A frozen confection product comprising from two to five frozen confections, wherein from one to five of the frozen confections is an aerated frozen confection comprising from 0.3 wt % to 1.5 wt % protein, wherein from 25 wt % to 100 wt % of the protein is plant protein and from 0 wt % to 75 wt % is dairy protein, wherein the frozen confection product comprises a core and a coating, and from 10% to 100% of the outer surface of the frozen confection product comprises the aerated frozen confection comprising from 0.3 wt % to 1.5 wt % protein, wherein the coating comprises from one to four frozen confections and each frozen confection is in contact with from 10% to 50% of the surface area of the core.

Cold desserts incorporating gelatin-based (gummy) components are provided in this paper. In particular, stick-mounted cold desserts, edible-cone cold desserts, and container-served desserts with gelatin-based components are described. The gelatin-based components of these desserts are made from gelatin-based candy material that is specially-formulated for consumption at cold temperatures. The gelatin-based components may be used with other components of a cold dessert such as with flavored water ice, ice cream, sherbet, sorbet, and the like as described throughout this paper.

A optical communication system including a source device and an endpoint device. The source device include an array of laser diodes and is configured to drive the laser diodes to project a sequence of patterns into the field of view of the source device to define a set of serially-projected codes, each of which isolated to one respective angular division of the field of view of the source device. The endpoint device receives a serially-projected code from the source device which varies based which angular division of the field of view of the source device is occupied by the endpoint device.