After a round of voting, Dum-Dums, the perfectly portioned little suckers, have announced two new sucker flavors for the coming year: Strawberry Shortcake and Banana Split.
The new flavors are pretty self-explanatory, and I have to admit I was pulling for the Strawberry Shortcake and Chocolate Caramel, so I’m glad at least one of them made it.
The Dum-Dums site has a neat little history page about the suckers, including a bunch of fun little facts. Now, I found this very amusing (it goes without saying that I’m easily amused):
Chocolate was the tenth sucker flavor added in 1955, but it was …read more

I saw Alton Brown make the banana ice cream base for this on Good Eats last week and since I had bananas already in the freezer (being saved for banana bread) I decided to give it a shot (the banana bread cane wait for another day!). I like that it doesn’t use eggs but still turns out nice and creamy!
This is a plan ahead recipe – the bananas need to be frozen at least overnight, and the finished ice cream needs to go in the freezer for at least three hours before serving.
I’m not big on bananas necessarily – I …read more