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

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