Made with real raspberries, soft fudge pieces, crunchy choco chunks, and signature DQ soft serve.

By 1983, Temperato proposed the idea of a frozen treat made with super-thick soft serve, throwing in bits of fruit and candy to compliment the product. Using a phrase Dairy Queen had trademarked in the 1950's, the Blizzard would eventually make its debut in 1985, selling 100 million units in its first year alone.

Raspberry Fudge Bliss Blizzard Treat | Dairy Queen® Menu.

Artificially Flavored Vanilla Reduced Fat Ice Cream: Milkfat And Nonfat Milk, Sugar, Corn Syrup, Whey, Mono And Diglycerides, Artificial Flavor, Guar Gum, Polysorbate 80, Carrageenan, Vitamin A Palmitate, Heath Pieces: Milk Chocolate (Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Chocolate, Nonfat Milk, Milk Fat, Lactose, Salt, Soy Lecithin, ...

Blizzards technically aren't ice cream That's because they can't! According to the FDA, a product must contain at least 10 percent butterfat or milkfat to be called ice cream, and DQ's soft serve only has 5 percent - hence why it's always referred to as a Blizzard “treat.”

Royal OREO® Blizzard® Treat OREO® cookies blended with creamy soft serve then filled with a perfectly paired fudge center.

A popular Dairy Queen item is the Blizzard, which is soft-serve mechanically blended with mix-in ingredients such as sundae toppings and/or pieces of cookies, brownies, or candy. It has been a staple on the menu since its introduction in 1985, a year in which Dairy Queen sold more than 100 million Blizzards.

Modern consensus holds that the term blizzard appeared in print in 1870 in the Estherville, Iowa, Northwest Vindicator newspaper, but in 1906, a newspaper story on this date reported that Caroline Wells of Iowa had used the word “blizzard” in referring to a raging storm of three day's duration in the 1860s, maintaining ...

DQ® Blizzard® Treats

• Snickerdoodle Cookie Dough Blizzard® Treat.
• OREO® Hot Cocoa Blizzard® Treat.
• REESE'S Peanut Butter Cup Pie Blizzard® Treat.
• Caramel Fudge Cheesecake Blizzard® Treat.
• Choco-Dipped Strawberry Blizzard® Treat.

The delicious treat has always been a staple for the chain, and it's the key to the super popular Dairy Queen Blizzard. While we might have ordered it a million times, there are plenty of things we didn't know about the Blizzard - including the fact that its main ingredient isn't technically ice cream.

The hack is simple and all you need is two ingredients: vanilla ice cream and Oreos. This is of course if you're making the Oreo Cookie Blizzard like me, but the beauty is that you can swap the Oreos for other candies like Reeses, or marshmallows and graham crackers to make their S'mores Blizzard.

A blizzard is a severe snow storm with winds in excess of 35 mph and visibility of less than a 1/4 mile for more than 3 hours. Blizzards can also occur after snowfall when high winds cause whiteouts (fallen snow blowing around) and snowdrifts (huge mountains of snow), which decrease visibility.

Officially, the National Weather Service defines a blizzard as a storm which contains large amounts of snow OR blowing snow, with winds in excess of 35 mph and visibilities of less than 1/4 mile for an extended period of time (at least 3 hours).

Previously, the term blizzard referred to a canon shot or a volley of musket fire. By the 1880's, the use of the word blizzard was used by many across the United States and in England. The upper Midwest and Great Plains of the United States tends to be the region that experiences blizzards most often.

Blizzards technically aren't ice cream That's because they can't! According to the FDA, a product must contain at least 10 percent butterfat or milkfat to be called ice cream, and DQ's soft serve only has 5 percent - hence why it's always referred to as a Blizzard “treat.”

The Oxford English Dictionary concludes the term blizzard is likely onomatopoeic, derived from the same sense as blow, blast, blister, and bluster; the first recorded use of it for weather dates to 1829, when it was defined as a "violent blow".