Root Beer Cake Dessert is Easy to Make!
This cake is incredibly easy.
Use your favorite white cake mix, some incredible spices, root beer (of course) and layer with our pudding mixture for a creamy, root beer cake that’s served as parfaits!
So yummy.
So good.
And simply genius!
My very first memories of root beer began with my grandfather.
My “Papa Claude” was retired after serving 23 years in the military as an SSG-E7 Army Sergeant Master Chef.
When he retired from the military, he took the love of cooking with him to create a whole new adventure.
This incredibly simple and yummy recipe is dedicated to him.
After retiring, my grandpa continued using his cooking and baking talents.
He cooked at one of our favorite restaurants and we’d visit him there often.
Almost every time I visited, I would get a root beer…and it was always served in a frosted mug.
Always.
Who knew that a frosted mug would make root beer taste even better…or so it seemed to this kid!
Serve Root Beer Parfaits Desserts in Frosted Mugs Too!
My grandfather was also a baking genius.
He’d create creative recipes that were super simple…just like this root beer cake parfait!
One year he helped me make a Boston Cream Pie Cake for our school’s bake sale…and every bite was perfect!
He taught me how to make the cream filling just right (which I remembered for this recipe!)
And he had to know how much the cake sold for…ha!
He didn’t let a holiday slip by without adding his famous punchbowl cake to our family get togethers.
It became a family tradition and HAD to be on the family menu!
In this fun recipe, I’d like to share my love of root beer and pair that with my papa’s punchbowl cake recipe.
And guess how it has to be served?
Mmm-hmmm…
In a frosted mug!
Doesn’t that sound fun?
This dessert gives me a simple opportunity to share memories of my grandfather with my kids.
Ingredients for Root Beer Cake
- 1 package white cake mix
- 1 1/4 cup A&W Root Beer
- 1/3 cup melted butter
- 3 egg whites
- 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Crushed root beer flavored candy
- 1 box instant french vanilla pudding
- 4 cups whipping cream
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
How to Make Root Beer Cake Parfaits
Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Butter the bottom of a 9-inch by 13-inch pan.
With an electric mixer, mix together cake mix, root beer, melted butter, and egg whites for two minutes and beat on high for an additional 30 seconds.
Reserve 1 cup of the batter.
Pour the remaining batter into the prepared baking pan.
In the reserved batter, mix in the allspice and the cinnamon.
Drop mounds of spiced batter into pan, and swirl using a toothpick. Bake until cake begins to separate from the sides of the pan, and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 28 to 30 minutes.
While cake is baking, make French vanilla instant pudding according to package directions and set aside.
Beat whipping cream until soft peaks form and add powdered sugar and vanilla.
Beat until consistency of whipped cream.
Gently, fold in half of the prepared whipped cream into the pudding.
Once cake is baked and cooled, crumble cake into tiny, almost diced, pieces.
Sprinkle cake into the bottom of 12 glass mugs that you’ll be serving the parfaits in.
Spoon pudding on top of crumbled cake, then add a layer of pudding, then a layer of homemade whipped cream, and then a layer of crushed root beer candy.
Repeat until glass is full.
Place in freezer 10 minutes before serving so dessert is served in a frosted glass.
Can You Freeze Root Beer Cake?
Yes! After baking, let cake completely cool.
Once cooled, freeze the cake in an air-tight, freezer-friendly container. You can freeze for up to two months.
When ready to eat, thaw for 1 hour, then make pudding mixture and make parfaits as mentioned in the recipe.
More Cake Recipes
Easy Root Beer Parfait Dessert
Oooh! This root beef parfait dessert is incredibly easy and yummy! You'll love how it's packed with tradition and served with a creative spin. So fun!
Ingredients
- 1 package white cake mix
- 1 1/4 cup A&W Root Beer
- 1/3 cup melted butter
- 3 egg whites
- 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Crushed root beer flavored candy
- 1 box instant french vanilla pudding
- 4 cups whipping cream
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Butter the bottom of a 9-inch by 13-inch pan.
- With an electric mixer, mix together cake mix, root beer, melted butter, and egg whites for two minutes and beat on high for an additional 30 seconds.
- Reserve 1 cup of the batter.
- Pour the remaining batter into the prepared baking pan.
- In the reserved batter, mix in the allspice and the cinnamon.
- Drop mounds of spiced batter into pan, and swirl using a toothpick.
- Bake until cake begins to separate from the sides of the pan, and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 28 to 30 minutes
- While cake is baking, make French vanilla instant pudding according to package directions and set aside.
- Beat whipping cream until soft peaks form and add powdered sugar and vanilla. Beat until consistency of whipped cream.
- Gently, fold in half of the prepared whipped cream into the pudding.
- Once cake is baked and cooled, crumble cake into tiny, almost diced, pieces.
- Sprinkle cake into the bottom of 12 glass mugs that you’ll be serving the parfaits in.
- Spoon pudding on top of crumbled cake, then add a layer of pudding, then a layer of homemade whipped cream, and then a layer of crushed root beer candy.
- Repeat until glass is full.
- Place in freezer 10 minutes before serving so dessert is served in a frosted glass.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 12 Serving Size: 1 gramsAmount Per Serving: Unsaturated Fat: 0g
