Root Beer Float Jello Recipe • Pint Sized Baker (2024)

FAQs

How much ice cream per person for root beer floats? ›

Place 1 scoop of ice cream into each of two tall glasses. Pour root beer carefully over the ice cream.

The classic root beer float is usually made with a cold glass of classic rootbeer adorned with generous scoops of vanilla ice cream.

Editor's Tip: There's a lot of debate around what goes in the mug first: the root beer or the ice cream. Well, in order to prevent overflowing and get the perfect creamy texture, add the ice cream and then pour over the fizzy root beer.

Also known as a "black cow" or "brown cow", the root beer float is traditionally made with vanilla ice cream and root beer, but it can also be made with other ice cream flavors.

A pint of ice cream contains four servings, presumably meant to be eaten by four different people or on four separate occasions.

Generally, an ice cream scoop is 1/2 cup of ice cream or 4 ounces. There are usually 32 scoops in a gallon of ice cream, and about 4 scoops in a pint.

To avoid to much foam when pouring the root beer, tilt the glass on an angle and pour it slow.

Go for ginger ale, cola or cream soda for an old-school feel or try fizzy lemonade, orangeade or even Irn Bru. Anything goes as long as it's carbonated (you could even try Prosecco or a mix of Champagne and orange juice for a Mimosa style float).

It's either (or both!) root beer with chocolate ice cream or coca cola with vanilla ice cream, sometimes with a shot of chocolate syrup.

RumChata Cream Liqueur: This cream-based liqueur is made with rum, cinnamon, and vanilla. And, you can make your own to use! Baileys is another creamy liqueur, but with chocolate flavor and Irish whiskey. However, Baileys does have a vanilla and cinnamon liqueur that you could use in the root beer float.

Does ice cream go first in a root beer float? ›

Try making your root beer floats by first filling clear plastic cold cups a little more than half with soda. Then scooping in your desired amount of ice cream and topping it with a lid. Finish by adding the last little bit of soda to fill the cup.

The root beer helps to free air bubbles trapped in the ice cream. The fat in the ice cream coats the bubbles, protecting them and allowing them to expand to create the foam you see on root beer floats.”

A Black Cow is simple, really. Just soda (we used Coca-Cola) with vanilla ice cream. You might call it a root beer float or an ice cream soda. In New Zealand and Australia, they call it a Spider, and in the UK, it's known as a co*ke float.

If you Google “Black Cow Drink” you'll find a variety of recipes. Some say it's a root beer float with a chocolate syrup drizzle, while others consider it simply being a blended root beer float.

And if you have 20 people on your guest list, then you're going to need two gallons of ice cream (240 ounces, or 15 pints).

An average scoop shop serving of ice cream is about three ounces by volume, or 3/16ths of a pint, so if you want to give 30 people each one serving of ice cream, count on making four quarts (one gallon).

Unfortunately portions of ice cream can be a little subjective but generally it should be 2 to 3 scoops per person. A scoop is roughly 60ml or 1/4 cup so a recipe serving 8 people is likely to yield just short of 1litre, or 4 cups.

Half-Gallon Flavors

Each half-gallon yields approximately 8 servings.