Award Shows are Here

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It’s that time of year again; award shows are in full swing.  Do you watch for the announce­ment of win­ners or to see what celebri­ties are wear­ing on the red car­pet?  Regard­less of your rea­son, what bet­ter way to tune in than with a watch party?  Invite over a few friends, the neigh­bors or fam­ily and set the stage for an enter­tain­ing night together.

Once you know your guest list, focus on the real fun:  what snacks will you pro­vide?  Since guests will be com­ing over after din­ner, maybe a dessert bar is in order.  Bet­ter yet, an ice cream sun­dae bar with var­i­ous fla­vors of ice cream and top­pings galore!  Sweet treats and celeb gos­sip are a win­ning combo, but Blue Bunny ice cream and friends takes home the award!

Hot Chocolate Anyone?

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There is some­thing about win­ter and hot choco­late; seems like as soon as the tem­per­a­tures drop we crave a big mug of it.  Plus, it is easy to make and is enjoyed by chil­dren and adults.  Maybe you are the oppo­site and crave ice cream dur­ing the win­ter.  After all, ice cream warms the soul by adding sweet smiles to ordi­nary moments.  If you’re one of those peo­ple that want the best of both worlds, we rec­om­mend adding a scoop of ice cream to your hot choco­late.  Choco­late, Vanilla or Bunny Tracks; no mat­ter the fla­vor, it’s divine!  What fla­vor of Blue Bunny Pre­mium Ice Cream would you put in your hot chocolate?

January is National Hobby Month

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Jan­u­ary is National Hobby month and what bet­ter way to jump-start the New Year than by pick­ing up a new hobby!  A hobby can be any­thing you enjoy doing, and it can range from healthy activ­i­ties, to col­lect­ing some­thing or par­tic­i­pat­ing in games and crafts.  Ours is def­i­nitely tast­ing ice cream fla­vors!

If you have chil­dren or are around kids, start a hobby with them.  Hob­bies have sev­eral ben­e­fits for kids.  A hobby is a great way for chil­dren to explore cre­ativ­ity and develop their per­son­al­i­ties.  No mat­ter the hobby, a child can pick up a life­time skill and learn many things along the way.

What is your hobby?  Hav­ing trou­ble pick­ing one?  How about cook­ing?  A fun hobby for adults and kids is to share the expe­ri­ence of cre­at­ing in the kitchen.  Here are some easy recipes from Bluebunny.com that the kids can help out with too!

National Candy Cane Day

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When you think of the win­ter hol­i­days, what comes to mind?  Snow­men and sled­ding, tin­sel and lights, hot choco­late and pecan pie…What about candy canes?  For many peo­ple, candy canes are a sym­bol of the sea­son, and Decem­ber 26 is the per­fect day to cel­e­brate them because it’s National Candy Cane Day!

Candy canes looked a lit­tle dif­fer­ent in the begin­ning than they do today.  They started as all-white, straight candy sticks and are said to have been used first as dec­o­ra­tions for the Christ­mas trees of European-Christians in the 1600s.  Some says that they were first referred to as candy “canes” around 1670 when a choir­mas­ter in Ger­many bent the candy sticks into cane-like shapes to look like shep­herds’ staffs.  Stripes weren’t seen on candy canes until after 1900.

Today candy canes are avail­able in all dif­fer­ent sizes, col­ors and fla­vors and are a favorite treat around the hol­i­days.  In honor of National Candy Cane Day, take some minia­ture candy canes and use them to make a fun and tasty treat.  Blue Bunny Frosty Rein­deer uses Blue Bunny Vanilla Ice Cream Sand­wiches, whipped top­ping, caramel can­dies, cin­na­mon red hots and minia­ture candy canes.  Check out bluebunny.com to get started on your very own frosty rein­deer treat!

National Stress Free Family Holiday Month

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The hol­i­days are quickly approach­ing, and with them will come all the fam­ily, all the food, and all the presents.  The hol­i­days are def­i­nitely cause for excite­ment, but they are often also cause for increased stress.  Decem­ber is National Stress-Free Fam­ily Hol­i­day Month.  It’s easy to get wrapped up in all the prepa­ra­tions that have to hap­pen in order to make hol­i­day gath­er­ings with fam­ily and friends absolutely per­fect.  The house needs to be cleaned and dec­o­rated, the gifts must be selected and wrapped, the menu has to be planned and the dishes prepared…etc.  Take a minute to remem­ber that these gath­er­ings are really about spend­ing time with those that you care about.  None of your guests will remem­ber whether the bows on the pack­age were per­fectly tied, or whether every table top was care­fully dec­o­rated.  What they will remem­ber is the time spent together, vis­it­ing, laugh­ing and shar­ing in the hol­i­day spirit.

National Poinsettia Day

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The closer we get to the hol­i­day sea­son, the more Poin­set­tias you’ll see.  These beau­ti­ful red plants are native to Mex­ico, but were intro­duced to the United States more than 18– years ago by Joel Roberts Poin­sett.  Poin­sett served as the first U.S. min­is­ter to Mex­ico from 1825 to 1829.  Dur­ing this time he found the plant grow­ing on a Mex­i­can hill­side and sent sam­ples back to the green­house at his home in South Car­olina.  The plant became known as the Poin­set­tia and Decem­ber 12 was named National Poin­set­tia Day by Con­gress in mem­ory of Poin­sett after his death in 1851.

The col­or­ful parts of the Poin­set­tia plant that appear to be flow­ers are actu­ally clus­ter of “bracts,” or “mod­i­fied leaves.”  The flow­ers of the plant, or the “cyathia” vari­eties of Poin­set­tias are avail­able with red, white and pink bracts clus­ters.  Today there are more than 100 vari­eties of Poin­set­tias avail­able, with red, white and pink bracts.  Impress some­one shop­ping for this hol­i­day sta­ple with your new vocab word - bracts!

There are more poin­set­tias sold in the U. S. dur­ing a brief six-week period around Decem­ber 25 than the entire rest of the year.  They have become a very pop­u­lar sym­bol of the hol­i­days, and no one wants to miss this spe­cial time to enjoy them.

National Volunteer Day

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In 1985, the United Nations des­ig­nated Decem­ber 5th as Inter­na­tional Vol­un­teer Day.  This is a hol­i­day observed each year by coun­tries around the world as a means of rais­ing aware­ness of vol­un­teer efforts of all kinds tak­ing place at every level.

Have you ever vol­un­teered?  A “vol­un­teer” is sim­ply a per­son who per­forms a task or ser­vice will­ingly, with­out pay­ment.  Vol­un­teers are needed every day of every year for projects that help areas as small as a sin­gle neigh­bor­hood to areas as large as an entire coun­try.  There are count­less ways for you and your friends to vol­un­teer in your com­mu­nity this hol­i­day sea­son.  You could go help out at a local soup kitchen.  You will bring warmth to some­one less for­tu­nate by help­ing serve a hot meal.  Maybe you would rather spend some time at a local hol­i­day store, work­ing to ensure that fam­i­lies in need are able to enjoy the hol­i­day.  Vol­un­teers are needed to set up the store, orga­nize donated items and help cus­tomers find the per­fect gift.  Pick up a few boxes of Blue Bunny Champ! Mini Swirls Vanilla Ice Cream Cones or Mini Vari­ety Ice Cream Sand­wiches to treat your­self and your fel­low vol­un­teers at the end of a day well spent.  You deserve it.

Summer Holidays!

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August 10th is quite pos­si­bly the best day ever.  Why is that?  Because two amaz­ing hol­i­days can claim the 10th as their own — National Banana Split Day and National S’mores Day!  This is basi­cally a free pass to indulge in two scrump­tious Amer­i­can dessert sta­ples in one day, and Blue Bunny has you cov­ered!  Whether you’d like to cel­e­brate this dual hol­i­day by scoop­ing Blue Bunny Pre­mium Banana Split Ice Cream right out of the car­ton with a spoons, eat­ing Blue Bunny Champ! Banana Split Ice Cream Cones straight from the pack­age or cre­at­ing the Blue Bunny S’mores Dip­pers by read­ing the recipe instruc­tions or by watch­ing the instruc­tional video at bluebunny.com, you’ll be the most patri­otic of frozen dessert fans out there!

National Ice Cream Sandwich Day

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August 2nd is National Ice Cream Sand­wich Day, and we can’t think of a bet­ter way to start off the month than by taste-testing the var­i­ous types of ice cream sand­wiches that Blue Bunny has to offer.  If you are look­ing for the famil­iar, deca­dent taste of vanilla ice cream jam-packed between chewy choco­late wafers, pick up a box of the Blue Bunny Vanilla Ice Cream Sand­wiches.  How­ever, if you like the taste of orig­i­nal, you’ll also enjoy Blue Bunny Sweet Free­dom Vanilla Ice Cream Sand­wiches which have no sugar added, low-fat ice cream packed between low-fat choco­late wafters.  It’s the same sweet taste — just on the lighter side!  But Blue Bunny ice cream sand­wiches come in a ton of fla­vors, so don’t limit your­self to just one!  Some of the other vari­eties include:  Neapoli­tan, Mis­sis­sippi Mud, Rocky Road, Birth­day Cake, Mint Grasshop­per, Peanut But­ter Fudge Chip, Dou­ble Straw­berry, Cook­ies ‘N Cream and more.  Check out bluebunny.com to see all the dif­fer­ent options — includ­ing vari­ety packs — of ice cream sand­wiches there are!

National Vanilla Ice Cream Day

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July 23 is National Vanilla Ice Cream Day!  It seems fit­ting that the most pop­u­lar fla­vor of ice cream would get a day devoted to the national recog­ni­tion of its awe­some­ness — and dur­ing prime ice cream eat­ing sea­son to boot.  Indulge your vanilla-tooth with one of these Blue Bunny favorites:

Pre­mium Vanilla Ice Cream

Pre­mium French Vanilla Ice Cream

Pre­mium Home­made Vanilla Ice Cream

Pre­mium All Nat­ural Vanilla Ice Cream

Vanilla Ice Cream Sandwiches

Sweet Free­dom Vanilla Ice Cream Sandwiches

Aside from eat­ing the dif­fer­ent Blue Bunny vanilla fla­vors, you can also cre­ate some deli­cious vanilla-centered recipes found on bluebunny.com.  Favorites include the Blue Bunny All Nat­ural Vanilla Ice Cream Baked Alaska which incor­po­rate sponge cake, rasp­berry coulis and meringue, Blue Bunny Ice Cream French Toast using vanilla ice cream and Blue Bunny Pear Almond Tun­rover with Vanilla Brie Sauce.