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9 Ice-Cold Summer Floats

Part fizzy ice-cold soda, part huge globs of ice cream, these grown-up floats have us floating on cloud nine.
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Ted Cavanaugh

If pure bliss is something you can sip through a straw, then we know that a float is on the other end. Part fizzy ice-cold soda, part huge globs of ice cream, floats are magical summer desserts. We're talking dreamy drinks with cherries, bitters, green tea, ginger beer, and sometimes booze. You know, grown-up flavors to take floats into the stratosphere. Here are the nine that have us floating on air.

  • Apricot sorbet with a metal ice cream scoop rolling a scoop of sorbet.
    9/10

    Apricot Sorbet Floats

    Don't use your best Champagne for this dessert—any affordable bottle of cava or Prosecco will do. The key ingredient in this machine-free sorbet is the apricots: Choose the ripest, most fragrant ones you can find.

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    10/10

    Watermelon Soda Float

    A good way to use up any remaining watermelon, this bright, citrus-infused float is the one you reach for on the hottest of summer days.

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