Root Beer Cake

It is amazing what you can do with the sweet, rich taste of root beer.

Yield: serves 6-8

Ingredients

2 cups butter, plus 1 tsp. to grease pan

2 1 ⁄ 2 cups cake flour, plus 1 tbsp. for dusting cake pan

⁄ cups cake flour, plus 1 tbsp. for dusting cake pan 2 1 ⁄ 2 tsp. baking powder

⁄ tsp. baking powder 1 tsp. salt

1 cup root beer

5 tsp. root beer extract (preferably Zatarain's)

1 1 ⁄ 2 cups sugar

⁄ cups sugar 4 room-temperature eggs

4 1 ⁄ 2 cups confectioners' sugar

⁄ cups confectioners' sugar 2 tbsp. cream

Instructions