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THE “SUPER SUNDAE RECIPE CONTEST” IS HERE!

Monday, October 11th, 2010

In past years here on the Ice Cream Journal we’ve hosted a recipe contest featuring Turkey Hill’s holiday-themed ice cream flavors. This year, we’re doing things a bit differently. We call it “The Super Sundae Recipe Contest” and it’s pretty simple.

Send us your best or favorite ice cream sundae recipe using any Turkey Hill ice cream flavor(s) as an ingredient. It can be a sundae you make at home or a recipe you made up just for this contest. It can be simple (only three or four ingredients) or a slightly more complex concoction. Whatever it is, make sure it’s delicious and make sure you send it to us before November 14 (that’s the deadline).

In addition to the recipe, you’ll need to give it a name (“The Super Dooper Hot Fudge Sundae” or “Janet’s Awesome Butterscotch Blast” for example) AND send us a photo of your creation. The picture part is important, because this contest is 50 percent about the recipe and name and 50 percent about the deliciousness of the photo. We’ll post a blog entry on Wednesday with all sorts of tips to help with the picture-taking process.

Once you’ve got your recipe, title and photo, email it along with your name and address to icecreamjournal@gmail.com.

We’ll choose four of our favorite entries and post them here on the Ice Cream Journal in November. After that, the voting will begin and the sundae with the most votes will win… drum roll please… a super sundae prize package containing 10 free containers of Turkey Hill ice cream, a set of six Bormioli Rocco waffle cone-inspired glass sundae dishes, a Tovolo Standz Ice Cream Scoop, and a jar of Ghirardelli chocolate fudge sauce. Each finalist will also receive a one-month supply of Turkey Hill ice cream.

Good luck!

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SOME FINAL THOUGHTS ON REGIFTING AND OUR ULTIMATE HOLIDAY RECIPE WINNER!

Monday, December 29th, 2008

Before we unveil our Ultimate Holiday Recipe Contest winner, we wanted to thank everyone for your insightful opinions in our last entry. On Saturday we asked what your opinion was of re-gifting gifts that you don’t want and plenty of you sounded off on both sides of the issue. Overall, the consensus was that re-gifting is okay. Of those who gave a definite yes or no on the topic (many were in between), about 30 of you said it was fine to re-gift and 15 said it wasn’t.

Still, our favorite bad gift horror story came from the very first comment on that entry when E.D. shared with us her irregular mohair sweater horror story. If E.D. wants to re-wrap that gift, she’ll have to find someone with an arm that’s three inches longer than the other.

Now on to our big announcement. Several months ago we asked everyone to submit their best recipes using either of our two holiday ice cream flavors: Peppermint Stick and Egg Nog. We received over 150 submissions and all of the sounded delicious, but we finally narrowed it down to four of the best recipes. We prepared the recipes, photographed the results, posted them on the blog and asked you to vote for which one you thought was the best.

And so, after two weeks and 764 votes, the winner of the Turkey Hill Ultimate Holiday Recipe Contest is…Patti’s Chocolate Peppermint Stick Roll! Congratulations Patti! As a reward for her culinary greatness, Patti will receive a one year supply of Turkey Hill ice cream. Each of the other three finalists will receive a one month’s supply of ice cream.

 

Looking back at the contest, it was a hard fought battle between Patti’s Peppermint Stick Roll and Lily’s Christmas Nog Cheesecake. In fact, when the dust settled, only 18 votes separated Patti’s entry (with 261 votes) from Lily’s entry (243 votes). Of course, the real winners in this contest are those of us who made some of these recipes at home and tried them out! If you’re not one of those people, feel free to check out the four finalist recipes (and many others) on our recipes page.

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