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Root Beer Float, Two Ways
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Root Beer Float, Two Ways

Floats are a trick because they feel like a treat and take two minutes. The kids get the plain one and the grown-ups can have the other. Keep glasses in the freezer and the root beer very cold.

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What you'll need

  • 4 scoops vanilla ice cream
  • 4 cups cold root beer (960 ml)
  • 4 oz vanilla vodka, optional (120 ml)
  • cherries

How to make it

  1. Put a scoop of ice cream in each frozen glass.

  2. If using, pour 1 ounce of vanilla vodka over each.

  3. Slowly pour in the root beer and top with a cherry.

  4. Glass: Tall glasses and long spoons. Garnish: A cherry on top.

Chef's secrets

Pour the root beer slowly down the side of a tilted glass.

Tilt and pour to avoid overflow.

Good to know

Make ahead

Not a make-ahead drink.