Library Collaboration 2025: Invent a Flavor!

At Wild Scoops, we love the Library! There are so many amazing books and other resources available to everyone in Anchorage - we particularly enjoy the cookbook section where we can get lots of ideas and inspiration for our amazing flavors. 

September is Library Card Sign Up Month, and we are so excited to be partnering with Anchorage Public Library to celebrate again this year! We want to concoct a new literary ice cream flavor in honor of the month - and we need your help!

You can create your very own flavor based on your favorite book using this worksheet below, and there are printed copies available at your local Anchorage Public Library branch!

2025 Scoops & Stories.pdf

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Ice cream lovers of all ages can participate! When you’ve perfected your flavor, turn it in at your local Anchorage Public Library branch or email it to community@wildscoops.com by Sunday, September 14th for a chance for it to be made into real ice cream!

We’ll pick our favorite flavors and on September 17th you can vote on your favorite of our finalists - we'll share the link in our Instagram and Facebook stories and it will be accessible at your local APL branch as well. We’ll churn whichever flavor wins and debut it at the Midtown Scoop Shop on Tuesday, September 30th, the same day as our Scoops & Stories tasting event! If you have any questions, reach out to Meneka at community@wildscoops.com. 

Let’s walk through an example together!

First we’ll think of our favorite childhood book. What is yours? We are going to choose Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne! 

Next, we’ll brainstorm some flavors and tastes that might be inspired by the book. 

Are there special foods eaten in this book? 

Pooh loves honey and Rabbit eats carrots

Can the main characters or setting be represented creatively by something edible?

Pooh is a bear and could be represented by Teddy Grahams. 

They live in the hundred acre woods - spruce tips could represent the forest? 

Then, we need to take all of our ideas and try to make them into an ice cream flavor. We’ll need to think about what flavor the ice cream is as well as what we might want to add in. You might not end up using all the ideas you came up with in the last step - pick your favorites or what you think would taste best together. 

Teddy Grahams would go really well with honey! Honey can be a little difficult to put into ice cream because it’s so thick - we could make a honey caramel sauce! Let’s put everything into a vanilla ice cream. 

Now we can put it all together and draw our flavor on the back of the worksheet! We’ve named the flavor “Hundred Acre Woods” because that’s where Pooh lives.

We can’t see what exciting flavors you create!