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Happy Creative Ice Cream Flavor Day!

Plain chocolate or vanilla ice cream enthusiasts may retort that the ice cream craze has gone too far, when gazing upon Morimoto's arguably unappealing concoction of asparagus ice cream paired with chocolate-dipped asparagus spears, pictured above, but foodies across the world are embracing the trend, scrambling to rack their brains for zany but delicious concoctions, including unlikely ingredients, herbs and alcohols.

As for me, my Cuisinart ice cream maker changed my life -- especially in the recent New York heatwave, where I've been lacking the energy to cook. But I'm eager to toss together a base and let the ice cream maker work its magic. I've combined candied bacon with a creamy whiskey-and-cinnamon base, dropped fresh herbs like basil and mint into various sorbets, crumbled Oreos for divinely rich cookies and cream ice cream, and whipped up batches of margarita sorbet to slurp in the sun.

Once you're comfortable making your own ice cream bases, it's easy to create your own chilled concoctions using your favorite produce, herbs and spices, but if you're looking for inspiration to get started, you can't do any better than frozen dessert guru and author of The Perfect Scoop, David Lebovitz, who will wow you with flavors ranging from salted butter-caramel to Roquefort honey.

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A Facebook group wants library-themed ice cream. Photo by ~Jetta Girl~/Flickr

Ben & Jerry's seems to be tops among many ice-cream eaters, but the feeling is particularly strong among the library-going set.

How else to explain the thousands strong Facebook lobby "People for a library-themed Ben & Jerry's flavor!"?

Not sure if us Brits will ever get to see this - to be honest keeping track of ice-cream flavours is not high on my list of priorities - but reader Laura dropped us a note raving about this.

A new flavour in the Ben and Jerry's line-up - Neopolitan Dynamite. A flavour that stole Laura's heart last week. "They've combined Cherry Garcia with Chocolate Fudge Brownie" she writes "It's absolutely heavenly."

Want some. Want some now!  

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Dreyers/Edys is putting out its seasonal, special-edition Girl Scout Cookie flavored ice creams this month. The flavors include Thin Mints, a chocolate mint concoction with cookie chunks based on the best-selling flavor, and Samoas Cookies, a creamy caramel ice cream with fudge swirls and chunks of Samoas cookies. Both of these flavors are available in regular and light varieties. The final limited-edition flavor is based on Tagalongs and is vanilla ice cream with peanut butter and fudge swirls as well as pieces of the famous peanut butter patty cookies mixed in. The flavors will be available in supermarkets through April.

On their website, the company is hosting a Junior Chef recipe contest. Kids 8-12 can enter their favorite dessert or snack recipes that use the Girl Scout ice creams for a chance to win a prize pack including a year’s supply of Dreyer’s ice cream. The grand-prize winner will also receive a $500 savings bond and have their recipe featured on cartons of ice cream. To get inspired, check out last year’s winning recipes.