The New Milk Bar Soft Serve Shakes Will Rock Your World

This week, Yahoo Food is celebrating America’s favorite dessert with a series of profiles, recipes and photo galleries all dedicated to the creamy, delicious dessert. Check out our Ice Cream page for complete coverage!


It’s no secret that we here at Yahoo Food love Milk Bar. The Christina Tosi-helmed bakery is known by many for their creative baked creations, from Birthday Cake to Compost Cookies. However, another Milk Bar menu item has perhaps the largest legion of fans of all — their Cereal Milk Soft Serve. Covered in an outer layer of cornflakes, the soft serve, with a flavor that eerily resembles the milk at the bottom of a bowl of cereal, is beloved by hoards of New Yorkers, ourselves included.

That’s why we were so excited when we heard about Milk Bar’s brand new summer menu items, including a new flavor of Chocolate Chip Passionfruit Cake soft serve and a Crunchy Cereal Shake. We repeat: Crunchy Cereal Shake! 

Additional new menu items include a Birthday Cake Shake (the Cereal Milk shake blended with their signature b’day truffles), Chocolate Malt Cake Shake (blended with hot fudge and chocolate malt truffles), and a Cereal Milk Affogato — their signature soft serve topped with a shot of local Stumptown espresso. Head to any of Milk Bar’s NYC locations to try out the new menu, though we can’t guarantee we won’t have eaten up their supply before you get there.

More Fun With Milk Bar: 

Cookbook of the Week: ‘Milk Bar Life’ by Christina Tosi

Learning to Bake Birthday Cake With the Masters at Milk Bar

Salt-and-Pepper Cookies Recipe From ‘Milk Bar Life’