Black Cow Sundaes

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
A Passion for Ice Cream

By Emily Luchetti

Published 2006

  • About

The precursor to this recipe is also known as a brown cow or a root beer float. It is made with root beer and Ice cream and sometimes chocolate sauce. No matter what you call it, this float is a classic American dessert, a sweet little part of our history and culture. Kids slurp them down until they get brain freeze. Girls on stools at the ice cream counter sip root beer floats and bat their eyelashes at boys. Older folks enjoy the refreshing jolt of cold root beer and ice cream. This black