Ice Cream Fun - Options for National Ice Cream Day

by Lauri Griffin | More from this Blogger

15 Jul 2007 10:52 AM

Did you know that June is National Ice Cream Month and that the third Sunday of the month, today, is National Ice Cream day? What a great excuse to eat some ice cream!

My family loves ice cream and we can think of all sorts of ways to celebrate. Today we have plans to visit our neighborhood ice cream store after lunch. But we could also make homemade ice cream in our new freezer, or ice cream sodas.

A few years ago some friends of ours had an ice cream party that I've always meant to copy. They asked everyone to bring either a favorite flavor of ice cream or a favorite topping. What a feast we all had. And the adults had just as much fun as the children building their own dream sundaes. We had so many fun flavors of ice cream to pick from. Then we got to choose toppings - all sorts of different sauces, nuts, crushed cookies and candies, fruits, and whipped cream. Some of the more unusual toppings were gummy bears, crushed shortbread cookies, and bits of peppermint patties.

As a copy of this party, I have offered a few flavors of ice cream to guests, along with a few toppings to pick from. Even this limited build it yourself ice cream party is great fun. And again, adults enjoy it as much as children. I think a lot of us have always wanted to build our own ice cream sundae concoctions and just never had or took the chance. You do have to watch the children with this. Sometimes they get very carried away and put four times more ice cream than they could eat in their bowl. An easy way to limit this is to use sundae cups or even wide but short plastic cups.

I hope you all get a chance to enjoy an ice cream today - be it a cone, cup, or an all out sundae.

Also see: Happy National Ice Cream Day!

Peanut Butter Oreo Cookie Ice Cream

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Lauri lives in Colorado with her husband and three sons. Amidst all the laundry and packing of lunches, she tries to keep parenting fun.

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