Easy magic chocolate shell ice cream recipe
Create a crackly, chocolatey magic shell at home for your ice cream.
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- Kroger is back with its free ice cream giveaway to kick off summer, including four new flavors.
- Celebrating Friday’s start of summer, Kroger will dish out more than 90,000 downloadable coupons for free ice cream.
This Friday is the first day of summer and the longest day of the year.
If you’re looking for a way to kick off summer, how about some tasty and cool scoops of ice cream? And for free!
It’s time to scream, or rather download, for ice cream.
Kroger is back with a freebie to start the summer season by dishing out coupons for tens of thousands of pints of ice cream to celebrate.
This year, the nationwide grocer is doubling down on its offer, giving away more than double last year’s 45,000 pints.
On Friday, Kroger will make available a downloadable coupon giving away 92,000 pints of its Kroger brand ice cream or, according to a news release, 1,000 pints for each of summer’s 92 days.
While that sounds like a lot of ice cream, the giveaway is online and valid across the Kroger family of stores nationwide, including in Michigan.
According to a Kroger news release, the offer isn’t valid in California, Colorado, Louisiana, Tennessee and Nevada or at its Mariano’s, Metro Market, Pick ‘n Save and QFC stores.
“Last year, we were blown away by customer excitement for our free pint offer and this summer we are making it even sweeter,” said Mike Murphy, group vice president of center store merchandising at Kroger, in a news release.
How to get a coupon
At noon Eastern time, Friday, June 20, customers can go to FreeKrogerIceCream.com to download a digital coupon. Coupons are available only while supplies last, and each coupon is for a single use. The coupon is valid from Friday through the Fourth of July. When Kroger offered the free, downloadable coupon last year, coupon supplies were depleted shortly after the 8 a.m. release. And if you don’t get a free coupon for Kroger Brand of ice cream, customers can get a digital coupon, which goes live also at noon on Friday, for $1 off two Kroger brand pints of ice cream.
Kroger is also launching its Summer in a Pint collection. Here are the four new flavors available for a limited time:
Italian Style Summer Fizz: A blood orange-flavored sherbet with popping candy clusters and a blood orange-flavored ribbon.
Fireside Nights: A take on classic s’mores is this toasted marshmallow-flavored ice cream with s’mores pieces and “glittering swirl that radiates the orange hue of a campfire flame.”
Sandy Shores: Coconut-flavored ice cream “reminiscent of crystal-blue seas” with a sweet and salty pretzel crunch.
Poolside Tan Lines: Swirls of vanilla bean, chocolate and coffee ice creams.
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