I am silly excited about the fact that Baskin-Robbins is joining us this week! When I was in high school, the owners of a Baskin-Robbins store close to us was a home school family, and my mom tutored their two children in English. In exchange for her time, my sister and I learned how to decorate cakes, Baskin-Robbins style, and for each of our seven birthdays that year we were made a special cake just for us! There is nothing quite like an ice cream cake to celebrate another year!
Baskin-Robbins is not only celebrating National Ice Cream Month with us, but they are hosting Lick-A-Thon events, at participating Baskin-Robbins stores, on July 17th. Ice cream lovers everywhere can challenge friends, family or community members to a “lick race” to see who can lick a scoop of OREO Cookies ‘n Cream ice cream (my childhood favorite) the fastest and become the ultimate Lick Champion. It’s a great way to celebrate America’s love of ice cream during National Ice Cream Month, don’t you think?
The fine folks at Baskin-Robbins headquarters, and my local Baskin- Robbins, have graciously offered to make Julia’s birthday cake for her rescheduled birthday party on Sunday! Being that I will be at the BlogHer conference all weekend, that is quite a load off my shoulders… And, quite the treat!
Would you like to win some Baskin-Robbins gift checks? There will be 10 winners who will each win $4 – Just enough for a special ice cream treat at Baskin-Robbins!
- Leave a comment here, anytime through Sunday, with your fondest childhood memory involving ice cream. This will earn you one entry.
- For an optional second entry, post your memories on your blog, with a link to this giveaway, and leave me the url to your post.
Make sure you leave your contact info in the comment. I need to be able to contact you if you win!
Remember you can also leave one piece of ice cream trivia per day, for more chances to win some Baskin-Robbins goodness!
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There are 9 of us kids so ice cream was always a speacail treat.
My fondest memories of ice cream are when my mom sometimes picked me up from school and took me to get an ice cream cone. vidomich(at)yahoo(dot)com
My dad was a huge ice cream fanatic and probably a couple nights per week he would ask “Do you girls want ice cream?” which really meant that HE was in the mood for ice cream, and we would drive to the little shop in a nearby town. That’s always a happy memory.
It is about 8 5degrees now at 8:30 at night, so ice cream sounds good now. My best memory is going to Kimball’s Farm in NH along the backroads for about an hour to get good ice cream
My aunt and uncle had an old-fashioned ice cream maker – the one with the crank on the side. We would make homemade vanilla ice cream and eat it right out of the bucket when we were finished. It was so refreshing on a hot AZ day!
Carolyn
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my dad used to make his famous homemade ice cream when we were kids, that was awesome!
“Albert’s Ice Cream”, a real old-fashioned ice cream parlor was on the corner of the street where we lived when I was little. In summertime, while my parents were at work, my Grandpa and Grandma watched me – spoiling me by allowing me to buy ice cream every day at lunch. My girlfriend, Judy, and I would climb up on the high stools spinning ourselves around and around, enjoying coffee ice cream (a Rhode Island favorite) and peanut butter crackers EVERY DAY!! We both got rather chubby that summer.
My fondest ice cream memory would be making homemade ice cream with our extended family on the 4th of July every year. I don’t know which us kids looked forward to more, the ice cream of fireworks ^_^ Thanks for the yummy giveaway!
Its weird, but I really don’t have any good good memories of my favorite ice-cream times. Growing up as a child in a very large place for kids that were either not wanted, or their parents couldn’t afford to raise them, or abuse issues, or whatever the cause may be. I’am sure at one time or other we must have had ice-cream, but I don’t remember. I do remember when I was in the hospital, (which was quite often) for corrective surgery, I remember having ice-cream that came in those little paper cups so I would have to say that is my best memory.
Thank you
My favorite ice cream memories is when I was growing up, we would always get together with extended family on Thanksgiving. Always after dinner, we would make homemade ice cream. Oh, so good!!!
My first job was in an ice cream parlor and my dad would pick me up. I always had to have a pineapple sundae ready for him!
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After my parents divorced when I was little and it was my dad’s weekend with me and my brother, we would always go for icecream and I always ordered Mint Chocolate Chip.
My mom and I had a special standing date once a week to have ice cream. That was our Mother-Daughter time and very precious to me. I now have the same standing date with my daughter.
I remember fondly having ice cream cake at my tenth birthday party.
Ooooh… my fondest childhood memory involving ice cream!
(Where have I been all week?! I wish I’d have checked over here earlier this week. I’ve had your ‘button’ in my sidebar for at least a couple weeks. So, why didn’t I come?!?!?!?)
My mouth is watering as I scan my brain for memories of ice cream — there are sooooo many… homemade ice cream (using the old hand crank kind), peanut butter and chocolate at B.R. in Indianapolis… I think the store we frequented was on 38th Street or so, trips to the Tastee Freeze with my aunt and uncle in Oklahoma — need I go on?
Now that I’ve walked down memory lane, I’m afraid I may have missed the deadline for entering.
Oh well, I’ll try not to drool all over the keyboard.
Thanks for the fun giveaway.
I blogged about it here.
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Hope this works it is 11:30 pm pacific time.
My favorite icecream memory is when I was a little girl and I would visit my grandma she always bought ice cream cones, the cake cones. Then we would scoop the ice cream, and have an ice cream cone at her house whenever we wanted. I need to start doing that w/ my kids, it was fun.
Eating ice cream at a friend’s house and then coming to my house begging for ice cream, trying to get even more (and completely acting innocent about just having indulged elsewhere).
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