Root Beer Cake
...It's amazing what you can do with the sweet, rich taste of root beer...
...It's amazing what you can do with the sweet, rich taste of root beer...
...In this recipe, paraffin wax—a now mostly forgotten candy-making ingredient—is mixed with chocolate so that it will set properly when cooled and take on a shiny appearance...
...Pure sugar syrup heated to the hard-crack stage becomes a hard, translucent candy. In this recipe, the addition of butter produces an opaque candy with a silkier but still crunchy texture...
...Sticky caramel and dark chocolate are a natural pair. We found using that darker, Dutch-process cocoa powder in this recipe makes for a more flavorful, cookie-like crust...