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Ice cream sandwiches are Covet: Island of Desiretraditional summer treats, but it's time to take the sweet 'wich into the autumn months.

Because...babka ice cream sandwiches.

Babka ice cream sandwich, I finally found you! pic.twitter.com/R0muVynCqt

— Devon M (@DAMitsDevon) August 20, 2016

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Babka is a traditional Eastern European Jewish treat. It is made with sweet, yeasted dough twisted with chocolate or cinnamon fillings. It's enough to see it on your bubbe's Sunday morning breakfast buffet...

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But now that it's getting ice cream sandwiched, babka is positively droolworthy.

I just heard about the babka ice cream sandwich and now I need to make that a thing in my life: https://t.co/o0Sws46PmA

— annie cardi (@anniecardi) August 29, 2016

On the east coast, Russ and Daughters Café serves homemade babka ice cream between slices of homemade babka. The eatery has been serving them since December 2015, but now the confection is really catching on.

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A photo posted by Andras 'Vilagevo' Jokuti (@jokuti) on Jun 15, 2016 at 12:55pm PDT

In Washington, D.C., the vanilla/chocolate babka ice cream sandwich (babka sourced from Brooklyn) served by stall On Rye (a restaurant slated to open late 2016) is available to lucky National Parks Stadium suite ticket holders.

A photo posted by Valerie Hillman (@val2007erie) on Aug 28, 2016 at 12:32pm PDT

Even home chefs are taking their skills to the babka ice cream world.

A photo posted by Carolyn Frischer (@cfrisch) on Aug 19, 2016 at 7:31pm PDT

The internet is wild for this delicacy and it's easy to see why.

Babka ice cream sandwich at @Nationals park = worth the hype. 😋😋😋

— Lexi Neaman (@lexineaman) September 5, 2016

I need that babka ice cream sandwich in me now yes I know it's 12:30am I said NOW https://t.co/avONtdl7vK

— Kris Naudus (@lampbane) August 23, 2016

The end of summer never seemed so sweet.

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