If you scream for ice cream loudly enough to create your own flavor, Madison’s Chocolate Shoppe has begun the 2026 Create a Flavor Contest.
The contest, done in collaboration with the Goodman Community Center’s TEENworks youth culinary program, is open to ice cream enthusiasts and flavor innovators alike.
Both will have the opportunity to showcase their creativity by submitting their unique flavor ideas and, if their idea becomes a tasty reality, they could win free ice cream for a year.
Flavor ideas can be entered through Sept. 28 on the Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream website or in one of its Madison-area ice cream shoppes.
The top three selections will put up to the community for a vote.
Once a winning flavor is crowned, Chocolate Shoppe’s master ice cream makers and the TEENworks youth will turn the idea into an actual treat — with sales going back to fund the TEENworks program.
The teens helped create the 2025 winner, Belgian Daydream, and raised $1,100 for their
