This round is on me.
It’s been a long week in my neck of the woods. Phew! Let’s see, it snowed on Monday with frigid arctic temperatures, my engine light came on Tuesday then the week plummeted like a kid on a sled doing 50 down a snowy mountain.
My week took an upswing when the kids and I made these mellowing, foamy root beer cupcake floats with sweetened mascarpone cheese frosting.
We filled our mugs with creamy vanilla ice cream and cold root beer, but we didn’t stop there. My daughter the aspiring budding chef that she is, planted the cupcakes in our mugs and if that wasn’t enough, she added a second cupcake for good measure the girl knows what she’s doing!
Having the kids in the kitchen transported me back to the summer of 1985 in Berlin, Germany on a hot sizzling day when I and my bestie would eat pint-sized vanilla ice cream straight out of the carton and gulp down mouth fulls of Barq’s root beer without a care in the world. Ahhh, those were the days, but a day in the kitchen with the fam, priceless.
How To Make Root Beer Cupcake Floats
- 1 Box of Yellow Cake Mix
- 1 Cup of Root Beer
- 2½ tsp. vanilla
- 1 tsp. lemon zest
- 1 8 oz container of Mascarpone Cheese
- 1 stick of margarine
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- Preheat oven to 350 F. Line twelve 2-21/2 inch muffin cups with paper bake cups then set aside.
- Prepare cake mix as per box directions, except substitute root beer for water (1 cup) then add 1½ tsp of vanilla and 1 tsp of lemon zest.
- Spoon batter into the prepared muffin cups, filling each about three-fourths full.
- Bake for 18-20 minutes or until the toothpick comes out clean. Cool in pans on wire racks for 5 minutes. Remove cupcakes from the pan to cool on wire racks.
- Prepare Mascarpone cheese frosting.
1 8 oz container of Mascarpone cheese
1 tsp. Vanilla
1 stick of margarine
2 cups of powdered sugar
Add the first three ingredients to a medium bowl. Beat with an electric mixer on low speed until smooth. Gradually beat in powdered sugar until creamy.
Some days you gotta go there…
Root Beer Float Cake from Better Homes and Gardens
