We’ve compiled some of our most-loved flavors for the season, available in store and online for you to jump up with us! Remember, our ice cream is made with real fruit and spices, brought in from the Caribbean itself, so you will experience a strong, authentic taste.

If you didn’t know by now, we are a family run business in Brooklyn, proudly from the country of Trinidad and Tobago. This month, the rest of the nation joins us in celebrating and honoring the Caribbean and its invaluable contribution to the US! Caribbean people and our region are known for our warmth and hospitality, scenic landscapes, waters, rain forests and wildlife. We’re also loved for our hype parties, sexy music, spicy, colorful food, melting pot of races and ethnicities, musical accents and vibrant patois, over achieving academics and record-breaking athletics.

You’ve probably been seeing a lot of sorrel or hibiscus drinks recently, as the drink has been blossoming in popularity across the US. In the Caribbean, we usually enjoy sorrel during December, when fresh sorrel calyces are sold. However, with the availability of dried sorrel flowers any month or day, we can enjoy the sweet tart brew whenever we want. Here's our guide on making the perfect sorrel drink year round, using dried flowers. The taste is just the same! What truly shines is how you spice and sweeten your mixture. Don’t worry, we’ve done all the groundwork and perfected this recipe so you don’t need to experiment with the measurements. 

Grape-Nuts actually aren’t related to grapes, or nuts! They are a classic, healthy cereal made from wheat and barley, also sometimes called “grain nuts”. Their subtle sweetness and crumbly texture make Grape-Nuts a wonderful addition to many recipes. Grape-Nuts with ice cream was therefore an inevitable combination, mixing in the cereal to a creamy vanilla ice cream base.

Sorrel is the name we call both the flower and the drink we make from it. One of our favorite memories from living in Trinidad is seeing trucks parked at the side of the highway, piled high with the dried flowers, with signs advertising the price per pound. In the markets, mounds of deep red sorrel topped almost every counter, ready to be brewed into a celebratory Christmas drink. It was one of those seasonal signs that would tell us the holidays were coming! But these days, here in New York, we don’t have to wait for December to enjoy the sweet tartness of this festive beverage. Sorrel is growing in popularity throughout the US, and you can find it any month of the year. At Island Pops, we make Sorrel Rum Sorbet and Sorrel Ice Pops, best-selling flavors! 

On July 14th 2019 we officially opened the Island Pops shop on Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn after much hard work and many delays! As we look back on the wild ride this all has been, we see more and more that this journey has always been about our family and heritage. The store opening wasn’t the only birth celebrated that year. Our daughter Ella was born on April 30th, just before we initially intended to open the store in May. But that isn’t the cool part. What you might not know is that I delivered her myself! 

To celebrate his special day this year, we'll be spending the morning reading Khalid’s story book together. I am looking forward to seeing his reaction to it! We're also taking him out for brunch and spending a quiet evening indoors watching movies and getting some much-needed R&R. And of course…. ICE CREAM!

Citrus always takes us back to the hot weather in Trinidad and Tobago. There were countless sour orange, lime and lemon trees where Khalid grew up, so homemade juice was a staple. The Lemon Nutmeg Cookie Recipe comes directly from a humble go-to meal Khalid shared with his three brothers on the days when it was too hot to light a stove and cook. They would have Rough Top cookies with freshly squeezed lemon juice to wash it down. The crunchy spiced cookies were an easy treat, satisfying tastes for nutmeg, ginger, cinnamon and coconut. The lemon juice was a bright, cool drink to contrast. It has always been a favorite combo for us, so much so that we have turned it into one of our most highly anticipated new flavors this summer at Island Pops!

Island Pops would not even exist if it were not for my wife, Shelly. In 2014 she got sick with Chikungunya and was craving soursop ice cream that I couldn't find anywhere in Brooklyn. I decided to try my hand at making my own. It wasn’t perfect (yet) but it was the beginnings of what you know now as Island Pops, where we are dedicated to providing nostalgic Caribbean favorites, as well as innovative new flavors of ice cream, sorbets and popsicles. This Mothers’ day I’m paying tribute to Shells, my wonderful wife, for all she does for our family and our business.

if you’re not familiar with this herb, it is also known as Irish moss or red seaweed, is a type of seaweed that grows year round in tidepools and inlets. It grows on rocks, in areas where it can get a lot of sunlight. Ever since Kim Kardashian posted about drinking a sea moss smoothie, the healthy eating community has been raving about this superfood and its benefits for your skin to your immune system.

Easter eggs are fun and all, but this year we really wanted to make our ice cream the center of our holiday treats, and created something fun and unique with the kids. These cute character cones are definitely full of character!

Carnival is not just fun. Carnival is spiritual, we often say. The New York Times published an article that listed all the life-altering experiences that we’ve missed out on without Carnival, in a year they declared as the one when we needed Carnival the most. Carnival gives us a long, deep exhalation for stress.

Soursop in your mouth, moves through tastes, from tangy to sour to sweet, similar to pineapple. All the while, the strawberry-esq aroma floods your nostrils. The velvety texture coats all of these beautifully, for a unique balance. People have compared the flavor with combinations of sour citrus, banana, coconut and mango among other tropical fruits. We definitely suggest trying it yourself, to pinpoint your own nostalgic references for this tasty and versatile gift from mother nature.