Warsaw, N.Y. — When Taylor Janus, a third-grade student in Attica, looked to create an ice cream flavor, she turned to her grandmother for inspiration.

“She makes cheesecake and she puts strawberries on it and whipped cream on it," Janus said. "And the whipped cream is the marshmallows swirls, and the strawberries are like the strawberry ice cream.”

Janus was one of more than 300 third-grade students in Wyoming County who entered a competition, hosted by Yummies Ice Cream in Warsaw, to create the best ice cream flavor to be sold at the shop.

“We presented them how to make ice cream and how to develop flavors so we could help guide them in creating the best flavor they could," owner Valerie Henrici said, adding she wanted to show students the opportunities that come with a small business.

“I think when you're in small towns you think, ‘Oh, the only jobs are teachers, police officers and working at the hospital,'" Henrici said. "And I think it also shows other things out there that I could do, other things I might be good at.”

Janus' recipe turned out to be a winner: strawberry ice cream with graham crackers, cheesecake chunks and marshmallow swirl.

“You really have to have a creative mind to come up with the ice cream flavor and to give it a name," said Kim Janus, Taylor's mom. "And I think she did a great job creating her favorite desert into an ice cream.”

Taylor calls it Sunset on a Beach — after one of her favorite things to watch.

“The pink is for sometimes we have sunsets at our house that are pink and their like white too, so I kind of put that together.”