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04-18-07
ISU Dairy Club Rolls Out Special Ice Cream Flavor
Ice Cream Will Be Sold At VEISHEA
AMES, Iowa -- Iowa State University's Dairy Club crafted a special flavor of ice
cream for the school's 150th birthday celebration. The club typically sells ice
cream over VEISHEA weekend. This year, they created a new flavor to celebrate
150 years of Iowa State.
The annual VEISHEA event at ISU was named in 1922 and is an acronym made
up of the first letters of the colleges at ISU at that time -- Veterinary Medicine,
Engineering, Industrial Science, Home Economics and Agriculture.
Club member Kaitlin Hanson said they are calling the flavor Cyclone Celebration.
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The rich flavor combines nearly 300 gallons of vanilla cream with boxes upon
boxes of cake batter and 650 pounds of red and yellow sprinkles.
It's a recipe that evolved after plenty of trial and error.
"We definitely overestimated the amount of cake mix it would take per cup and so
they were pretty rich," said club member Lorilee Schultz.
It wasn't hard for the Dairy Club to find plenty of willing members to contribute
during those experimental stages.
"We had plenty of willing taste testers, that is for sure," Schultz said.
Volunteers will keep the ice cream machines humming and scoop up the 8,000
cups of ice cream needed for this weekend's sesquicentennial celebration.
"Whenever you have free time from class, you come down and mix a little bit and
just hang out with everyone else in the club while they're mixing as well," Hanson
said.
"Of course, scooping is always a process to try and not spill too much over the
edges and get just the right amount in the smallest amount of time," Schultz said.
The club leaders said they hope people come back to buy second and third
helpings of the flavor. The Dairy Club will be selling the Cyclone Celebration
flavor for $2 a cup this Saturday near Beardshear Hall on central campus.
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