All scream for “S’mores” ice cream

Ice cream aficionados were asked to come up with flavor suggestions to commemorate Crescent Ridge Dairy’s 75th year in a recent “Create a Crescent Flavor” ice cream contest.

In honor of their 75th, Crescent Ridge Dairy rounded up hundreds of ice cream flavor suggestions from home delivery customers and the general public. With 31 flavors of ice cream already available at Crescent Ridge’s Dairy Bar, it was a challenge for ice cream lovers of all ages to come up with a winning recipe.

Congratulations to Alan and Barbara Mundie of Halifax; Bradley Niziak of Walpole; Aaron Goldenberg of Sharon; Ruth Barnert of Sharon; Genevieve Packard of Needham and Michael Rota of Canton who suggested “S’mores” - a decadent combination of vanilla ice cream with crushed graham crackers, marshmallow and copious chocolate chunks! All will receive one half gallon a month of their favorite Crescent Ridge ice cream for six months.

Honorable Mentions include:
• Kate Notman’s “Chocolate Ridge” which was a dark chocolate ice cream with fudge running through it.
• Charlene Pasakarnis’s “Tropical Coconut” which was coconut ice cream with crushed Macadamia nuts and crushed pineapple swirled throughout.
• “Almond Joy” ice cream with coconut, chocolate chunks and almonds was another runner-up recipe courtesy of Katie Allaire and Joanne Williams.

Crescent Ridge’s new S’mores flavor will be available at their Holbrook and Sharon Dairy Bars and via home delivery in the Spring.

“Thank you to all for your creative and mouthwatering suggestions,” added Mark Parrish, president of Crescent Ridge Dairy.

Quality, Convenience & Extreme Customer Service
Serving more than 100 communities throughout the Boston area, Crescent Ridge Dairy provides the convenience, quality and customer care demanded in today’s busy lifestyles. In addition to their home delivery service of milk and non-dairy products, Crescent Ridge’s “Dairy Bar” offers 31 flavors of ice cream and five flavors of frozen yogurt in addition to other dairy products on-site at their Sharon location year-round, seven days a week from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Crescent Ridge Dairy’s ice cream has been ranked among the world’s 10 best in National Geographic’s “The 10 Best of Everything: An Ultimate Guide for Travelers” and it has also been deemed worthy of “Gourmet Greatness” from The Phantom Gourmet.

The Dairy Bar has been voted “Best Ice Cream Stand” by Boston Parent’s Paper and WRKO Radio’s Pat Whitley Show. Crescent Ridge Dairy has also been named a “Dairy of Distinction” by the Massachusetts Farm Bureau and won the 2007 the Massachusetts Family Business award given by the Northeastern University Center for Family Business and the Family Firm Institute’s New England Chapter.

Crescent Ridge Dairy’s headquarters are located at 355 Bay Road in Sharon, Mass. For more information, contact 800-660-2740 or visit the website at www.crescentridge.com.