The Monthly Scoop – July 2025

Frosted Fusions’ monthly serving of flavour highlights, kitchen adventures & exclusive treats

🧁 Welcome to Your July Scoop of Deliciousness!

Hello ice cream lovers! July is National Ice Cream Month — so if ever there was a time to fill your freezer (and your belly) with delicious frozen treats, this is it.

This month’s Scoop is bursting with cool creations, celebratory flavours, and a sprinkle of nostalgia. Ready? Let’s see what’s scooping…

🔮 Flavour Forecast – What’s Coming to the Blog

Summer is well and truly upon us and the UK has been enjoying a particularly warm spell so far. Here’s what’s going to be churned up this month:

☀ National Ice Cream Month — celebrating classic scoops, fun lollies, and delicious frozen fusions
🍫 World Chocolate Day (7 July) — rich, decadent ice cream pairings that let chocolate shine
🇫🇷 Bastille Day (14 July) — a taste of France with frozen flair
🍒 Picnic-Perfect Ice Creams — our round-up of travel-friendly, scoopable treats
🎒 School Summer Holidays Begin — family-friendly scoops, ice cream challenges for kids, and easy freezer treats for sunny days

👉🏽 Think of this as your flavour heads-up — subscribers get the inside scoop first!

🌟 Frosted Feature

Each month, we’ll feature a past post; this month it’s;

National Ice Cream Month, and the cherry on top is National Ice Cream Day 2025 — the perfect excuse (not that we need one!) to fill your freezer and gather with your fellow scoop lovers.

National Ice Cream Day in the US is celebrated on the third Sunday of July each year — so this year it’s:🍦 Sunday, 20th July 2025.

👉🏽 Revisit our past celebrations for idea inspirations:
National Ice Cream Day – A Day of Frozen Deliciousness (2023)
National Ice Cream Day 2024

🍦 Whether you’re creating your own creamy treats, or heading to your favourite local spot, 2025’s National Ice Cream Day is all about embracing the joy and fun of frozen treats.

💡 Bonus Tip: Planning a party? Our Sundae Funday Guide is packed with ideas for building your own DIY ice cream bar — sprinkles and smiles guaranteed.

Did you know?
National Ice Cream Month and Day were officially proclaimed in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan, who called ice cream a “nutritious and wholesome food” deserving of national celebration. Nice going Ol’ Ron!

🧾 This Month’s Printable Recipe Card: To celebrate National Ice Cream Month, we’re going back to where it all began — with a creamy, dreamy Classic Vanilla Ice Cream recipe.

📎 Download the Classic Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe Card (PDF)
👉🏽 Click here to download

🇺🇸 4th of July — A Scoop of Independence

While National Ice Cream Month takes the spotlight this July, let’s not forget our friends across the pond celebrating Independence Day on 4th July.

Why not mark the occasion with a freezer-friendly tribute?
👉🏽 Revisit our Red, White & Blueberry Homemade Ice Cream — a sweet star-spangled treat that’s as fun to make as it is to eat!

🔗 Red, White & Blueberry Homemade Ice Cream

☀️ Schools Out – Let the Scooping Begin!

🎒 School’s Out for Summer!
With the school bell’s final ring comes the perfect excuse for family-friendly freezer fun.

Get ready for:
🍦 Easy ice cream challenges to keep the kids cool, creative, and entertained
👩‍🍳 DIY fruit sorbets — no churn, no fuss, pure fruity fun (PDF link below!)
📎 Download the Easy No-Churn Fruit Sorbet Recipe Card (PDF)
👉🏽 Click here to download

🧁 Coming soon: “Kids’ Ice Cream Challenge: DIY Lollies, Scoops & More”
A bumper post of ideas for keeping little hands busy and tummies happy this summer!

🍨 Coming Soon…

🍫 World Chocolate Day (7 July)

Because July without chocolate? Simply unthinkable. Get ready for a chocoholic’s dream – from rich chocolate swirl ice creams to layered bars, marbled coatings and decadent toppings.
🧁 Coming soon: “The Ultimate Chocolate Ice Cream Guide

🍒 Picnic-Perfect Ice Creams — and Festival Freezer Fun
We’ve had Glastonbury’s glitter settle after another fantastic year, but festival season is far from over! July is packed with outdoor events — from music fests to foodie fairs — making it the ideal time to think about how to keep your scoops cool on the go.

Whether you’re packing a picnic for a local park concert or plotting a festival weekend, now’s the time to plan ahead for travel-friendly frozen treats.

🧁 Coming soon: Our guide to scoopable treats that can handle the heat — and keep the party going!

🇫🇷 Bastille Day (14 July)
We’re taking a delicious detour to France for Bastille Day — with a Taste of France feature celebrating French-inspired frozen desserts.

Expect elegant ice cream pairings, hints of lavender, and playful nods to French Fry Day (13th July – yes, really!).
🧁 Coming soon: “A Taste of France: Bastille Day Frozen Treats”

👀 In the Kitchen

This month’s kitchen adventure was sparked by an unexpected supermarket find: the thickest, most enormous stalks of rhubarb I’ve ever seen — especially so late in the season! I couldn’t resist and came home with a whopping 1.6kg.

I’ll admit, I fretted that it might end up too tart — but there was no need for the worrying. The batch was just tart enough, delivering that familiar, classic rhubarb flavour in a rich, creamy ice cream that’s been a hit all round.

💡 Top Tip: Don’t shy away from late-season rhubarb — it can still be beautifully balanced and full of flavour, perfect for ice cream or sorbet bases.

First, I gently cooked the rhubarb down to a soft, jammy consistency, then added some fresh double cream, a splash of Lemon juice and some caster sugar, not too much, but enough to override the tartness churned it to creamy perfection in my Ninja Creami.

The result? A bright, refreshing scoop that’s been a hit at home and with friends too.

📸 See the journey — from those monster stalks to creamy scoops in my collages below.

This batch of rhubarb ice cream even made it to a summer garden gathering, where it earned this lovely praise:

🥳 “It is some of the very best ice cream I have ever tasted. I can’t recommend it highly enough. Well done! Perfect for a summer party!”
— Len Baudert, June 2025

👉🏽 If rhubarb is your thing, check out some of my other tangy, refreshing creations, each offering their own unique flavour twists:

✅ Rhubarb Ginger Sorbet – Light, Spiced, Refreshing

✅ Homemade Rhubarb and Custard Ice Cream

✅ Homemade Rhubarb Ice Cream – A Tantalisingly Tangy Treat

🧾 This Month’s Printable Recipe Cards

Subscribers get them first! Two cool, simple recipes to sweeten the summer break:
📎 Classic Vanilla Ice Cream (PDF) — a National Ice Cream Month essential, creamy and timeless
📎 Easy No-Churn Fruit Sorbet (PDF) — a fun, fuss-free frozen treat kids can help make
👉🏽 Links will be added once uploaded

🏅 Google Featured Snippets Spotlight

We’re thrilled to have scooped up some Google Featured Snippets — those prized top spots in search results that highlight trusted, well-optimised content.

👉🏽 Did you know?

Featured snippets are chosen by Google as the best direct answer to a search query. They’re awarded to pages with clear, high-quality, and well-structured content that best helps searchers.

Here’s a look at a few of our wins so far:

✅ Blending Alcohol in Ice Cream — The Art & Science 🥇

✅ Which Ice Cream Waffle Cone Maker Is Right For You? 🥇

✅ Lilo & Stitch-Inspired Ice Cream 🥇

We’re so proud to be helping ice cream lovers find great tips, ideas, and reviews faster — thanks to Google’s nod!

👉🏽 Why Subscribe? Get exclusive early access to our printable recipe cards, behind-the-scenes kitchen tips, and subscriber-only sweet surprises.

💬 We’d Love to Hear From You

Tell us what you’re loving, what you want more of, or what ice cream challenge your kids (or you!) are tackling this summer. Comment below or drop us a message — we love hearing from our scoop squad!

👉🏽 Keep an eye on your inbox for those printable links — and until then, happy scooping!