Party Panache, Root Beer Float Cake

the Painted Apron

8 years ago

How about a good old fashioned Root Beer Float?

Cake style!

I got the idea for this cake when HH bought some beer called Best Damn Root Beer

It really does taste just like root beer! But HH decided he prefers his beer to taste like beer 🍺

“Let’s keep it, it would be good for a marinade or something,” I said…..”hmmmm,

I wonder what it would taste like in a chocolate cake….

I wanted to flavor the icing too, and looked for root beer extract at the grocery. No luck, but Amazon prime to the rescue! I got it 2 days later, so handy.

I had used a similar chocolate cake mix for Chocolate Cake with Pistachio Ganache and knew it would make a perfect chocolate cake. I used the beer for the liquid, substituted butter for the oil, added an extra egg and used root beer and vanilla extracts

I also added a splash of root beer beer to the chocolate pudding mix included in the cake mix

The dark spots are where the rich dark chocolate pudding mixed into the batter

The icing “ice cream” balls are a plain buttercream icing flavored with root beer extract

Use a small scoop and roll the thick icing gently into balls and place them on cake

Pile them all around the top of cake, pressing them gently on to the cake and each other. Everything sort of sticks together

You can fill the center with real or maraschino cherries

or place them on top

and add straws!

How fun is this!

Just like the good ole days!

Root Beer Float Cake

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword bundt cake, root beer cake, Root Beer Float Cake

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 35

decorating time 20

Servings 12

Equipment

Bundt pan

Ingredients

Cake

1 box Triple Chocolate Cake Mix {Duncan Hines}
4 eggs
8 T butter 1 stick or 1/2 cup, melted
1 1/4 cups 10 0z., root beer or root beer flavored beer
1 tsp root beer extract
1 tsp vanilla extract
Root Beer Icing

Root Beer Icing

1 stick unsalted butter
1 box 3 3/4 cups powdered sugar
4 T milk or cream
1 tsp root beer extract

Garnish

maraschino cherries with stems
fat striped straws cut in 1/2s or 1/3s

Instructions

Prepare mix according to package directions substituting root beer for water, and adding an extra egg and the extracts. Bake according to package directions, checking for doneness near the end of baking time. Do not over bake. Cool cake completely and invert onto a plate for decorations
Beat sugar and cream together with extract and add milk 1 T at a time until a thick consistency. Chill for 10 minutes. Use a small scoop and roll into balls in the palms of your hands, working quickly so the icing doesn’t melt. Arrange balls around the top of cake
Garnish cake with cherries and straws
Cake can be stored under a dome at room temperature or in refrigerator.