August is historically the steamiest, stickiest, sweatiest month of the year–brilliant move, Founding Fathers, building the nation’s capital on a swamp–in these parts. We’ve tracked down 31 frozen treats (one a day for the rest of this month) to provide you with some temporary, and often insanely delicious, relief.
The place: Dairy Queen – Multiple NoVA locations; www.dairyqueen.com
The prescription: Cookie dough Blizzard. EVERYBODY mixes stuff into their soft serve these days. But the DQ was the first to give it a clever name–the highly imitated “Blizzard” burst onto the dessert scene over a quarter decade ago–and they’re been thinking up new and exciting ways to sneak candy into our diets ever since. Crushed cookies and crumbled candy bars are all fine and dandy. But sometimes, nothing but gobs of teeth-rotting cookie dough (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) will do–particularly when said blobs of chocolate chip-studded decadence are integrated into creamy vanilla ice cream that is then drenched in a lo00000ng pump of chocolate syrup and vigorously spun into a gravity defying treat.
Traditionalists will be pleased to know that the peanut butter cup, cookie dough and Oreo Blizzards remain evergreen, while more adventurous palates can continue to explore the next frontier–triple chocoholic (with truffles), strawberry-golden oreo or French silk pie Blizzards, anyone?–in frosty ecstasy.
Better yet, indulge your sweet tooth this Thursday (8/11), AKA Miracle Treat Day, and at least part of your purchase will benefit Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.
–Warren
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Keep tabs on the month long Freeze Jag trek here.