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Creamy Tropical Fruit Slushies

July 30, 2018

Trade in your handheld popsicles for this frozen slushie treat that’s iced, creamy, and a total tropical flavor delight made from real fruit and almond milk, making it more delicious AND healthier than what you’ll find at the local snow cone shack.

This recipe is brought to you by Almond Breeze

Who else has stood in line at the little wooden shack on a hot summer day sweating bullets but so totally not moving because you’re finally next in line for a cold, frozen slushie/snow cone/ icy treat?

Or rather, who hasn’t?

Once we hit the dog days of summer, the summertime slurping ritual of savoring a brain freeze/Slurpee/shaved ice is at an all-time high. But here’s the deal, do you really know what’s in those things? Basically, it’s just a lot of sugary syrup made from weirdly manufactured ingredients over chunks of ice. And if you get the creamy version (because it tastes SO much better!) it’s doctored with heavy cream and/or sweetened condensed milk.

Talk about a calorie load!

But you do have options! Instead of piling on the unnatural sugared syrups and heavy cream options, it’s so easy to make healthier iced slushies at home. And you don’t even need a slushie machine to do it. Instead, just a good quality kitchen blender will totally do.continue to the recipe… about Creamy Tropical Fruit Slushies

Easy 3-Ingredient Chocolate Sauce for Ice Cream

May 24, 2018

Homemade chocolate sauce is so much easier to make than you might think, and with just three ingredients (plus a pinch of salt) your ice cream, cheesecake, fruit fondue, or even chocolate cake will be dripping in chocolatey goodness in no time.

This recipe is brought to you by Kroger and Tillamook, which is heading East ya’ll!

My husband is an ice cream lover through and through. He’s just like my dad who nearly every night has a scoop or two while we binge watch our favorite TV shows. But when I was a kid, my dad never ate the ice cream naked on its own, and neither does my husband. These boys always have their ice cream drizzled with chocolate sauce — or as my husband calls it in his best British accent that sends our daughter into a reels of laughter “a bit of CHOCK-OH-lut taaaahhh-ping.”

“Really dad? Chocolate TOPPING??,” she fights to dispute. “It’s called chocolate SAUCE, dad!”

Personally, I’d rather have chocolate sauce or hot fudge rather than a mysteriously labeled “topping” on my ice cream because what the heck is in “topping” anyway? That’s why this super easy, 3-ingredient sauce is now a standard at our house.

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Potato Chip Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches Recipe

July 26, 2017

Summer doesn’t get any cooler than ice cream sandwiches made of chocolate chip cookies with oatmeal, nuts, and potato chips (!) sandwiching cool colors of ice cream for an easy dessert that’ll chill everyone out.

This post is brought to you by Kettle Brand Potato Chips

Other than the words, “Wake up honey, it looks like Santa came!” and “Surprise! We got a puppy!”, there may be no better music to a child’s ears than the distant sing-song chimes of the ice cream truck rolling closer and closer to home on a hot summer day.

Oh my. The memories. Like Pavlov’s dog, those chimes would send us kids into a total frenzy, immediately dropping whatever we were doing to race for home screaming, “The ice cream truck is coming! The ice cream truck is coming!” and then hurriedly scavenge or beg for funds to before the ice cream man rolled on by.

I don’t know about you, but I bet our ice cream man got some sort of secret pleasure taunting us little kids with the possibility we just wouldn’t get.there.in.time.

But as it always does, times change. I don’t think I’ve heard the song of an ice cream truck come by any of our homes in years. But that’s no reason to stop me from getting my chill on, in fact, it’s simply motivation to share a new kind of ice cream memory with my daughter. And naturally, they start with chocolate chip cookies.

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How to Make Easy No-Churn Homemade Ice Cream

June 7, 2017

No ice cream maker? No problem! This simple 3-ingredient ice cream base is an easy way to cure your ice cream cravings and is made even better with 10 favorite flavor mix-in ideas to make this recipe your own.

Really good, totally indulgent, creamy ice creams can be time consuming at best (don’t forget to freeze that ice cream maker bowl first!) and temperamental at worst (why did my custard base turn into scrambled eggs?) Taking on the task of making your own homemade ice cream can sometimes be enough to throw in the towel and send you to the street corner with the kids to wait for the ice cream man to drive by.

But there’s a way to avoid all of that and still get your licks in. It only takes a hand mixer, a couple of bowls, and three ingredients to make.

Say hello to one of my favorite kitchen hacks, this recipe for homemade, no-churn ice cream. continue to the recipe… about How to Make Easy No-Churn Homemade Ice Cream

4 Ingredient Ice Cream Pie with Peanut Butter Krispie Crust

July 27, 2015

Use whatever store bought or homemade ice cream you desire to fill this crispy, peanut butter crust for a super easy dessert.

The note with an asterisk at the bottom of the recipe reads, “*green peppermint choc. chip is gram’s fave.”

Apparently my grandma had some pretty wild taste buds. Green peppermint chocolate chip with peanut butter? She had cravings too.

I copied this from my grandma’s recipe book at an early point of my cooking career, it must have been when I was a teenager. I later transferred it to my master recipe book, handwritten at least 25 years ago. By the way, that book is now about 5 inches thick, with a broken bind and is a hot mess of recipes, some written but most of them torn from magazines, newspapers or written on scraps of random paper. It’s where I store all of my family favorites.

I’ve wanted to share this recipe for oh…say…ever since I started the blog. Somehow or another it would always get pushed to the back burner, but with summer in full swing and my wish for easy on the brain, it popped right to the top of this week.

It’s time to indulge in the easiest of ways.

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Boozy Blueberry Floats

July 15, 2015

This simple booze-infused float gets its spike from blueberry flavored vodka, which tangos with fresh blueberries and vanilla ice cream.

This post, brought to you by Pearl Vodka, is for the little kid in all of us because no matter how old you are, cool ice cream treats are always in order.

It seems like the times I most often had floats as a kid was when we’d once in a while have lunch at Hires Drive-In. Along with my cheeseburger (extra pickles please) we’d hope that mom would splurge the extra coin to spoil us with a sweet sipper of their famous frosted mug of ice cream scoops with super cold, super sweet root beer.

The famous, and iconic, root beer float.

This recipe is geared to a more adult sensibility thanks to flavored vodka, but the sentiment remains the same: Let’s sit back and enjoy a sweet treat to beat the summertime heat.

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10 Frozen Dessert Recipes That Will Get Your Chill On

August 6, 2014

We know, we’re killin’ ya—last month it was 20 classic pies, and now we’re here tickling your tasters with a sampling of frozen desserts.

Ain’t life grand?

With the dog days of summer at our doorstep, if you live anywhere even remotely close to where the sun shines hot and bright, you know not much cools a body down better than a frozen treat.

Not that we ever need an excuse to eat ice cream or any of the other delectable icy goodies in its vein—we’d eat it any day, but we’d especially eat it on a 95-degree, hotter than a cat on a hot tin roof kind of day.

First off, we’re sharing a few fun things that’ll help you keep your cool, or at least leave you daydreaming about the chill.

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Hazelnut and Salted Caramel Ice Cream

June 26, 2014

Why is homemade ice cream so fulfilling? So totally and utterly…happy? Move over Pharrell. There’s a new tune in town.

Making ice cream at home is something special but hardly a chore. It’s not like I’m working my building my depleting muscle tone when churning the cream and sugar myself. So why does it feel like I’ve really accomplished something once it’s done?

I think it’s because ice cream is one of those recipes that is so easily accessible and acceptable to buy from the store / truck / soda fountain, that we just don’t do it often enough. Like doughnuts. We need more homemade doughnuts, too. Topped with homemade ice cream.

But it’s probably more because homemade ice cream makes me and everyone who’s lips it touches, so…happy. Satisfied. Sweetly satisfied.

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Double Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches

March 5, 2014

So here’s a question for you. When you were a kid, why did savory foods always get segregated from one another and how come it never was—and still isn’t—the case with sweets?

Remember when you didn’t like your food to touch each other? How the lunch room divided trays were a godsend to just about any and every elementary age child?

Don’t let my gravy come a lick within the carrots!

Ew, I can’t eat my potatoes because they had a confrontation with the mustard!

But when it comes to sweets, it seems that the more sweet we can load into a single recipe, the more enticing it is.

Hence, Double Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches. And if that isn’t a mouthful, just try eating one.

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{ Sponsored Video } Peach Ice Cream with Brown Butter Pecans

June 18, 2013

This post is sponsored by Horizon Organic. Thanks for supporting companies I believe in and allows me to create more unique content for you and enjoy my Peach Ice Cream with Brown Butter Pecans.

I don’t know that I’ve ever been called “thin-skinned.” I can pretty much take the punches and roll with them. Sure, once in a while you’ll see me in a mess of tears but usually it’s after watching an episode of Parenthood rather than rebounding from an insult or feeling bad about being left out.

But thin-skinned can be a good thing too. Like when the nurse is on the hunt to find that elusive vein to poke a needle into or possessing the empathy for others in the same emotional predicament—like when those poor Bachelorettes are dismayed to discover the Bachelor has chosen someone else to be the love of their lives.

I guess I’m just thick-skinned. Maybe it’s because I come from strong stock? Okay, maybe it’s not strong stock (although I do have those characteristic German genes), but I do know it’s taller stock, that’s for sure. My mom and dad are both tall, my sister is tall and our cousins are tall.

I married a hunk-a-tall, dreamboat manly-man—admittedly he’s no Marlboro man out on the range, but he’s got it all going on in my book—and we made what we knew would be a tall daughter. There was no escaping it for her.

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Magazine Submissions plus Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream and a $100 Visa Gift Card Giveaway

April 25, 2012

It snuck up on me and I’ll take that as a good sign.

Unlike the date of a one of my weight loss weigh-ins or a dreaded college exam, it wasn’t an occasion where I’ve been ticking off the days. And that’s good. That means I enjoy what I’m doing, creating a space on the web to showcase a subject I love, FOOD, and celebrating some incredibly talented bloggers who do the same. And I have you, my readers, to thank for that.

So light up the sparklers, I’ve passed the milestone and am happily celebrating my one year blogoversary.

I started Foodie Crush the blog as a way to create awareness for my dream of creating an online magazine featuring food bloggers, their recipes and personalities. Along the way I’ve made some incredible online-that-turned-into-real-life relationships, created some fun new projects and connected with wonderful readers.

I launched Foodie Crush magazine last December and thanks to so many of you I’m publishing another issue that will continue to feature inspiring recipes and food blogging personalities. I’m happy to announce the next issue of Foodie Crush will be the Summer 2012 issue will be ready for summertime cooking this July.

Like last issue, I’ve created a space within the magazine to feature your submissions, your recipes and your photography. This issue’s theme is cold, frosty and perfect to chill out with this summer: Cool Treats to Beat the Heat.continue to the recipe… about Magazine Submissions plus Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream and a $100 Visa Gift Card Giveaway