream-at-scottysnacks.com.

Basic Rules Of Engagement Participation:

1) Post your home-made ice cream recipe including links back to Scotty Snacks, SavortheThyme and Tangled Noodle. Then, send an email to IceCream-at-ScottySnacks.com with the URL and photo from your post along with a name and email so that we may contact you should you WIN! And, we gladly accept any recipes that were published before the start date of our challenge so feel free to brush through the archives for this one!

*Deadline is Friday July 31, 2009!

That’s right, anything and everything containing ice cream and the enjoyment there of will be counted as a submission and, at the end of the month, a handful of winners will be selected for some super special sur-prizes (i.e. prizes that are intended to be surprises ). Each person will be individually recognized, supported and mentioned for their participation in follow up articles at Savor The Thyme, Tangled Noodle and Scotty Snacks. Submit as much as you want, as often as you want for the whole month, each submission increases your chances of being selected for a sur-prize! Lastly, if you use Twitter, please do utilize the hashtag, #icsocial so that we can better track involvement (and feel free to follow @savorthethyme, @tanglednoodle and @scottysnacks ). So, get to ice cream snacking, we’ve got an entire month of delicious dairy treats to consume.