Root beer float cake

Hi! Pinterest Piss Ant here.

Being someone who currently stands at nearly 57,000 pins on my Pinterest account (should I be proud? Sheepish? Is this a hobby or mental illness?) I’ve decided I should actually like…do some making and baking? Like isn’t that the entire purpose of Pinterest? To be inspired to DO THINGS?

Okay. So this weekend’s make and bake was this Root Beer Float Cake. It screamed AMERICAN SUMMER.

Here’s the pin, and here’s the website, ahem.

Miss Aspiring Domestic Goddess went to her local Walmart with the principal aim to find root beer and root beer extract.

Forgot the damn root beer and couldn’t find any root beer extract.

So I went to a second store, remembered the root beer but they didn’t have any root beer extract.

Ummm….

I reasoned I would…like…boil the root beer to reduce it like they do on the baking shows???

Ok so…back at home we didn’t have any clean pots and I was feeling particularly LAZY. Like I’m trying to bake a cake here, who has the time?

So I thought…I could boil the root beer in a glass? In the microwave?

Soooo…I poured that root beer in a glass, threw it into the microwave and set the time for two minutes. And it kind of exploded? There was this large KABOOM sound from inside the microwave. I frantically opened the microwave door thinking the glass exploded, but looks like the root beer legit exploded out of the glass? All over the microwave?

So then I had to clean the entire microwave LOL. The irony of using the microwave in the first place because I didn’t want to clean a damn pot was not lost on me.

Finally pulled the damn pot out of the sink and washed it, like I should have in the first place. Finally! This girl was going to be all gun ho Miss America and BOIL SOME DAMN ROOT BEER. I imagine an American flag suddenly unraveling from the ceiling behind me and an Eagle flying overhead. LOL. Okay, getting ahead of myself.

So…while my root beer did its thing on the broiler, I thought it was the perfect time to put on my makeup and call my parents! I SWEAR only a few minutes went by. But when I finally checked on my root beer and it HAD reduced. But it burned! Legit burned. Into an ooey gooey syrup of charcoal. I freaked out, all while my my parents still on the phone, and dumped it in the sink. The liquid then instantly hardened like hard candy in my sink LOL. So then I was like…kind of shocked it hardened so fast? So then I had to clean THAT mess in the sink!

I had not even made the damn cake yet!

Boiling root beer, round two!

I boiled it….added it cake and frosting. Bravo!

Finally cooled the cake and iced it annnnnnnnd…the cake didn’t taste like root beer LOL.

I WILL say the cake and frosting did taste great sans root beer flavor. I’m going to be smart and order the damn extract off Amazon and give this recipe a good college try again.

But alas! My summer cake! With my summer flowers! And random watermelon!

Such a summer scene *tooth twinkle*

And yes, I did happen to have a cocktail American flag at the ready, ahem.

And why yes! I did arrange these flowers this morning, flip of hair.

Thanks for listening to my latest and greatest Pinterest Piss Ant adventure.

Muah!

Courtney