Cedar Crest Ice Cream and the Wisconsin 4-H Foundation have announced the winner and finalists of the 2022 Cedar Crest Ice Cream Flavor Creation Contest.
The finalists will get a Cedar Crest Ice Cream party, and the Grand Prize winner will have both a party and $500.
Grand Prize Winner
Pilsen Skylighters, Kewaunee County (Luxemburg, WI)
Flavor: Cow Lick
Leader: Jenny Salentine
Finalists
Winchester 4-H Club, Winnebago County (Larsen, WI)
Flavor: Summer Nights
Leader: Anne Zillges
Johnstown 4-H Club, Rock County (Darien, WI)
Flavor: Cranberry Bog
Leader: Kat Mawhinney
Hilltop Climbers 4-H Club, Buffalo County (Mondovi, WI)
Flavor: Strawberry Summer Nights
Leader: Patty George
Bradford 4-H Club, Rock County (Sharon, WI)
Flavor: Mudrunner
Leader: Sandy Harshaw
The Pilsen Skylighters’ winning flavor, Cow Lick, features vanilla ice cream with a caramel swirl, chocolate coated pretzels and fudge pieces. Cow Lick will be produced by Cedar Crest for the 2023 summer season as a Feature Flavor for the month of July. The flavor will be available in ice cream parlors and scoops shops across Wisconsin and beyond.
Brenda Scheider, executive director of the Wisconsin 4-H Foundation, says the contest is a great opportunity for 4-H youth to work together to develop and name their flavor.
Some past winning flavors were so popular among ice cream lovers that they became a part of Cedar Crest’s scoop shop flavor line up. This includes Wisconsin Campfire S’mores, created by Springbrook 4-H Club of New Richmond, and Haystack, created by Knellsville 4-H Club of Ozaukee County.
“We are proud to support the Wisconsin 4-H organization through our annual flavor contest. The project requires collaboration, teamwork, and creativity to create the next best ice cream flavor,” says Cedar Crest Ice Cream President Ken Kohlwey. “Every year we look forward to reading the entries that come in and sharing the winning flavor with our customers.”
Entries were judged by a panel of ice cream experts chosen by Cedar Crest. The family-owned company based in Cedarburg manufactures more than 80 flavors of ice cream, along with frozen custard, sherbet, and sorbet at its Manitowoc plant. Cedar Crest distributes products in several Midwest states and beyond.
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