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It’s now February and that means a new Blizzard of the Month over at Dairy Queen.  This time it’s the Midnight Truffle Blizzard.  You might remember this Blizzard treat as being the featured Blizzard back in April 2009.  We have our impressions if you’re interested.  This Blizzard combines rich chocolate truffles and chunks of cocoa fudge with silky vanilla soft serve ice cream. 770 calories and 38 grams of fat for a small. Go ahead and skip lunch.

Welcome to 2010 GrubGrade readers!  It’s a new month and a new year so time for a new Blizzard of the Month at Dairy Queen.  This time it’s the Turtle Pecan Cluster Blizzard.  Pecan pieces blended with chocolate, rich caramel and creamy vanilla soft serve.  A small will cost you 700 calories and 34 grams of fat.

It’s December so that means it’s time for another Dairy Queen Blizzard of the Month.  The Candy Cane Chill Blizzard should help put you in the spirit of the season.  If you want some free deals, join the Blizzard of the Month Club.

A mouth-watering combination of peppermint candy cane pieces and rich chocolate chunks mixed with creamy DQ® soft serve

We are now in my favorite month of the year, October.  The weather is crisp and cool here in Maryland and for you sports fans you’ve got the NFL in full swing, the start of the hockey season, MLB playoffs and the NBA getting underway later on in the month.  A new month means a lot of different things and if you’re familiar with GrubGrade you also know that we’re here to bring you news of the new Blizzard of the Month from Dairy Queen.  So for the start of a new season, Dairy Queen is offering a taste of October with the Pumpkin Pie Blizzard.  A Small Pumpkin Pie Blizzard will set you back 570 calories and 20 grams of fat.

Pumpkin Pie blended with vanilla soft serve, crowned with whipped topping and nutmeg.

New month, new Blizzard at Dairy Queen.  September is here and so is the Oreo Cookie Jar Blizzard.  Want a special deal?  Join the Blizzard Fan Club and get $1.00 off your Blizzard and a Buy One Get One Free deal! 

Cookies collide! Cookie dough, OREO® cookie pieces and rich fudge blended with creamy vanilla soft serve.

The average retail price of the Oreo Cookie Jar Blizzard is $3.09 for the 12oz., $3.49 for the 16 oz. and $3.99 for the 21 oz.

Monday is the 1st of June, which means the debut of another Dairy Queen Blizzard of the Month.  May’s blizzard was the Raspberry Truffle Blizzard.  The Raspberry Truffle Blizzard was vanilla soft serve, rich chocolate truffles and a sweet raspberry topping.  This month DQ has done away with the vanilla and raspberry flavors and gone straight chocolate with the Brownie Batter Blizzard.  June’s blizzard consists of chocolate soft serve, scoops of brownie batter and moist chunks of brownie.

I can tell already that the chocolate in this dessert is going to be overwhelming, similar to the Midnight Truffle Blizzard.  In my opinion, they should have combined vanilla soft serve with the brownie pieces and batter, but who knows.  I only have to wait a couple more days to find out for sure.  First introduced in 2004, the Brownie Batter Blizzard is one of the most successful of all flavors debuting as a Blizzard of the Month so if you’ve had it before, feel free to comment.

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I love the rasberry and chocolate combination so I couldn’t resist trying Dairy Queen’s Blizzard of the Month for May,  The Raspberry Truffle Blizzard.  I was a little disappointed when I pulled up to the drive-thru and it wasn’t listed on the menu.  Not to worry though, I asked if they had it and they asked what size I wanted.

I was actually surprised with this blizzard.  As you can see from the pic above, it was overflowing with ice cream.  The blizzard is made with vanilla ice cream, raspberry topping  and chocolate truffles.  You may like this blizzard even if you are not a big fan of raspberry.  It didn’t have a strong raspberry flavor and the  specs of raspberries in the ice cream were so small you hardly knew they were there.  There were just enough chocolate truffles in it where you got a few in every bite.  The blizzard was not overly rich as was Aprils Blizzard of the Month, “The Midnight Truffle Blizzard”.   At first I thought that maybe it could use a little more raspberry flavoring, but overall it was a great combination.   For some reason, this blizzard was a bit more “melty” than what I’m used to with DQ’s blizzards.  Overall though, it’s all about taste and my experience was a perfect mixture of chocolate and raspberry.

Very "melty"

The price is $3.29 for a small, $3.49 for a medium and $3.99 for a large.

Nutrition info pending

Yeah, I know it’s a few days early but Friday is the 1st of May and a new month means a new DQ Blizzard of the Month.  The Blizzard of the Month for April is/was the Midnight Truffle Blizzard.  It was chock full of rich chocolaty truffles in DQ vanilla soft serve.  I gave my impressions and I was pretty overwhelmed by the chocolate.  The new Raspberry Truffle Blizzard seems to be pretty much the same thing, but with the addition of a sweet raspberry topping blended with the vanilla soft serve ice cream.  The tried and true chocolate truffles will be present and will most likely dominate the taste, but I’ll have to wait until Friday to know for sure.

Today is the beginning of a new month and that means it’s time for a new Dairy Queen Blizzard.  The newest edition of Dairy Queen’s Blizzard of the Month has been unveiled.  Last month “DQ” released the Mint Oreo Blizzard,  April’s treat is the Midnight Truffle Blizzard.  This latest “blizzard of the month” sounds like a chocolate lovers dream.   It combines rich chocolate truffles and chunks of cocoa fudge with silky vanilla soft serve ice cream.  You cannot go wrong with the chocolate and vanilla combination.

I usually like to keep my ice cream simple, plain chocolate or vanilla with some crushed oreos, but there are some who love really rich, decadent desserts.  If you are one of those people this sounds like the blizzard for you.

Update – Click here to check out Ryan’s First Impressions of the Midnight Truffle Blizzard

Just about every fast food joint has their own version of a value menu.  Dairy Queen has finally joined the party with their Sweet Deals Value Menu.  Dairy Queen’s cheap eats selection works a little different from what you may be used to.  The menu currently has 9 items including a chicken wrap, onion rings, small dipped cone or sundae.  You can choose any 2 of the items for $3, any 3 for $4 or any 4 for $5.

I don’t know what took so long for “DQ” to get on the value menu train but better late than never I guess.  It seems to me that their menu maybe a little overpriced when compared to the other fast food spots.  To get a burger and fries here will cost $3, when at just about everywhere else it will cost you $2.  Maybe its worth it, you be the judge.