Peach Floats with Ice Milk
This refreshing Peach Float recipe courtesy of the Mayo Clinic is made with peaches, vanilla ice milk, club soda, whipped topping, and nutmeg, for a cool treat with summer flavor.
The recipe, a good source of calcium, calls for canned peaches. If you want to use canned please find a variety which doesn’t have added sugar — the fruit really is sweet enough without it. You can also use defrosted frozen peach slices.
We used fresh peaches from our local fruit stand, and avoided the canned variety altogether. No additional sweetener or liquid was required with our juicy beauties, but you’ll want to add a bit of apple juice or even light lemonade if your fresh peaches are not as juicy as you’d like.
Servings: 4
Calories: 269kcal
A refreshing summer treat which is a good source of calcium
Ingredients
- 1 15 oz can peaches - in their own juice, no sugar added
- 4 cups vanilla ice milk
- 32 ounces club soda or seltzer water
- ½ cup Cool Whip (no sugar added, fat free)
- Ground nutmeg to taste
Instructions
- In a small bowl, mash the peaches with a fork or chop into bits
- Divide the mashed or chopped peaches into 4 glasses (12 ounces each).
- Add to each glass 2 tablespoons of the peach juice and 1 scoop of ice milk.
- Pour 1 cup soda or seltzer into the glasses.
- Serve immediately.
Spa Index Kitchen Notes
This is such an easy recipe to adapt. You can use fat free frozen yogurt, or, you can blend the entire recipe in a blender to make a Peach Shake, or you can use fresh peaches (so long as they are really ripe and juicy).
This is one of those recipes that uses canned fruit very well. Sometimes fresh peaches can freeze too hard in a blended ice cream beverage and get grainy, but canned peaches blend smoothly. Play with this one until you get the type you like most.
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Nutrition
Serving: 1 Serving | Calories: 269 kcal (13%) | Carbohydrates: 48 g (16%) | Protein: 5 g (10%) | Fat: 7 g (11%) | Saturated Fat: 5 g (31%) | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1 g | Cholesterol: 18 mg (6%) | Sodium: 177 mg (8%) | Fiber: 1 g (4%)