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Tillamook County Creamery Association (TCCA) has released the brand's first "curated collection" of chocolate ice cream. The range is made with 45% more cocoa than Tillamook's traditional chocolate ice cream, "creating flavours that are richer, darker and decadent," said the coop. It includes four flavours: Brownie batter, with extra creamy dark chocolate brownie batter ice cream and brownie dough pieces; Dark chocolate cookies & cream, featuring rich dark chocolate ice cream with chocolate crunchy cookie pieces; Chocolate hazelnut, presenting velvety dark chocolate ice cream with chopped hazelnuts and a hazelnut butter ribbon; and German chocolate cake, offering dark chocolate ice cream with brown sugar coconut filling, pecan pieces and chocolate cake pieces. Hunter Clayton, ice cream scientist at TCCA, said: "Our ice cream makers worked hard to source the perfect cocoa powder to bring the right balance of sweetness, bitter cocoa and flavour intensity to our new chocolate ice cream base". "Our tastebuds also brought us to the kitchen to explore how decadent desserts could translate well into ice cream, which led to spending hours baking German chocolate cake and licking brownie batter off whisks – all in a day's work – to create a collection worthy of all chocolate lovers' desire." Tillamook's Chocolate Collection is available to buy at Kroger, Albertsons, Safeway, Publix, Ahold Delhaize and other grocery stores, across the US.