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.
Gah! It is sooooooo hot here, and this would be perfect! I’m so excited you don’t need a vita-mix for it too. That’s on my wish list, but until I get one, I’m stuck with a rusty old blender. So excited it’ll work for this!
You had me at PINEAPPLE! Oh wow, those look heavenly!!!
I would rather be the hostess, I love having people over and making a HUGE food spread for all the enjoy! (I just hate the clean up!)
Perfect for summer!! I could whip these guys up for a poolside summer day 🙂 Sounds like it would taste just like Malibu rum!
I love being the hostess — but sometimes, you just want to go to someone else’s house. 🙂
YUM! Just looking at your Pineapple Float makes me feel amazing. 🙂
You are a healthy hostess with the most-est. Geez!
I absolutely love hosting parties!! I love preparing the food, chosing music, decorating the place… But I also enjoy being the guest and having not to worry about anything 😉
I would definitely rather host a party! Or be a part of a team or group that’s hosting a party. 🙂 I think being a caterer for parties, banquets, or any sort of celebration would be so much fun! I was always super involved in planning my own birthday parties as I was growing up, even though the majority of my friends always left it up to their moms to decide everything.
Also… I’ve never had a root beer float, or any sort of float-y thing. Definitely missed out on a lot of “traditional” North American treats and foods, having grown up mostly in South East Asia and having a ‘non-traditional’ [but still super amazing, of course] mom. I don’t like soda either! Or any sort of carbonated drink, actually! The fizz burrrns! Haha but this still looks super interesting. I think I wouldn’t mind one of your milkshakes + some ice cream on top. Would that qualify as a float? 🙂
T.G.I.F.!
Can you believe it, neither have I! I’ve never even had root beer!
Mmm, I think anything could qualifly as a float as long as something was floating… so yeah, I think the ice cream shake float would work.
Maybe someday I will have to try root beer, but for now that pineapple concoction looks way better!
Holy yum! Gorgeous photos, too. I need one of those in my life!
I wanna be a guest… at YOUR party. Where you serve these!
Yum! I love tropical flavors! And I don’t care if I’m a guest or a hostess, I just like parties.