From Forest Avenue lights to Carvel’s sugar cookie delights, Staten Island feels a lot like Christmas

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.—Between panettone boxes stacked at ShopRite and festive lights strung over Forest Avenue, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas on Staten Island. Although it’s hardly November, Carvel has just launched a limited-edition ice cream collection with a major sugar cookie vibe.

The menu blends the “warmth of the oven” with frozen desserts, delivering five sugar cookie-themed options that evoke the flavor of freshly baked cookies.

Highlights from the holiday menu include Sugar Cookie Soft Serve, which works cookie pieces into soft serve; Sugar Cookie Scooped Ice Cream, mixed with real cookie bits, plus festive red and green sprinkles; the Sugar Cookie Sundae Dasher, layered with mashed cookies and colorful sprinkles; the Sugar Cookie Pop, dipped in white hard-shell coa