This is a compensated review by BlogHer and Pop-Tarts.
I have to admit that when I first heard about the new Pop-Tarts® Ice Cream ShoppeTM Vanilla Milkshake flavor of Pop-Tarts, I was intrigued. After all, we love the Pop-Tarts in our house. Our little guy wouldn’t eat anything except Brown Sugar Cinnamon Pop-Tarts for breakfast when he was three, and I personally have a soft spot for the Pop-Tarts-as-dessert option. So needless to say, the Vanilla Milkshake variety sounded promising.
And do you know what? They are TASTY. The combination of the pastry crust and the vanilla flavor makes for a Pop-Tart that reminds me, honestly, of a really flavorful pie crust. That’s not to say that the Vanilla Milkshake flavor wouldn’t be great for breakfast or for a snack (I have a seven year-old who will vouch for the snack-time deliciousness), but the first time I tried it I thought, “Ooooooh – this would be so good as the crust for a dessert.”
And that, my friends, is how Vanilla Milkshake Sundae Pie was born.
It’s so simple to make – and the kids in your life will clap their hands when you brighten up their 4th of July with this special dessert treat.
Okay. They may not really clap their hands. But they’ll love you forever. And that is even better.
Pop-Tarts Vanilla Milkshake Sundae Pie
4 Vanilla Milkshake Pop-Tarts
2 pints vanilla ice cream (any flavor would work, actually), softened
1 pint fresh strawberries, hulled and halved
1 container chocolate syrup
1 container Reddi-Whip (optional)
Arrange Pop-Tarts in bottom of 8×8 casserole dish (you’ll have about a half of a Pop-Tart left – I like to sample the leftover half, purely in the interest of quality control, you understand). Spread ice cream on top and smooth out to make a level surface. Cover and return to freezer for 10 minutes. Remove from freezer, then cover with strawberries in whatever pattern you’d like. Drizzle with chocolate syrup. Cut and serve, then squirt a little Reddi-Whip on top. Makes 8-10 servings.
Oh, it is festive. Look!
Granted, I was in a little bit of a hurry when I made this one, but I think it was a hit with the family, don’t you?
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Happy 4th, y’all!
Cinnamon Streusel Apple Pie!
Cold watermelon, homemade vanilla ice cream and fruit kabobs.
I love strawberry pie! My husband’s grandma has made it the past few years and I LOVE it!
All I want is homeade vanilla ice cream!
I love homemade strawberry ice cream.
Homemade Vanilla Ice cream please!
popsicles and watermelon!
We make a recipe with broken up angel food cake, topped with vanilla pudding mixed with cream cheese, topped with strawberries, topped with cool whip. So yummy! The 4th is also my daughter’s b-day, so we also manage to have cake for breakfast that day
Strawberry shortcake…yum!
Since it is STIFLING hot in my part of the world, our favorite is a frozen Oreo & ice cream dessert!
homemade vanilla ice cream and/or s’mores!
My mom’s homemade vanilla ice cream with fresh peaches on top! Mmmmm.
DEFINITELY homemade vanilla ice cream. Oh, you’ve put a hankering on me and I don’t think I shall be able to put it off until the fourth.
we like to server pineapple upside down cake!
We LOVE to freeze Pop-Tarts- anything frozen is great.
s’mores are our fav snack
I love the mini ice cream sandwiches! Perfect summertime treat!
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name: joy
Strawberry shortcake!
homemade ice cream…accompanied by homemade chocolate chunk double fudge brownies!!!!
Ice cream.
This year we will try a new dessert for the 4th – birthday cake! My little guy will turn one on that day so we will celebrate his birthday with the birth of our country :)
Homemade Chocolate Ice Cream – too easy – 1 can Sweeetened Condensed Milk
1 large Coolwhip
1/2 gallon Chocolate Milk
mix together and pour into ice cream freezer and let it do it’s thing
Tastes like a Wendy’s Frosty only better
our favorite dessert for the fourth of july? Home made brownies. They’re always a big hit.
strawberry shortcake is my favorite!
we love to serve angel food cake with an assortment of toppings.
samanthajocampen at gmail
Banana Split Sundae Cake. Y U M !!!!!!!!!!!
Homemade ice cream. Vanilla. No toppings to cover up its yumminess. Oh, and maybe a smore or two.
Strawberry Shortcake :-) Yum!
Homemade ice cream and homemade caramel cake by my Aunt Sib!
While the Flag cake is a favorite, lately I’ve been making Butterfinger cake..basically a white cake with a Butterfinger icing. The family loves it and I only make it for our family 4th of July picnic.
Homemade strawberry ice cream!!!
On the 4th of July I serve homemade apple pie and vanilla ice cream…very patriotic and my family loves my pie!
Thanks for the great giveaway.
strawberry shortcake – or fruit pizza, can’t decide which!!!
I have always served fruit, preferably a commingling of it. It’s my favorite thing in the summer time. I am not a real big desert person as far as cake etc. And doesn’t fruit go the best with potato salad, chicken on the grill and corn on the cob?
Hugs
Marie
Peach cobbler with vanilla ice cream
Either Pioneer Woman’s Strawberry Shortcake Cake or something VERY CHOCOLATELY!
I was thinking of doing a flag CUPCAKE cake, per a magazine whose name I can’t remember or I would share the love in which it looked amazing.
Watermelon!!
fresh fruit is always a great dessert for the 4th! and some ice cream since it’s so hot out.
A choice of fresh cherries or Mom’s cupcakes served pool side is fun!
We love ICE COLD watermelon
Fruit pizza with strawberries and blueberries. Mmmm…
I live for Watermelon on the 4th! yum!!!
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Ice Box cake
It may be cliche, but I go for the pastry/cream cheese/fruit flag. And I never ever thought of using pop-tarts in a dessert – boy, my eyes have been opened!
Marshmellow Rice Krispie treats with red, white and blue sprinkles.
I love watermelon and Icecream.
ice cream and fresh strawberries
For July 4th — flag cake! vanilla sheet cake with white icing and then sliced strawberries and blueberries to make the flag. I love it — tasty and patriotic!
Brownie sundaes with red, white and blue sprinkles.
coconut cake. coconut…yum…
Homemade ice cream is always a hit at our house.
I like to make red/white and blue cookies. Some colored, some decorated, and a jello mold (red/blue with whipped cream topping)
I have to say that I love any fourth of July desert that has whipped cream! Even Jello!
Our favorite 4th of July dessert is ice cream sandwiches made with chocolate chip cookies, and rolled in sprinkles. Sometimes I bake my own, but Archway cookies are good when it’s too hot to bake.
My favorite dessert on the 4th of July is blue red and white snow cones! we make them and they are refreshing and yummy :)
Well, the Vanilla Milkshake PopTarts are going to come in handy for my treat tray.
I usually go to the market and buy about 6 of each kind of pre-decorated cookies and cakes and make an assortment tray. It’s easy, colorful and everyone finds something they like!
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Definitely berry short cake. Blueberries and strawberries are in perfect season and it’s red, white and blue!
Can’t go wrong with good ole’ homemade ice cream!
My fave dessert to serve on July 4th is the famous flag cake!! With the cake frosted with white frosting(I prefer cool whip) and the stripes done with strawberries and the stars done with blueberries! Yummy too and easy! I did find a new recipe today for red, white & blue cupcakes online! I may make those this year!
Here it is(Love that website-have known about it for a while now and it’s great!)
http://www.skiptomylou.org/2010/05/28/red-white-and-blue-cupcakes/
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I love serving a tasty fruit salad in a watermelon shell (toss the fruit salad with Grand Marnier).
Flag cake!
so here in the HOT state of Texas…it’s got to be the ice cream!
Fresh strawberry pie!
I’m going to serve strawberry shortcake with lots of whipped cream. Actual the way my kids like it is more like whipped cream with a few strawberries.
My favorite dessert for the fourth of July is strawberry shortcakes with a side of ice cream :)
There is nothing like homemade vanilla ice cream…..LOVE IT!
I make blueberry cobbler. Festive & yummy. Thanks for the contest.
my fav 4th of July treat is def watermelon! Its always SO hot on the 4th here and everything else dessert like is too heavy, even ice cream is too much. But watermelon is perfect!
My mom makes this wonderfully light and refreshing not too sweet dessert for the 4th. I don’t know what it is called but its stupid easy. You take a clear glass cake holder thingy (sorry I don’t know what its called…its like a GIANT pudding cup) and layer store bought (and cubed) angel food cake, cool whip mixed with a recipe of vanilla instant pudding, and fresh fruit of your choice. You layer it like a lasagna. Its so good once you chill it. mmm
I make a yummy trifle with brownies, strawberries, blueberries, yummy whipped custardy stuff, and of course Cool-Whip. It is so good and adding the fresh fruit makes it totally healthy.
We all love watermelon, perfect end to a BBQ, but if there is a croud, we’ll do strawberry shortcake too.
My favorite summer time dessert is watermelon with a little bit of sea salt sprinkled on top of it. It may sound odd, but trust me, it tastes good.
i just leave munching and eating cheesecakes, they are tasty and yummy.”`