Fancy Italian Cream Sodas
Find new flavors to enjoy by unleashing your creative impulses on the blank canvas that is Italian cream sodas, which are also very easy to make!
Servings: 2 drinks
Ingredients
Flavored Simple Syrup
- ½ cup white sugar
- ½ cup water
- flavorings of choice (see note)
Cream Soda
- 2 cups club soda
- 8 tablespoons flavored syrup
- 4 tablespoons half and half
- spray whipped cream for topping
Instructions
- If you are making your own syrup, bring the sugar and water to a low boil over medium high heat. Stir until sugar dissolves completely. Remove from heat and add in fruit or herb flavorings. Set aside to cool, remove peels, leaves, etc. from syrup before adding to cream soda.
- Fill a glass with ice.
- Pour half of the club soda over the ice in one glass, then the other.
- Divide the flavored syrup between the two glasses, then add the half and half. Do not mix.
- Top with whipped cream and any other garnishes as desired.
Notes
For flavorings, I used lemongrass in one, and blood orange peel in the other, plus a little food coloring to amp up the effect. The peel of one orange is enough for two drinks worth of syrup, and about three thick lemongrass stalks that are more than 5" is enough to flavor two drinks worth of syrup.