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Back in June I made a passing comment about a root beer cupcake that I had eaten at a high school graduation party that I attended. I continued to think about this cupcake at least once a week for months, but it took until December 30th for me to do something about it. I finally found a delicious recipe (you can see it here), and decided I needed these cupcakes to help ring in the new year! Let me tell you- they did not disappoint!
Ingredients
- Butter (I used earth balance to make it lactose free)
- Eggs
- Flour
- Baking Powder
- Salt
- Sugar
- root beer extract **
- vanilla
- root beer
- Float Frosting (powdered sugar, ice cream- i used lactose free!, vanilla, butter)
** A note on the root beer extract. While the recipe calls for root beer extract, I used root beer concentrate, and this works just as well. I know that you are supposed to use a smaller amount of concentrate than extract (technically), but I used an equivalent amount (meaning I used 1 tablespoon of concentrate when it called for 1 tablespoon of extract). This really gave it an extra punch of flavor, and it wasn’t at all overpowering.
I also used earth balance butter and lactose free Breyer’s vanilla ice cream in this recipe, so I made it lactose free!
Another word. While I didn’t use cupcake liners, I did grease the inside of the muffin tin and then cut out small pieces of wax paper to fit on the bottom of each little tin.
When the muffins came out of the oven, I lightly ran a knife around the edge of each little tin, and the cupcake came out easily! Just remember to peel the wax paper off the bottom! After cooling I made the frosting, and then frosted them. They are delicious, and were even more delicious the second day once the flavors had a chance to sit together!
These aren’t that difficult to make, and taste AMAZING! You’ll have to go check out the original recipe (linked above) for the actual quantities for the recipe, but I wanted to give a little preview and shout out here! Oh, and in case you are wondering, these taste exactly like a root beer float. YUM!
Now it’s your turn to share! Are you a cupcake fanatic? (I am– everything in moderation :D) What’s your favorite flavor of cupcake? If you don’t like cupcakes (gasp!), what’s your favorite dessert?
