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Chocolate Hazelnut Surprise Cookies + A JIF Giveaway! – CONTEST CLOSED

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Contest Winner Announced:  Congratulations to our winner of the JIF Tasting Giveaway Package, Kelsey, who said “Wow! What a great giveaway, Nikki! I would love to win this. I think the first thing I would do would be to make cheesecake bars swirled with the mocha cappuccino spread. YUM!” Check your email, Kelsey, to claim your prize!

Chocolate Hazelnut Surprise CookiesWhen it comes to peanut butter, there is no question that I’m a choosy mom.  I choose JIF—Every.Time.  Now, JIF has broken out of its shell and gone hazelnuts!  Needless to say, when they contacted me a few months ago about trying their new hazelnut spreads, not only was I interested, but I was immediately excited.  I knew I would love it, and love it I do!!

As any weary mother would, I first opened the jars and scooped some out (using a cookie, of course) to eat straight up. I had to stop myself so that I would have enough left to use in a recipe or two.

JIF Smores Collage

The box from JIF also included homemade vanilla bean marshmallows from Three Tarts (NYC) and a package of graham crackers.  So, when Ben arrived home for his lunch break, we microwaved S’mores, first with the chocolate flavored hazelnut spread, and then of course, we had to have a second one with the mocha cappuccino flavor.  To die for.

Since I’ve been on a cookie baking kick the last few months, largely due to having loads of kids to share with in our neighborhood, I decided I needed to make cookies with the new hazelnut spreads. Right away, my mind went to stuffing this goodness into chocolate chip cookies.

After three trial runs, I came up with a chocolate chip cookie base that is perfect for enveloping a dollop of chocolate hazelnut cheer.  Do you remember those store-bought cookies we had as kids with the chocolate centers?  They were crispy cookies, and that’s exactly what I was going for with these.  I didn’t want pillowy or soft.  I achieved crispy edges, yet chewy towards the center, with a surprise of chocolate hazelnut spread in the middle.

Before we get to the recipe, let’s talk about your chance to win a trial of JIF’s new hazelnut spreads, with a few other goodies!  One of you will win the following package:

JIF Hazelnut Giveaway Package

Jif Hazelnut Spread Tasting Kit (ARV $100):

·         Jif Chocolate Flavored Hazelnut Spread
·         Jif Mocha Cappuccino Flavored Hazelnut Spread
·         Three Tarts Homemade Marshmallows
·         Graham Crackers
·         Pillsbury Chocolate Fudge Brownie Mix
·         Folgers Black Silk Coffee
·         Silver Spoon
·         Recipes and Tips
·         $50 AMEX Gift Card

Contest Rules:

  • To enter, leave a comment below telling me how you wish to use JIF’s new hazelnut spreads.  Do you want to make this cookie recipe?  Will you drizzle it over your waffles?  How about licking it straight off a spoon?  The sky is the limit here!
  • Extra entry:  Follow Pennies on a Platter on Twitter and tweet about this giveaway, then come back here to leave a comment that you did.  When tweeting, copy/paste the following:  “@JIF has gone hazelnuts! Visit @Penniesonaplatt for your chance to win a taste! http://tinyurl.com/d8uyuuy”
  • Extra entry:  Follow @Jif on Twitter, then come back and leave a comment that you did.
  • Up to 3 entries allowed, as described in the first three bullet points.  One entry type per person.
  • Contest starts Wednesday, 8/1/2012 and ends Sunday, 8/5/2012 at 9:00PM CST.
  • Winner will be chosen randomly by a random number generator.  Winner will be notified by email and announced at the beginning of this post the week of 8/6/2012.
  • Prize must be claimed within 1 week after winner is announced, or another winner will be chosen.
  • Contest open to US residents only, please. (Prizes can be shipped to US addresses only.)
  • Giveaway is sponsored by JIF, but opinions expressed are completely my own original love for the product.

Now here’s the recipe you’ve been waiting for… with a video at the end.  Oh dear!

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Chocolate Hazelnut Surprise Cookies
Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
10 mins
Total Time
30 mins
 
Servings: 2 dozen
Ingredients
  • 1 cup unsalted butter , at room temperature
  • 3/4 cup light brown sugar
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 2 1/2 cups flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/2 cup miniature chocolate chips , or 1 cup standard chocolate chips
  • JIF chocolate hazelnut spread
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone mat.
  2. In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter and sugars until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time and mix until thoroughly combined. Stir in the vanilla.
  3. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Gradually add to the butter/sugar mixture. Stir until just combined. Fold in the chocolate chips.
  4. Scoop six 1-tablespoon sized dough balls onto each baking sheet (12 total). Using your thumb, press a dent in the center of each dough ball. Fill each thumbprint with about a teaspoon of chocolate hazelnut spread. Carefully top with another tablespoon of dough, pinching the seams together to seal in the hazelnut spread, not allowing it to ooze out. (Following video helps demonstrate.)
  5. Bake in the preheated oven for 10-12 minutes, until the edges just start to crisp.
Recipe Notes

You may use your favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe and just fill the centers with the spread. I like this chocolate chip cookie base because of the crisp edges and chewy center. Take note, though, that these cookies spread, so allow no more than 6-8 cookies on each baking sheet.

The following video helps explain how to carefully top the cookies without allowing the hazelnut spread to ooze out.

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  1. ummm I would like to eat it with a spoon, a big spoon so I can get a lot at once, none of those tiny baby spoons …. sounds so yummy

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  2. Yum! I love hazelnuts…glad the spreads are becoming more widely available! My favorite thing to put them on would be bananas–make myself feel a little better 🙂

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  6. I think I’d probably just start out with a PB sandwich! That’s what I have for breakfast most days when I tire of oatmeal.

    I’m not a mother, but I’m choosy about my PB and love JIF.

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  7. I just printed out a recipe for mini hazelnut cheesecakes using the new Jif spread, and I can’t wait to try it!

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  10. Great giveaway!! I would love to put the chocolate hazelnut spread on my oatmeal in the morning for a delicious treat!! Yum!

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  11. Oh the recipe sounds great but I am sure on a piece of toast or on an apple the Jif would be just as delicious.

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  13. I would eat this straight off the spoon YUM!! If there was any left I would make some cookies. I’m dying over this. What a great and DANGEROUS giveaway 🙂

    Also, RT’ed and followed JIF on Twitter.

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  19. I’m going to go with straight off the spoon…..then try it in my family no-bake cookie recipe. Yummmmm. Then maybe a smoothie concoction.

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  27. Oh my goodness! I didn’t know that these existed!!! If I won, I’d eat them with a spoon, or maybe on a graham cracker so I didn’t feel too guilty… 🙂

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  28. I keep looking at this at the grocery store wondering if I want to purchase it or not…and this would be awesome to win! I would probably use it in oatmeal, on bananas and apples, and straight from the spoon 🙂

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  32. I would like to use the Jif hazelnut chocolate deliciousness in crepes with bananas inside and powdered sugar on top. Also on tart green apples (because apples cancel out chocolate of course).

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  38. Those look delicious! I would probably spread a little on toast first, but then I might have to make those cookies.

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  41. I’d dip a graham cracker or two at first, but I’d definitely be giving your recipe for surprise cookies a try next.

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  43. Those cookies look superbly tempting. I wouldn’t mind using the Jif spread to make them! However, I’d kind of like to chop a nice sweet apples, a few bananas, and a couple of strawberries, and dip the fruit into the chocolate hazelnut spread. Now that sounds delicious! Thanks for the opportunity!

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  46. I had no idea that Jif made this. My kids love a dollop of chocolate hazelnut spread and a bowl of animals crackers to dip.

    I’d try it in brownies.

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  48. I’m sure I would eat right from a spoon, but my kids love to have flavored spreads like this on a tortilla…just roll it up and they will eat it with lunch or for snack!

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  50. Really this would be great to just eat as a sandwich but I think trying it with apples sounds very yummy.

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  57. I would start with a spoonful or two but then I would make a One Bowl Chocolate Cake which is a bundt cake, the melt some of the choclate and hazzlenut and pour a thin layer covering my cake plate, lay down my cake pour some of the warm chocolate and hazzlenut into center of cake then ice the cake with the warm chocolate and hazzlenut. Yumyum.

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    • sounds absolutely heavenly!!! gotta try this too (also going to try to make a tunnel of hazelnut cake!

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  58. I would def. try it with a spoon first, but I am interested in making some kind of frosting out of this stuff!

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  60. I would make Jif Mocha Cappuccino Flavored Hazelnut Spread stuffed brownies. And then I would put the Jif Chocolate Flavored Hazelnut Spread on cinnamon rolls as the glaze. Of course, eating it straight out of the jar with a spoon is good idea too!

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  64. I want to make this recipe! I was hooked before I saw the giveaway…and I’ve never made cookies with the ‘surprise’ center, AND you have a video for amateurs like me! 🙂 Perfect.

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  66. Hazelnut spread is one of my favorites and I just recently discovered it (I know where have I been my whole life) I would definitely use it in cookies, on apples and bananas, crackers, perhaps in brownies and cakes… ha I would love it!

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  67. Oh my gosh, my mouth is watering! I would have a hard time not just eating the spread straight up. I would use the Jif hazelnut chocolate spread in my hot oatmeal. It would be a delicious change from the norm. Love your blog!

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  74. Well, of course I would try it off of a spoon first, but then I would use it to make those yummy looking cookies you made!

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  77. After i licked a few spoonfulls I would make everything i could think of! Cookies, cupcakes, brownies, maybe stuffed french toast. The possibilities are endless!

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  82. I would love to try your cookie recipe using the Jif hazelnut spread. But eating it off a silver spoon would work just as well.

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  84. I am SO excited that Jif has these new spreads!! I cannot wait to try straight by spoon, in PB sandwiches, & a myriad of cookie & cake recipes!!! I have tried EVERY other hazelnut spread in existence & can’t wait to get these! (great having a new mocha flavor to try too!)
    I followed both you & Jif on twitter & tweeted about this giveaway on my site & yours (to be safe) can’t thank you enuf for introducing this new product to me!

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  85. That mocha one looks delicious! I’m not sure if there’d be much left after I started at it with a spoon… but I think it’d go great in cookies!

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  86. I would love to try them with my own homemade graham crackers and marshmallows…and I’m sure my daughter would just love a graham cracker and “chocolate peanut butter” sandwich 🙂

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  88. I love jif, and aside from eating the hazelnut spread straight from the jar, I would make a chocolate hazelnut cheesecake.

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  98. I’d like to eat spoonfuls of it with that spoon there. No need for anything fancy – although I think it would be great over pancakes. mmm.

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  110. Chocolate Jiff! Are you kidding!! It’s about time! I’d use it daily, I’m sure. First up is a grilled PB & J using the brand new Jiff and homemade jelly…YUM!

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  111. I might start with a spoonful of each right of of the jar! Then on to baking…have a quick bread recipe I’ve been wanting to try. Also might add to a bowl of vanilla ice cream–YUM!

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  112. I might start with a spoonful of each right from the jar! then on to baking…have a quick bread recipe I’ve been wanting to try. Also might add to a bowl of vanilla ice cream-YUM!

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  113. I will make these cookies and I will put that Hazlenut Spread on EVERYTHING! I haven’t tasted it yet, but imagine it to be amazing.

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  121. Straight off the spoon for sure…although your picture of a Biscoff cookie dipped in it lookes heavenly!

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  126. This sounds like it’d be amazing sandwiched in between a couple of pancakes with a layer of fresh strawberries!!

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  127. I am crazy about the chocolate and hazelnut combination – yum! These cookies look amazing – I would love to make them!

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  129. i will definitely try this recipe! i also plan to use the new JIF spreads in my popsicle recipe: 1 part hazelnut spread mixed well with 3 parts dark chocolate almond milk (i use SILK brand). best. popsicles. ever.

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  130. If this somehow made it to my food and not straight into my mouth, I’d mix it in with my oatmeal or eat it on an apple! yum!

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  132. I just want to stick a spoon in the jar and eat it in its purest state! Then I’m sure I’ll smother it on all sorts of things!

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  135. I LOVE making (and eating) chocolate chip cookies, so I will for sure use the JIf spread to make this awesome cookie recipe!

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  140. I would love to make smores with it! They are my favorite and the picture in your post is very motivating lol.

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  144. Those cookies look amazing so I would definitely try that recipe. Otherwise I’d probably eat it right off the spoon!

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  159. I would start with a spoon, and if I could pull myself away, I would move to these cookies, and who knows what from there! This looks so yummy!

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  169. Wow! What a great giveaway, Nikki! I would love to win this. I think the first thing I would do would be to make cheesecake bars swirled with the mocha cappuccino spread. YUM!

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  186. Hmm… besides eating it straight out of the jar, I think some cookies would need to be made.

    I can’t believe I haven’t seen these at the grocery store yet. I’m going to have to search for them! 🙂

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  201. Oh my stars the recipe sounds like HEAVEN! I can not wait to try it.
    I would love it on toast with fresh strawberries…Oh my goodness, I am going to have to go to town and see if we have it in our stores.

    Like you, is there any other peanut butter to buy but JIFF???

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  203. I would eat it with a spoon, while hiding in the bathroom ….. So I could have my own private party.

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  207. I’d love to lick it off the spoon! And of course make some form of Fluffer-Nutter (cupcakes, bars, whatever!)

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  214. First, Ill eat it off a spoon, lol. After that, the possibilities are endless. I see it added to cupcakes, a middle layer in a cake. I can not wait to try this!!!!

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  217. First I would eat it right off the spoon!! Then I would experiment around with some recipes. I saw this in the store last week–wished I had thrown it in the cart!

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  222. I would love to give a dignified answer like I would bake with it or dip my fruit in it, but really I would just probably stick a finger in the jar while hiding in the kitchen. 😀

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  225. Well, most people are claiming they’d just need a spoon…so let me say that God gave me 10 good fingers. I don’t need a spoon!

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  230. I bought some a few weeks ago. I have been waiting for the perfect recipe to use it in. Your cookies are it!

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  232. The cookies look incredible! I would definitely be making those, as well as some cupcakes filled with the chocolate hazelnut spread!

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  237. I have seen this in the store and wanted to try it so badly! I think it would be excellent to stuff inside of a chocolate cookie…gooey double chocolate! I’m sure your chocolate chip recipe would also be divine!

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  239. Sounds so good I could eat it off tree bark! I would love to make gooey cookies with it or just did graham crackers in it!

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  240. Drizzling it over waffles sounds divine! So does eating it right out of the jar!
    Digicats {at} Sbcglobal {dot} Net

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  244. Ooooh, I’m sure I will be making those cookies! And I will of course have to use it for (as my four-year-old calls it) “CHOCOLATE toast!!:)

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  246. I want to eat it with a spoon! And if I don’t eat it all that way then I’ll put it on an English muffin with some slice bananas…yum!

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  253. Fun!!! If you want an honest answer, I’d probably just scoop it straight out of the jar with a spoon. :<}

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  258. Since I’m Canadian and can’t enter :(, I want to know where you got your apron. If it’s homemade, do you have a pattern you would be willing to share? I love it!

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    • Hi Kendra. I’m sorry you can’t enter! 🙁 Someday I’ll have to sponsor my own giveaway and involve Canada, as well, since I know I have a lot of readers from there! 🙂

      I bought my apron when we lived in California at a store called Ross. I’m not sure if you have those stores or not. I checked the tag on it, and it just says “Paisley Manor” as if it’s the company name, but I Googled it and this apron does not come up. Maybe you’ll have better luck! Have you checked Anthropologie’s aprons? I love those, as well! They had some on sale the last time I visited, so maybe they still do… 🙂

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  259. I would “sample” these with a spoon…then if there was any left I would try your Chocolate Hazelnut Surprise Cookies…if there was any left 🙂

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  260. I think I’d do all of the above, try the cookie recipe, put it on toast, make s’mores with it and eat it off a spoon!

    Thanks for the great giveaway!

    katygmorris at gmail dot com

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  264. Oh My LAND!!! What couldn’t you do with this??? It looks amazing! I am about to lick my screen! Delightful cookies, yummy toast in the am with a steaming hot coffee, brownies with a twist, french toast….the possibilities are endless! drool……

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  265. I would use Jif Chocolate Flavored Hazelnut Spread as a filling inside of a coffee flavored cupcake. I would then cover the cupcake with espresso spiked buttercream sprinkled with crushed hazelnuts.

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  270. I would use the hazelnut spreads on crescent rolls for a filling, dip marshmellows in them, spread them on graham crackers for a snack, dip apples in it for a dip, and simply dip my spoon in for a quick treat!

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  272. The first way I would try it is with a big ole spoon. Then I think I would try it in a cookie recipe. Yum!!!!!!!!!!

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  276. Wow! I would eat with a spoon, use it in my cookies, use it for almost anything that has chocolate in it. I love chocolate and this would just add to my list of things to make with it.
    Gives variety to my eating and baking now. Thanks for reminding me about this.

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  278. I would make your cookies! Then I would make some no-bakes because they are my FAVORITE and I have a feeling this would make them amazing. Then I would eat the mocha kind straight out of the jar while the first batch was baking. Ooohh — I would melt it and put it on ICE CREAM! I’ll use it to make homemade Reese’s.. And I’ll put it in a homemade ice cream cake :)The possibilities are endless. I JUST bought some of the ‘to go’ packs today! What a coincidence!

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  279. umm… is eating it from a spoon ok for an answer!!?! 😉 cause that is what i fully intend to do as soon as i receive it.. please let me win! 🙂

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