I’ve found myself in a volunteer capacity “in charge” of publicity for a sundae social…and I need help!
You guys are always so creative. Can you help me? I need to make (with the help of other volunteers like myself) several hundred sundaes throughout the course of a day. This is a kid-friendly-centric event that is using the sun as the theme and one of the things we’re doing is making free sundaes for the kids (and inner children as well!)
A local ice cream company has given us lots of vanilla ice cream, so that’s already taken care of.
Is there anything simple you guys have made in the past or can think of, that we can do with a scoop of vanilla ice cream to make it look like the sun that won’t cost too much or take too much time to assemble?
Something lemon? Something using candies or cookies?
My mind is stretched to the limit. Can you help me??? (Us?) Pretty please with sprinkles on it?
I’d buy some of those sugar wafer cookies (rectangular, cream filling), and arrange them around the scoops of ice cream like sun rays. Of course, given that you have hundreds of children, and would need at least three cookies per sundae (cut in half) for rays, that might not be feasible.
So use sun-colored toppings: butterscotch syrup . . . um, butterscotch syrup. Dried apricots?
Yeah, like a banana split! Come to think of it, bananas are yellow, caramel sauce is yellowish, if we can expand the color palette a bit, we can work in the strawberry sauce…
o/ Dah-dah-daaa da-da-da-daaa dah-dah-daaa da-da-da-daaa o/
Edited after 3 minutes of whistling this damn tune: Dammitdammitdammit! Now I’m going to have this stuck in my head ALL DAY! And I can only blame myself! Grrrr…
Actually, for simplicity and economy, I like this idea best so far.
Also, you know those candies that are called orange slices? You could put one scoop of vanilla ice cream in the middle and stick five of those around the edge.
How about sprinkling yellow sugar on top of a scoop to give it the right color. If you’re making these in bulk, then speed counts for something, right? I personally think that red twizzlers cut in half would make cool looking rays.
My supermarket has red, yellow and orange candy sprinkles in the cake supply aisle, and red Twizzlers Nibs in pound bags in the candy aisle. No time-consuming cutting required.
Ideally, if I were doing this “high end” and I had lots of time I’d consider using mango slices as rays of the sun. But, that’s probably a bit cost prohibitive and too time consuming.
Maybe, you could put down a pineapple ring, scoop the vanilla into the center. Arrange a few long slices/sections of fresh banana, stud the scoop of ice cream with dehydrated pineapple (extravegent and entirely optional), sprinkle with coconut, and top with smuckers pineapple ice cream topping.
That’s a tasty tropical flavored sundae that would look like the sun.
Is this event indoors or outdoors? What kind of floor? What kind of cleanup expectations do the organizers have?
How are you going to serve the ice cream? Do you have a big prep table?
If it’s outside, there aren’t any mess restrictions, you don’t have any prep area and the clientele is expecting their food right quick — then I’d buy yellow paper bowls for serving and set out a dozen jars of yellow sprinkles and yellow sugar crystal things for people to use on their own. Maybe some yellow gumdrops, too.
Doing their own decorating would be lots of fun and would take a little time, which is a big help to parents who are trying to entertain their children.
