Hot Ice Cream Soda

I guess a hot ice cream soda was only inevitable as we work through  permutations with our most recent culinary breakthrough.  Today I was in the mood for comfortable.  I rarely drink ice cream sodas, but when I do they always manage to put a smile on my face.  I remember making root beer floats as a kid with the not quite cold enough soda foaming from the addition of ice cold ice cream to a tall glass, occasionally frosted but only when the concoction was planned out.

In thinking through thoughts and playing with ingredients I assembled a maple syrup cola.  Truth be told, maple syrup cola is not that difficult, though it is quite tasty.  With the maple cola in hand, I reached for our hot vanilla ice cream and started cooking.  When the ice cream was made, I poured some cola into a glass, added a scoop and topped it with more cola.  What really made me smile was that the cold cola foamed around the hot ice cream.  In drinking my afternoon refreshment, I slurped the cola around the ice cream which caused it to melt and resulted in the warm ice cream mixing with the cold soda.  In the words of Napoleon Dynamite "Sweet."