Monkey Mud Pie Coffee Float

Pour vanilla cold brew over chocolate ice cream and it foams up on contact, just like a root beer float. For this coffee float recipe, stir Frothy Coffee Concentrate, cold water, and a tablespoon of our Vanilla Coffee Syrup together, then pour it slowly over three scoops of ice cream in a pint glass. Give the foam a second to settle before you top it off. It's half drink and half dessert, so grab a spoon.

A Monkey Mud Pie Coffee Float in a tall glass, iced coffee swirled with melting chocolate ice cream and a scoop on top, on a tan background.

Ingredients

Preparation

  1. Scoop the ice cream into a pint glass.
  2. Stir the Frothy Coffee Concentrate, water and vanilla syrup together in a separate glass.
  3. Pour the vanilla cold brew slowly over the ice cream. It will foam up, so give it a second to settle before you top it off.

Barista Tips

Why does it foam up?

Cold brew hitting ice cream foams the same way root beer does in a float. Pour slowly, stop when the foam reaches the rim, and let it settle for a second before you pour the rest so it doesn't run over the glass.

What else can I make with the syrups?

Either syrup works as a sweetener in cold brew. Or make a cold brew latte: 2 oz Frothy Coffee Concentrate, 10 oz milk and 1 tbsp of either Vanilla Coffee Syrup or Peppermint Coffee Syrup over ice.

Products Featured In This Recipe

Grab everything you need to make this café quality drink at home.

Frothy Coffee Concentrate Vanilla Coffee Syrup
32 oz bottle of Frothy Classic Cold Brew Coffee Concentrate with a charcoal label, black cap and red neck band.
Hand pouring Frothy cold brew concentrate from a measuring glass into an iced rocks glass, next to the 32 oz bottle.

Frothy Coffee Concentrate$27.00

Frothy Coffee Concentrate is slow brewed for 24 hours from just coffee and filtered water. Mixed 1 part concentrate to 4 parts cold water, the way it is here, it makes full-strength cold brew, which is strong enough to stand up to three scoops of chocolate ice cream.

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Vanilla Coffee Syrup

$8.00

A tablespoon of our Vanilla Coffee Syrup, made in Nashville with real vanilla, turns plain cold brew into vanilla cold brew before it ever meets the ice cream. Stir it into the concentrate and water first, so it's mixed through evenly by the time it hits the chocolate.

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