Root Beer Float Cake
by fattydumpling
I said hi to Sir Nicolas Santa Claus the other day. And he smiled back at me.
Although he wasn’t the Mr. Claus, he looked a heck lot like him.
For the past couple of weeks, on every Wednesday, I leave my apartment at around 2pm. At about 2:05 pm, I pass by a big burly white-bearded and white-haired man in a construction uniform as I walk to class. I was sure that he may have begun to recognize me by now so I greeted him.
After he gave his reply to my great happiness, I passed by an older lady walking my way a few minutes later. She looked like a gentle, strong lady. Kind of like what Mrs. Santa Claus might look like. So I smiled at her. And she smiled back at me.
That was a good day.
Do you have a story of when you found out that Santa “did not exist”? I never got the opportunity to since I learned about his “nonexistence” upon learning about him in the first place.
There was one sad night when my sister was about 5 years old. She insisted on leaving out a glass of milk for Santa on Christmas Eve. My mom exclaimed, “Why? That’s a waste of milk!” She relented, though, and left a glass of milk out for the old man. However, on the next morning, it was still there. My sister wasn’t happy.
I believe in Mr. Claus. I know he exists. That is, in another dimension at least.
Nonetheless, there is one thing that exists in our dimension that we can believe in. That thing is cake, my friends. Especially delicious cake.
That’s the best kind of cake, I bet.
Thus, I baked that kind of cake with one of my housemates a few days ago. Let’s call that housemate Jellyfish. Jellyfish and I settled on baking Joy the Baker’s Root Beer Float Cake. Then we decided to make it a wedding cake. Just for kicks. Now, what happens when you get two amateur bakers to create a wedding cake? Nothing short of a mess.
Pure gorgeousness, yes?
Taste-wise, this cake is superb. Although we left the cake untouched overnight so the root beer taste could develop, the taste was very subtle. However, it was still a cake that is da bomb when it comes to fudgy texture and chocolate taste. Jellyfish and I messed with the recipe big time, though.
No bundt pans. No dark chocolate cocoa. Ran out of normal cocoa. No baking chocolate. Subbed lots of stuff with bittersweet chocolate chips. No matter. No matter at all. We came out of this with full bellies and chocolate-smeared mouths. Lots of dirty dishes. Crumbs everywhere.
Now, whose wedding was it? Let’s pretend we celebrated the anniversary of the Claus’s. It was beautiful.
Then we gave the cake to my other housemate to celebrate the anniversary of her birth early. Isn’t it great when you make a multi-purpose cake?
Fatty Dumpling 
Wow Tina – You’re right this is da bomb!
Who cares about aesthetics when you have 3 tiers of gooey chocolaty yumminess waiting to be dug into.
Here’s to you and Santa Claus. Now can I get a napkin to wipe the chocolate smears off my face? :)
Ciao, Devaki
Hoho, your comment is too cute.
Oh yes, upon tasting the deliciousness that was this cake, the taste revolutionized my view of it, and it is indeed a pretty cake–especially when you take into consideration the effort and thought that went into the cake, ahah. Haha…chocolate smears…
hey–i actually remember that horrible childhood experience! i went through so much trouble of sobbing and finding leftover milk (probably from darian) to accompany those stale cookies! the next morning i just told myself he didn’t come because we didn’t have a chimney. but deep inside i knew…
tina, i made cake too! it was a lot prettier than it tasted, though :D… i shall send you a picture soon. and reply to that email soon… >_> oh! and we made a black forest cake for vivek, and brought it for him yesterday on his birthday. thaaaat one tasted gooood :3!
your cake looks so fudgy and good…aahh i wish i lived closer… or at least i wish you lived closer. AND i like your construction santa man drawing, oh hohohoho! it’s beautiful.
i showed mom your cake and she gave a…nice comment about it :D
Oy, that is so sad, I think that I actually remember that rationalization about how we didn’t have a chimney. I wanted to wake up early to either down the milk or pour down the sink for you, but I woke up after you :(
Oh cake! Pretty cakes! And yummy cakes! And stinky tall boys with earrings in one ear.
Well, in a few weeks, we shall be together and make something delicious. Like those peanut noodles. I’m worried about that nice comment.
Oooh munchkin, I like your drawing very very much as well as your story about its subject =3. Also, your cake looks super duper yum! I’m sure the turtle appreciated it (if I’m getting your housemates right =/ – though wouldn’t that be Piggy rather than Jellyfish?).I think your cake is beautiful =D.
~Kurious Kitteh
Oh, also, I love how it was a root beer cake, even if you couldn’t much taste the root beer. There’re a couple of cola cakes I want to try out but have been putting off because of the formaldehyde in coke, and after cutting up all those brains, I don;t want to go anywhere near that stuff =/.
Chocolate is gooooood.
Also, I forgot to mention it in my e-mail, but I shall be over Thursday with that roll thingy, okay? Lmk what time works for you.
~Kurious Kitteh
Oh thank you ;] And you have gotten the order of those housemates correct.
There are such things as coke cakes?! …and there’s formaldehyde in cokes?! Wikipedia says that consumption of formaldehyde is bad. Haha, most could have guessed that.
Oooo, I eagerly await the roll thingy…
You’re welcome =). & yay!
Yepyep, search the food network site and you’ll find lots of stuff! Ahah, probably =P.
Yay! I won’t stay long, just to try it out with you guys, and then I’ll leave you to your examming hermitude.
Gosh, I just love exam time -_-‘
~Kurious Kitteh
Yum! Root beer cake is one of my favorites… Although I’ve never made mine into quite such an impressive tower as this!
Haha, it was fun, especially the part where my housemate and I were running around our kitchen measuring bowls to use and cake-cutters.
No weirdness about following my blog, please! I love sharing my family. I’m following your blog too…and I’m dying to try this cake. Your presentation and photos are making me salivate–and it probably doesn’t help that I’m 7 months pregnant and all I want to do is eat! :)
-Abby
Oh, I am very glad, because I’ve liked following it ;]
Haha, although not pregnant, I always want to eat as well. I wish your little family all the best and happiness! I feel very excited for you. I’ll be working with children/teens in my future, so I always feel intrigued with young folk, so aiyah, you will have another cute little one!
Tried the recipe, and it’s fabulous. I sent half of it to work with my hubby so I wouldn’t eat it all. Because if I ate it all, I would surely die of richness overload. Oh my yumminess.
-Abby
oh my three tiers…I’m coming over to help you finish that tower of goodness..I still believe in santa claus…
sweetlife
Oh thank you, we still have a good chunk of it in the fridge for you to help us with ;D And fantastic, if we believers believe, than Santa Claus will not disappear.
Hey! I’m insulted that you call my icing skills “a mess”!!!
Hohohohohoho….I apologize. Hey, a fellow Jason Mraz fan! Y’know what was going through my head as I watched you carefully spread icing all over the cake? “It’s a beautiful mess…It isssssss”. So, it was a bittersweet comment, a praise in disguise as an insult.
Um, I like you very much ;3
Mmm, that looks delicious! Thanks for stopping by my blog! I like your writing style. I will add you to my list of blogs to read. =)
Toohoo, thank you and I will be following you too, your foods are all so colourful, especially your bentos! I am the proud owner of three bento boxes, but I haven’t really done anything creative with them yet (just leftovers so far), but you are inspriation ;]
Root beer float?! In a cake?! Love the idea! I’d love for the flavour of the root beer to be really pronounced though… wonder what’s needed – the syrup?
Aiyah! I got confused to what you meant by syrup, but after some googling, I have found out that root beet extract actually exists. Now that would definitely add some intense root beer flavour!
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That cake is a hot mess. Of course, it doesn’t matter how it looks as long as it tastes good.
Too true, too true. I remember the taste more than its appearance. Hey, that’s when you know what’s more significant–the stuff that sticks in your head.
Oh yummy :D I need to find me a Sassafras to plant so I can make root beer extract to make root beer chocolate fudge wedding cake. It looks absolutely divine to me, the bigger the tower of chocolate the more my teeth ganache :)
Ooo, I like that pun! Crazy cool. That sounds like such a cool endeavor…never thought about home made extract before. I also like that word…sassafras!