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Well fist off great idea and thank you for sharing. I am making these as a surprise for my girlfriend Wendella. I followed the recipe as exactly as stated. This provided me with 5 normal shells and one slightly smaller shell. So I ended up with 6 rather than 12 as stated.

For the books and sanitary reasons I cleaned the book's covers with Windex (spraying the Windex on the paper towel first) then proceeded to wipe it off with a lightly damp paper towel. You should only end up using 2 books, I cleaned 12.

It appears I might have a bit excess in chocolate syrup. Though that is not a bad thing as I will use that extra to make it extra chocolaty. I am currently waiting for the ice cream to thicken then I will add the last layer of chocolate and nuts. Rather than painting my shells as I did not have a brush to use that did not have paint on it. I simply dipped my shells in then put them on a cooking pan that would fit in the fridge.

I crushed my nuts XD, in a bowl with a wooden spoon until the bowl was void of large pieces. The only variant I did was to add 1 extra spoon of coco powder to the syrup mix as well as I have added drizzled chocolate before adding the crushed peanuts.

If I can make this you can too, trust me. I just finished topping my shells I am eager to present them tonight for dinner and some action booyah. All in all this has taken me about 2hrs with clean up time.

Tips:

1) Time each crepe/shell with the stove timer at around 2min use your eye though. With flipping I found out no guts no glory do not try do ( no room for mistakes).

2) Crush the peanuts in a bowl with a wooden spoon.

3) Use a baking pan to sturdy the shells.

4) Dip the shells rather than painting if you do not have a brush.