When I was growing up, my dad would occasionally make us root beer floats for dessert. His preferred root beer came in a glass bottle and, I believe, he liked French vanilla ice cream best (although, it could have been vanilla bean).
This year, he was in town on his birthday and we all went to dinner. I decided to bake something for him and immediately thought of the Root Beer Float Cupcakes from My Sweet Vegan. I had a bottle of Virgil's Root Beer (no high-fructose corn syrup for me!) and had bought a bottle of root beer extract ages ago at Surfas (a restaurant supply store in Culver City), knowing that I would eventually make this recipe. Having the necessary ingredients on hand made this recipe quick and easy. I opted to leave off the Chocolate Ganache because we'd never included chocolate in our root beer floats, but I otherwise stuck to the recipe. The cupcakes were delicious and truly tasted like root beer!
7 comments:
Oh my goodness. these look so good. My kids would so love these!
This is GENIUS and those cupcakes are picture perfect, how did you get such beautiful icing? I have great memories of root beer floats growing up, too. My mom would make herself, me and my sister huge root beer/vanilla ice cream floats and we would sit around with a bowl of popcorn and play silly board games like Clue and Mall Madness. Oh Mall Madness was the best.
Oh wow, I NEED to make these for my sister. Yet another cookbook to add to my to-buy list. The cupcakes look great.
They look amazing.
What a sweet gift- Literally! :)
I've never had root beer or a root beer float, it is not something that really is on the radar here in Australia.
The cupcakes look beautiful!
Root beer float cupcakes!! genius! I am all over this!!
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