Soda float recipes
Soda floats are the refreshing drink your beverage repertoire needs in 2025. This cross between a drink and dessert is made with fizzy soda topped with a scoop of ice cream. Our best soda float recipes include classic Coke floats, a dirty blueberry float and a vegan soda float. Perfect for summer sipping.
If you’re feeling extra, we’ll also show you how to make homemade cream and fruit sodas, Or, try your hand at on-trend whipped lemonade.
Our frothy and fabulous soda float recipes were created in collaboration with Pinterest for its Pinterest Predicts 2025 Campaign.
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Dirty sunrise mocktail
A mocktail that looks like it’s straight out of the 1970s, this combo of orange and squirty cream might raise a few eyebrows – until they taste it!
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Homemade cream soda
This homemade cream soda is a real treat, offering an intense vanilla flavour which brings a ‘creaminess’ to soda water.
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Spiced ginger beer float
Fiery ginger beer combined with salted caramel ice cream creates a knockout soda float that warms and refreshes at the same time.
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Dirty Dr Pepper
Coconut cream combines with the lime juice and fruitiness of the soda to create a tropical combo that really (perhaps surprisingly!) works.
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Dirty blueberry soda
The jammy blueberries gets cooked down into a tart syrup, ready to be topped up with soda water and ‘dirtied’ with a splash of cream.
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Coke float
There’s something deliciously retro about a coke float – with the citrussy fizz of the cola giving way to creamy vanilla...
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Matcha float
The soothing pastel green of an iced matcha latte gets upgraded to treat status thanks to a big scoop of ice cream.
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Chocolate soda float
This chocolate soda float is lightened by fizzy water, paired with rich milk and ice cream to create a delightful tipple.
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Rhubarb and custard soda
A fantastic way to recreate one of the best boiled sweets, this cordial makes a grown-up fizzy drink without the need for alcohol.
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Homemade fruit soda
Use this basic recipe as a blueprint for making fruit syrups, which are perfect served over ice and diluted with soda water
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Jam and cream dirty soda
Try ‘dirty’ sodas – a US phenomenon of topping a can of something fizzy with dairy. We were really surprised when we gave it a go!
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Whipped lemonade slushie
This social media trend takes inspiration from Brazil’s lime-based drink and is a very refreshing lemonade slushie indeed.
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Vegan soda float
We’ve made a plant-based soda float topped with a refreshing lemon sorbet. A sprig of mint makes things extra fresh.
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Pink lemonade float
Made with pink lemonade and vanilla ice cream, this is a fun and flamboyant float – perfect for a rainy-day pick-me-up.
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