News: Baskin-Robbins - May 2013 Featured Flavor of the Month

Baskin-Robbins is tapping new Blueberry Shortbread Ice Cream as their flavor of the month for this May. The spring-themed ice cream features shortbread and blueberry-flavored ice cream with a lemon shortbread cookie swirl.

The new flavor is available in a cup, cone, or shake, as well as hand-packed in pints and quarts.

Review: Starbucks - Caramel Ribbon Crunch Frappuccino

Starbucks' new Caramel Ribbon Crunch Frappuccino features Frappuccino roast coffee blended with milk, ice, and caramel sauce, topped with a layer of new dark caramel sauce, whipped cream, caramel drizzle, and a new "crunchy" caramel sugar topping.

A 16-ounce Grande was $2.22 during the Happy Hour promotion, down from $4.65.

News: Krispy Kreme - New Key Lime Donuts

Krispy Kreme is going with key lime to welcome summer this year with two new donuts: the Key Lime Cake and Key Lime Cheesecake. Key Lime tends to have a more tart and bitter flavor than your typical lime.

Key Lime Cake is a key lime cake donut topped with key lime cream cheese icing and finished with a dollop of Kreme over the donut's hole..

News: Dunkin' Donuts Keeps Turkey Sausage Breakfast Sandwich Around Permanently

The limited-time Turkey Sausage Breakfast Sandwich at Dunkin' Donuts was apparently so popular that they've made it a permanent menu item.

The sandwich was introduced earlier this year and features a fried egg, turkey sausage, and a slice of reduced fat cheddar cheese, served on a toasted English muffin.

Review: Fiber One - Coconut Almond Protein Chewy Bars

Fiber One Coconut Almond Protein Chewy Bars feature a coconut and almond filling and a chocolaty coating that's good for 20% of you daily fiber and 6 grams of protein according to the box.

A 5.85-ounce box comes with five 1.17-ounce bars and costs $2.50 on sale in my area.

Around the World: McDonald's UK - Great Tastes of America Menu Returns

While McDonald's doesn't offer any country-themed menus here in the U.S., they're a bit of a thing for McDonald's abroad and a popular theme is our very own USA. As such the "Great Tastes of America" menu has returned for a limited time in the UK and boasts five burgers, each drawing on a major U.S. city or state for inspiration, and each only available for a week(!).

News: Red Baron - Mexican Style Pizza Returns

Rejoice! If you've ever wanted tortilla chips on your frozen pizza, but didn't want to go through the hassle yourself, the folks at Schwan's aim to help you out by returning Red Baron Mexican Style Pizza.

The frozen pizza is a marked departure from your standard frozen pizza and comes with a salsa sauce with hints of cilantro, Mexican-style sausage, a blend of mozzarella and yellow cheddar cheeses, tomatoes, green chilies, green onions, red peppers, and tortilla chips.

News: Starbucks - New, Improved Bottled Caramel Frappuccino Coffee

If you've recently bought a bottle or pack of bottled Starbucks Caramel Frappuccino coffee, you might notice that the word "Caramel" on the bottle is now prefixed by "Caramelly Intense."

Starbucks recently boosted the caramel flavor and, according to the company, has revised the recipe to include "25 percent more caramel flavor." In short, it's now more "caramelly."

Review: Nabisco - Rainbow Sherbet Ice Cream Oreo Cookies

Limited-edition Rainbow Sherbet Ice Cream Oreos (stylized as "Shure, Bert!" as in Q: "Hey, Ernie want some sherbet?" A: "Shure, Bert!") purport the taste of rainbow sherbet in an creme filling sandwiched between two golden vanilla Oreo wafers.

A 15.25-oz package costs $2.79 on sale from my local Target.

News: McDonald's Tests Fruit Iced Tea Fusions

McDonald's is currently testing Fruit Iced Tea Fusions, which, much like it sounds, are iced teas blended with fruit juices and natural flavors. The two flavors being tested are Blackberry Raspberry and Peach Berry.

Blackberry Raspberry features iced black tea mixed with blackberry and tart raspberry flavor.

News: Haagen-Daz - Free Cone Day on May 14

On Tuesday, May 14, from 4pm to 8pm, Haagen-Daz is celebrating their annual Free Cone Day by giving away a free scoop of ice cream to each customer that drops by a participating scoop shop during the promotion.

If you're looking to try something new, Haagen-Daz started offering Gelato flavors this year.

Frozen Friday: Haagen-Daz - Sea Salt Caramel Gelato

Haagen-Daz's Sea Salt Caramel Gelato is definitely for the caramel lovers as it consists of caramel gelato with sea salt caramel ribbons.

I picked up a 14-ounce carton (I want to say pint, but it's not) on sale for $2.99 (regularly $4 to $5).