Athleticism.  Dedication.  Cinderella stories.  Finger food.  This can only mean one thing:  March Madness is here!  Whether you're a diehard fan or a casual observer, tournament season is bound to add excitement to your evenings at home.

You'll probably host or attend a party in the next month, but that doesn't mean you have to spend tons of time or money feeding the crowds.  Pick easy snacks that minimize preparation time and can be eaten with your hands so you can enjoy the games too!  Try Blue Bunny Bomb Pop Spicy Chicken Wings for an easy version of a sports bar favorite.  Blue Bunny Vanilla Bean Guacamole makes another easy-to-serve appetizer with a little extra flavor.  End the night with Blue Bunny Slam Dunk Cones and you'll have a room full of your own fans, no matter which teams are playing!

Our busy schedules can sometimes make family meals seem like a distant memory.  Thankfully, frozen foods can help us bring the gang back to the dinner table.  March is National Frozen Food Month, so take advantage of all these convenient options over the next few weeks.  Spend less time cooking and more time relaxing with your family.

Easy meals don't have to be boring - in fact, they shouldn't be!  Bluebunny.com offer tons of recipes you can use to jazz up the normal menu or try something completely new.  Simple recipes work for more than just dinner.  You can incorporate frozen items into meals throughout the day, decreasing effort without sacrificing flavor.

For an easy, crowd-pleasing breakfast, try Blue Bunny Ice Cream French Toast with Blue Bunny Premium Vanilla Ice Cream.  Besides taking less time to prepare than typical French toast, this recipe uses fewer ingredients and adds a luscious vanilla flavor.  Lunch can be simple too with the Blue Bunny Bomb Pop Sole, accenting the flavor of a fillet of sole with a Blue Bunny Bomb Pop,  Dinner is sure to impress when you try Blue Bunny Duck a la Bordeaux Cherry Chocolate.  This delectable recipe uses only six ingredients and is sure to keep the family coming back for more!

The Olympics are known for bringing the world together to support its greatest athletes in their journey to the medal stand.  The Winter Olympic Games in their modern form are more than 85 years old.  They shingea spotlight on what are often less-publicized sports such as curling and speed skating, giving athletes an opportunity to demonstrate their skills on a global stage.  As the 2010 Winter Olympic Games comes to a close in Vancouver this week, branch out with your cooking and give your meals some international flavor.

Try this recipe for some irresistibly fun Blue Bunny Bomb Pop Bubble Tea!  If you'd rather cheer on Team USA with an American favorite check out Blue Bunny's spin on S'mores with this Blue Bunny Ice Cream S'mores Bar recipe.

Get the kids involved by letting them pick a favorite athlete in the events you watch.  You can help them look up where the athlete grew up and the path he or she took to the Olympics.  Olympic athletes' stories often involve overcoming huge hurdles to achieve a dream, making them great role models.  The Olympic Games are a great opportunity to help your kids think about their own goals and dreams.

President's Day originally became a federal holiday in honor of George Washington's February 22nd birthday.  Congress later moved the holiday to the third Monday in February which ironically will actually never fall on February 22nd!  The day now serves as a general reminder of America's past presidents, specifically Washington and Abraham Lincoln.

These two presidents had one very important thing in common:  they loved ice cream!  Legend has it that Washington ordered a "cream machine for ice" for his Mount Vernon home and spend $200 on the frozen treat in the summer of 1790.  Lincoln supposedly even served ice cream at his second inauguration!  Honor these great presidents this year by serving some of their favorite dessert. 

Whether or not Washington actually chopped down that cherry tree, it is forever attached to his name.  Remember this famous fruit with a Blue Bunny Cherry Pie Parfait that can be ready in less than 10 minutes, or Blue Bunny Bordeaux Cherry Chocolate Premium Ice Cream.  Lincoln's favorite dessert is rumored to be an almond cake.  For a simple tribute, try Blue Bunny Toasted Almond Fudge Premium Ice Cream.

It was truly a monumental occurrence the day Chocolate Cake was first celebrated.  Think of all the little moments that would be different if there was no Chocolate Cake:  Grooms' cakes would be a different flavor; Chocolate frosting would have no shelf companion; Chocolate lovers across the globe would be unable to satisfactorily enjoy cake.  Thank goodness Chocolate Cake is here to stay!

To celebrate this special day in the heart of all chocolate lovers, Blue Bunny is higlighting three of its favorite Chocolate Cake recipes.  Try one on January 27 to celebrate with us! 

Blue Bunny Winter German Chocolate Ice Cream Cake is a delectable White Chocolate version of the classic German Chocolate Cake.  Each 9 inch round cake pan has squares of White Chocolate melted into the batter.  Topped with pecan frosting and whitel chocolate curles, this baked masterpiece win the hearts and taste buds of die-hard chocolate lovers all over again.

Blue Bunny Chocolate Lovers Champ! Tower comes in quite handy when a chocolate creation is needed on the fly.  Watch Chef Joe as he demonstrates how easy it is to enhance a chocolate cake with our delicious Champ! Chocolate Lovers Ice Cream Cone.

Enjoying cookies during the cold winter days is part of the season's magic.  A delicious cookie is everybody's favorite snack, and cookies have existed for as long as baking is documented.  The treats date back to 7th centry A.D, and appear to have their origins in Persia, or modern Iran, one of the first countries to cultivate sugar.  The baked desserts came to America with the first English settlements in the 1600s.  Today the cookie in one of America's favorite snacks and part of many traditions.  Cookies have become a holiday icon and are often served with another of America's favorite treats - ice cream.  Mixing creamy and crunchy is a great way to celebrate and can involve the whole family.  Here are a few ideas from Blue Bunny:

Bake and decorate your favorite cookies.  Then serve with one of Blue Bunny vanilla flavors as an ice cream sandwich.

Try mixing cookies and ice cream in a new way by testing on of the recipes on www.bluebunny.com

The world's love affair with ice cream and cookies is centuries-old.  Somehow these treats didn't make it to the New World together, but that is no reason to enjoy them separately!

With winter in full swing, one of the best ways to enjoy the snowy weather is to build a snowman. It's a fun and memorable family activity you can do with your kids - and who doesn't want to play like you're a kid again?

If you feel like staying indoors but still have the inkling for some winter snowman fun.  Blue Bunny has the perfect activity for you and your family.  Build a Blue Bunny Vanilla Ice Cream Snowman.  No hat or gloves required for this winter fun, all you'll need is some Blue Bunny Premium Vanilla Ice Cream, candies for the snowman's facial features and some enthusiastic snowman builders.  Make it an activity for the whole family and have everyone design their own!

If after building a snowman, you'd still like some more snowman fun, be sure to visit BlueBunny.com and check out the ice cream snowman homepage! 

It seems like at the start of each year, we all make the same resolution:  Lose weight.  But sometimes, shedding the winter weight put on during family feasts can be a little daunting (especially if 10 pounds is just a starting point).

The hardest hurdles are sometimes the mental ones.  Changing your diet after several months of rich food seems like absolute cruelty to your tastebuds.  Fortunately, Blue Bunny has several products and recipes that can aid in this transition.  In addition, to the entire Sweet Freedom No Sugar Added line, Blue Bunny also offers a variety of Light ice cream in convenient Personals sized portions.  These are some of our most popular, delicious flavors lightened up for guiltess indulgence.

Blue Bunny corporate chef, John Kennedy has even developed smoothie recipes that provide a delightful twist on traditional novelties.  If dark chocolate soothes your cravings, make sure you try the Black Raspberry Chocolate Smoothie, which also includes almonds, a great source of calcium and Vitamin E.  If you love the taste of bananas and strawberries blended together, give the Strawberry Aspen Smoothie a try one afternoon.  You'll be surprised just how good 'lighter side' can taste!

Decorating Christmas trees, hanging holiday lights, exchanging gifts and baking scrumptious desserts are some of the traditions shared around the globe this time of year.  This season, create a new tradition; curl up around the Christmas tree with a cup of Blue Bunny Gourmet Sipping Chocolate and share the story behind one of our favorite traditions:  the Christmas stocking. 

Here is how the idea of the holiday stockings came to life:  Once upon a time, a nobleman lost his wife, and was left to raise his three young daughters alone.  He was quite worried he wouldn't have enough money to pay for the marriage of his daughters; yet, on Christmas Eve, village visitor Saint Nicholas heard of the nobleman's troubles.  Knowing that the man would be too proud to accept any money, Saint Nicholas snuck next to his house.  He noticed that the girls had hung their stockings to dry along the fireplace mantle, so Saint Nicholas threw gold coins down the chimney and a bag landed in each of the girls' empty stockings.  The villagers heard and began to hang their empty stockings above the fireplace hoping for Christmas gifts.

To make story-sharing even better this time of year, enjoy seasonal ice cream flavors like Blue Bunny Perfectly Peppermint and Blue Bunny Spumoni. 

This holiday season, Blue Bunny has again teamed up with a cappella music band Tonic Sol-fa to deliver holiday cheers.  To get a free Tonic Sol-fa song download click here.