A new Starbucks ice cream is here! Starbucks has added a seasonal ice cream offering to their current line up of ice cream. It is Peppermint Mocha and it’s described as “a creamy swirl of mocha and peppermint ice creams adorned with rich dark chocolaty chunks.” The inspiration for this ice cream comes from the Peppermint Mocha which gets a big spike in popularity every Winter season. Starbucks says that this new seasonal flavor is available from September 2010 through March 2011. And if you want to find out about all the Starbucks ice cream flavors, there is an official website:
The official line up of Starbucks ice creams includes: Caramel Macchiato, Mocha Frappuccino, Java Chip Frappuccino, Coffee, Vanilla Bean Frappuccino, Signature Hot Chocolate, and Strawberries & Crème Frappuccino. Farmers who supply milk and cream for Starbucks ice cream pledge not to treat their cows with rBGH.
So which one is your favorite? I have always liked the caramel macchiato flavor best. I just really like caramel as an ice cream flavor.
Now there is a catch to this blog post. I started writing it nearly two weeks ago, and at that time I planned to review the new Peppermint Mocha ice cream. My plan simply was this: Buy the ice cream. Take it home. Eat. Write.
This plan did not work out. I drove around to a couple of different QFC grocery stores and couldn’t find Peppermint Mocha. Then last night I went to a Safeway. I couldn’t find the ice cream. Maybe other places other than Seattle have this ice cream. ? I don’t know. I didn’t want to write a blog post about it without having tried it, and I will edit this post if I ever get to taste it, but here we are!
The wonderful people of Edelman reached out to me and shared some free ice cream coupons to promote the Peppermint Mocha ice cream. I am doing my FTC duty disclosure or whatever to let you know that this blog post was inspired by the Starbucks Edelman people and the coupons came from them.
I’m going to go completely off topic for a moment and recommend some of my favorite archived blog posts here at StarbucksMelody.com:
- Mazagran – A Starbucks History Lesson
- The Faces of Starbucks – Real pics from the land of green aprons
- First and Battery Starbucks
- Collecting Starbucks Cards and Howard Schultz’s autograph (And I definitely still want him to sign another card – Such a beautiful thing to get framed!)
- Fourteen Starbucks t-shirts tell their stories
And now you are wondering, “How do I win a coupon for a free pint of ice cream?”
Here are the rules for this thread: I have a total of six free pint of ice cream coupons and I still have some left over Flavored Via Ready Brew too. There will be a total of 11 winners, which is really a lot! Everyone will get either a free box of Via Ready Brew or a coupon for a free pint of ice cream. If you win, please let me know which you prefer though I cannot promise you will get just what you want. My email address is Sbux206@StarbucksMelody.com.
Rules:
- Leave a comment today (Sunday October 24, 2010) in any StarbucksMelody.com thread – I even suggest some archived favorites above.
- You must “tweet this” blog post! Click the “tweet this” icon on the bottom of this thread, or share on twitter by other means (bit.ly).
- You must comment AND tweet THIS blog post.
- You must have an address in the United States.
- Whether or not I have 11 winners, the contest will close by noon (Pacific Standard Time) on Sunday October 24, 2010.
- This StarbucksMelody.com give away ends when I have 11 winners or at noon on October 24, 2010, whichever comes first.
- Enjoy!
And I really hope that those of you who go get the ice cream will come back here and report on how you like it! Or just tell me in the comments if you’ve tried Starbucks ice cream and what you think!
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OH, I’d love to win – because I love peppermint mochas!
BUT here in Germany we’re far away from having Starbucks Ice Cream….)));
So good luck for everybody in the States!!!
I just say hello. 😀
I love the ice cream!
Did you try ice cream Bar? When I drive a car, I can eat it. (no ticket) Haha.
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But I cannot buy the ice cream in Japan. It is very sad.
I love this new flavor! Hope it stays around longer than the promotion says.
This sounds delicious…I always see Sbux ice cream in the grocery store, but have always given in and bought the less expensive ice cream!
I have NOT seen this ice-cream in my regular grocery but it’s not the one around here that belongs to Safeway (Dominicks). I do love peppermint ice-cream, I don’t need the mocha but I know lots of people would like that. If I find it at Dominicks, I will comment about it. I am sure it’s a win-win….how can you lose? peppermint and mocha?
I have tried the Java Chip Frappuccino ice cream (the new pint version) because I believe that used to be sold in their old ice cream line up as well. It is yummy!! The Caramel Macchiato sounds good too, but I will definitely get the Peppermint Mocha ice cream when I see it out. It’s funny because I like chocolate mint ice cream…but I stay far away from an actual Peppermint Mocha beverage…just not a fan when I have tried it.
I always love your contests Mel!! 🙂
Oh and I’ve tried the Java Chip Frappuccino flavor before, it is gooooood!
Good morning all. So far we have the following winners –
1. Purple1 – (@purple0022)
2. Catherine – (@catherinexjane) – Welcome to the blog! You’re brand new here! Hope you’ll stick around and look at some of the other posts too. 🙂
3. DeniseR. – No tweet my dear friend. :-/
4. Hayley – (@wildflower_eyes)
6. Chen Cao (@chencao) – Long time no see! I know we’ve talked on twitter before but it has been a long long time since you’ve dropped by the blog. Thanks for coming back! I would think it’s starting to get too cold in Boston for ice cream!
7. Steve – (@stevelockitch) – Please email me as indicated above. I think that is the very first time you’ve used the “tweet this” button though you’ve commented often. Glad you figured it out. It helps me a lot to have people tweeting my blog posts because then I get a little more visibility, so thank you for doing that.
Still more prizes to give away (details are in blog post)
If you win, PLEASE email (not DM) with your address, your twitter name, and let me know your preference between Flavored Via Ready Brew or a coupon for a free pint of ice cream.
This really sounds delicious and I can’t wait to try it.
Oh and big thank you again to Edelman! (If they are reading this) – I really wouldn’t have done this blog post without having had some coupons from them to give away. Very generous! For my readers, if you want to follow Edelman on twitter, here you go: @EdelmanDigital (Edelman is like a PR /marketing firm in a business relationship to assist Starbucks with marketing and PR. So here you can see by sending me coupons, they’re helping market the new ice cream flavor.)
I’ve actually never tried the Starbucks ice cream so if I win it’ll be a tough choice since I am loving the Mocha flavored VIA.
You’re very kind for having such a large giveaway! Thanks for the chance to win!
I LOVE Starbucks ice cream. It’s more effective at stopping me than kryptonite. Although I’m partial to the caramel macchiato, I can’t wait to try the new peppermint mocha flavor.
I’ve never tried the ice cream, probably good for my waist line that way, but I’d be game to look for it in the store and share my tasting notes for the good of all Starbucks Melody followers
thanks
I wish I liked Peppermint flavor! But alas….I would love to try the Java Chip flavor if only I could find it!!
WINNERS
1. Purple1 – (@purple0022) – Thank you for always being a part of the blog.
2. Catherine – (@catherinexjane) – Welcome to the blog! You’re brand new here! Hope you’ll stick around and look at some of the other posts too. 🙂
3. DeniseR. – No tweet my dear friend. :-/
4. Hayley – (@wildflower_eyes)
6. Chen Cao (@chencao) – Long time no see! I know we’ve talked on twitter before but it has been a long long time since you’ve dropped by the blog. Thanks for coming back! I would think it’s starting to get too cold in Boston for ice cream!
7. Steve – (@stevelockitch) – Please email me as indicated above. I think that is the very first time you’ve used the “tweet this” button though you’ve commented often. Glad you figured it out. It helps me a lot to have people tweeting my blog posts because then I get a little more visibility, so thank you for doing that.
8. Msorrell (@Msorrell7) – Welcome to the blog! This blog has giveaways of some kind about once a month. I just enjoy giving away things whether Via, gift cards, or something else. Come back soon and take a look at some of the other blog posts too! 🙂
9. ClarkKent – Ah hah! We found your weak spot! 😉
10. Donna – (@anglophilelibr) – Yes I do want people to come back and share tasting notes! It will make this much more interesting. Good or bad – Even if you don’t like it! It looks like everyone wants the free coupon over Via. 🙁
11. AshleeLyman (@ashleelyman) – Hi there my friend! Email me and tell me what you want. Since you are in a warmer city (compared to Seattleites) I am guessing the ice cream! 🙂
12. Elly (@lyracole) –
PLEASE email (not DM) with your address, your twitter name, and let me know your preference between Flavored Via Ready Brew or a coupon for a free pint of ice cream.
Sbux206@StarbucksMelody.com
Melody
http://www.starbucksmelody.com
CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED – Please email me, even if you think I know your address. (Except Elly I nearly have your address memorized. No need to email me.) — I have recently changed how I keep addresses so I really do need addresses, even though some of you have been winners before. Many thanks!
I have been taking the flavored via to work with me, because I’d really rather not rely on the work coffee, which sometimes disappears entirely. That’s kind of a bone of contention flor everyone there, so I’ve been passing your cards around and letting people know they should read.
Are you doing any special blog post for hallowe’en?
And again, on my phone, having just woke up, so please forgive the drowsy weirdness of my comment.
Melody: While I love ‘stuff’ and prizes, I come here first to be a part of this! with you and whoever else I’ve met…. I just can’t possibly fit ‘tweeting’ into my head. (especially not now!) Maybe I’m too old, too slow…whatever it is, it’s really not for me. I think I could see it in my 40’s maybe? but not now. and actually, in my 40’s, my daily life was so jammed busy, I don’t know how I would’ve done it then. but, sometimes when you’re busiest (at least for me, and ABLE) you somehow manage to get MORE done. anyway, back to the ice-cream , you scream. I think I have had all other Sbux flavors, thru the yrs. what can be said? they’re good. they’re very good.
Where is C.D. anyway? He should be near a Dominicks store and checking out the possibility of this peppermint mocha. If I get it, I will comment……but I just can’t tweeeet ……
@DeniseR – i appreciate that more than you know. The people who are hardcore readers are coming here and connecting over coffee whether or not there is a giveaway. But it’s just somehow hard-wired in my body to try and give things to people. I don’t know why. I tried to buy Howard Schultz his espresso drink once and I can tell it was slightly irritating to him. He just doesn’t know that the fabric of who I am I hardwired to give away and buy things. I can’t stop it. I buy the person behind me in line their drink often. I can’t stop that compulsion. It’s really powerful.
Melody off the subject but in response to your comments to Denise R- Part of the charm of being at a SB is getting know people like you. Even with all the changes that occur at SB some good, some bad the best part is meeting and getting to know the people that frequent SB the most and make it a community and what you do makes it a community. Sorry for the diversion.
That’s really not a bad compulsion to have, because it allows you to connect to people on yet another level that most of us appreciate and enjoy.
And we thankyou much for it 🙂
*sits with spoon*
I can’t wait to try the Peppermint Mocha! I am going to look for yummy baked goodness to share it with my family
I unfortunately cannot eat real ice cream but My husband loves caramel macchiato.
@Elly @Purple1 @DeniseR – Well there are sometimes really interesting conversations going on in the comments too, so it is worth it to come back even if no giveaway. I have been closely reading the “mini” test conversation. I don’t have much to add since obviously I am not in Arizona but it is still totally interesting!
@purple1 – Diversions are fine. Makes our comments interesting.
@Elly – I sent you a DM about going to Olive Way but I’m getting the twitter fail whale a lot this morning. I have coffee plans to meet up someone I kinda know who works for http://whrrl.com/ – There’s more to that story but I’ll tell you in person soon,
@DeniseR – It’s okay that you don’t twitter. It kills too much time anyways!
Just a good story: I remember that day well … Howard came in after me at 15th Avenue Coffee and Tea, obviously on his way t work. I blurted out, “Hey let me buy you your coffee” to which he just looked at me like as if I had 2 heads (I have gotten that look from him a couple of times) and he just said, “no”. He’s quite good at that one word: “No”.
that is so nice that you tend to buy people behind you a drink. I do that sometimes around Christmas time. I love suprising people 🙂
Peppermint Mocha ice cream?! Typically I prefer frozen yogurt over ice cream but this one is something that I’m going to have to find and try! Now if only Starbucks could create a Pumpkin Spice Latte flavored ice cream….
@CoffeeVanilla – That is a great idea!! I would definitely buy Pumpkin Spice Latte Ice Cream!!!!!
I am not a fan of Peppermint Mocha, but would LOVE a pumpkin spice ice cream!!
Judging from your picture Denise you look younger, a lot younger, than I am and I tweet. I think, for the most part, it is a bunch of nonsence but I still do it and think it’s sweet to tweet!
I really like the Signature Hot Chocolate – bought it several times so far. Will be on the lookout for the Peppermint Mocha today!
This is a consumer package good extension of the Starbucks brand that I can believe in! The quality of these ice cream match the quality that we’ve come to know and expect from Starbucks. Fusions (and VIA) are questionable in my book, but the ice cream is a winner. I also think the change to more closely match the drinks that Starbucks offers was a very good move.
Starbucks already has a built in fan base for their Caramel Macchiato, Mocha Frappuccino, Java Chip Frappuccino, Coffee, Vanilla Bean Frappuccino, Signature Hot Chocolate, and Strawberries & Crème Frappuccino flavors so making them available in ice cream format seems like a “no brainer.”
As @Diele mentioned, seasonal offerings like Pumpkin Spice would probably be a smart move – there are quite a few fans of Pumpkin Spice (and Cinnamon Dolce).
On a related note, I saw that Costco is selling Starbucks Hot Chocolate mixes now. Has anyone tried them?
I have tried some of their ice creams – they are OK but 1) hard to find 2)I’m lactose intolerant so they make feel feel ill
When i am sneaking spoonfuls my favorite is the Signature Hot Chocolate but I’d love to try the mocha, i’ll have to look around and see where has it
@CD do you know if the costco mixes are the same the stores sell around christmas? if so yes i have and the peppermint is good
I love Starbucks Ice cream…as good as Ben & Jerry’s…YUMMY!
But I am not really in the mood for ice cream right now…it is so cold out here.
I’ve never tried starbucks ice cream-mostly b/c ice cream is so ridiculous here! we’re talking 6 and 7 bucks a pop. Yes, for real.
Java Chip! El mejor! I know I am not the only one who has made an entire dinner out of it. It is simply the best ice cream out there. Period. I limit myself to two a year. That’s it. I hope Starbucks never discontinues it.
Oh my! Totally missed this post! Can’t wait to try peppermint mocha ice cream next time I’m at the store. Yum! I used to work at an ice cream shop during the winter when I was in high school. Ever since then I CRAVE ice cream when its cold outside. Definitely gonna try it! My favorite is Caramel Macchiato ice cream.
I STILL haven’t been able to find this in stores! I have been keeping my eye out ever since I heard it would be coming. The Peppermint Mocha is one of my favorite hot drinks to get in the cooler months. The Peppermint Mocha Frappuccino (and also Peppermint Java Chip Frappuccino!) are excellent when it’s warmer!
I am SO excited to try this ice cream. All of the Starbucks brand ice creams I’ve tasted have been delicious and had such a great, creamy texture. I’m certain this newest addition will be equally amazing. 🙂
One of my grandaughters, Lilly, LOVES the Peppermint Mocha Frap! She orders it whenever she can. She lives with me ~ we are on the lookout for the ice cream. When we find it ~ we’ll pass on the info!
Lilly can’t wait for an afterdinner treat of not only her favorite flavor of Starbucks ~ but as ice cream as well! For her it’s an epic win!!
haven’t seen it either….but it Has to be coming soon now that the holiday stuff is rolling out! 🙂
Ok went to Pathmark this morning and looked for the Starbucks ice cream. I could only find Caramel macchiato and Signature Hot chocolate flavors. I used the coupon that I won on this blog to “buy” the Starbucks Signature Hot Chocolate ice cream. After lunch I thought I’d give it a try maybe a spoon or two. It was really really good, really rich and it had a thick ribbon of hot fudge running thru it. Well I ate about 1/3 of the pint and quickly realized that I could not keep such a highly alluring product in my freezer, Hey I am not in the market for buying bigger sizes of pants so when My son’s friends came in after school I said anyone want some really good chocolate ice cream and well now its all gone, I don’t have to buy bigger pants and I know what to buy when am craving rich chocolatey ice cream with fudge. on a side note I don’t really think it tasted like hot chocolate, but thats a minor issue, really miniscule
Saw it at SuperTarget in Central Texas for $2.84!!!
I’m so excited because, although I still haven’t spotted this flavor in stores, I got an email from Starbucks earlier this week with a coupon I could print out. So it’s in my wallet, just waiting for the chance to get used. As soon as I see it, I’m buying a pint. And I’ll get a dollar off! So maybe I’ll just go ahead and buy two…
Finally saw this in stock in Los Angeles….there was a 2 for $7 deal at Albertsons. It should have been more Minty in my opinion. I kind of wondered if the green packaging was for St. Patricks Day?!?
omggggg, i want to try the ice cream, tell me what shops sell it in England please, its driving me mad trying to find some igotta have some NOWWWWW :P…thanks 😛 xxxxxx