A Pop Star's Cookies Draw a Crowd (No Backflip Required)
Or, at the very least, that's what a Crumbl cookie inspired by one of Mr. Boone's songs tastes like.
Still, that hasn't stopped people from popping into the nearest Crumbl — of which there are more than 1,000 locations across the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada — to purchase Benson Boone's Moonbeam Ice Cream Cookie, a collaboration between the sweet treat company and the artist.
Mr. Boone, a singer who quit 'American Idol' in 2021 and found mainstream fame soon after, is perhaps best known for backflipping off pianos in tight jumpsuits while performing his hit 'Beautiful Things.' (Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's chief executive, borrowed the particular blue, sequined suit Mr. Boone wore for the 2025 Grammy Awards while he serenaded his wife at her birthday party earlier this year. He did not do a backflip.)
'Mystical Magical,' another song by Mr. Boone, was the inspiration for the cookie thanks to the lyric 'you can feel like moonbeam ice cream, taking off your bluejeans.'
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