Root Beer Float Cake

Part of rebooting the blog meant consciously carving out time to bake delectable delights.  Pre-kids I baked all the time.  Someone popping over for coffee in the morning meant fresh blueberry muffins.  Entertaining friends for dinner would always guarantee a homemade dessert.  Hosting my fabulous parities, which have literally been non-existent, equaled a carefully executed culinary experience that always had a baked good or two crammed in there.  I would often bake cookies just so I could send them to work with my man for him and his coworkers.  When the kids showed up I lost all desire and motivation to bake.  I had a very short lived experience trying to involve the kids, but have you tried corralling a one and two year old whilst baking?!?  It wasn’t pretty and it was so defeating I declared a hiatus.

The solution to this predicament eventually became evident.  I now take the kids up to my parents so I can bake away while the grandparents get some quality time in.  Which also means I have two extra taster testers who can not only help devour the baking, but can give honest opinions on whether it’s worthy of being shared with all of you.  In honour of this arrangement I decided to kick off the first baking post with this unreal Root Beer Float Cake, as root beer is my Mom’s favourite flavour.  It’s from one of my favourite bloggers and her baking book, The Sweetapolita Bakebook.  She also has a slightly altered version online, which is incredibly similar to the recipe in the book.  If the pictures look delicious, the cake itself is exponentially that in taste.  It took me a while to track down the root beer emulsion, which I ended up ordering on Amazon.  If you love root beer, I’m telling you my friends, this cake is for you.  Rich, moist, with that distinct root beer flavour.  The icing in-between the layers has actual vanilla ice cream added to it, as do the scoops of icing assemble on the top of the cake.  My mom has already declared this is the cake she would like to have served on her birthday, forever more.  You really can’t argue with those results, now can you.