The web site food52 asks home cooks to submit their best recipes to weekly contests that determine which will make it into their second forthcoming cookbook. Each week we feature the contests' finalists. Check out the recipes, go vote, and connect our passionate food community with theirs.
We're sharing the best home cook-submitted recipes from food52's latest contest. This week, the theme is "Your Best Soda Fountain Recipe." Who have New York Times food writers Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs chosen as their food52 finalists this time around? Find out below, then go vote to help pick the winners.
What Hesser and Stubbs say: With dark hot fudge and all the other indulgent garnishes -- the crushed peppermints, whipped cream, chocolate cookies and curls -- this would win hearts at a kiddie birthday party, or a grown-up one.
See the second entry after the jump.
What Hesser and Stubbs say: In any form, ice cream floats are a delightfully lazy route to a happy summer. Here, with one extra step, you get a kicky homemade ginger syrup, lifted by seltzer and bear-hugged by slow-melting vanilla ice cream.