Candy-Studded Ice Cream Cakes

The New M&M's Minis Ice Cream Cake is a Hybrid Dessert

If you're looking for a dessert for your next party, look no further than the new M&M’s Minis Ice Cream Cake.

The new M&M’s Minis Ice Cream Cake is an indulgent take on a classic ice cream cake. The dish consists of vanilla ice cream swirled with chocolate and studded with M&M’s Minis chocolate candies. The outside is covered in even more M&M’s Minis, and then the whole thing is topped with whipped icing and a giant letter 'M.' The cake was originally spotted by the Instagram account @snacksanta, who found the cake in the freezer aisle of their local Walmart.

Clocking in at 46-ounces, the M&M’s Minis Ice Cream Cake can definitely feed a crowd (and then some).

Image Credit: <i> @snacksanta.</i>

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Ice Cream and Frozen Desserts
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SCORE
3.3 out of 10
GENDER
50% Men50% Women
MARKETTop markets: North America
GENERATION
  • Gen Z (primary audience)
  • Gen Alpha (primary audience)
  • Millennial (primary audience)
  • Gen X (primary audience)
POPULARITY
Popularity 29%
Activity 62%
Freshness 9%

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