Carvel Has a New Lemonberry Crumble Menu—Here’s a Food Editor’s Review of It All

• What It Is: lemon-blueberry soft serve
• Price (small): $5

Fun fact: Carvel’s soft serve is creamier, richer and fluffier than most others you’ve likely had due to its higher fat content. So, its rich, luscious consistency was no surprise for this brand vet. The flavor fell a bit flat for me, though. While it was very balanced between sweet and citrusy, both fruity notes were very subtle, neither truly trumping the vanilla base. That said, the soft serve had a pretty pastel color, and I liked that it was visibly speckled with what I assume was bits of blueberry.

• What It Is: lemon-blueberry soft serve, layered with blueberry sauce, vanilla crunchies, lemon cookie pieces and whipped cream
• Price (small): $7

This masterpiece was giving blueberry-lemon meringue pie. It offered the most intense fruit flavor of the entire menu. While it was bright, tart-sweet and photogenic, my biggest bone to pick with this sundae was its layered assembly. I found it difficult to scoop the perfect spoonful; you need to maneuver past a lot of sauce and whipped cream to reach the soft serve.

• What It Is: lemon-blueberry hard ice cream with lemon cookie pieces and vanilla crunchies
• Price (small): $5

Texturally, this item from the Carvel Lemonberry Crumble menu was flawless. With not one, but two types of cookie pieces, the ice cream was full of crispy, crunchy splendor and had a salty edge that complemented its sweet-and-sour flavor beautifully. I especially liked the texture of the lemony pieces, which seemed to be coated in some sort of semihard frosting.

• What It Is: lemon-blueberry hard ice cream coated in a white hard shell and rolled in vanilla crunchies
• Price: $3.50/each

I didn’t expect the novelty pick to be my top choice, but it’s *that* good, friends. Between the crisp, salty vanilla crunchies and the thick, crunchy white chocolate coating, the Lemonberry core simply soared. The blueberry-citrus flavor was still more muted than in the Dasher, but the salt in the cookie coating intensified its flavor anyway. In terms of texture, taste, aesthetics and ease of consumption, the pop checked every box.