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.

The MLB All Star Game

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Each year, the MLB rounds up the best of its pro­fes­sional base­ball play­ers to take part in the MLB All Star Game.  These play­ers are sep­a­rated into two teams — the Nation­als League and the Amer­i­can League.  This year, it will take place on July 12.  Even if you aren’t watch­ing the game at Chase Field in Ari­zona, you can still enjoy the feel of a ball­park envi­ron­ment by hav­ing some of the tra­di­tional sta­dium fare such as Blue Bunny Vanilla Ice Cream Sand­wiches or Blue Bunny Clas­sic Sun­dae Ice Cream Cones.

Along with good ‘ole ice cream and base­ball, ham­burg­ers are on the list of great Amer­i­can sum­mer icons.  And how fit­ting that Blue Bunny cre­ated the Sweet Ice Cream Ham­burger Treat recipe that com­bines the look and feel of a ham­burger but uses short­cake, licorice, marsh­mal­lows and choco­late ice cream to give a sweet and ful­fill­ing taste.

Independence Day

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Get ready to cel­e­brate Amer­i­can inde­pen­dence by spend­ing time with friends and fam­ily, light­ing fire­works and throw­ing a huge bar­beque bash.  And no bar­beque fes­tiv­i­ties are com­plete with­out the req­ui­site warm sum­mer weather sta­ple:  ice cream.  It goes with­out say­ing that Blue Bunny’s red, white and blue Orig­i­nal Bomb Pop makes a patriot out of any­one that tastes it, but you can add a cre­ative flair to your gath­er­ing by get­ting a bit cre­ative.  Sim­ply take Blue Bunny All Nat­ural Vanilla Ice Cream and blue food dye to the tub, stir­ring so that the ice cream turns blue.  Set the ice cream out next to Blue Bunny Dou­ble Straw­berry Ice Cream your red and white col­ors, and you’ll have a fes­tive and holiday-appropriate spread in no time.

That’s not the only con­co­tion you can whip up that’s devoted to the 4th and its tra­di­tions.  Check out Blue Bunny’s Fire­crack­ers which are made with Neapoli­tan Ice Cream Sand­wiches, cocoa pow­der and red, white and blue sprin­kles.  Or how about the Red, White and Blue Bunny Rice Krispies Ice Cream Treats that give an Amer­i­can flag makeover to vanilla ice cream and rice krispy treats.  Enjoy these dessert ides and have a Happy 4th of July!

Creative Ice Cream Flavors Day

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Some days you just need to feed your cre­ativ­ity — and by feed your cre­ativ­ity, we mean it lit­er­ally.  This Fri­day, July 1, is Cre­ative Ice Cream Fla­vors Day!  Blue Bunny has a wealth of ideas to help you be as cre­ative as pos­si­ble to cel­e­brate this day.

There is clas­sic cre­ativ­ity, such as Bunny Tracks Pre­mium Ice Cream and Peanut But­ter Panic Pre­mium Ice Cream.

There is indul­gent com­bined cre­ativ­ity, such as Red Car­pet Red Vel­vet and Choco­late Lovers Triple Choco­late Cake Pre­mium Ice Cream.

And, there is cre­ativ­ity on a stick, such as Sweet Free­dom Black Rasp­berry Ice Cream Bars.

Take your pick and feed your cre­ativ­ity in honor of Cre­ative Ice Cream Fla­vors Day!

First Day of Summer

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This week marks another very impor­tant day to us — the first day of sum­mer!  ‘Tis the sea­son for ice cream.  Sum­mer begins tomor­row, June 21st, so we hope you’ve put some thought into your sum­mer plans!  For those of you plan­ning to ring in this time of year with a back­yard bar­beque or out­door get together, why not try Blue Bunny Bomb Pop Fried Shrimp to spice it up?  Or to cool down, cud­dle up with one of Blue Bunny’s new ice cream fla­vors inspired by Chef Duff Gold­man like Red Car­pet Red Vel­vet Cake.

Flag Day & National Bomb Pop Day

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Did you know that there is a chance we could NOT have rec­og­nized Flag Day this year? Or any year, for that mat­ter. Flag Day is cel­e­brated on June 14 and com­mem­o­rates the adop­tion of the red, white and blue flag we pledge alle­giance to. In 1916, Pres­i­dent Woodrow Wil­son issued the procla­ma­tion offi­cially estab­lish­ing June 14 as Flag Day, yet it is not an offi­cial fed­eral hol­i­day. Each year, it is at the President’s dis­cre­tion to pro­claim the offi­cial observance.

Thank­fully, we have some­thing to cel­e­brate this year! Parades are one of the most com­mon ways to cel­e­brate Flag Day, with the longest-running Flag Day parade tak­ing place in Quincy, Mass­a­chu­setts. This parade began in 1952 and is still going strong.

Red White & Blue Bunny Rice Krispy Ice Cream Treats

A fun and fes­tive treat to take along with you to cel­e­brate the red, white and blue are Red White and Blue Bunny Rice Krispies Ice Cream Treats. Also, a fla­vor­ful way to cel­e­brate our flag is the Bomb Pop; a red, white and blue dose of cool good­ness. Coin­ci­den­tally, the Bomb Pop has its own day of cel­e­bra­tion — the last Thurs­day of June to be exact. Grab some Bomb Pops and cel­e­brate National Bomb Pop Day and Flag Day this week!

National Chocolate Ice Cream Day

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As ice cream lovers go, June 7 is the mother of all hol­i­days.  Why?  It’s National Choco­late Ice Cream Day — a time to cel­e­brate America’s favorite fla­vor of our creamy dessert treat.

We cer­tainly don’t need to tell you that there are plenty of way to enjoy chocolate-flavored ice cream, but we’d like to share a cou­ple of our favorites.  The Blue Bunny Choco­late Lovers Triple Choco­late Cake Ice Cream is a sure way to sat­isfy that intense choco­late crav­ing.  Blue Bunny starts with their deca­dent choco­late ice cream infused with real choco­late cake pieces and swirled in rib­bons of choco­late frosting.

Want another way to cel­e­brate?  Try the Blue Bunny Choco­late Mint Par­fait.  Fea­tur­ing Blue Bunny Pre­mium Mint Choco­late Chip Ice Cream, choco­late pud­ding and Oreo cook­ies, this easy dessert will have you beg­ging for seconds.

For those of you who missed National Rocky Road Ice Cream Day (June 2), it’s still not too late to try Blue Bunny’s Rocky Road.  Be sure to enjoy your treat before the sum­mer sun melts it!