An Over The Top Dr Pepper® Cherry Float that’s perfect for summer BBQs. Beat the heat with this refreshing summer drink made with Dr Pepper Cherry soda.
Over The Top Dr Pepper® Cherry Float
When I think of summer, I think of warm days by the pool, cold drinks, good food, and amazing memories. Summer is definitely here, and it’s time to play, eat good food, and enjoy delicious drinks!
One of the many great things about having kids is experiencing your favorite childhood memories with them. One of my favorite childhood memories is drinking a delicious ice-cold ice cream float.
How much fun is it when your child finds what you found in a fun way back when the dinosaurs roamed? That’s what my kids say when I refer to when I was a child. Among the many things I love to re-experience with my kids, I love to share the yummy foods and drinks I enjoyed when I was little during this time of the year.
Dr Pepper® Cherry Float
I remember when I would play a great game of soccer, and my team would celebrate by heading to the nearest diner. My favorite thing to get at these diners was ice cream floats with Dr. Pepper®. They were so good and really made everything so much more special.
Fast forward to the present time, and you will find out not only is Dr. Pepper® still around, but they now have a cherry-flavored soda. My kids love cherries and love their Dr. Pepper®, so I was super excited to share with my kids my over-the-top way of enjoying my favorite flavored float.
Dr Pepper® Cherry Float
I have peanut lovers and non-peanut lovers in my home, so I shared how to create this deliciously over-the-top Dr Pepper® Cherry Float with and without the peanuts.
Every recipe starts with a trip to one of our favorite stores, Target. We shop here so often that the kids know exactly which aisle to go down to be able to get their favorite soda and ice cream. To snag our delicious Dr Pepper® Cherry soda, we head over to the soda aisle and pick up a 12-pack and a few 2-liter bottles.
Over The Top Chocolate Ring
What makes this summer treat over the top is the chocolate ring were will be adding to the rim of the glass. This chocolate ring can be made using your family’s favorite chocolate, or you can use peanut butter or frosting. To make the chocolate rim, simply follow the instructions on the recipe card.
Then dip the chocolate rimmed glass in chopped nuts, sprinkles, chocolate chips, toffee bits, or whatever your family loves. Then add the ice cream and cherry-flavored Dr. Pepper soda, boom! Serve immediately.
Building our Dr Pepper® Cherry Floats
Next, we find our ice cream of choice, which today was the Archer Farms 48 oz Ice Cream. The kids love their “fancy” flavors, which go great with their “fancy” over-the-top float. The possibilities are endless with the ice cream pairings you can achieve while using Archer Farms Ice Cream.
Ice Cream Floats
My family loves to enjoy Ice Cream Floats and especially enjoys drinking them with one of their newest flavored sodas – Dr Pepper® Cherry. Although the soccer season is over and the kids are just enjoying the beautiful weather, I love to make these Over The Top Dr Pepper® Cherry Floats while we lounge around the pool or for fun backyard picnics.
My kids make the same faces I did at their age when they see these floats being made. The best part in their eyes is when they are finally able to top their floats with whatever they want and with however much ever they want. Feels so good to be able to share my childhood happy memories with them, and create new ones for them to remember and experience with their kids.
When was the last time you made an ice cream float?
Over The Top Dr Pepper® Cherry Float
Ingredients
- Dr Pepper® Cherry Soda
- 48 ozs of Archer Farms Ice Cream, any flavor Found at Target
- 1 Bag of Chocolate Chips, sweetened of unsweetened
- 1 Jar of Maraschino Cherries
- Marshmallows
- Chocolate Syrup
- Whipped Cream
- Float glasses
- optional: peanuts
Instructions
- In a double broiler method melt down the chocolate chips slowly stir the chocolate until it just starts to melt (do not over cook this chocolate).
- Take your float glasses and generously dip them top first into the chocolate,
- (optional) Then dip the glass straight into the peanuts or which ever nut topping you would like. If someone in your home has an allergy to nuts please skip step of the recipe.
- To top the glasses with the Maraschino Cherries, simply dip the cherries into the chocolate and then lightly place them on top of the glass rim.
- Let sit for a minimum of 5 minutes before you start to create the floats.
- Choose your favorite Archer Farms Ice Cream flavor and then load up the glass with how much ice cream you would like in your float.
- Then pour in your Dr Pepper® Cherry Soda, top with whipped cream, marshmallows, more Maraschino Cherries and more chocolate sauce.
- Enjoy!
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This looks sooo good! I think the kids and I are going to make them this week!
We actually just bought glasses like these for our milkshakes. Now I need to use them for these delicious Dr. pepper floats!
Oh my gosh this looks to die for! I love Dr Pepper and these floats look perfect for a summer treat!
wow, looks amazing! I love all of your ingredients and my kids would love these as a snack
Honestly, something I would love to try myself. I love Dr. Pepper! I just need to buy some ingredients.
I heard from a friend that Dr. Pepper is really delicious and worth to try. Sadly they are not available here in our country.
I just need to buy the glass and we’re good to go with doing this at home. It looks divine.
Just make mine a sundae lol. I do not like floats, but these look amazingly delicious!
I love how you did the edges of the dishes. These look unbelievably delish and so summery!
That looks really good!
I love how you make it.
Thanks for sharing.
YUM! This totally has me drooling! And is great for cooling off this summer!
These look like such fun floats. I’ve never thought of using Dr. Pepper in floats, I bet it changes the taste up!
I’m going to need these tall glasses so that I can make this! These cherry floats looks delicious! You could open your own ice cream place lol
Oh yeah, over the top works just fine for me! I’ll just have 2!
The ice cream float looks so amazing! I can;t wait to make this for my family.
My oh my, that float looks sinfully delicious! I need to head to the store later to get me some Dr. Pepper.
I want to try this but we do not have Dr. Pepper here. I hope that it will be available soon in our country.
Yummy! I love a good float, but I must admit root beer is my absolute favorite. I need to fancy my things up a bit and add in nuts and cherries.
Your Dr. Pepper Cherry Float looks amazing! My kids would go nuts!
Loved the step by step pictures! Awesome results!
These look amazing, my dear! I need to go to the store and buy the ingredients to try them out on my family! Thank you for a great recipe!
Are you even kidding me? Man, that looks crazy good delicious! Count me in!
This looks very yummy! I so love this!