Root Beer Float Cookies-Bring back memories from childhood in a cookie!
If I had to choose one type of dessert as a favorite, it would be cookies. Cookies are easy to make and easy to eat. They can feed a crowd. They store well. They always look good. They always create a memory when eaten. Or a reminder of cookies gone by. Baked with love, still warm from the oven, with a glass of cold milk standing near by.
And the possibilities are endless! Most cookies have the same base ingredients. Butter/margarine/shortening, Sugar, Eggs, Flour, salt, Baking soda. What sets cookies apart from one another are the Flavorings added into the regular cookie base.
I grew up on McCormick Extracts. As far back as I can remember, my mom used them, my Grandma used them and I have always used them. Probably generations before that were using them. I might have a bit of a problem when it comes to how much I love their extracts.
(this is my stash of flavorings taken from my baking cabinet!)
McCormick is celebrating it’s 125th anniversary this year! They are the largest producer of extracts, not just in the US but globally! As you can see, I’ve always been a supporter!
Just a teaspoon of extract can change a vanilla cookie to an orange cookie or a chocolate cookie into a mint chocolate cookie.
McCormick’s Root Beer Concentrate, developed in 1889, caused the trending sensation of Root Beer floats and home Root Beer brewing in the early 1900’s. I never really thought about the history of some of the products I’ve always used, I just knew they were trusted brands, handed down from one generation to the next.
Invited to help McCormick celebrate their anniversary, I wanted to make something that took it all back to the beginning. Back when Willoughby McCormick was selling his products door to door. Their Root Beer Extract one of the first. Root Beer Float Cookies were the immediate answer. The great flavor combination of a root beer cookie and a vanilla filling, just like the famous drink.
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Root Beer Float Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter softened
- 2 cups light brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons McCormick Root Beer Concentrate
- 3 1/4 cup all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
buttercream filling
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
- 2 tablespoons shortening (Crisco)
- 2 Cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon McCormick Vanilla Extract
- 1-2 tablespoons cream or milk
Instructions
- Using a mixer, cream together butter and brown sugar until fluffy. Add in eggs one at a time and then McCormick Root Beer Concentrate, making sure to scrape down sides of the bowl.
- Combine flour, salt and baking soda. Slowly add flour mixture to your batter until all combined.
- Drop by spoonfuls onto a parchment lined baking sheet. (I use a 1 tablespoon Cookie Scoop
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- Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 8 minutes. Let cool on tray 5 minutes before removing to rack to cool completely.
- Prepare filling. Cream together butter and shortening until smooth. Add in McCormick Vanilla extract. Slowly add in powdered sugar then add in cream until desired spreading consistency is reached.
- Spread filling on bottom of one cookie then place another cookie on top to create a sandwich.
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Notes
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This post was sponsored by McCormick but all opinions are my own.
Aimee @ ShugarySweets says
I love McCormick Root Beer concentrate. I use it to flavor my root beer float fudge!!! These cookies look awesome Joan!
Nancy P.@thebittersideofsweet says
Every time I buy a new McCormick extract I feel like I have hit the jack pot! I am up to having the rum, almond and vanilla and use them in everything! I so need to try the root beer one! These cookies look delicious! The possibilities are definitely endless!
Jeannie says
Our family has also used McCormick extracts back to my great grandmother who lived with my mom and her parents when she was a kid. I remember going to the store with my dad to pick a few things for my mom and Vanilla extract was on the list and I told my dad that’s not the right one he smiled and said they’re all the same. When we got home my mom said “what’s this?” my dad replied “its the stuff from the list” “No”, my mom said this and held up the bottle of off brand vanilla extract “this” my dad laughed and said “the wrong one?, Jeannie tried to tell me…. you want me to go back and get something else?” “yes please” and off we went for the McCormick’s . Sugar Cookies complete………yummy!
Gail C says
How many cookies does this recipe yield?
Joan Hayes says
This recipe makes about 20 Sandwich cookies, I’ll update the recipe to show that.
Heather Bentley says
I can’t remember a time when there weren’t multiple bottles of McCormick’s products in our cupboards. Everything from vanilla to orange and rum, I think we had one of everything at one time or another. And they were always great, reliable and affordable. I’ve never tried your Root Beer Float cookies, but I have a bottle of McCormick’s root beer extract in the pantry, so I’m definitely giving them a try tomorrow. They look delish! Thanks for the recipe!
Jocelyn (Grandbaby Cakes) says
These cookies are magical. Do you know how much I adore root beer floats? I LOVE THEM AND NOW COOKIES?
Paula says
What fun! Love these flavor combos!
Taylor @ Food Faith Fitness says
Oh man…these are dangerously easy! As in, I could eat the whole batch in one sitting…aaandddd I’m okay with that! Pinned!
Chloe @ foodlikecake says
I love rootbeer and sandwich cookies, so these look awesome!
Pete says
Love to try these if I can find the root beer extract somewhere!
Joan Hayes says
Check at Walmart, I’ve seen it there.
Taralyn says
Okay so I am going to have to make these cookies…but with a twist…what better way to have a root beer float but with Ice Cream. I am impressed with the cream filling but can you imagine these cookies sandwiches with ice cream between them…yumm-o….Just a thought, bake the cookies let them cool. Then place softened ice cream between, wrap the ice cream sandwiched cookies with plastic wrap and put in the freezer…what a way to cool down on a hot day! I am from Arizona always looking for ways to cool off in 100+ degree weather. Toodles!
Joan Hayes says
Absolutely! I’ll be making them with ice cream myself come summer!
Cate @ Chez CateyLou says
Cookies are my favorite dessert too! These look delicious! What a fun twist on a root beer float!
Beverly Youngblood says
I Love Root Beer Flavor especially the Cookies even though the kids are grown and married and so are the grand kids I still have to bake cookies and mail them out to the great grand children and I have a cupboard 3 Shelves of the Flavors so I don’t ever run out….My older ones on the bottom shelf and new at the top cant ever have too many flavors but lemon is my very very favorite flavor
Joan Hayes says
I love the Lemon too! Great for cakes and cookies!
Jamie says
I love their root beer flavoring. My family, as long as I can remember, makes home made rootbeer at our family reunion every summer. It is something I look forward to every single year!
Laurie says
I love using McCormick extracts!
Heidi Rawson says
How would these be as ice cream sandwiches, using softened ice cream rather than the sweet frosting? Another idea might be to stir some of the extract into the ice cream for even more root beer flavor? Better for some of us who are diabetic than butter cream frosting!!
Joan Hayes says
these cookies would be fabulous with Ice cream instead of the buttercream filling!
Sandy b says
I have never heard of root beer cookies but now i cant wait to make them.
Zainab @ Blahnik Baker says
These cookies look amazing!! I love using McCormick and how just little bit of extract transforms a recipe!!
Alana says
These cookies sound absolutely yummy and I love the idea of using Root Beer concentrate, but have never seen it in Ontario. Does anyone know where it can be purchased?
Donna P. says
Oh, these cookies look soooo good! I should make them for my daughter’s wedding.
Mona P. says
I’m going to make the root beer float cookies.
I’ve always used McCormick brand for baking/cooking.
Thank you!