Our testers screamed for ice cream while tasting the PEOPLE Food Awards 2025. From a mouth-puckering ice pop to a bag of chocolate-covered strawberries that a tester decided are “like a Valentine’s Day dessert on a weeknight,” these treats are too cool to miss.
Best Sorbet
Island Way Sorbet Piña Colada
Compliments rolled in for the “scrumptious and refreshing” treat “bursting with pineapple and coconut flavor.” Bonus: It’s packaged in real scooped-out pineapple shells.
Buy it! $9 for 3, citymarket.com
Best Ice Cream
Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams Double Dough
“Everything about it is perfection,” one tester declared of the chocolate chip cookie dough bites suspended in brown sugar custard. “I’m calling it now: This is the ice cream of summer.”
Buy it! $9, jenis.com
Best Novelty Bomb Pop
Extremes Super Sour Cherry Limeade
Pucker up! The tricolor pop has three levels of sourness, starting with a sharp red layer and ending with sweet cherry-lime.
Buy it! $4 for 12, hy-vee.com
Best Ice Cream Sandwich
Nightingale Cookie Monster Ice Cream Sandwiches
A thick slab of vanilla ice cream is swirled with chocolate cookie crumbs and smashed between two chewy chocolate chip cookies.
Buy it! $7 for 4, kroger.com
Best Fruit Dessert
Tru Fru Hyper-Chilled Strawberries
Ripe, juicy berries are flash frozen to retain their flavor and firmness before being cloaked in decadent white and dark chocolates and frozen again.
Buy it! $8, target.com