First ice cream social in the books! Holy cow have I eaten a LOT of ice cream in the past two weeks!!!
Eleven guests, all friends of my mother, plus me. The event was at 6:30, with everyone instructed to eat their supper beforehand, as we had decided not to serve savory food.
We also had to move the party indoors due to the very hot weather, which made logistics a bit more difficult (this is a house built in 1950, it’s not the kind of ‘open concept’ situation that allows literal herds of people to move around en masse.) NO MATTER, we made it work.
I bought ice and put it in big plastic containers; each container could hold two flavors of ice cream. I taped the flavor names to the wall behind each container. Everyone served themself.
The local fruit right now includes very good watermelon and peaches, so I made a rainbow watermelon “starter,” and baked a peach-frangipane galette to go along with the ice cream and toppings.
Ice cream flavors:
Strawberry
Chocolate sorbet
Black raspberry
Blueberry
Brambleberry crisp
Peach frozen yogurt
Toppings:
Chopped pecans
Chopped walnuts
Reese’s Pieces
Chopped Heath bar
Chopped York Peppermint Patties
Miniature Ghirardelli chocolate chips
Magic shell (nobody used it 
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And a big bag of local thin pretzels, a favorite accompaniment to ice cream in these parts.
I provided wafer and sugar cones as well as waffle bowls (first time eating these - surprisingly delicious) but nobody used a cone, opting to serve their scoops into plastic bowls.
