Like any hardcore ice-cream lover, I like to keep up the brainfreeze all year long. But when spring hits it’s time to kick up the consumption just a bit, and I’m quite sure the best way to accomplish that this season is with Green & Black’s White Chocolate Strawberry Organic Ice Cream. A new product from the same fair-trade chocolate purveyors who graciously keep us in dark chocolate with ginger bars and other such divine things, the lovely stuff is made from organic cream and cocoa beans grown without the use of gross chemicals and pesticides. It’s also one of the richest and dreamiest ice creams I’ve had in a really long time, while the line’s straight-up chocolate variety is likely to bring any serious chocoholic to complete ecstasy.

Rumors have been buzzing for some time now about a new ice cream flavor commemorating ironic on-air “news” host Stephen Colbert. But despite much conjecture about red-white-and-blue concoctions containing “Colberries,” Ben & Jerry released Americone Dream, vanilla ice cream with fudge-covered waffle cone pieces and caramel. Colbert made a typically trenchant quip at the news.

“I’m not afraid to say it. Dessert has a well-known liberal agenda. What I hope to do with this ice cream is bring some balance back to the freezer case.”

The creative outpouring for prospective flavors was impressive. Beyond the aforementioned Colberries, alternative ideas included Baby Ruth-iness, Strangeness with Candy and Dead Bear Claw.

Or perhaps they should simply have renamed French Vanilla to Freedom Vanilla and be done with it.

Look for Americone Dream in the freezer case and enjoy “the sweet taste of liberty in your mouth.”

We’re all adither over this faboo little invention: The Cuisinart Soft-serve Ice Cream Maker. Just drop in your favorite ingredients, and in the time it will take you to get a roaring fire going in your living room, you can have a sweet treat without having to go out into the elements. The best part is the topping dispensers, so you can doll up your cone with jimmies, gummi bears, bacon bits — hey, it’s your ice cream parlor! This one’s sure to top a few guys’ Christmas lists this year. (via Coolest Gadgets)

We really appreciate bloggers that love — and we mean really LOVE — their products. The exceedingly hilarious Marvo at The Impulsive Buy has gone so far as to forge a deep, personal relationship with his newest BFF, the Ben & Jerry’s Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough The Cone. All we can say is, with a name like that, it better be good! Sadly, Marvo has to contend, as we all do occasionally, with the pain of losing friends by way of consuming them, but at least there’s more where that comes from.

Oh, and definitely check out his review of the groady-sounding grape-flavored apple product Grapple, if only to experience Mother Nature as a foul-mouthed hip-hop gangbanger bitch. Word!  

Dark chocolate with crunchy, salty bits of bread. What could be better than 3400 Phinney’s Bread and Chocolate Bar? Well, we suppose the only thing that could improve upon it is if it were to be reproduced in …

… gelato form.  Yes, that would do very nicely indeed. Props to Cookbook 411 for taking a nearly perfect thing and just going that extra mile. Spoons up!

When your tum-tum is feeling not so great, you just need a little soothing. So bizarre as it sounds, we think there may be no greater tonic than the combination of comfort food and over-the-counter medication. Blogjam’s Pepto Bismol ice cream beckons with its signature creamy pink color and, reportedly, pleasant flavor. Perfect for morning-after recovery milkshakes, or perhaps best taken prophylactically as dessert after a gut-busting dinner. We suppose you could drizzle a little cherry-flavored Robitussin over for a topping, but we’ll pass on the sprinkles.

Six words: Oreo, cookie dough, coffee ice cream. Cindy at Food Migration may have discovered the ultimate ice cream flavor at Fenton’s in Oakland, CA. Totally worth the trip (no matter where you’re coming from). Take that, Ben & Jerry’s!

We love how SweetCherry at Diet Porn Is Obsession posts cute little snapshots of her daily lunchbox and shares some of the recipes for its low-fat contents (pineapple slaw with feta cheese = yum). And we’re especially adoring of her diet-suited snack discoveries, a la these summer-perfect ice cream cones from The Skinny Cow (just 150 calories per cone).

If my last post about ice cream truck jingles made you melancholy for the tinny tinkling of days of yore, head on over to Beware of the Blog to sample MP3s of some of their greatest hits, inclding the (now-defunct) Mr Softee theme and, yes, Turkey in the Straw. If you’re a Gen-Xer or older, it’s a total flash from the past. What can I get for 35 cents?

Do you lament (or even remember) the days when the ice cream man would drive down your street, a cheery tune jingling away? (The one in my neighborhood played Turkey in the Straw. What was yours?) Nowadays you have to trundle down to the local market to get your Rocket Pop or Creamsicle. Or do you? According to Nosheteria, all you need are these Ikea popcicle molds. From there, if you can make a smoothie, you can make your own popsicles. Now hum a cheery tune, and watch the kids come running!

Danyelle at Restaurant Girl is seriously speaking our language. In one fell post, she first turns us on to the Moobella vending machine that makes 60 made-to-order flavors of ice cream on the spot. All we have to do now is figure out where to put it in the kitchen. Hmm … don’t really need that stove, do we? Well, we’ll leave the big toys for now. Luckily, she offers an alternative: designer ice cream from eCreamery. Choose from three bases, 99 flavors and 99 toppings. Lessee, that’s a total of … a lot of different kinds of ice cream. Stuff ain’t cheap, but go and try to find black licorice-parmesan cheese ice cream at your local supermarket. On second thought, don’t.

It should come as no news to you, but we’re all about what’s cool. And when the mercury rises, nothing is cooler than ice cream. Sure, you could truck to the store and get a pint of Ben & Jerry’s or Haagen Dazs (not that there’s anything wrong with the Haagen Dazs!), but churning your own makes it extra-special. All the way from Paris, David Lebovitz walks us through three great home ice cream makers (all available stateside, of course). Churn it on!