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Customers lined up at the ice cream counter to cool off during the hot day.

Customers lined up at the ice cream counter to cool off during the hot day.

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Cream puffs, smoothies and gourmet ice cream were passed around as free samples during Avalon Sweet Spot’s grand opening on Sept. 25. A face painter and an ice cream eating contest drew in a crowd that packed the dessert parlor on the corner of Tanja King and Avalon Park boulevards.

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Friends Aaliyah, 3, and Anastacia, 8, showed off their face art.

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Veronica Figueroa, Sweet Spot owner, passed out smoothie samples.

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Across from the ice cream counter is a dessert bar, selling Winter Park’s Chocolate Provocateur gourmet, vegan and gluten-free cupcakes, chocolate éclairs and cream puffs.

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Tory Cope of Akari Arts painted a unicorn on Juliana's, 3, forearm.