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 love hosting parties! I love it when everyone tells me they enjoyed the food, had a great time, etc. I can’t say I enjoy cleaning up, but getting everything organized and prepared is so much fun!
I definitely want to try this! I loved the watermelon in my smoothie, I bet this would taste pretty similar. I have some frozen pineapple, so maybe that would work too.
Sounds refreshing and perfect for summer! I would rather be the host! I love throwing parties 🙂
YUM! Can’t wait to try this:)
Yum! that looks delicious! Reminds me totally of my rootbeer floats from when I was little!
TGIF! Have a good weekend CCK!
Oh wow. This makes me wish I was on a tropical island somewhere. I LOVE pineapple!!
It depends on the situation, but I really really love to host parties. Planning them is just so fun to me!!
Drool!
I lovee pineapple and coconut. I must try this before summer ends!
Mmmm just had one for breakfast! I might just be the most popular mom in the world now, thanks to you CCK! 🙂 They were delish!
U are making me miss hawaii!!
BEST pineapples EVER in hawaii!
Love you!
Beautiful photos and floats! I agree with the commenter above me. I wanna go to Hawaii now!
Or maybe just to your house so you can make me one of these ;).
Katie!!!! Those floats look absolutely fantabulous!!! And I just bought some pineapple which I was going to eat plain, but I think that might change 😉
And when you move to Hawaii, can I PLEASE go with you!! It’s my fave place on earth and would be even better with a chocolate-covered friend 😀
I looooove being the hostess too! It gives me an extra excuse to bake 🙂
<3 <3
p.s. We didn't go to Santorini, but you should have stowed away in my suitcase anyway! We would have had the BEST time EVER!! 😀
I just whipped one of these up for me and my mom. We both loved them! My mom especially liked the coconut ice cream :).
Hey, and I’m the third A name comment in a row :).