Root Beer Float Cakes
These cute and tasty root beer cakes make portable desserts in jars. Root Beer Float Cakes are a festive way to celebrate summer, or any season!
Everyone needs a little something like this every now and again… For no particular reason.
Giving a sweet to your sweeties lifts the spirits.
And who doesn’t love a root beer float?
Or desserts in jars for that matter.
I made these sweet little root beer cakes as a surprise for my babies (8 and 10.)
They came home from camp, hot and disheveled, to cool creamy root beer float cakes, individually packaged, just for them!
Words were unnecessary, they knew they were missed.
Desserts in jars make fabulous edible gifts, picnic items, and birthday party treats.
I often make little portable treats this way, then screw on the lids and store them until just the right moment.
A special occasion, perhaps.
Like today.
Or last night.
Or tomorrow morning.
Really any occasion calls for the essence of a sweet creamy root beer float.
And when you pull these root beer cakes out, any ordinary moment turns special, just like that!
The root beer cakes alone, are ultra tender with dark sassafras tones, from the combination of molasses, cocoa, and root beer.
The fine moist texture is based on super-fine Gold Medal Flour with just the right amount of moisture. I’m a big fan of Gold Medal Flour because they are so particular about the wheat they use and their milling process. It’s always consistent.
These root beer cakes are superb on their own, yet add the ice cream and extra root beer to ooze down and saturate the cake and you have something utterly irresistible.
Desserts in jars with intense nostalgic root beer float flavor!
Root Beer Float Cakes
Ingredients
For the Root Beer Cakes:
- 1 3/4 cup Gold Medal All Purpose Flour
- 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 12 ounces root beer
- 1/3 cup molasses
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 egg
For the Root Beer Float Cakes:
- 3 bottles root beer
- 1 quart California-made vanilla ice cream
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Place 12 glass half-pint jars on a rimmed baking sheet. Mix the flour, baking powder, salt, cocoa and brown sugar together in a large bowl. Whisk in all the liquid ingredients until smooth.
- Use a scoop to evenly distribute the batter into the 12 jars. Pour in the center, so the batter doesn't run down the sides. Carefully place the baking sheet in the oven and bake the cakes for 20-25 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center of a cake comes out clean. Remove from the oven and cool to room temperature. Once cool, screw the lids on the jars to store.
- To serve, place one heaping scoop of vanilla ice cream on the top of each cake. Pour a scant amount of root beer over the ice cream so it fizzes up. Serve with a spoon!
Nutrition
Disclosure: This post is sponsored by Gold Medal Flour. All opinions are my own.
What a FUN FUN FUN way to do dessert in jars!! Perfect for this sometimes messy treat… its just so brilliant!
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This is such a great idea, Sommer!
Individual desserts just make them extra special. My boys would love these!
That is such an awesome idea for the portable root beer cakes. And what a fun surprise for your little ones to come home too!!!
These are perfect little treats for any party or just for yourself.
Genius!! I never knew mason jars were oven proof? Great idea and I can only imagine how awesome they must taste!
How cute are these, love the jars!
Desserts in jars are so much fun! They are delicious and portable. Some are even mailable! The extra ice cream and rootbeer on top makes these special! Great summer treat idea!
Thanks for the step by step! Looks awesome!
Root beer float cakes?!? So so tempting and cute!!
Pinned!!!
I haven’t had a root beer float in ages! This is great! I have actually met people who don’t like root beer, and I always question them about it, just like those who don’t like chocolate. Crazy!
So AWESOME!
going to Wal-mart right now to buy the jars…three young grandsons coming for a
week…..WE will love these
I love root beer floats as much today as I did as a kid; these are so cute and such a winning combination of great treat and fun presentation.
I will take 3.
what a fun idea!! this is so cute!
My kids would go nuts over these!