Berries and Cream Floats

By jeaninemg

Ingredients

• 1 cup cold heavy cream
• 2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla ref="http://www.foodterms.com/encyclopedia/bean-sauces/index.html" class="crosslink" debug="85 95">bean paste (or seeds from 1 vanilla bean)
• 1 cup mixed berries
• 2 pints vanilla ice cream
• 1 1 -liter bottle red cream soda

Preparation

Step 1

Directions

Make the vanilla whipped cream: Whisk the heavy cream, confectioners' sugar and vanilla bean paste in a large bowl until stiff peaks form.

Alternate the berries and 2 scoops ice cream in each of 4 glasses. Pour in the soda, then top each glass with a large dollop of vanilla whipped cream.

Photograph by Levi Brown