Welcome Larsen Family to Favorite L Recipes. I hope you will contribute and also try recipes posted to this blog. Meri Schumacher suggested I do this and I think it's a wonderful idea. I would love to try YOUR recipes and hope you try others. Each month we will be posting recipes from a different category. The first one I selected was cake recipes. Dig into your recipes and let's make this a fun thing. Any suggestions would be great. Email me at Susan @larsenfamily.com with comments. Love you all!

Monday, May 24, 2010

Root Beer Cake

Cake:
2 1/4 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup margarine, softened
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
1 cup rootbeer (not diet)

Heat oven to 375 degrees. Grease and flour 9x13 inch pan. Lightly spoon flour into measureing cup. Level off. In small bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt. In large bowl, beat margarine and sugar until light and fluffy. Add vanilla and eggs; beat well. At low speed, add dry ingredients alternately with 1 cup rootbeer, blending well after each. Pour into pan.
Bake at 375 for 20-25 minutes or til done.

Frosting:

In small bowl, prepare topping mix as directed on pkg (Dream Whip) using 1/2 cup rootbeer for the liquid.

Frost cooled cake. Store in fridge. 12 servings.

Submitted by Diane Graham

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