Whole Foods Ice Creams + Ice Cream Maker & Gift Card Giveaway!
We have weather two mega heatwaves so far this summer and it is only the end of July. Eeps! To get me through I’ve been turning on the oven very little and only using the stovetop as needed. There has been a lot of gazpacho, sandwiches, and ice cream on our dinner table. Yes, the ice cream has been put right on the table alongside our dinner because it is practically part of the main course when it is so hot out. I am still trying to lose the very last of the baby weight, but that doesn’t mean I still can’t enjoy a small scoop at the end of the meal. I just tell myself it is in the name of staying cool.
So, where has our ice cream been coming from? Easy – Whole Foods or my own ice cream maker! I LOVE making homemade ice cream because I have complete control over the ingredients. However, sometimes I don’t plan ahead and when we want ice cream immediately I need to buy it. Earlier this month Whole Foods brought me some of their latest offerings and we had a blast trying them. There were so many good flavors!
Included in the package was Phin & Phebes‘ Banana Walnut Ice Cream, Van Leeuwen’s Ginger Ice Cream, Steve’s Sunday Morning Ice Cream (Maple with Waffle Bits), Maple’s Chocolate Gelato, Blue Marble’s Vanilla Ice Cream, and ISKream’s Sugar-Free Java Chip. All of these companies are local to the greater New York area and use ingredients from local producers and dairies. Love it!
Of all the ice creams the Ginger Ice Cream was my daughter’s favorite. She adored the warm spicy custard and bits of candied ginger. My husband loved the Banana Walnut and topped it with whipped cream to make it taste like a true banana split. I was completely enamored of the Maple Ice Cream with Waffle Bits. Waffles are one of my favorite breakfast foods so who wouldn’t love them crushed up into ice cream made with real maple syrup. It was seriously swoon-worthy.
To encourage you to support your local creameries and try out some new flavors Whole Foods is generously giving away a $25 gift card to their store. I am pairing this with one of my favorite ice cream accessories of the summer: an ice cream maker (!) to make this the complete ice cream giveaway. Come by and enter to win!
To enter to win the Whole Foods $25 gift card and Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker:
1) Leave a comment sharing a new ice cream flavor you may have tried lately or want to try!
2) Subscribe to Kelsey Banfield on Facebook.
3) Sign up for The Naptime Chef newsletter (upper right hand corner)
4) Winner will be announced in the August 9th newsletter. Contest runs from July 29th at 7:00am ET through August 8th at 7:00am ET. Good luck!
Would love to try a peach-pecan….two of my favorite flavors combined! I subscribe to your newletter, but I do not participate in Facebook. I follow you on Pinterest and Twitter. Thanks for the chance. I would love to make my own.
I recently saw a rhubarb ice cream recipe. It is definitely on my to-do list!
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I recently tried salted caramel and I loved it!
I recently tried a chocolate/coconut combo at a local ice cream stand, and it was delicious!
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I like Chocolate ice cream with marshmallow swirls. I follow Kelsey Banfield on FB(Kelly D Saver) and I subscribe to the newsletter under kellywcu8888ATgmailDOTcom
Want to try making orange sherbet – would love a new maker!
I want to try buckeye ice cream. (Chocokate and peanutbutter)Hoping to get to Jeni’s…a local vendor before summer is over.
I’ve been wanting to make tiramisu ice cream for a while now!
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I love Ben and Jerry’s new cinnamon swirl/roll. Yummy
Salted caramel sounds divine!
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I saw a recipe for lemon buttermilk ice cream that I would love to try
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tried Haagen dazs Pineapple coconut and love it.
Would love to make my own, follow on Facebook and newsletter. I love peanut butter swirled in chocolate.
In tried cubby crunch the other day; it’s similar to cookies and cream with rainbow sprinkles and toffee added in. It was a delicious race to eat it before it melted.
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Liz Lemon frozen yogurt Ben and Jerrys has blueberries swirled in lemon frozen yogurt, would love to try to make it myself!
S’mores Gelato from Ciao Bella was delicious (especially the chocolate chunks). Would love to make my own one day.
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I bought a carton of Pineapple Coconut ice cream. It was fantastic!
I recently tried Mango Ginger ice cream at a place called Toscanini’s in Cambridge, MA. The NYTimes calls this ice cream joint the “best in the world,” and I’d have to agree – it was divine.
I subscribe and would love to try a German Chocolate Cake ice cream, YUM.
I would like to try a maple flavored frozen yogurt!
I want to try the banana ice cream
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I really want to try Jeni’s salted caramel!
I think I’d like to try the banana walnut one. Sounds like it might taste a little like banana bread, Yum!
Mmmmm, Cori, buckeye ice cream sounds awesome!
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sea salt caramel!
I’d like to try s’mores ice cream.
I want to try peach ice cream!
I would love to try green tea ice cream! Or maybe make a chai flavored one 🙂 deeg131 at gmail dot com
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I tried coconut, and it was delicious!
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I love Three Twins Strawberry!
I would like to try ginger ice cream
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I’m a tea junkie so I want to try Van Leeuwen’s Artisan Ice cream in the EARL GREY flavor!
Talenti Gelato, which is the best ice cream I have ever had, has a flavor called Sicilian Pistachio that truly is to die for!
I haven’t tried anything new lately…I love chocolate and stick to it. 😉 But I love Vienna Mocha Chunk.
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I am pretty much a chocolate chip fanatic, but I am so curious about the Maple Bacon ice cream they have at the local ice cream store!
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Also just tried vanilla with chocolate covered bacon and it was pretty good!
The ice cream flavor I want to try is cookies and cream cookie dough
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Goat cheese marionberry habanero. It was amazing!
anything w/coconut! i’m a FB and newsletter subscriber.
I am a subscriber already. I think a banana pecan caramel flavor would be rather tasty to try.
I have always wanted to try a lavender ice cream flavor! I know it is popping up in a lot of ice cream places lately and I think it sounds delicious.
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Not sure what new flavor I would want to try but have tried some in this past year…like Green Tea and a rosewater type ice cream.
The weirdest ice cream flavor I’ve tried lately was cilantro lime and it was delicious!
Ok, I made this and it is easy and awesome (it would be a lot easier with that ice cream maker, but that’s another matter) – Blackberry, Pear, Vanilla Bean and Honey Sorbet – trust me this is wonderful. I think I invented it!
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new flavor i want to try is lavender!!! sounds so interesting! but choc chip mint is my all time fave.
I want to try making peach ice cream since I’ve never had it!
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I want to try dark chocolate with salted caramel!
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We just picked a ton of blueberries this week, and we would love to make a homemade blueberry ice cream! Yum! 🙂
i want to try earl grey tea ice cream
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The favor I tried lately was Mint Chocolate Chip.
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Chocolate Flan ice cream-“EXCELLENT”
I would like to try peach cobbler
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I want to try a lemon ice cream flavor
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I have been holding my sisters ice cream maker hostage. I just made blackberry&oreo ice cream with the first of the blackberries. VERY yummy!
Mango or matcha ice cream! 🙂
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I’ve been receiving the newsletters, they are awesome! 🙂
I just made a lemon buttermilk sorbet that was yummy. I’m going to make a pound cake, macerate some fresh peaches and serve it with the sorbet.
My next adventure will be brown butter pecan ice cream.
I’ve started adding fresh blueberries to my ice cream, and it’s delicious!
I don’t think it’s new, but I have been seeing swamp all over the place and I want to try it…no one has been able to tell me what flavor it is though. (I subscribe to Facebook and your newsletter already)
I put roasted almonds on my ice cream, and it’s my new favorite
Lemon buttermilk blueberry swirl!
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I have been wanting to try marionberry cheesecake!
Lingonberry! Yum!
I just saw a recipe for s’mores ice cream that I’d like to try
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I’d like to try chocolate mint
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I recently tried strawberry-rhubarb! Delish!
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I would love to try pumpkin chocolate chip ice cream!
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Having an ice cream maker would be a nice addition to my repetoir in the kitchen… I would make a bacon ice cream!
Lavender ice cream! So good in cooking!! maybe with ginger?
Pear and bleu cheese from Salt & Straw!
I would make pumpking chocolate chip ice cream, I love pumpkin! (Also subscribed to you on FB)
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I want to make earl gray tea ice cream because I LOVE earl gray tea. I need an ice cream maker though! 😉 Erica
I tried to make peach ice cream last week, with limited success. Thankfully, even failed ice cream is still pretty tasty!
I tried to make a salted caramel swirl ice cream, but the swirl just mixed in with the ice cream so it was salted caramel ice cream! It was delicious tho!
I have been wanting to try mango ice cream lately! Perfect for summer.
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I get your newsletter and I follow you on facebook. The most interesting flavors of ice cream I have had are earl grey sriracha (from a place called Little Baby’s Ice Cream), avocado (from an ice cream shop in Kennett Square, PA) and my friend made corn ice cream, which is delish.
Blueberry Cheesecake ice cream. It’s so good.
Strawberry swirl!
Vanilla lavender
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I am trying to perfect a ice cream recipe for Amaretto Peach Pecan Ice Cream. This would be a perfect maker to perfect this in!
I’d like to try some kind of blackberryand honey ice cream.
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i want to try salted caramel pretzel ice cream!
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I want to try the Banana Walnut Ice Cream! Sounds delicious! Thanks for the chance to win!
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Did all of the above, jujjy@yahoo.com. The Sunday Morning sounds yummy (I love maple anything!), but whenever confronted with and poring over tons of flavor options forever (at the store or in an ice cream parlor), I always fall back on my all-time fave Vanilla, so I’d probably reach for the Blue Marble. Good luck, all! 🙂