I am so excited about today’s post because I am having such a fun giveaway! Ciao Bella Gelato contacted me after my last post of my travels in San Francisco and wanted to give my readers a taste of Ciao Bella for themselves. They are by far my favorite gelato and sorbet company and supply for top restaurants all over, are at your local Whole Foods, and their Blood Orange Sorbet was recently featured on Oprah’s “Favorite Things” list. Their flavors are sooo unique and full of flavor! So my lucky readers three of you will be chosen as the winners and receive four pints of Ciao Bella’s favorite flavors. To enter the contest you simply need to visit their site and let me know which flavor sounds the best to you. The contest will run until next Friday night! Here are some lovely photos they sent me to wet your appetite! They are Blood Orange Sorbetto, Maple Ginger Snap Gelato, and Blackberry Cabernet Sorbetto.
Now onto the last set of San Francisco photos. These photos are from my trip to I Dream of Cake, which is probably one of the most amazing cake design studios out there. Definitely stop by and check out their website…it is AMAZING!!! Also here are some of the photos I took of their storefront.
The second spot in the day was to Kara’s Cupcakes which is located in Ghirardelli Square. I have read numerous things about Kara’s Cupcakes and couldn’t wait to try them for myself.
I ordered their Passion Fruit Cupcake & Peanut Butter Milk Chocolate Ganache Cupcake…both were quite delicious!
Definitely a happy day in San Francisco!
I also wanted to say THANK YOU to The Bumbling Baker for my E for Excellent Award and Piece of Cake for my Kreativ Blogger Award!!! Thanks so much ladies!
Tags: ciao bella gelato, Dessert Giveaway, I Dream of Cake, Kara's Cupcakes
I would have to say that the blood orange sorbet sounds the best to me…mmmmm, amazing!
Gorgeous pictures Mel! I’m inpressed with the cakes from that cake studio, I went to their website and they’re amazing. The cupcakes look delicious too. Do you know I never tasted Ciao Bella?! They have amazing flavours indeed! I would love to try them all but really the hazelnut biscotti and the cinnamon oatmeal cookie have caught my attention!
Seriously, such a hard decision – were I a millionaire, I’d pick ALL of them!
Alas, I am not – I’m going to pick the Chocolate Chai.
Oh! I love gelato! Yum! And those cakes look amazing!
I have never tried Ciao Bella Gelato, but if it’s at Whole Foods I will have to give it a try next time I am in AZ! The Mocha Chip Gelato and the Passion Fruit Sorbetto sound scrumptious!
Wow, those cakes are so pretty!
Do I really have to pick just one flavor? I think the pumpkin and spice, the apple caramel crisp or the cinnamon all sound divine!
Those places look amazing! I wish I lived closer to a city with even just the slightest bit of interesting culture.
I have had Ciao Bella’s Green tea with white chocolate – used to buy it by the pint. We don’t have it now where we moved. The Apple Caramel Crisp sounds amazing!
I’ve never tried gelato before but…. I think I would start with the chocolate hazelnut first!
Ahh I LOVE San Francisco!! I wish to live there some day…esp after seeing so many wonderful food/dessert pictures from there.. mmm.
Lebanese yogurt sounds really unique and intriguing. I dunno how different it would be from normal frozen yogurt, but it sounds like something really cool to try!
Mmmm…. Fresh Mint with Chocolate Chip would definitely be a favorite of mine!!! Yum!
I LOVE the cakes at I Dream Of Cakes – simply breathtaking! What great inspiration for you, and all of us! And the cupcakes at Kara’s look fabulous! What a treat to get to go visit these great places! Thanks for sharing your visits with us!
I’ve never had Ciao Bella’s before, but all of the flavors look delicious! I think that the caramel heath bar looks the best!
Oh, yum, they all sound so good! As to which flavors sound the best to me, I’d have to say Malted Milk Ball Gelato, Blackberry Cabernet and yeah, the Blood Orange Sorbetto.
The cakes are beautiful, too. I can’t wait for you to open your own store!
Blood Orange Sorbetto is by far the best sounding for me. Thanks for the opportunity.
pumpkin & spice gelato sounds amazing…i love anything pumpkin! they just opened a whole foods close to me so i will be checking out some of ciao bella’s flavors! thanks!
I LOVE all your photos… and those cupcakes look amazing… I’m jealous!
Also, I’ve tagged you on my blog as one of my favorites!
I’ve never had Ciao Bella’s before but since I am a severe coffee-holic I would have to choose the Espresso (Triple). Im sure it must be intense.
What a fun giveaway- thanks…
Wow! How is it that I’ve lived 30 minutes outside San Francisco for most of my life and NEVER found Kara’s Cupcakes? I must have been to Ghiradelli Square some ten odd times… apparently, I just sort of lose at life. I guess I know the first place I’ll be going next time I’m in the city!
As to free gelato: (!) I, being a sucker for chocolate and caramel, would have to put in my two cents for caramel heath bar crunch. Though I must say the Key Lime looks intriguing.
amazing photos of those cakes — amazing cakes! would love to make a cake that looked like that!
checked out the site and i’m thinking that caramel heath bar crunch sounds worth investigating. oh, yeah!
thanks for doing the contest!
I think the Tiramisu Gelato sounds delicious!
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Wow! Ice-cream!!! =D I think the Green Tea & White Chocolate Chunks and Chocolate Chai Gelato sounds the best~
And the cake photos look wonderful! I went to San Francisco a long time ago but I guess I was too young to appreciate cakes and such as much as I do now. Glad you had a great trip!
Btw, I added you to my blogroll, your blog is simply wonderful and interesting!!
Lemon Curd sounds amazing!
oh my gosh, all these flavors sound amazing! i’m going to go with the maple ginger snap gelato!!
the cake with the button details is so cute!
as for the gelato, the key lime with graham cracker swirl sounds so refreshing right now! it was a hard choice between that one and chocolate chai
thanks for the giveaway!
I’d have to go pistachio. But key lime with graham cracker swirl sounds intriguing.
i would have to go with tiramisu… i’m a sucker for it!
Key lime with graham cracker swirl sounds just divine. I’ve never had Ciao Bella Gelato but I’ve had plenty of Kara’s. I think they make the best cupcakes in the city. You should seen I Dream of Cake around the holidays. They theme the cakes. Halloween had plenty of creepy crawlers. It looks as though you were here when the sun was shining. I love sunny days in SF.
blackberry cabernet, yum! the cakes, the cupcakes, and your trip all look gorgeous!
OMG, delicious sounding flavours. DEFINITELY either Chocolate-Hazelnut, or Hazelnut-Biscotti… both temptingly deliciously hazelnutty. GASP, i’m drooling
Rum Raisin or Maple ginger snap sounds the best to me!
-Piee
I also get a pint whenever I find myself at Whole foods and I can never decide between the blood orange and the blackberry merlot either…so I usually get both
Hmmmmm, I will pick: Banana Mango, Cassis, and Champagne!
Now I am so hungry for it!!
the blood orange sorbet sounds amazing!
Chocolate hazelnut has to be the way to go.
Being from Oregon and living around acres of Hazelnut orchards I’d have to pick Hazelnut* as one of the first flavors to try! Then I’d go down the list and try them all. Blackberry merlot would be next.
I would have to pick the pumpkin and spice or the blackberry cabernet. They all sound fabulous.
mmmmmmmmm!!! I only got to visit the SF store once, and I got the blood orange and the key lime pie! I can’t wait for my next visit so I can try the Malted Milk Ball, White Chocolate Raspberry Swirl, Dulce de Leche, and the Apple Caramel Crisp! YUM
mmmm the cinnamon oatmeal cookie sounds delicious!
lovely cakes designs, thanks for sharing really nice, cupcakes too looks so slick! really enjoyed your photos!
Champagne and Chocolate (Milk)… I know love my chocolate!!
So many choices! I think the white chocolate raspberry swirl gelato sounds fantastic!
My favorite is definitely raspberry sorbetto. Yum!
Malted milk ball….mmmmmmmm.
The photos are gorgeous and all there flavors sound delicious. The chocolate hazelnut gelato and pumpkin spice gelato both sound out of this world
What fun! There should be some sort of a patisserie/bakery tour for major cities. Next time I’m in SF I’ll have to check out these places! The green tea with white chocolate chunks, the pear and lavender sorbetto and the coconut sorbetto look delicious to me!
The chocolate chai and dulce de leche both sound delicious
Great pictures yet again!! I went to the Ciao Bella website and YUM! So hard to pick just one, but I did manage to narrow it down to two….green tea with white chocolate chunks and Chocolate chai. What a great treat that would be!
you must have been in heaven! what gorgeous cakes and how beautiful styled!
Caramel Heath Bar Crunch! Although, there are about 20 that sound so good. I love Ciao Bella Gelato!
I would LOVE to try a bunch of their flavors…but the chocolate hazelnut gelato and coconut sorbet sound amazing!
Definitely the bourbon pecan gelato