Coke Float

Check out more quick and delicious float recipes, such as my Root Beer Float and Shirley Temple Float! Both easy recipes are made with just four ingredients in only 5 minutes!

All About This Classic Coke Float

Make a round of Coke Floats for everyone the next time you find yourself surrounded by friends or family! They’ll love the old-fashioned experience of enjoying fizzy soda and creamy ice cream together in one glass!

Served in a frosty glass, this ice-cold treat will be great for serving throughout the warmer months. And easy! Just set out all of the ingredients and chilled glasses, then allow guests to create their own floats.

We actually love Coke Floats so much that we enjoy them year-round! Usually paired with our favorite movie!

Coke Float Ingredients

• Vanilla Ice Cream
• Coke
• Maraschino Cherry

Ice Cream Or Soda First?

If you make floats often enough, you’ll know the great debate is whether you put ice cream or soda in the glass first. To me, there is no debate, the ice cream must always go first! (And last!)

Adding the ice cream into the glass first and then pouring the soda over it allows the soda’s gas molecules to interact with the ingredients in the ice cream. This process stabilizes and traps the fizzy bubbles, in turn creating that velvety foam we all love about ice cream floats!

By adding the soda first, you lose out on many of the bubbles from the soda since they’ll already have popped. So, by the time the scoop of ice cream collides with the soda, you’ll have less foam since there will be fewer bubbles.

Even though there isn’t a debate for me since I love lots of velvety goodness in my floats. You may not be as crazy about the foam as I am, and that’s ok!

So, to cut back on the foam, you’ll just want to add the soda first!

How To Make A Coke Float

1. Freeze a tall glass before preparing the float.
2. Add scoops of ice cream to the frozen glass and then pour the root beer in slowly at an angle.
3. Top with whipped cream and a cherry. Enjoy!

Coke Float Substitutions & Variations

• Feel free to get creative and make this recipe with your favorite carbonated beverage. Root beer, cream soda, orange soda, or even ginger ale would all be tasty variations! You can make this float with different coke flavors, such as cherry coke!
• Make it an adult beverage by adding alcohol! To do so, I would decrease a bit of the Coke and replace it with rum. That way, the liquid-to-ice cream ratio stays relatively the same. This will create a rum and Coke float that I’m sure you will love!

More Soda Shoppe Style Drinks:

• Homemade Butterbeer Dirty Soda – Best enjoyed while reading your favorite Harry Potter Book!
• How To Make The Best Root Beer Float – A classic treat made with only 4 ingredients!
• Peanut Butter Milkshake (Freak Shake) – This over-the-top shake will blow your mind!
• Dirty Soda (Popular TikTok Recipe) – A unique dessert-like drink that everyone loves!
• Shirley Temple Drink – The nostalgic mocktail recipe from your childhood!