Recently Dryer’s Slow Churned Light Ice Cream asked me to create a summer sundae to promote their partnership with the charity Operation Smile.
Making desserts for a good cause is sorta like my dream job.
No, scratch that. Eating desserts for charity is my dream job.
I’m more of a cake, frosting, and cookie fan than ice cream so I chose Cookie Dough flavor because it seemed like the best of both worlds.
In a 1/2 cup serving there’s 130 calories, 3.5 grams of fat and 3 grams of protein.
For my sundae, I wanted to keep it sorta healthy (because I wanted more than a 1/2 cup serving of ice cream) so I melted a small handful of butterscotch chips with fat free milk to make a caramel-like sauce.
2 tablespoons of butterscotch chips have 70 calories and 4 grams of fat.
And then I layered the ice cream and butterscotch sauce with fat-free whipped cream, a sprinkle of mini chocolate chips and a couple pecan pieces for a finishing touch and to pretend I was gourmet.
It was pretty righteous and not too much of a calorie bomb.
A cool-as-ice-cream thing that Dreyer’s is doing is the A Reason to Smile Program: for every ice cream smile captured in a photo and uploaded to Dreyer’s Facebook page, Slow Churned will donate $5 to Operation Smile.
By the end of the summer, the goal is to give away more than 25,000 scoops of ice cream, capture 25,000 ice cream smiles and gift 500 surgeries/smiles to children in-need.
Almost as cool as helping children in need is that right after I ate my sundae I was reading the nightly news…
And saw this:
Why wasn’t I asked to go eat ice cream in LA with Brooke?!? We would get along swimmingly, I just know it. I mean, we practically look like twin sisters already…
Dreyer’s® Slow Churned Light Ice Cream is churned slowly for all the rich & creamy taste of regular ice cream, but with half the fat and one-third fewer calories. Now that’s a reason to smile. Give a smile with Operation Smile: https://www.facebook.com/DreyersIceCream
What’s your favorite flavor of ice cream? Least favorite?
I like salted caramel, cookie dough and pistachio and my least favorite is strawberry.
Disclosure: Compensation was provided by Nestle via Glam Media. The opinions expressed herein are those of the author and are not indicative of the opinions or positions of Nestle.
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I have to admit, I would totally find a way to eat dessert for charity too. Great idea with the butterscotch chips!
Coffee and Cherry Vanilla (but only by certain ice cream stands). Excuse me while I go get my sugar on after reading this post.
I loveee cookie dough ice cream
i loveee mint chocolate chip! and chocolate of course. hate butter pecan yuck
Butter Pecan all the way, and I love a great vanilla! I prefer my ice cream on the plain side, so I can add fabulous toppings, I think it usually tastes better that way. Your sundae looks perfect!
Least Favorite: flavors that are wannabes like cheesecake or bubble gum. If I wanted cheesecake, I would just eat cheesecake.
As the parent of a child with a cleft, I must say that I’m disappointed you didn’t mention clefts a single time in this post. If you’re blogging to raise awareness, shouldn’t you talk a little bit more about Operation Smile and tell your readers exactly what the charity does and who it benefits?
thats why i linked to the website at the top of the post so that readers can immediately get accurate information.
but if you’d like to share your story possibly, email me and we’ll talk about it.
Wow, you need to simmer down.
SR – I thought you did a great job giving this very worthy cause a lot of coverage – you mention it 5 times in the post (I counted) with 3 separate links where readers can go to find out more. You have a very large and loyal fan base who’s interested in what you have to say – I know your message prompted me to click on the Operation Smile link and find out more about Dreyer’s promotion. The only thing I’m disappointed in is that I forgot to tell you my favorite ice cream flavor. Going back to do that now. Please hold.
I was talking to the original poster, not SR. Just want to make that clear!!
Oh hi Sarah! I totally got that! Sorry, I should have made that more clear.
My favorite is anything with chocolate! Least favorite is vanilla. Too plain!
That’s a great cause! I love that they’re donating $5 per photo; so often it is such a small amount.
My fave- either rocky road or pb cup. When I was younger it was the blue bubblegum flavor with the bubblegum pieces in it!
My favorite flavor in mint chocolate chip…my least favorite…..um is there a bad flavor of ice cream? Wait a minute this may explain my pants size.
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Mmm…I love ice cream!! Your sundae looks yummy!
Great cause! Your sundae looks super delicious but I think my favorite part is that you put it in a wine glass with a long spoon. Why do long spoons make sundaes taste better? I have no idea but I wish I had one. The spoon, and the sundae.
this looks awesome! i’m in love with any kind of ice cream that involves peanut butter and chocolate, or both. i HATE strawberry, black cherry and anything involving fruit. it just doesnt make sense haha.
i love the brooke burke coincidence – its like you’re bffs
Leas favourite: chocolate and vanilla,
favourite: any sorbet, dark cherries, I can actually eat a family size of dark cherries at once, that’s why I can’t buy it, I won’t stop until it’s finished (or my stomach hurts)
I’m vegan so most of the time, it’s sorbet and the sorbets sold here are fruity types – love the mango flavour. Haven’t had a chance to try soy-based ice creams yet.
How could I forget to tell you my favorite flavor?? I think that is some sort of ice cream sacrilege. Anyhoo, it varies depending on what type we’re talking about. For instance, last month in Italy it was obviously gelato (duh) and every day (at least once) it had to be a scoop of coconut and a scoop of coffee. When I’m stateside, I sort of have a love affair with these super-fresh sorbets by “Ciao Bella”. Lemon Zest is where it’s at. I may have to blog about it.
Hmm, I like anything coffee or mocha. Your sundae looks so awesome! They would charge like $3.99 at a restaurant
I can’t pick just one but I’d say the Top 3 would be Vanilla, Mint Chocolate Chip, and Ben&Jerry’s Phish Food. My least favorite would be stuff like butter pecan, ones with cherry or coconut or too much caramel. I don’t really discriminate though, lol. I have recently become obsessed with Ben & Jerry’s Greek Frozen yogurt…it is pure heaven!
Favorite flavors of ice cream … cake batter, red velvet cake, cookies and cream, cookie dough … I love ice cream with chunks of other stuff in it.
I’m not a huge fan of fruit flavored ice cream, but anything else is fair game.
Awesome campaign! Brooke Burke looks amazing after 4 kids.
That is a great cause (and fun!). Favorites (don’t have just one!): cookie dough, fudgy, coffee, mint chocolate chip, and peanut buttery. Un-favorites: fruity.
My all time favorite is cookie dough…who doesn’t like a little cookie dough with their vanilla ice cream?!?
Cookie dough and Chocolate Cherry ice cream are my favorites. I haven’t tried an ice cream I don’t like
Love chocolate ice cream with whipped cream and multi colored sprinkles. Ahh so good on a hot day! I agree with Kailin,I have not tried an ice cream that I dont like. Ice cream is like ambrosa from the Greek Gods…
I make my own ice cream every night (in a blender).
Favorite flavor- chocolate peanut butter from Baskin Robbins. Nothing beats it. You will totally have ice cream with Brooke Burke someday. 
I was so thrown by the Dreyers on the container! I live in PA and it’s Edy’s over here haha I guess I am not the ice cream fan I thought I was, I had no idea they went by different names in different parts of the US!
Anyway, I worked in an ice cream place for several years growing up and got to try so many awesome flavors! Cotton Candy is still my favorite, but only the pink kind with multi colored chips in it. There is a pink and blue swirl one as well and it is just not as good! Least favorite…I don’t like most nut flavors, like Maple Walnut, etc.
Great post! Great cause!
Favorite flav-ahs: anything coffee, mint chocolate chip and Ben & Jerry’s Oatmeal Cookie Chunk! Try it and love it….
Every once in a while I will buy Haagen-Dazs Vanilla Swiss Almond; it’s yummy but not at the top of the heap for me.
Keep Smilin’
Favorite = any form with peanut butter. I have a fond memory of an ice cream flavor that was peanut butter ice cream with a chocolate swirl – *sigh*. I’ve recently fallen in love with B&Js Banana Peanut Butter Frozen Greek Yogurt. I’ll have to take a look at the Edy’s flavors and get some when I go to see mom next week.
Least favorite is hard; I don’t eat ice cream that much so when I do I am lucky enough to get a kind that I love.
I love most ice cream flavors, but black licorice ice cream is about the worst idea ever. Wrong on so many levels.
My favorite ice cream combo is New York Cherry ice cream mixed with Cotton Candy ice cream (pink only, no blue!).
My first job was at an ice cream parlor, where we could have as much free ice cream as we wanted. Thank goodness I had higher metabolism back them.
AH! How cool! You get to eat ice cream for charity! Congrats! To be honest I would eat any kind of ice cream, I seriously love them all! New flavors are my favorite to try! Only drawback now is I have to hunt for fun ones that are gluten free….if I can only find vanilla I get pretty crafty in the kitchen. lol
Cookies and cream or pistachio are my favorite.
Or maybe coffee and salted caramel, possibly Neapolitan, could be butter pecan.
Not sure.
That could be why my abs don’t look like Brooke’s.
Girl, that sundae is RIGHT up my alley! I LOVE choc and caramel and vanilla. And nuts. YUMM. Great cause!
I love Dreyer’s Slow Churned French Silk ice cream + just about any other flavor, with the exception of plain chocolate.
Jeni’s Mexican Chocolate or Avocado!!
BTW, if you can eat desserts for charity, I’ll make them.
My fave ice cream is Spumoni-a combo of pistachio, cherry and chocolate. I love it so much that I named my dog after it, and we call her Moni for short.
I love a good vanilla bean with hot fudge sauce and Spanish peanuts (or a peanut buster parfait from DQ – only the sundae version too much in the PBP)
I am not a fan of fruity ice creams. Typically stick with Chocolates with stuff in it but the good ol’ vanilla bean with hot fudge typically kicks me out of a bad mood.
love love
Butter pecan!! Thanks for sharing the information about this really worthy cause:)