The ice cream soda is a signature summer treat. It’s cool, creamy, refreshing, and can be served up just about any way you want.
A traditional ice cream soda, or ice cream float, is a combination of ice cream and chilled carbonated water flavored with syrup or a flavored soft drink. Think root beer float! Today, the variety of available flavored carbonated soft drinks and ice cream flavors makes for all kinds of creative and delicious possibilities, like:
- Classic root beer float made with Pierre’s Classic Vanilla Ice Cream;
- Orange soda pop with Pierre’s Chocolate Ice Cream;
- Plain seltzer water, chocolate beverage syrup and Pierre’s Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream;
- For adults over the age of 21 … hard seltzer with Pierre’s Sorbet or Pierre’s Sherbet.
Making them is easy.
Drop two scoops of ice cream into a large, empty glass. Tip the glass over at about a 45-degree angle and pour in the soda pop, gently moving it upright as it fills to control foam.
For sodas made using unflavored seltzer water, beverage syrup and ice cream, you will place the ice cream in the glass as before. Pre-mix the ice cream and seltzer to taste in a separate glass and then pour into the float glass.
Cheers!
