Mother's Day Inspired Flavor Submissions

This Mother’s Day, we asked you to share flavor ideas inspired by your moms, grandmothers, aunties, and mother-figures and we got such beautiful and thoughtful responses! We loved the variety of flavors that were submitted and reading the stories about your loved ones was a very special experience. Below we’ve included some of the submissions that we received. 

In the coming months, our Kitchen Team will choose one of the submitted flavors to make its debut sometime in the next year. The person who submitted the flavor will receive 4 pints to take home! 

Here are some of the submissions ~

Barbi’s Pink Lemonade

Pink ice cream with Fireweed lemonade curd and cookie chunks

“Barbi is my mom, and in the summer she has children’s tea everyday between lunch and dinner. It usually involves lemonade, cookies, and chips and salsa. Before children’s tea, we’ve usually played outside for hours. After teatime, we read books for the summer reading challenge.”

Blackberry Dumpling

Vanilla base with blackberry jam swirl, and small crumbles of biscuit - deconstructed blackberry dumplings!

“Our mom’s all time favorite dessert cooked every year by her mother (my grandma). It reminds me of the women in my life. “

Cannoli Be One Like YouA ricotta cheese base with ground cinnamon, lemon zest, semi-sweet chocolate chips and cannoli pieces

“My mother is a first born Italian American who came from a small, mostly unknown, island, in Italy. She would work at the family's bakery, one of her favorite pastries to make was Cannoli. As long as I can remember every time we visit we would visit the bakery and make our own cannoli with our family. “

Carol's Candies

Inspired by date candy - a vanilla base with date candy and some sort of chocolate element

“My grandmother was a huge baker, and she was always making pies, cinnamon rolls, cookies, and even wedding cakes for other people. When I was thinking about what flavor to propose inspired by her, it was really hard to narrow down a flavor profile from all of those options. She was the queen of sweet treats! In the end, I realized she was such a giver and often was making those baked goods with other people in mind. Since she often put others before herself, I thought it would be good to highlight one of her favorites for a change: date candy.”

Coffee with Nonna

Coffee base with chunks of cookies and little sprinkle pops

“Nonna is Italian for grandmother, and this is inspired by my little Italian grandma. She loves sweets and used to start every day with coffee, black! No big Italian gathering is complete without lots of food, and if she's not making meatballs or some other savory dish you best believe she is going to show up with a tray of traditional Italian cookies. The best part- she is so picky and doesn't like half of them! But she will do anything for the people she loves.”

Cran-Banan

A nice tart high-bush cranberry ice cream with a crunchy banana toffee sprinkled over the top

“Growing up in Kodiak, my mother, sisters, and I spent time each fall picking high-bush cranberries and making jam. My favorite was cran-banan (cranberry-banana), which is objectively weird, but also delicious. Luckily high-bush cranberry grows all over Alaska, so I can continue this tradition in Anchorage.”

Cup of canela

Sweet cream steeped with cinnamon sticks till the flavor is released. Add bits of raw honeycomb and abuelita chocolate tabs crushed and mixed in.

“Mama always makes this and the house smells amazing we drink it as if it’s tea or hot chocolate. My mom loves to chew on raw honey & our hot chocolate is made with the abuelita tabs.”

Fan-uh Banana

Banana pudding with vanilla wafers

“This flavor is calming, nostalgic, summer magic in a bowl or cone. I’m the inspiration behind the flavor. Being a single mom of three daughters, one being fully disabled, sitting at the end of the day with a cold delicious scoop of banana pudding always makes the stress of the day fade away. “

Grandma’s Molasses Cookie Dough

Sweet cream base with my molasses cookie dough pieces

“My grandma was always making cookies! And if she didn’t have any freshly baked she had some waiting in the freezer to take out and share! It was one of the many way she showed her love to us. I loved the smell of her house often smelling like those cookies. Her chewy molasses cookies were some of my favorite and the ones that remind me most of her! “

Jin Dui

Jin Dui (Chinese sesame donut) is made with sweetened glutinous rice flour mixture filled with sweetened yellow mung beans & toasty notes of white sesame seeds.

“When I think of my mom & her deserts this one immediately comes to mind. She makes this during our lunar new year celebrations! She used to make a special batch for me with no mung beans when I was a child because I was so picky. Now I enjoy them & look forward to eating them.”

Lakeside Margarita 

Tangy, citrusy, slushy margarita flavor. Lots of lime and orange. Served ice cold with an umbrella.

“My mom keeps a tub of her homemade margaritas in the freezer all year. She is a generously thoughtful host and loves to have people over to swim in the lake throughout the summer. A key ingredient in her recipe is a liter of 7-UP. Cheers!”

Lovin’ by the Pound

Vanilla cake batter base with pound cake pieces mixed in

“One of my favorite childhood memories of my Mom (who passed away in 1994) was when she would bake her signature pound cake for special occasions, usually for holidays like Christmas. I loved it when she used to let me lick the bowl when she was done preparing the batter, then pouring it into a Bundt pan (that was passed down to me). It is a fond memory that was instrumental in sparking my love for baking, using that same Bundt pan to bake my own pound cakes…with lots of love…just like my Mom. 💗”

Mothers bird

Light honey-vanilla base, carmel and raspberry ribbon, with almonds and a touch of edible flower petals

“Every spring, when the days start getting warmer and the flowers begin to bloom, there’s one little visitor that always brings a smile to Mom’s face. The sweet little hummingbird. Just like hummingbirds, this flavor is colorful, light, and full of energy. The honey and fruit combo nods to the nectar they love, and the floral touches honor nature’s beauty. Just like mom does.”

Nana’s apple pie

Sweet cream base, diced apples seasoned with nutmeg and cinnamon, with butter crust pie chunks.

“My mom made apple pie from scratch every Thanksgiving. It is now a family tradition that I make apple pie for my family for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and 4th of July.”

Popcorn for Dinner

Vanilla or corn base with plain M&Ms, popcorn and chocolate mixed in.

“My Dad was a pilot and gone for work a lot, so my mom was essentially a single-mom working full-time and raising three kids. She was constantly getting us where we needed to go, working late, putting home-cooked meals on the table, and being an absolute bad-ass. Every Sunday though, we had a tradition she called "Popcorn for Dinner" and it basically meant she was not cooking, and everyone was on their own. ...You could have cereal, make your own mac and cheese, whatever-- but she was not cooking it and she would be eating popcorn on the couch. I swear it was the first time she'd sit down all week. I know at the time she saw "popcorn for dinner" as a motherhood failure-- but it was anything but. It not only became something we looked forward to, but it also helped us see how much she was doing, how even in the chaos she was still making some time and space for her own needs, and it granted us some autonomy and responsibility.”

Strawberry Cake

Sweet cream ice cream base, strawberry cake chunks, strawberry icing swirls and strawberries throughout!

“It makes me think of my grandma. She is always the one who bakes cakes/desserts for every birthday/occasion for our family! She makes a deliciously moist strawberry poke cake with strawberry icing! And we always eat it with homemade vanilla ice cream!”

Welsh Wonders Ice Cream Sammie

Welsh cookies with a vanilla nutmeg filling

“My aunt is absolutely wild about Welsh cookies, and I always think of her when I see them. Our tiny hometown has a big Fourth of July celebration and it's the only place that I ever saw them growing up, but she would get so excited to share a pack with us every year. She's one of my favorite people, and she also happens to be the only other teacher in our family. When I'm having a hard time or just need to talk to someone who understands the ins and outs of working in education she is always there for me, even though she's literally on the other side of  the country. I love her and her love for these weird cookies.”

90’s nostalgia

Sweet cream base with oatmeal cream pie and Dunkaroo-equivalent cookies mixed in

“My mom was a Rock Star lunch packer that would surprise us some times with store-bought treats (we were poor, it was not a common thing)”