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Root Beer Cake from a cake mix

By imartsy
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This is from the Cake Mix Doctor but adapted. The cake mix dr. recipe is the lemon-lime cake w/ pineapple curd if you want to know what itw as originally.

This is a chocolate root beer cake. There is not a lot of “root beer” taste, but it gives it a really great moisture to the cake. It goes great w/ root beer frosting. It gives it a little something special.

For more of a root beer taste, I would think a white cake mix would work better b/c it doens’t have such a strong taste like chocolate does.

Root Beer Cake from a cake mix

Ingredients

  • Ingredients:
  • * 1 package (18.24) ounces chocolate cake
  • * 1 package (3.4 ounces) vanilla instant pudding mix
  • * 4 large eggs
  • * 3/4 cup vegetable oil
  • * 1 can (12 oz.) A & W rootbeer

Instructions

  1. Place a rack in the center of the oven and preheat the oven to 350 degrees farenheit. Grease and flour your pans – the cake mix dr. calls for 3 9 in round cake pans, but I found it only made 6 cups of batter so choose pans that will work with 6 cups. (See Wilton for batter amounts for certain pans)
  2. Place the cake mix, pudding mix, eggs, oil, and root beer in a large mixing bowl. Blend w/ an electric mixer on low speed for 1 minutes. Stop and scrape down sides. Increase speed to medium and beat 2 to 3 more minutes. Batter should look well combined & thickned.
  3. I then made the crusting buttercream icing from this website – the one that uses butter & Crisco. For the rootbeer flavor, all I did was replace the vanilla flavoring called for in the recipe w/ A & W root beer. It made a REALLY yummy icing! It’s not too sweet. Even my husband who doesn’t like rootbeer liked it. I used root-beer for the filling & for the outside frosting.
  4. For a stronger flavored buttercream or cake, you may want to look into Lorann root beer oil. I haven’t used it, but I imagine it has a stronger taste.
  5. HAPPY BAKING!!!

    come on, it’s cake!