Ice cream is a fickle dessert—it keeps its cool when faced with an army of screaming spoon-holders but melts instantly when greeted by a smiling sun. Explore ice cream’s elusive nature with today’s Groupon to Cold Stone Creamery, redeemable at its Federal Way location. Choose between the following options:

• For $5, you get $10 worth of ice cream.
• For $10, you get $20 worth of cakes and novelties.<p>

Cold Stone Creamery’s premium ice cream is made fresh, adorned with mix-ins, and layered into cakes every day at more than 1,400 locations. Custom creations allow dairy denizens to brainstorm a treat from an ice-cream flavor, sauce, and mix-ins of their choice, then look on as the friendly staff members weave them together on the frozen granite countertop. Or rely on the genius of company artistes by going with a signature creation ($5 for 8 oz.), such as the Cookie Mintster’s mint ice cream and Oreo cookies autographed with a fudge pen.

Lest ice cream lazily rest on its laurels, it gets put to work in a coterie of cakes and other novelties to keep its skills sharp, such as cupcakes ($13.99 for a six-pack), cookies ($8.99 for a four-pack), and Hot Stone Favorite warm sundaes ($6).