Ingredients
- 12 ounces plain seltzer
- 1 recipe Real Vanilla Ice Cream, recipe follows
- 1/4 cup cola syrup, recipe follows
- 4 maraschino cherries
Directions
Pour 2 ounces seltzer in each of 4 parfait glasses. Add 2 scoops of ice cream. Top with 2 tablespoons cola syrup, about 1 ounce more of the seltzer, and garnish with a cherry
Real Vanilla Ice Cream:
- 4 cups half-and-half
- 1 vanilla bean pod, cut and scraped
- Pinch salt
- 1 cup sugar
- 8 whole egg yolks
Combine the half-and-half, vanilla bean and seeds and salt, in a nonreactive saucepan over medium heat. Bring the half-and-half to a boil to scald it, and remove the saucepan from the heat.
Beat the sugar and egg yolks in a bowl. Add the half-and-half mixture, about 1/4 cup at a time, to the beaten eggs and sugar, whisking in between each addition, until all is used. Pour the mixture back into the saucepan reduce the heat to medium-low, and cook, stirring, over medium heat, for 5 to 6 minutes, or until the mixture becomes thick enough to coat the back of a spoon. Remove from the heat, strain through a fine mesh sieve and cool completely.
Pour the filling into the ice cream machine and follow the manufacturer's instructions for churning time. Remove the ice cream from the machine and place in a freezer-safe container and freeze until firm, about 8 hours.
Yield: about 6 cups
Cola Syrup:
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 10 whole black peppercorns, cracked
- 1 lemon peeled (wide strips no pith), juiced and strained
- 1 cup water
- 1/4 cup crushed coffee beans
- 1 cinnamon stick
- Whole vanilla bean, split, scraped and bean
Photo: Cola Float Recipe













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By ponyscribbles_1...
Bakersfield, CA
on March 20, 2009
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When this recipe was first posted back around 2007, it basically read: vanilla ice cream + cola = cola float! Um...hooray?
That's why all the reviews from '07 are frustrated that no cola syrup recipe was included. I know I was as well since I hadn't gotten to see the episode and I got an e-mail from home asking if I'd caught it, could I find it, etc. Coming to the Food Network website to find no mention of this apparently homemade cola was disappointing. I didn't really think that people who watch FN needed to be told to add cola to ice cream to make a float.
I'm glad this recipe's been updated since then so I can finally try this out, two years later. I do agree with the one poster about the specific quantities of ingredients, though, since soft drinks are made with formulas (not estimates so that you can confidently replicate the results each time. Cola in particular strikes me that a specific ingredient balance is needed, otherwise one of the flavors will start overpowering the others.
By xohnewman_10792666
Spring Hill, FL
on July 23, 2008
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SIMPLY AMAZINNGGGGGG
By jacobson2121_10...
redmond, WA
on June 29, 2008
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My kids could hardly belive that they could make their own cola. It was fun and it tasted awesome. I am so impressed. Keep the recipes coming!
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