Still looking for something special to serve for Thanksgiving dessert that’s not the traditional pie? Do you like beer, ice cream and chocolate?

Then here’s an option that requires absolutely no cooking, courtesy of The Chocolate Room of Brooklyn: a Chocolate Stout Float.

All you need to do is purchase chocolate ice cream and chocolate stout. The Chocolate Room uses Brooklyn Lager’s chocolate stout, but microbrewers nationwide make them in the fall and winter.
 
RECIPE: STOUT FLOAT

Ingredients

 
Preparation

1. POUR the stout into a brandy snifter, wine goblet or other glass of choice, and add the ice cream.

2. ADD optional ice cream and serve with a spoon. It’s that easy—and it’s a winner!

Chocolate Stout Float: pour chocolate stout,scoop ice cream and enjoy (photo courtesy Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board).

Thanks to The Chocolate Room in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn, New York. It’s easy to get to by subway.

The dessert café, which specializes in desserts with wine and beer pairings, is open from noon to 11 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday (to midnight Friday and Saturday). They also sell fine chocolates.