Root Beer Float Whoopie Pies are sure to be a big hit with the kids, and I have the easy recipe to share with you today.
Article brought to you in collaboration with McCormick. Recipe and opinions are my own.
Root Beer Float Whoopie Pies (a recipe to honor memories)
Root Beer brings back a lot of childhood memories for me. My parent's were always into one project or another. When we were kids, my dad made and bottled root beer with my brother and I. We even tried digging up some sassafras roots to make our own extract once, but that didn't work out so well (it was dreadful). Boy, were we excited to drink that homemade soda. It was never quite as bubbly as the store bought stuff, but we thought we were mighty cool making it (or should I say hovering over our father while he made it). Now, root beer floats are a fond memory for any kid, but when you make them with your own homemade root beer... that blows the fun quotient up a little bigger.
Now what could replicate the fun of homemade root beer, without actually making root beer soda, well, the "funnest" of all desserts of course the whoopie pie.
No, I didn't dig up any sassafras roots to make these whoopie pies. I actually think it is illegal to do so in my state & unless treated first does have some mildly poisonous properties. I used good old McCormick Root Beer Concentrate to make them (as well as a Root Beer Float Sugar Scrub, which I will be sharing with you in a few days). It was probably what we used to make that childhood root beer too.
In 1889, Willoughby M. McCormick went door to door selling one of McCormick & Company’s first products, Root Beer Extract. From there, the product quickly rose in popularity and led to a trending sensation of root beer floats and root beer home brewing in the early 1900s.
These would be great served after Instant Pot Root Beer Pulled Chicken!
Ingredients
Cakes
- ¼ cup shortening room temp.
- ½ cup butter room temp.
- ¾ cup dark brown sugar
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 3 cups flour
- 1 large egg
- ¾ cup buttermilk
- ½ cup milk or water
- 2 ½ teaspoon McCormick Root Beer Extract
- ½ teaspoon McCormick Vanilla Extract
Filling
- ½ cup butter
- ½ cup shortening
- 3 cups confectionery sugar
- 2 teaspoon McCormick Vanilla Extract
- **add a teaspoon or two of milk if frosting is too thick for you
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees, and prep baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Cream together the butter, shortening, sugars and salt. Add the remaining cake ingredients and mix well.
- Ladle approx. 2 tbs of the batter onto parchment, leaving a couple inches between.
- Bake for approximately 10 minutes, until center of batter has set.
- Cool on racks.
- Whisk together the frosting filling.
- Once the cakes are cool frost underside of one, and place another on top to make a sandwich. Serve.
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Well, I've Shared my Flavor Story with you. What flavors bring memories and stories to your mind?
Lynde F. says
I love making homemade potato salad with dried dill & celery seed. With Summer coming & Spring finally here, I will be making some soon & often! #flavorstory
Debra Hall says
vanilla is my favorite i even put a dab in my pancake mix
Samantha says
Apparently I haven't ventured enough in extracts! I didn't know there were other extracts besides almond and vanilla. Those are my main flavors I use. #flavorstory
Laurie Emerson says
I love using flavoring, especially extracts. I like to experiment when baking and have so far found that using vanilla in a key lime pie, or adding lemon extract to my banana cream pie. #flavorstory
MARIA simon says
OK WE LOVE ROOT BEER FLAVORED ITEMS..THANKS FOR OFFERING CANT WAIT TO TRY OUT 🙂
Donna Pyszk says
#flavorstory I love baking with McCormick flavorings
tina d reynolds says
These look so good my family is big fans of root beer floats so these would be a huge hit #flavorstory
Alyce Poalillo says
#flavorstory I use many flavor profiles in my baking but vanilla and hazelnut are the most popular here. I would be interested in trying the root beer one too.
Janice Crespo says
When you are making milkshakes, no matter the flavor, always add a dash of McCormick vanilla for the best flavor! #flavorstory
Gary Shayne says
Yes, I know I am a man and this is a site called Mom Foodie, but I love to cook with my children and what is wrong with a man cooking with his sons and daughters?
Robin Gagnon says
Not a thing. One of my recent contributor recipes was actually from a man.
Karrie Millheim says
I am using vanilla in alot more items. I love using it to making perfect tasting pancakes #flavorstory
Carol Diane Cross says
Sounds yummy - wonder if bacon flavoring will be made? #flavorstory
susan smoaks says
my favorite flavor is hazelnut. i think this whoopie pie sounds amazing. i love trying new flavors. #flavorstory
Missa Lynn says
I just discovered coconut, hazelnut and peppermint extracts! #flavorstory
Betty C says
I don't have much of a story. I'm pretty traditional with most things, but I do love to add coffee whenever I can. #flavorstory
Trisha McKee says
I love spicy - cayenne pepper in a lot of dishes. #flavorstory
Jamie says
These will be perfect for a potluck on Friday. How many will the recipe make?