4 New Ice Cream Treats for the Summer

CHICAGO — Summer is just around the corner, and as the ice cream category continues to evolve, there’s an option for everyone, whether its a unique novelty flavor, a dairy-free scoop or a new favorite from a familiar brand.

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Häagen-Dazs launched its new City Sweets collection, inspired by city street food desserts, such as street vendor pretzels, churros, waffles and New York's classic black and white cookies.

The ice cream collection is available five flavors: Dulce de Leche Churro, Coffee Chocolate Brownie, Chocolate Peanut Butter Pretzel, Summer Berry Cake Pop and Black & White Cookie. It also comes in a snack bar format in three flavors: Dulce de Leche Churro, Chocolate Peanut Butter Pretzel and Summer Berry Waffle.

The City Sweets collection is available nationwide with a suggested retail price of $6.49 for 14-ounce containers and $5.49 for cartons containing three bars.

The collection propels the company’s #ThatsDazs campaign forward, which launched last year to elevate a new generation of diverse tastemakers and creators. Häagen-Dazs enlisted the talents of Brooklyn-based artist, Jade Purple Brown, to design the City Sweets packaging. It is also supported by singer and actress, Leslie Grace.

“Inspired by the creativity of Häagen-Dazs founding tastemakers who emigrated from Poland to the Bronx, we are continuing our work to uplift new voices and showcase diverse creators,” said Elizabell Marquez, chief marketing officer at Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, Oakland, Calif., which owns the Häagen-Dazs brand.

Founded in 1960, Häagen-Dazs’ products include ice cream tubs, bars, sorbet, alcohol-infused ice cream and vegan and gluten free ice cream.

Perry’s Ice Cream, based in Akron, New York, has five new flavors available in stores now.

The new flavors include:

• Piece of Cake (Pint): Yellow cake ice cream with thick chocolate frosting and pieces of pound cake.
• Chocolate Hazelnut (family size): Chocolate hazelnut ice cream with hazelnut fudge swirls.
• Peanut Butter Swirl (family size): Vanilla ice cream with peanut butter swirls.
• Key Lime Pie (family size): Key lime frozen yogurt with other natural flavors and graham cracker swirls.
• Caramel Macchicato Barista (Ice cream bar): Contains as much caffeine as one cup of coffee.

Perry’s Ice Cream was founded in 1918 by H. Morton Perry. The company aims to build on its history with three business segments: the Perry’s brand, contract manufacturing and its partner brands. Perry’s products are distributed across New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia.

Bloomfield, Colo.-based So Delicious Dairy Free recently launched Wondermilk, a new line of dairy-free frozen treats.

The dessert is available in pint and cone sizes, all of which are vegan certified and Non-GMO Project Verified. The five new pint flavors include Buttery Pecan, Vanilla, Chocolate Cocoa Chip, Cookies and Creme and Strawberry. In the cone format, the two new frozen sundae cone flavors are Salted Caramel and Vanilla Peanut.

Wondermilk frozen desserts have a suggested retail price of $5.49 per pint and $5.49 for a box of three cones.

Danone North America’s portfolio also includes Activia, DanActive, Danimals, Dannon, evian, Happy Family Organics, Honest to Goodness, Horizon Organic, International Delight, Light + Fit, Oikos, Silk, STōK, Two Good, Wallaby Organic and YoCrunch.

Oreo, a Mondelez International brand rolled out its new lineup of frozen treats.

The portfolio includes:

• Oreo Bars (five-count pack and single pack)
• Oreo Cones (four-count, eight-count and single cones)
• Oreo Sandwiches (four-count pack and single pack)
• Oreo tubs (48- and 14-ounce tubs)
• Oreo Cups (10 pack of 3.25-fluid ounce cups)

“We continually seek ways to playfully reinvent our classic cookie and are excited to bring this new Oreo innovation to the freezer aisle,” said Justin Parnell, vice president of Oreo United States.

Deerfield, Ill.-based Mondelez is a global snacking company operating in 150 countries. The company manufactures biscuits, chocolate, gum, candy and powdered beverages; its brands include Oreo, Ritz and Chips Ahoy! biscuits, Nilla wafers, Wheat Thins and Premium crackers.