Well it actually isn't... his birthday was almost a month ago on March 24th. I just figure that I should still put it on here because it is a cute little cake. I'm having trouble with posting on here on a regular basis. I need to try to commit to at least once a week, but we'll see =)
I do usually make most of my cakes from scratch, but I am not afraid of using a boxed mix and fixing it up so that it tastes homemade. Depending on the recipe, there will be times where it's either cheaper or more costly to use a mix. For this case, it did cost more to use a mix.
So for the cake, I added what the box asked for with the mix, except I used root beer instead of water, and I added a half tsp of cinnamon and a half teaspoon of nutmeg (or was it allspice? I forget...). As for the frosting, I whipped some heavy cream with root beer extract/concentrate until the peaks held their shape, but weren't stiff. As you can see in the photos below, it came out well.
Along with the cake, I also gave him a bottle of root beer soda and a tub of vanilla bean ice cream so he could make his own floats. I have to be quite honest and say that I've maybe had a root beer float once or twice in my life, and I wasn't exactly a fan. I've never been big on root beer, either, so the cake wasn't exactly something I absolutely loved. He liked it though, and that's what matters!
