With Coconut Ice Cream.
I’m practicing for when I move to Hawaii.
My friends used to love hanging out at my house when we were younger, probably because my mom was the best hostess. She’d always be prepared for guests with freshly-baked cookies, brownies, or even English muffin pizzas. Come summertime, one of her favorite treats to serve (and one of my friends’ favorite things to be served) was a root beer float. I’ve never liked soda, and so she’d make me a special Orange Juice float.
Last night, when my friends came over for a girls’ night, the drinks I created for them reminded me of those oj floats my mom used to make. Except these were pineapple-flavored: Pineapple Floats!
Pineapple Floats
- 4 cups fresh or canned pineapple
- stevia or sugar of choice to taste
- optional: rum or rum extract
- coconut ice cream (I used my favorite Ice Cream Recipe)
Freeze the pineapple in a container. Once frozen, thaw it until you can easily blend it. (You don’t need a Vita-Mix for this recipe!) Blend with the optional sweetener and rum or extract. Do not add water. Pour into glasses, and serve topped with coconut ice cream.
 You could also make a float from my Watermelon Ice Cream.
Just thaw the frozen watermelon longer than the recipe calls for, and pour it into a glass instead of a bowl.
Oh, and with the floats I also served Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies.
I’ve never been a root beer float person either – my ultimate float would have to be an orange pop float (or soda for you Americans). But these look delicious – almost like a pina colada. I bet some Malibu coconut rum would be excellent in them.
Is the recipe for the orange juice floats on here? I love orange juice and would probably love the float! 😉
I don’t have one… but I don’t see why you couldn’t just sub orange for the pineapple! 🙂
Yeah, I never really thought of that! Thanks Katie 🙂
I would rather be the guest. But I absolutely LOVE planning parties, making food, and decorating but I wouldn’t want them at my house.
Katie we LOVE you!!!!!!! You saved this menopausal mom!!!!!
🙂
There are so many different ways to make great floats. You can use practically any type of juice or soda as well as any flavor of ice cream. What I really like about this option is that it’s much healthier than most floats (like the traditional root beer float). Coconut ice cream (especially if it’s homemade) would be pretty healthy and with fresh pineapple and a sugar substitute it would be excellent.
I don’t mean to judge you but why are you so thin?
You are very thin. Are you getting enough calories?