Cedar Crest Ice Cream, Cedarburg, Wisconsin, and the Wisconsin 4-H Foundation are excited announce the winner and finalists of the 2024 Cedar Crest Ice Cream Flavor Creation Contest:
The Sunnyside Climbers 4-H Club of Portage County!
The Sunnyside Climbers’ winning flavor, Demo Derby, features Chocolate Ice Cream Dented with Chocolate Cookie Crumbles, Smashed M&M’s® & Swirled with Chocolate Fudge. The chocolate ice cream and cookie crumbles represent the derby’s dirt track, while the smashed M&M’s & Swirled fudge invoke the broken car parts and oil spills of your favorite demolition derby. Demo Derby will be produced by Cedar Crest for the 2025 summer season as a Feature Flavor for the month of July. The flavor will be available in ice cream parlors and scoop shops across the state of Wisconsin and beyond.
The finalists will receive a Cedar Crest Ice Cream party, and the Grand Prize winner will have an ice cream party and will be awarded $500. They are:
Grand Prize Winner
Sunnnyside Climbers 4-H Club, Portage County (Plover, WI)
Flavor: Demo Derby
Leader: Louise Skornia
Finalists
Pesobic Pathfinders, Lincoln County (Merrill, WI)
Flavor: Hold Your Horses
Leader: Ann Jaroski
Sandy Knoll 4-H Club, Waupaca County (London, WI)
Flavor: Over the Moon
Leader: Sara Knoespel
Friendly Valley 4-H, Waupaca County (Manawa, WI)
Flavor: Avalanche
Leader: Virginia Zemple
Vermillion Cruisers, Barron County (Cumberland, WI)
Flavor: “PIG”stachio Pen
Leader: Brooke Fischer
The Cedar Crest Ice Cream contest is a great opportunity for 4-H youth and adult volunteers to work together to develop and name their flavor. One of the most exciting parts is the opportunity to taste your flavor when it becomes available in stores this summer.
Says Cedar Crest Ice Cream President, Ken Kohlwey, “We are proud to support the Wisconsin 4-H organization through our annual flavor contest. The project requires collaboration, teamwork, and creativity to create the next best ice cream flavor. Every year we look forward to reading the entries that come in and sharing the winning flavor with our customers.”
Entries were judged by a panel of ice cream experts chosen by Cedar Crest. The family-owned company based in Cedarburg, Wisconsin manufactures more than 80 flavors of ice cream, along with frozen custard, sherbet, and sorbet at its Manitowoc, Wisconsin plant. Cedar Crest distributes products in several Midwest states and beyond.
Based in Madison, WI, the Wisconsin 4-H Foundation provides essential funding for 4-H programs throughout Wisconsin. By partnering with individuals, corporations and foundations, the Wisconsin 4-H Foundation supports more than 150,000 youth who take part in various 4-H leadership, development and community-building activities throughout the state. Learn more about the Wisconsin 4-H Foundation at www.Wis4HFoundation.org.
