Old Fashioned Root Beer Float Cake

Name: Old Fashioned Root Beer Float Cake
Prep time: 3 h 10 min
Cook time: 3 h 10 min
Total time: 3 h 10 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 Tbsps baking powder; 237 milliliters butter; 591 milliliters butter; 710 milliliters cake flour; 2 liters confectioners sugar; 4 eggs; 473 milliliters granulated sugar; 3 Tbsps heavy cream; 237 milliliters milk; 1 Tbsp root beer extract; 1 teaspoons salt; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 3 teaspoons vanilla extract; 4 teaspoons water

The recipe Old Fashioned Root Beer Float Cake could satisfy your American craving in about 3 hours and 10 minutes. This recipe covers 8% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains approximately 7g of protein, 58g of fat, and

Instructions

Make the Cake: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour 2 (9-inch) cake pans and line the bottoms with parchment paper.

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All Purpose Flour

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Baking Paper

Oven

In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter; then add the sugar and continue mixing until light and fluffy.

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Butter

Cream

Sugar

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Mixing Bowl

Meanwhile, sift together the cake flour, baking powder, and salt.

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Baking Powder

Cake Flour

Salt

With the mixer on low speed, gradually add the water and eggs to the butter mixture until blended.

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Butter

Water

Egg

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Blender

Mix in the root beer extract and vanilla. Alternately add the flour mixture and milk to form a smooth batter.

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Rootbeer Flavor

Vanilla

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Milk

Pour the batter into the prepared pans and bake until just set, about 30 to 40 minutes.

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Oven

Let cool in pans for 5 minutes, and then invert onto cooling racks to cool completely before frosting.

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Frosting

Make the Frosting: In a standing mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, combine the confectioners' sugar and butter.

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Powdered Sugar

Frosting

Butter

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Blender

Whisk

Mix on low speed until well blended; then increase speed to medium and beat for another 3 minutes.

Add the cream and vanilla and continue to beat on medium speed for 1 minute more, adding more cream if needed to reach spreading consistency.

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Vanilla

Cream

Place 1 cooled cake layer on a cake stand, frost the top surface, and chill for 15 minutes (or freeze 5 minutes).

Place the second cake layer on top, inverting it to create a flat top, and push down on it slightly. Frost the sides and top with a thin layer of frosting to hold in any crumbs (called a crumb layer), and chill 30 minutes or freeze 15 minutes.

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Frosting

Apply a second layer of frosting to finish off the cake, swirling the frosting a bit.

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Frosting

Place 12 elbow straws in the cake around the top, and place colored streamers around the edge of the cake flowing down to the base.

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Base