Step Into Summer: Cold Stone Creamery August giveaway $10 gift card-5 winners!

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Welcome to our Step into Summer event! Melissa and I have some wonderful things lined up for you to help you get ready for summer. Make sure you visit Melissa at Outnumbered 3 to 1 daily to see what she has in store for you too. Many days we will be reviewing and giving away the same item on both blogs – that is two chances for you to win!

Cake Batter Confetti cake

Welcome to the third and final Cold Stone Creamery giveaway during our Step into Summer event.  In case you missed out on one or both of the previous giveaways, you have another chance now!  But for now, I want to introduce you to a special flavor that is available now at Cold Stone Creamery!

If you aren’t familiar with Cold Stone Creamery, here is how it works:  First of all, the scent when you walk into their store will make you swoon.  They “mix” their ice cream on a cold marble stone {hence the name}.  There is a huge ice cream “guide” of sorts on the wall, that shows the many, many options you can choose from for your ice cream treat. If that isn’t enough, you can be creative and choose your own ice cream and add the mix-ins.  When I first visited Cold Stone Creamery, I decided to try the  Sweet Cream ice cream flavor, and had them mix in Twix bars. It sounds simple, I agree, but this was definitely no ordinary ice cream. I watched them make my custom ice cream on the marble slab. They chopped up the Twix bar and using a spatula, they mixed it in thoroughly. They then filled a waffle cone {my choice} with this heavenly mixture. Yum-o!

If it has anything to do with ice cream, it has everything to do with Cold Stone Creamery. From unique ice cream creations to smoothies, cakes and shakes – nobody serves up the ultimate indulgence like Cold Stone. It starts with using the highest quality ingredients and ends with our signature process for preparing your custom creation on a frozen granite stone.

Through almost 20 years of serving up the finest ice cream, cakes, smoothies and shakes, some things have certainly changed. And frankly, some things haven’t. Ever since we opened our first store back in 1988, we’ve been serving up what we refer to as Creations™. In other words, if you want it in your ice cream – you get it. By mixing nuts, fruits and candy into our smooth and creamy ice cream on a frozen granite stone (around here, we call it “the stone”) we’re actually more like ice cream artists. Over the years, we’ve stumbled on a few concoctions of our own that we call our Cold Stone Signature Creations. Ice cream for breakfast, a smoothie for lunch, and a sensible cake for dinner? – Who says you can’t eat this amazing ice cream for all three meals?

I love the choices at Coldstone Creamery. You can literally get any creation you desire.  The best part?  YOU are the one creating it. They have waffle cones and bowls, either plain or chocolate dipped. If you don’t want a waffle cone/bowl, you can have your creation in a bowl. They have lots of sizes to choose from – the possibilities are endless!

Beginning June 30 through August,  Cold Stone Creamery is featuring fresh fruit flavors, including Key Lime, Harvest Peach and Blueberry. Key Lime offers a scoop of tropical paradise with tangy meringue flavor packed with an extra burst of key lime yumminess. Harvest Peach is a refreshing taste of ripe, sun-kissed summer peaches where every spoonful is better than the last, while Blueberry is a tempting explosion with a tart and chilling sensation.

Each month {June through August} of our Step into Summer event, we will introduce you to a new signature ice cream flavor from Cold Stone’s Gold Cone signature line-up!

For the month of August, I would like to introduce you to Blueberry!

• Creation: Blueberry BlissTM – Blueberry ice cream, graham cracker pie crust,

blueberries and whipped topping.

• Pie: Blueberry CremeTM – Blueberry ice cream with graham cracker pie crust in

a graham cracker pie crust with fluffy white frosting rosettes and sprinkled with

graham cracker pie crust.

• Shake: Blueberry NaturalTM – Blueberry ice cream with blueberries.

Cold Stone Creamery also has cakes! I will have to do some serious hinting when my birthday rolls around. Of course, they have cakes for every occasion. They also have ice ice cream cookie sandwiches and cupcakes. I should describe their goodies anymore – instead I will let you go to their site and look around for yourself when you enter the giveaway below!

Did you know that Cold Stone Creamery does catering.  Yes – you can have them come to your party!

THE GIVEAWAY:

Five (5) Winners will receive a $10 Cold Stone Creamery gift card!

For first (and required entry), go to Cold Stone Creamery and tell me which ice cream flavor is your favorite, or one you would love to try {other than shown above}!