Blizzard is a popular Dairy Queen product that has a creamy vanilla soft serve as its base. A variety of Blizzards are prepared with different mix-in ingredients to satisfy the ultimate creamy affair. Introduced in 1985, Blizzards have been the top-selling Dairy Queen products ever since.
Simple combinations with candies, fruits, chocolates, cookies, and nuts with the Dairy Queen vanilla soft serve began in 1985 that went on to become their signature product – Blizzard. This dessert innovation received overwhelming appreciation from people right from the word start, over 175 million of the Blizzard flavor treats being sold in the very first year itself! Following are the various Blizzard flavor treats that have successfully resulted into a frozen-creamy-dairy indulgence for people all over the world.
- Oreo Cookies Blizzard Treat: The Oreo cookies are crumbled into pieces and mixed with the creamy vanilla soft serve.
- Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Blizzard Treat: The chocolate chip cookie dough is mixed with fudge and creamy vanilla soft serve.
- Mint Oreo Blizzard Treat: Oreo cookies are crumbled into pieces and mixed with cool mint and creamy vanilla soft serve.
- Double Fudge Cookie Dough Blizzard Treat: The chocolate chip cookie dough is mixed with cocoa fudge and creamy vanilla soft serve.
- Oreo CheeseQuake Blizzard Treat: Oreo cookies are crumbled into pieces and mixed with rich cheesecake pieces and creamy vanilla soft serve.
- Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Blizzard Treat: Reese’s peanut butter cups are blended well with milk chocolate and creamy vanilla soft serve.
- Butterfinger Blizzard Treat: Butterfinger candy bar pieces are mixed with creamy vanilla soft serve.
- Snickers Blizzard Treat: Snickers candy pieces are mixed well with chocolaty sauce and creamy vanilla soft serve.
- Heath Blizzard Treat: Heath candy pieces are blended with fudge and creamy vanilla soft serve.
- M&M’s Blizzard Treat: M&M’s candy pieces are mixed with chocolaty sauce and creamy vanilla soft serve.
- Banana Cream Pie Blizzard Treat: Banana cream pie filling and crunchy pie crust pieces are mixed with creamy vanilla soft serve and is topped with whipped cream.
- Strawberry CheeseQuake Blizzard Treat: Rich cheesecake pieces and strawberries are mixed with creamy vanilla soft serve.
- Hawaiian Blizzard Treat: Coconut is mixed with pineapple, banana, and creamy vanilla soft serve.
- Banana Split Blizzard Treat: Strawberries, pineapple, chocolaty toppings, and banana are mixed with creamy vanilla soft serve.
- Choco Cherry Love Blizzard Treat: Cherries are blended with choco chunks and creamy vanilla soft serve.
- Chocolate Xtreme Blizzard Treat: Brownie pieces, choco chunks, and choco fudge are mixed with creamy vanilla soft serve.
- Midnight Truffle Blizzard Treat: Truffle pieces are mixed with dark, decadent cocoa fudge and creamy vanilla soft serve.
- Turtle Pecan Cluster Blizzard Treat: Pecan pieces are blended with chocolate, caramel, and creamy vanilla soft serve.
- Georgia Mud Fudge Blizzard Treat: Brownie pieces, cocoa fudge, and pecan pieces are mixed with creamy vanilla soft serve.
- French Silk Pie Blizzard Treat: Crunchy pie crust pieces, chocolaty toppings, and choco chunks are mixed with creamy vanilla soft serve and topped with whipped cream.
- M&M’s Brownie Blizzard Treat: M&M’s milk chocolate candy pieces, brownie pieces, and chocolaty toppings are mixed with creamy vanilla Blizzard Treat.
Facts and Trivia
- Oreo Cookie, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, M&M’s, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, and Butterfinger are the top five Blizzard flavor treats that have gained the most popularity all over the world.
- Every month, a new flavor is announced as the Blizzard of the month, which is even featured in food category news.
- 21st June, 2005 marked a befitting 20th birthday celebration for the Blizzard treats at Springfield, Massachusetts with a 22 feet high, 8224.85 pound Blizzard that was made with 2575 pounds of crushed Oreo Cookies and 705 gallons of traditional Dairy Queen creamy vanilla soft serve. This got a recognition in the Guinness Book of World Records.
- Blizzard’s popularity grew immensely, which prompted the formation of the Blizzard Fan Club that now boasts of over 2 million members.
- Dairy Queen restaurants across the U.S.A and Canada participate in the Miracle Day Treat every August. The proceeds from all the Blizzard flavor treats on that day are donated to the Children’s Miracle Network that has about 170 affiliated hospitals, and helps children of all races, religions, age groups, financial backgrounds, as well as suffering from all kinds of ailments.
- In August 2002, a man completed his pursuit of eating a Blizzard in each of the 50 states in the U.S. for which he was named the “DQ Blizzard Guy“.
- The most creative way to exhibit the Blizzard’s creamy thickness is that it is served upside-down with a spoon on the side.
With over 6000 stores in the United States, Canada, and 20 other countries, Dairy Queen is the largest soft serve franchise! Wherever you go around the world, you will probably bump into a Dairy Queen restaurant to relish the best of Blizzard flavor treats ever.