Graeter’s Ice Cream Party and a Giveaway
As many of you know, Hubby and I moved to Boston from Cincinnati. One of my favorite things when we lived there was walking down the street to grab some Graeter’s ice cream. I was recently contacted to review their ice cream, and they had no idea I already loved it when they contacted me. As you know, I rarely do product reviews on here, but since I already knew how much I enjoy Grater’s, I thought this would be a great opportunity.
Graeter’s uses high quality ingredients and makes their ice cream two gallons at a time to ensure quality ice cream with every batch. It is extremely creamy and decadent! They have 24 pint flavors including signature chip flavors and five seasonal favorites, which rotate throughout the year.
If you don’t live in Cincinnati, you still might be able to find Graeter’s at a grocery store in your town. A list of the locations where Graeter’s is sold can be found on their website. If you’re still out of luck, have no fear, you can order ice cream online. It will be delivered to your door step just like mine was!!
The foam cooler was packed with our six pints and some dry ice to keep it frozen on it’s journey. You can order the ice cream in 6 or 12 pint packages. I think this would make a great gift for Mother’s Day, a friend who used to live in Cincinnati’s birthday, or for anyone else who enjoys great ice cream.
I decided to invite some other bloggers over to my place to share this awesome ice cream with them. So last night, Aimee, Fiona, Renee, and Amanda came over for an ice cream tasting and sundae party! Graeter’s sent me a 6 pint variety pack of ice cream to taste. I requested my favorite, black raspberry chip, to be included in the pack. The other flavors included vanilla, mocha chip, caramel, mint chip, and strawberry.
For the tasting portion, I used a 1.5 tsp scoop to scoop tiny scoops of ice cream onto everyone’s spoon. We started with vanilla and worked our way through the 6 flavors. I’m usually not a fan of strawberry ice cream, but this strawberry ice cream was very fresh and light. The three flavors that had chips were great hits. I always say they should call them chunks. We all agreed that the strawberry ice cream would have been great with the chocolate chunks in it. Turns out Graeters does have strawberry chip right now.
The chocolate in the ice cream has almost the consistency of ganache, so it’s very smooth and easy to bite into. And, everyone once and a while you’ll get a bite with a big chunk of chocolate in it. The black raspberry chip was still my favorite with the mocha chip coming in at a close second for me. (As you know, I’m lactose intolerant. But, about once a year, I eat ice cream because I just miss it so much. I participated in the tasting portion of the evening, along with the help of some medication and it was definitely worth it!)
Once we all tasted a tiny bit of each flavor, we then made ice cream sundaes. Everyone else had brought some ice cream toppings including M&Ms, caramel sauce, and candied pecans. We chowed down on our ice cream sundaes and chatted the evening away.
Eating ice cream reminded me that summer is just around the corner! And if you’d like to try some Graeter’s ice cream for yourself, be sure to enter the giveaway below! Graeter’s has agreed to give a 6-pint variety pack to one lucky reader!! Here’s how you can enter.
First, you must be a follower of my blog, either through Facebook or an RSS reader. For the first entry, go to Graeters.com and check out the flavors they offer. Come back here and leave a comment telling me which flavor you would like to try, or if you’ve had Graeter’s before, which flavor is your favorite.
For an additional entry, either Like Graeter’s on Facebook or follow them on Twitter and come back here leaving another comment saying you’ve done so.
For another additional entry, Tweet the following about the giveaway “Enter to win a 6 pint package of @graeters ice cream from @beantownbaker http://bit.ly/gs2HKn” then come back here to leave a comment saying you’ve done so.
A maximum of three entries per person are allowed. All comments must be made by midnight on April 27th. A winner will be chosen randomly at that point in time. Graeter’s only ships to the US (excluding Alaska and Hawaii), so if you win, you must provide a US shipping address. If you’re out of the US, you can still enter the giveaway if you plan to ship the ice cream to someone within the shipping area.
I am Jen the Beantown Baker. Engineer by day and baking maven by night. Hubby serves as my #1 fan and official taste tester. We got hitched back in 2006. Barefoot. In the sand. With the waves crashing behind us. It was one of the best decisions we’ve ever made. 
What a cool giveaway! This would be awesome for my son’s 2nd birthday next month. Thanks for the contest!
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What a cute book! I’m just starting to decorate and would love this for ideas!
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That chocolate cupcake recipe is still my go-to as well. Although the chocolate cupcake from CH: Coffee is a close 2nd. (The CH:Coffee one is fussier, so I still use the old one the most.)
I would love to get my hands on this book. I am in charge of 2 upcoming bake sales, and inspiration is much needed.
What a great book! I have this book on my wish list – so I’m keeping my fingers crossed!!
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Sounds awesome
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How very cool! And such a cute book, too.
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Looks like an adorable book!
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Looks like a great book! Love your blog.
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I love to bake cakes and this book looks like so much fun! Thanks 🙂
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This looks like SUCH a fun book!
i would love to get a free cookbook…i so love baking cupcakes right now!
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What a great looking Book! I loved making my own cake for my daughters 1st birthday! This book would give me a lot of inspiration for so many other birthdays parties to come!
THANKS!
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Looks fuuuuun!
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looks like a lot of fun, love to bake!!! aseminara at gmail dot com
great idea! cool book!
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I would love to be entered into this give away. It sounds like an awesome book with great recipes and ideas 🙂
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Thanks!
What a fabulous giveaway! I bet I could get years of use from that book for our 1 year olds future birthdays!
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This book looks great. Awsome Idea!!
How fun! Please enter me to your giveaway.
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with a little one and one on the way this would be great inspiration. Thanks for the giveaway!
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What a fun looking cookbook. I would love to win a copy of it. I am supposed to help with 1st birthday cake in a couple of months and this would come in handy.
Awesome idea! This would definitely give me baking inspiration!
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What a great idea!
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Yay for a giveaway! This book looks absolutely amazing!!
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what a cute book!
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That looks like a great book. Please enter me!
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What a neat giveaway. This would be a great book for me and my grandson to explore. 🙂
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I would love to win a copy of this book! I’m having an “I Want Candy!” giveaway right not too – ends 10/15 – I invite you to enter.
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Great idea, that looks like such a cool book. My email is tess2mommies at gmail dot come
That looks like a really neat book! I am crossing my fingers and adding it to my wish list just in case. Thanks!
Kristen
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What an adorable book! I’m totally a cupcake addict, but trying out new stuff is aways fun.
Jess
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I have loved this book from the first time I laid eyes on it! I love cute, creative cakes!!
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what a great giveaway! I love baking and this would give me loads of ideas.
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Such a cute book!
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That book looks like so much fun. You’re sweet to do a giveaway. And I am craving chocolate cupcakes now!
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Hi! I love your blog! This book looks amazing, and I am excited for this contest! I forgot to put my email down last time 🙂
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The cover is too cute! I love the how-to photos – very helpful. Will watch for the results of the throwdown 🙂
Thanks for the review!
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what a great book!
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looks yummy!
Aww that book looks so adorable! I’m only an amateur baker, so I have a lot to learn. This book seems like a lot of fun to learn from. =]
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Awesome book. I want one!
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LOVE your sites. Then again, I love food, so anything food related is fair game.
OMG OMG I have been meaning to pick up a book on cakes for while! That one sounds like a good choice!
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My 29 year old “kid” would love this book. Thanks for the opportunity to win one.
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How fun! I would love to be considered in your giveaway! We just had a baby girl 2 weeks ago and it’s never too early to plan for her first birthday!
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Ooo, choose me! 🙂 My mom was a cake decorator but never got the hang of using fondant & I would SO love to learn how to do it. And it’s clear that this author/artist knows her fondant!
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This book sounds great. My boys would totally appreciate some new ideas for their birthday cakes.
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That book is so beautiful! I would love to attempt a cake or a cupcake for my kids too!
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It looks like a very fun book. I can’t wait to get my hands on it!
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I can’t wait to get this book! what an artist she is.
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This book looks like it will be great inspiration for my son’s 1st birthday this January!
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Wow. This sounds awesome! I would love to win this book!!
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Yvette
I love this book!
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I have heard so many awesome things about this cookbook – I’d love to learn all the techniques!
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What a great giveaway! This book looks so fun!
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Sounds like a great book and I’d love to have a copy of it…
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Wow, this book looks so kewl! With lots of ideas!! Thanks for having the contest!!
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That book looks so cute and fun!
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That book looks adorable!
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That looks so awesome! 🙂 I love creative cake ideas!
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Gosh! You think maybe there’s kitty litter cake in there?? Ooh, I can’t wait. I’m all buttered up!
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Great giveaway! I have had thisbook on my wish list so I sure do hope I get it. It looks amazing.
Yvette
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This looks like such a wonderful book! Thank you for the giveaway!
Looks like it’ll be a good book.
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With three daughters under the age of six and a little boy who is about to turn one – this book would be a great source of inspiration in our house! 🙂
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Oh, I would love this book for my girlfriend!
Eddie
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gr8 idea. Book looks awesome.
What a great cookbook! I can’t wait to see your results!
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Ooops- my email address is
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Such a cute book. I’ve volunteered to make cakes for some of my friends , so this book would come in handy.
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that book is soooooo cute. Im crossing my fingers that I will win one!
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Love Confetti Cakes – especially her sock monkey revenge cake!
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Oooooooh! I would love to have this adorable book! Thanks for offering us the opportunity to win one.
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This book looks like so much fun! I’m sure i would spend tons of time in the kitchen with it!!!
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Yeah! I love this giveaway.
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The book sounds amazing!! Great giveaway! My email is in my profile.
The book sounds amazing!! Great giveaway! My email is in my profile.
What an awesome giveaway!
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Popped over from Cake Wrecks. This book is fabulous! fourthmonth at gmail dot com
This book looks amazing and would be great to add to my collection. Thanks for the review. . .
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