Ice Cream Social: 493d Spouses Coffee

Ice Cream Social: 493d Spouses Coffee

Every month the squadron wives of the 493d Fighter Squadron get together for what we call a "coffee". The coffee is a time for the women to get together, chat & mingle, meet new spouses, get upcoming important information from the Commander's wife, discuss fundraising ideas, and *farewell* the ladies who will be PCSing (moving to a new base) before the next month's coffee. Every month a different wife volunteers to host the coffee either at a restaurant, a venue with an activity (painting pottery for example), or at their house. 

I volunteered to host the June coffee and my good friend, Rachel, asked if she could help with it. Rachel and I decided to host an "ice cream social" themed coffee since it's supposed to be summer and all. 

Here's what we came up with and it was a total hit!

We offered an assortment of ice cream flavors-the favorite of which is ALWAYS Vanilla. We had waffle cones, chocolate dipped waffle cones, waffle bowls, and fudge dipped cones. We offered the necessities to make sundaes, banana splits, ice cream sandwiches and even root beer floats!

We also had "Clotted Cream", Chocolate, and Fresh Strawberry ice cream.

Here are some photos of the toppings...YUMMY! Offered: hot fudge, caramel, chocolate shell, mini Oreos, mini chocolate chip cookies, gummy bears, chocolate chips, M&Ms, pecans, almonds, Reese's peanut butter cups, bananas, sprinkles, Twizzler cherry bites, sour licorice straws, strawberry licorice straws, wafer straws, whipped cream, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, and hot apple pie filling.

This is before I heated up the fudge and caramel :)

This is the drink station. We had IBC Root Beer to make root beer floats, fresh summer punch & lemonade, Appletizer (sparking apple juice) and water.

There's usually some sort of game or fun activity at each coffee so Rachel and I decided to do "ice cream trivia". I put together a quiz with 10 ice cream related questions and a tie-breaker. The winner of the game won this fabulous prize bucket that included: an ice cream scoop, sprinkles, fudge, caramel, an ice cream dessert cookbook, and beautiful vase with fresh flowers :)

Here's a look at the buffets set up with homemade Nutella stuffed chocolate chip cookies & regular chocolate chip cookies to make homemade ice cream sandwiches. There was also fresh fruit (strawberries, blueberries & blackberries) and freshly whipped whipped cream!

We had a lot of fun prepping for this party to include eating the ice cream :) I ended up having 2 large bowls at the coffee and I've been eating ice cream for dessert every night since then!

I can't wait to see what the next coffee will have in store and I hope to host one again in the future <3