West Bend Ice Shaver Giveaway
Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 10:32AM in Giveaways, Ice Cream, Product Reviews, desserts, snack Contest closed. The winner is comment #64, Shaye! Thank you to everyone that entered, and stay tuned, because I have more great giveaways lined up for the next few weeks! Good eats, good drinks, good things to help you make those good eats, and good things to grow!
It’s hot, and you want an ice cold treat. It’s still hot, and your kids are freaking out just because it’s summer and they have all the time in the world to do so. Gather everyone around and make some snow cones with your brand new Electric Ice Shaver from West Bend! I don’t think anyone can say no to a sweet, ice cold refreshing snow cone on a hot day.
Or how about this? You’re sitting around with your adult friends on a hot summer evening. Break out the Back to Basics Electric Ice Shaver and make some grown up snow cones with your favorite cocktail flavors!
I recently had the chance to test drive the West Bend Electric Ice Shaver. It works great! The ice shaves nice and fluffy. You get two ice molds in the box that are the perfect size for the ice shaver--of course. You can also use ice cubes, but you’ll get a coarser texture. I like to fill the molds, and when frozen, remove them and freeze two more. Think of it as having a supply of ice cubes--you want to have some on hand for when you need them, right? I store the individual frozen ice molds in small Ziploc bags--separately, so they don’t stick together. This way I have plenty on hand when we suddenly need a round of snow cones. Two ice molds make about six snow cones. We can get more mileage if we’re adding a bit of ice cream at the bottom.
You’re only limited by your imagination with these. Not only did we use the supplied flavorings in Watermelon, Cherry, and Blue Raspberry, but we also improvised and made some of our own. Root Beer Float or Creamsicle, anyone? How about coconut water and pineapple juice?
Wait. How do you make Root Beer Float and Creamsicle snow cones, you ask? Easy! Just pop a small scoop of vanilla ice cream in the bottom of the paper cone. As the flavored ice starts to melt into the ice cream on the bottom, you get a creamy mix of deliciousness! Next, I want to try cherry ice with some chocolate ice cream on the bottom. Maybe some margarita ones? You really can’t go wrong with that, can you?
West Bend is celebrating 100 trusted years of bringing us quality products. I’ll bet many of you already have at least one West Bend appliance in your home. My mom and grandmother always had things from West Bend. I grew up with them! That makes them a tradition in our home, and I’m sure, in many others. The ice shaver is part of the Back to Basics line from West Bend. Have a look around--they’ve got so many great things on the site!
West Bend has graciously offered to give the Electric Ice Shaver Package to one of you. Now you can make your own snow cones at home! (The snow cone holder in my photos is not included in the giveaway-that’s mine. But it sure as heck comes in handy!)
Included are:
- West Bend Electric Ice Shaver
- Two ice molds
- Popsicle molds
- Paper Snow Cone cups
- Assortment of Snow Cone flavorings
- Scoopy-type straws for scooping and slurping
How to enter:
1. REQUIRED: Please visit West Bend’s page on Facebook and “Like” it. This one’s a must, and only takes a few seconds and/or two clicks. Leave me a comment here telling me that you liked their page.
2. Leave a comment here telling me what kind of snow cone you might like to try first. Let’s get those ideas flowing!
Bonus entry--NOT required: You can tweet about the giveaway, and leave a comment here for each tweet. Just don’t drive your Twitter friends crazy.
That’s it! Simple. I’ll choose a random winner (US shipping only) on Friday, July 8th. I’ll alert the winner by email, and the winner will have 24 hours to get back to me, or I’ll have to choose another.
Disclaimer: I received my review package at no charge from West Bend. I’m not being endorsed for my opinions on the product.
Reader Comments (69)
That's funny because we've been eying a snow cone maker at BB&B to use for my bday party in a week and a half!
I've been trying to decide what flavors of syrup to offer. I'm thinking that a simple syrup with some Kool-aid powder would probably work really well. Blue raspberry, here I come!
(Oh, and I liked and tweeted as instructed.) ;)
How fun it that! I'm not going to enter as I think someone with kids would get a lot more use out of it though I love the idea of adult icees.
Liked WB on fb :)
Ooh what flavor... lemonade? Blue raspberry? Maybe a faux-rita or wait and do a real margarita when I can. Yum. So many possibilities.
Awesome giveway - those look sooo good! :) I 'liked' on fb as Jocelyn P. :) Godsgalnj@gmail.com
I liked it on FB!
I would make rosemary lemon flavor yum. lemon shaved ice is amazing! add a little rosemary simple syrup... tasty time!
I liked West Bend before but I've now made it official ma'am. We so often associate snow cones with kids but they are a passion of mine that is never realized now that my kids are gone. I do believe I would have to try something adult; thinking Limoncello or even espresso/Kahlua? OK, now I REALLY want one!
I've always been a sucker for blue raspberry. :-) Thanks for hosting the give-away. (By the way, I'm a fellow native-New Englander. Grew up in VT, but living in the South now.)
I "liked" West Bend on FB. I think I would try to create a "caramel frapacino" snow cone. :)
Making smoothies and fruit shakes is one of our family bonding and with the help of West Bend Electric Ice Shaver it was more fun to do shakes every time we wanted to.
Hey! Love the redesign! And I'm not entering as...shhh...I don't like sno-cones. :)
I would have to make some grown up versions. Maybe a pina colada or a rum and coke. As hot as it gets in this part of the world, I know this would be put to good use!
I like West Bend on Facebook.
what a refreshing give away~ especially since i live in n.c.!!! i love that you can make "meat loaf" in their breadmaker, verrry interesting! thanks for sharing this neat give away, i think "root beer" floats or margarita shaved ice would be refreshing to serve on one of our pool days with family and friend!!!! :) barb
Fun! I would love to use these to make some "adult" snow cones, and I already like them on FB (and you, too).
I want to try a root beer float ice!!
Liked...
ANd I am all over that root beer float idea!
I "Like" West Bend on Facebook.
I might have to go with an "adult" beverage and try a Mojito version. ;)
I would love to try a passion fruit snow cone! But one of my favorites is definitely a virgin margarita. :)
And I like West Bend on Facebook, too.
I'm in the adult beverage camp: something "Arnold Palmer-y" (iced tea/lemonade and vodka), for the non-golfers! But I also think someone with kids would get a lot of use out of this so skip my comment for the drawing, thanks.
I've always liked West Bend, and I let them know on their Facebook page!
Now, let's see... Flavors.... How about Piña Colada? Or a fun new take on the Daiquiri? The mind boggles! :-D
And I tweeted!
Hi Elle,
Snow cones are perfect for now. Thanks for posting.
I also wanted to thank you for previous post on fresh tortillas and our product, TortillaLand. You inspired us to start a blog and to give you a shout-out in our 1st post.
We hope you'll come visit us at tortillaland.com/blog. We know we'll be coming back to your site.
Rob
I like West Bend on FB as ReanneB/bringhamsweeps
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I liked West Bend on Facebook. Thank you for the entry! My kids would love it!
I would have to try the orange dreamsicle first! Love that flavor!
I liked the West Bend facebook page
i like west bend on fb. i would do a vanilla ice cream flavor syrup with cream on top (really its sweetened condensed milk)
I like West Bend Facebook page
Danetta Young
I think I'd like to try a strawberry lemonade flavored snow cone. Or maybe a sweet iced tea flavor to help cool off in this humid heat.
i liked west bend on FB
i would love to try a pina colada or watermelon, yummy!
I liked it on Facebook!
I would try to figure out how to make Pina Colada with the vanilla ice cream at the bottom. When we lived in Hawaii, there was a little shop in Kailua called Island Snow. They made the very best Pina Colada shave ice!!!! I would love to be able to make that at home ...
I like the West Bend page on FB. I would make a root beer snow cone. It is over 100 degrees in the summer in So California so my kids would use this often. It just screams summer.
i like west bend on fb
tay stevenson-marves
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id like to try the watermelon flavored one
taylorcmarves at aol dot com
I like west blend's facebook page!
Melissa Pruitt
I wanna try red, w hite, and blue!
cherry, blue rhasberry, and coconut?
I liked them on facebook.
I would like to try the root beer or watermelon flavor
I like West Bend - Kitchen Appliances on facebook as Wendy R.
A margarita snowcone does sound lovely! Or maybe a Wild Cherry Pepsi snowcone!
Tweet:
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Blue Raspberry Snow Cones = summer!
Liked West Bend’s page on Facebook-Rae Pavey
A Pina Colada snow cone sounds good
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