Cook Out Desserts: Cheesecake, Floats & Milkshakes

NY-Style Cheesecake

The only standalone dessert on the menu is a slice of NY-Style Cheesecake, listed at $2.49 in the reported price examples. It is a separate dessert — not a cheesecake-flavored milkshake, and not a topping. The drinks page lists it alongside the floats, which is where it belongs: it is ordered on its own, after the meal or with it.

Two things about the cheesecake are unconfirmed, and this page says so rather than filling the gaps. First, its nutrition is not in the published nutrition guide — there is no calorie, protein or sodium entry for the slice, so no figure is given here. Second, toppings are listed as 'ask which toppings are available', which means the topping choice varies by location and cannot be stated as a fixed list.

Do not confuse the dessert slice with the cheesecake shakes. Cherry Cheesecake, Philadelphia Cheesecake, Blueberry Cheesecake, Caramel Cheesecake, Chocolate Chip Cheesecake and Strawberry Cheesecake are all milkshake flavors — blended drinks with their own recipes. Cherry Cheesecake the shake is 925 calories; Philadelphia Cheesecake the shake is 845. The slice is a different item, and its numbers should never be borrowed from a shake.

Floats: Coke and Cheerwine

A float is a fountain drink poured over a frozen dessert base, and Cook Out lists two: Coke Float and Cheerwine Float, both at $2.49 in the reported examples, both as 16 oz servings. The Coke Float is listed at 399 calories; the Cheerwine Float at 401. Those are the only two floats on the menu.

The Cheerwine Float deserves a note because 'Cheerwine' can mean three different things at Cook Out: a fountain drink, a float, and a milkshake flavor. The fountain Cheerwine is 144 calories for a regular 16 fl oz serving. The float is 401. The Cheerwine shake does not exist as a listed flavor — the cherry-flavored shakes are Red Cherry, Cherry Cheesecake and Cherry Cobbler. State the format when you order: 'Cheerwine float' and 'Cheerwine' are different items with different prices and calories.

A float is not a milkshake, and the difference matters for ordering. A float combines a fountain drink with frozen dessert; a shake is a blended recipe with its own nutrition entry. A float's numbers should never be read as a shake's numbers or the other way around. The drinks page has the full comparison.

Floats are also the dessert most likely to be ordered as part of a tray conversation, and the answer there is narrow: a float is a separate menu item rather than a drink swap. Substitution rules and any extra charge are set by the restaurant, and the drinks guide says to ask what the substitution costs before ordering and to confirm whether the drink you want is even eligible as a tray drink. A shake substitution has a reported charge; a float does not have a published substitution price.

Milkshakes as dessert

The milkshake menu is the real dessert menu at Cook Out: 52 flavors, 44 with confirmed nutrition, ranging from 538 to 925 calories per listed recipe. A shake is dessert in the calorie sense even when it is ordered as a drink — the lightest shake, Fresh Banana at 538, carries more calories than the cheesecake slice's unknown figure is likely to, and the heaviest, Cherry Cheesecake at 925, is a full meal's worth on its own.

The dessert end of the shake list is the cheesecake, cobbler and candy group. Cherry Cheesecake at 925, Reese’s Cup at 894, Peanut Butter Banana at 864, Oreo Mint and Walnut at 853, Fresh Peanut Butter at 847, Cherry Cobbler at 842 and Philadelphia Cheesecake at 845 are the richest shakes on the menu. The lighter end is the fruit and classic group: Fresh Banana at 538, Peach at 547, Cappuccino and Vanilla at 555.

Seasonal shakes are dessert events as much as flavors. Watermelon runs in summer, roughly July through August, at 645 calories. Pumpkin Pie runs in fall, roughly October through November, with nutrition unconfirmed. Eggnog runs in December, also unconfirmed. The seasonal calendar page has the full pattern.

What is not on the dessert menu

No sundaes appear anywhere on the menu pages or price lists we checked — not as an item, not as a price, not in the nutrition guide. If a page elsewhere promises a Cook Out sundae, it is describing something the chain does not list. The closest thing to a sundae is a float: frozen dessert with a fountain drink over it, at $2.49.

The same applies to pies and standalone cookies. No pie slice and no cookie appears as a menu item on the pages or price lists checked. Cookies do appear as shake mix-ins — Oreo, Nilla Wafers and the cookie pieces in Oreo Mint and Oreo Peanut Butter — but those are flavors, not items you can order on their own.

This matters because dessert pages elsewhere in search invent freely: sundae lists, pie flavors, cookie boxes. This page lists only what the menu pages, the price lists and the nutrition guide actually contain, and marks the rest unconfirmed. A short honest dessert list beats a long invented one.

How to order dessert at Cook Out

• Name the format. 'Cheesecake' can mean a dessert slice or part of a shake flavor; 'Cheerwine' can mean a fountain drink, a float or nothing shake-related. State the format and the size so the price and nutrition match what you want.
• Decide shake or float before the counter. A shake is blended; a float is a fountain drink over frozen dessert. They are different items with different servings and different numbers.
• Ask about cheesecake toppings. Toppings vary by location and can change both price and nutrition. The slice is $2.49 in the reported examples before any topping.
• Do not assume a float swaps for the tray drink. A float is a separate item, not a published drink substitution. Ask what it costs as a tray drink, if it is eligible at all.
• Check the seasonal first. If Watermelon, Pumpkin Pie or Eggnog is in season, it is the dessert worth planning around — and the one most likely to run out.