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Here’s the scoop on the past week in the land of sprinkles and cakelets: MONDAY: Spent the day among sprinkle squad, using our muscles, setting up for the big week here! Spent the day in Toronto meeting so many amazing readers and customers (see Tuesday). Currently celebrating National Soft Serve Ice Cream Day by eating this.

Well, I have to admit that I have been occasionally craving cooler nights and crisp walks outside, but today being soft serve ice cream day just begged for a soft-serve-inspired, creamy, crunchy, swirly, pastely, whipped-creamy ice cream cake finished with Sweetapolita Soft Serve Twinkle Sprinkle Medley (obvi)! The next layer is softened strawberry ice cream topped with slices of, um, coconutty, jelly-and-whipped-cream-filled Billot Logs (the very Canadian childhood treat, that I happened to see these at the grocery store and, while I don’t normally buy this kind of packaged dessert, they were perfect for this! ). Then we have our vanilla-bean ice cream layer swirled with strawberry preserves and strawberry sundae syrup and, well…topped with pieces of Strawberry Pop Tarts. The last layer is another vanilla bean swirled-jelly version topped with artisan oatmeal cookies (I say that to be accurate, but honestly I think any good old-fashioned oatmeal cookie would do the trick).

Thrilled to be part of this talented (and fellow Canadian) woman’s new book release by creating custom sprinkles for the launch! We’ve been baking friends for years, and I couldn’t be more thrilled for her. Next up (tomorrow–Monday, August 6th), National Root Beer Float Day! He has been hiding under Neve’s bed most of the time, but finally decided to come out and play.

And I couldn’t celebrate without doing some kind of super mega blog giveaway! You can enter until tomorrow morning (Monday, July 30th at 7:59am EST), and the winner will be selected and announced at 8:00am EST tomorrow! Actually started plotting how to someday own 1+ of these, because I almost can’t bare how much intrinsic love I have for them. I do go home at Christmas, but don’t typically spend time throughout the city and really exploring my old turf.