Culinary Expeimentation

[bluegargantua]

Hi,

So a friend mentioned that she loves root beer floats, but dairy problems prevented having them. Well you know me, I like ,,helping,, so I thought about how to fix that.

So the ice cream is easy, you just get coconut milk ice cream in vanilla bean flavor. Coconut milk ice cream is, quite possibly, better than real ice cream. Obviously, the coconut flavor always comes through not matter what flavor it's supposed to be, but a strong vanilla bean flavor holds its own.

So now we're done right? Just get some high-end froo-froo root beer and you're good to go.

Yeah, that works, but I was thinking about this float idea while drinking an Angry Orchard Cider. This is my new favorite hard cider -- just incredibly tasty. Comes in a couple of different flavors including a ginger-laced variant that has a real apple pie taste.

Huh...apple pie...and ice cream...I wonder.

And so was born the Dariy-free, hard-cider float.

She really liked it. I have a bigger sweet tooth so it wasn't quite the pie a la mode I was hoping for. But it's still two great tastes whether you have them together or not.

later
Tom

Comments

[metagnat.livejournal.com]

I had some of a chocolate stout beer float, once but a hard-cider float would never have occurred to me. Sounds good.