Add This Canned Drink To Chocolate Cake Mix For Caramel Bliss - Tasting Table

"If you're looking for ways to elevate boxed chocolate cake mix, try adding root beer to the batter. One of the most unique sodas out there, root beer has a distinct flavor with complementary aromatic ingredients like vanilla, ginger, licorice, anise, and juniper berries. Its complex sweetness is famously used as a dessert foundation for a scoop of vanilla ice cream in a root beer float."

"You can use any brand of root beer you like, but we would always recommend root beer made with real cane sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup. Real sugar does a better job at complementing and enhancing the unique flavors of root beer. Many of the best root beer brands out there not only use cane sugar, but real vanilla and other whole ingredients, too."

"A root beer chocolate cake requires no fancy mixing tools. Of course, no cake is complete without frosting; pick up a can of store-bought frosting or Cool Whip in keeping with the convenience of premade ingredients. But, if you really want the root beer flavor to shine, you can purchase this bottle of Watkins root beer extract and add a few drops to infuse your frosting."

Root beer's complex sweetness and ingredients like vanilla, ginger, licorice, anise, and juniper berries complement bittersweet chocolate, adding caramelized depth. Carbonation in root beer acts as a leavening agent, producing a light, fluffy crumb. To make a root beer chocolate cake, replace the water or milk in boxed mix with a can of root beer; no oil, milk, or eggs are necessary. Bake according to the box instructions and choose root beer made with cane sugar rather than high fructose corn syrup to better enhance flavors. Use store-bought frosting or Cool Whip, or add Watkins root beer extract to frosting.

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