First, let's discuss the obvious use of our root beer extract: making homemade rootbeer soda. The beauty of making your own soda is that you can customize the flavor strength, add additional flavors, adjust the sugar content, or substitute sugar for an artificial sweetener.
What are the best ratios for making root beer soda? Our website features two recipes, one for small batches and one for large batches. For additional guidance, we recommend allocating about 10% of the final batch size to sugar syrup, 90% to water, and about one-quarter to one-half percent to root beer flavor. Our rootbeer flavor is very concentrated and was designed for a quart to yield ten gallons of soda.
Also, if you want a specific quantity, we email a root beer soda calculator. Just email us at margaret@cooksvanilla.com and ask for the root beer calculator. This calculator works either for gallons or ounces.
What are some ways to customize your root beer soda? The first recommendation is to add some pure vanilla extract to your batch. This will give your root beer soda a delicious, sweet taste and will significantly mellow the taste. Alternatively, you can add spearmint or cinnamon extracts to make the root beer spicier! If you want to do this, I recommend using about a tenth to a quarter of the additional flavor compared to the root beer flavor (1:10 or 1:4 additional flavor: root beer flavor). Note that you can always be generous in adding vanilla extract, while you should be cautious in adding cinnamon or spearmint extract.
Moving on from soda, one of my favorite ways to use root beer extract is to make ice cream. You can make root beer ice cream or a delicious vanilla ice cream with a root beer sugar swirl. To do this, make a thick sugar syrup and add a tablespoon of root beer flavor to about 1/2 a cup of sugar syrup. Ensure the syrup is completely cooled, swirl it into freshly churned vanilla ice cream, and immediately freeze for at least two hours. You can make a delicious root beer float or milkshake with either of these ice cream options!
Finally, you can add root beer extract to either chocolate cake or sugar cookies.
Root beer pairs very well with chocolate. Bake a delicious chocolate cake or cupcake, add two teaspoons of root beer flavor, and then top with whipped cream ice cream for an unexpected treat!
Add a teaspoon of root beer extract to classic sugar cookie dough or to the classic royal icing for a surprising twist on a classic treat!
Be sure to comment on your favorite way to use root beer extract!
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