The National Cottonseed Products Association (NCPA) offers recipes such as "Chocolate Banana Bread Pudding with Mascarpone Caramel Cream and Banana Beignets" to anyone who might be interested.

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For dessert, there was hot apple and huckleberry crisp with salted caramel ice cream.

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Smith says he became "obsessed" with marmalade during twice-yearly visits to a friend's house in Majorca, and the cake, embellished with homemade caramel ice cream, is indeed delicious.

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As we poke about the town, which spirals up out of the plain like the tip of a caramel ice cream cone, the first snowflakes drift down, foreshadowing an impending storm.

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For dessert, skip the beignets oily delivery systems for lemon-bright custard and the milk-chocolate mousse dome and head straight for the fragrant comforts of franzipan cake, served with a spiced poached pear and caramel ice cream.

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As for desserts, you cant go wrong with the warm chocolate date cake in coconut cognac sauce with iced espresso yogurt, or the chocolate banana samosa with candied kumquats and caramel coriander ice cream. l Bottino -- 246 Tenth Ave.

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