July 10, 2012

Ice Cream Week: Best Ice Cream Gear & Ice Cream Maker Giveaway! {Naptime Simple Tips}

Every year or so I do a huge ice cream celebration. In fact, way back in 2009, the first summer of this blog, I did a new ice cream recipe every week all summer!! This year I’m back with a fun new ice cream week and a round-up of my favorite ice cream gear. All week I’ll be focusing on ice cream and including a few new recipes everyone will love. To kick things off, here are my favorite tools for making luscious, silky ice cream at home. I swear, it is so easy and soooo naptime-friendly!

Ice Cream Essentials Naptime Chef

1. Cuisinart Ice-21 / 2. Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams cookbook / 3. OXO ice cream scoop / 4. Chilly ice cream container / 5. Awesome ice cream bowls

 

To enter to win a new Cuisinart Ice-21:

1) Leave a comment sharing your favorite ice cream flavor!

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4) Contest runs from July 10th at 7:00am ET through July 17th at 7:00am ET. Winner will be announced in the July 20th newsletter!

138 Responses to “Ice Cream Week: Best Ice Cream Gear & Ice Cream Maker Giveaway! {Naptime Simple Tips}”

  1. Elbilledeaux says:

    Favorite ice cream… thats a hard one! I think I’d say blackberry vanilla. Mmmm…

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  4. April V says:

    I love rocky road!

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  6. Jen B says:

    Plain ol’ chocolate…I like tasting other flavors, but I always come back to the good stuff.

  7. Drichards says:

    favorite ice cream is mint chocolate chip! Yum!!!

  8. Denise says:

    Orange Pineapple

  9. Heather_rueber says:

    Mint chocolate chip!

  10. Sara Landers Craine says:

    Chocolate peanut butter!

  11. Rachael says:

    My favourite icecream would have to be rocky road!

  12. Jenn says:

    Toffee caramel ice cream would be one of my favorites! 

  13. starla petersen says:

    Chocolate ice cream for sure!!

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  15. Alyssa Irby says:

    Favorite ice cream flavor is strawberry cheesecake with chunks of crust.

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  18. Sarah Hawkins Pinchers says:

    My favorite ice cream flavor is chocolate peanut butter!

  19. ilona t says:

    i love coffee!

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  21. carrie says:

    coffee ice cream is my fav.

  22. Nicolec says:

    My favorite is mint and chip.

  23. Aibrean Ros says:

    My favorite ice cream flavor is mint chocolate chip.

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  26. Annie says:

    My fave flavors are cookies n cream and strawberry.  Yum!

  27. vaishali sharda says:

    chocolate

  28. Michelle O says:

    I love love love rocky road, but a semi-local creamery makes a dutch chocolate that is hands down the best ice cream ever!

  29. Laura M. says:

    I love mint chocolate chip!

  30. Meryl says:

    My favorite is my homemade bittersweet chocolate ice cream. 

  31. Louis says:

    I like espresso ice cream.

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  34. Rachel Parker says:

    I’m subscribed to your newsletter 🙂

  35. Rachel Parker says:

    My favorite ice cream flavor is strawberry!

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  37. Audrey says:

    Moosetracks!

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  40. Karen L says:

    My all time favorite ice cream flavor is butter pecan – yum yum!

  41. latanya says:

    Mint chocolate chip

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  44. Jane Highstreet says:

    My favorite flavor ice cream is Peppermint Stick….but only from McConnell’s Ice Cream Shop in Santa Barbara, CA. So yummy!

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  46. anne hill says:

    my favorite ice cream is rocky road! or coffee gelato

  47. Kcrose210 says:

    My favorite ice cream flavor is Mango!

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  50. Nancy says:

    Love a creamy butter pecan on top with fudgy chocolate as the bottom scoop on a homemade waffle cone!

  51. Lisa K says:

    My favorite is the banana oreo ice cream at Gabriel’s Fountain in Martinsville, NJ.

  52. Nancy says:

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  54. Mickdefaut says:

    I love ice cream. It’s hard to pick a favorite but I have to say vanilla is it. I know other people think it’s boring but it is the most versatile for toppings and even by itself never disappoints.

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  56. cindyskitchen says:

    My favorite ice cream is Strawberry Cheesecake.
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  58. Karen Lynch says:

    I love Moose Tracks, close behind is mint chocolate chip, (gotta be green though).

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  62. Robin Chesser says:

    My favorite ice cream flavor is dulce de leche.

  63. Stacy says:

    My favorite flavor is vanilla bean.

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  65. Angela M. says:

    Mint

  66. Babs says:

    My favorite flavor is vanilla, you can do so much with it, I love adding caramel sauce or chocolate syrup with strawberry jam 😀

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  68. Miranda says:

    I love chocolate peanut butter

  69. Miranda says:

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  71. Sarah P. / Julia's Child says:

    I’m a vanilla girl!

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  72. Wendy Polisi says:

    I love butter pecan!

  73. Miranda C. says:

    chocolate peanut butter swirl

  74. Quyen says:

    Milk chocolate ice cream (gelato actually)!

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  77. Jacqui says:

    My favorite ice cream flavors is chocolate peanut butter cup!

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  80. Amy Cutting says:

    Chocolate Malted Crunch! (It’s unfortunately a Rite Aid ice cream flavor only available in CA and since I’m in Michigan – none for me in waaaaaaay too long of a time)

  81. tweetyscute says:

    My favorite is mint chocolate chip

  82. Kim Porter says:

    My favorite ice cream is chocolate salted caramel. Super decadent and worth every bite!

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  87. Dv Boyd34 says:

    My favorite Ice Cream is Butterscotch,Coconut, Pecan. Thank you for the chance to win the ice cream maker. I also signed up for the newsletter for naptime news.

  88. Nicolette says:

    It is a tie between coffee and mint chocolate chip. I’d love to give ice cream making a try at home!

  89. Nicolette says:

    I subscribe via facebook

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  91. Bonnie says:

    Vanilla with homemade hot fudge.

  92. Jennifer A. says:

    Blue Bell Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

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  95. Mommy0004 says:

    Hershey’s chocolate peanut butter cup!

  96. Michelle D says:

    Peanut Butter Chocolate or Mint Chocolate Chip. Yum!!!

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  101. Elisa says:

    Cookies and cream 🙂

  102. Elisa says:

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  103. Amanda_burns09 says:

    Mayfield’s Snow Cream!!

  104. Eehrlich says:

    Love any kind of fresh fruit ice cream in the summer- blueberry, strawberry, peach, etc. Already a fan on FB and get the newsletter. Your contests rock!

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  106. Marita Perez says:

    rum raisin ice cream or chocolate gelato

  107. Black Raspberry Chocolate Chip, no question. I already subscribe on FB and newsletter! Thanks for the opportunity. Love your site.

  108. Kari Judd says:

    My Favorite Ice cream flavor is rocky road!!!

  109. Hannah M. says:

    I don’t think you can ever go wrong with good chocolate ice cream, but I also love banana and ginger and peach and black raspberry and-well, most flavors, really 🙂

  110. Sara says:

    Chocolate Peanut butter!

  111. Cajungourmet says:

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    my favorite is homemade vanilla from Blue Bell

  112. Ro'Chele A says:

    I love peanut butter ice cream!

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  115. Bratkeeper says:

    I LOVE chocolate peanut butter!

  116. Sarah says:

    Vanilla, but I really want to try the buttermint from Jeni’s book.

  117. I love making peach ice cream. 

  118. Niki says:

    Chocolate peanut butter!!!!  The best!  Unless I’m at Cold Stone, but then it would be salted caramel with bananas and brownies!

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  121. susitravl says:

    Butter  Brickle

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  123. Alice says:

    I love fruity flavors, or a mix of chocolate and coffee ice cream with marshmallows and caramel! 🙂 

  124. Alex says:

    Mint chocolate chip

  125. Desiree says:

    Bump cake!! A northern favorite

  126. Paulina Vincent says:

    When it comes to store-bought products that are at least as easy to make at home (often much better, too!), I’m a huge fan of green tea ice cream. I had an Italian grand-aunt who was a mistress of anything gelato, so I’m woefully lacking in ice cream making skills.

    My favorite flavor of ice cream up-to-date is olive oil gelato, that is served on the dessert menu at restaurant Cafe Juanita in Kirkland, WA, just north of Seattle. It’s such an unexpected flavor, that you’ll curiously try it, and then end up loving it. Sort of like another typical Mediterranean “oddity”, olive oil cake.

  127. Kathleen Conner says:

    I love pistachio

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  130. Jen B says:

    Plain old chocolate 🙂 

  131. Greg Allbee says:

    A really good natural vanilla bean is hard to beat.  Then I can top with my own choice of nuts or fresh summer fruit, like strawberries or grilled peaches!

  132. Courtney says:

    Strawberry!!

  133. John Billiris says:

    I love a good rich chocolate

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  136. Venetrise Jackson says:

    My favorite ice cream is butter pecan. 

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