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.
Hi!
First off, this seems incredibly delicious and I’m thinking of buying pineapple and trying this right now! And as to question of the day, I like being the hostess, but I’d be glad to give up this position if you’d have a party and cooked everything there 🙂
I don’t know if you remember me – I wrote a comment about how you’ve helped me to change my lifestyle to healthier, but that was quite a while ago. Well since then, I managed to exclude sugar from my life, and I started to think about becoming a vegetarian – and maybe, eventually, a vegan.
The question I would like to ask is, did cutting off meat, dairy and eggs have noticeable health benefits for you, or do you have more energy now?
And as much as I love animals and don’t eat a lot of meat anyway, I think that being a vegan and still giving my body enough nutrients might be very challenging for me – do you take supplements for Iron, B12 and stuff like that and did you find it hard to stay healthy in the beginning, too?
Thanks a lot for answers!
Hi Sof!
I went vegan when I was around 14 or 15, so it’s hard to know if my clear skin and high energy as a teen were due to veganism or just my normal self… but I DO have a TON of energy! And I hardly ever get sick.
I do take an omega3 supplement, just in case. And I make sure to get enough b12 from food sources such as fortified foods and nutritional yeast. A really good book is “The Vegetarian Way” by Deborah Messina (I think that’s who writes it anyway). It has chapters on all the nutrients :).
That looks delicious! I need to make this at some point.
My whole life I’d much rather be a guest than host a party but now that I’m older and can actually cook and bake I’d love to host a party 😀
That looks tasty! At some point in my childhood I began disliking root beer. Instead I would add grape juice!
I often prefer being the host. I like making new dishes for my friends to try and by hosting I am always kept busy 🙂
I would rather host a party! I love having people come over to my place!
Hmm I like both, it depends on my mood really. Sometimes it’s nice to be looked after by others but I love cooking for everyone too!
These are basically pina colada floats. You’re a genius. Growing up, I drank waaay too many sugar-laden pina coladas every summer in Mexico. And about the watermelon idea, another blogger recently made watermelon-mint floats, and they looked amazing. You should definitely try that variation if you haven’t already! By the way, your mom’s orange floats make me think of creamsicles. I loved those as a kid!
These look so refreshing Katie! I love pineapple.
I’d rather help the hostess — you know, when someone tells the hostess “oh everything is so wonderful” and then the hostess can turn to me and say “I couldn’t have done it without Holly!” That way I’m not the center of attention but I feel somewhat important 🙂
Your posts leave me drooling! 😉
Freezing cold pineapple drink = winner!!! I loved coke floats when I was a kid. I wasn’t allowed them very often though because I used to get so hyper from drinking coke I wouldn’t sleep and drove everyone crazy! My mum actually told my friend’s parents not to give it to me 🙁
Luckily I grew out of that one and I don’t really like coke now anyway!
I’d like to be both please 🙂 I actually always take food with me when I eat at someone’s house anyway. I’m pretty much the only vegan I know and people still aren’t sure what to feed me, so it’s easier that way!
HOSTESS! I am hosting my own birthday bbq tonight! It will be complete with loot bags and everything. I actually came on here today to scope out some of your lovely desserts before I head to the grocery store! Suggestions?
Hmmm… the blondies, deep-dish cookie pie, and fudge babies are the recipes that seem to be most popular for readers to bring to parties. But here’s a list of ALL my dessert recipes: https://lett-trim.today/chocolate-covered-recipes/snackity-snacks/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
Happy birthday!!!
I’m practicing for when I move to Hawaii = NO! Move to San Diego 🙂
These look awesome and they look perfect for San Diego, too. Just sayin’ haha!
I am not a big root beer float girl. Something about root beer (actually beer too)..I don’t like it. But pineapple is one of my great loves. And with coconut ice cream or banana softserve or put some rum in it. Rum please, not rum extract…lol….
They look awesome! And I would rather host. No wait, I’d rather be waited on….hah 🙂
Oh yes, I think I would take San Diego over Hawaii, actually… it’s still continental US. Plus, YOU’RE there!
Lahhhve. I love being a party host — it’s so exciting to prepare all the food and decorations, and put on a pretty dress!
This is such a cute & different idea! So tropical! I’m all for moving to Hawaii 🙂
And I want to be a hostess, not a guest for parties… I want to plan a really cute summer themed party with healthy treats. You’ve inspired so many dessert ideas!
I so want to do that too! Like a healthy-themed luauo with these floats and maybe some pina colada fudge babies. And lots and lots of coconut themed foods!
oh no!!! Why oh why did I have to go and finish off the last of my fresh pineapple last night?????? I want this pineapple float SO BAD!!!!
I think I’m gonna try making my own homemade coconut ice cream and then try the pineapple float. I’m putting a fresh pineapple on my list. Can’t wait to try this! I’m so happy you’re sharing this recipe, and by the way…I’d much rather be a guest at a party. 🙂
I put the pineapple in the freezer as soon as this popped into my google reader this morning. And I just had the float for a snack. The coconut ice cream MAKES this recipe! Oh my gosh, so so good! I loved it and only wish I had frozen more pineapple!
Gorgeous! It’s like summer in a glass!
Oops, that was from me :).