Root Beer Float Cookies Recipe

Root Beer Float Cookies are a delicious and fun cookie. Perfect for your party tray. These easy drop cookies have a delicious and unique root beer flavor everyone is sure to love. 

Our blog Friend Amy Gagnon says “Oh my goodness!!!!! The first cookies just came out of the oven and are cool enough to sample…….oh my goodness!!!!

THEY ARE SO YUMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’ll be making another batch for the end of the school year party, the kindergarten kids are sure to love these!”

Sometimes Serendipity happens. This Root Beer Float Cookies recipe was generously gifted to us by our Reader, Miss Karen. Miss Karen lives over 6,000 feet up in the Colorado Mountains.

We got to know each other over my Irish Oat Bread Recipe . I discovered it’s quite the challenge to be a high altitude bread baker. Karen added her adjustments to the recipe for others that live way up high in the sky.

And then Karen told me about her cookbook in process. She kindly offered this recipe to us. I’m absolutely thrilled to share it with you. Keep your eye out for more of Karen’s fabulous dishes.

Root Beer Float Cookies Recipe Tips:

This recipe makes a lot of cookies. We had 36- 2 inch cookies. Fortunately, they freeze well. 🙂

If you are using a stand mixer this recipe is simple to do on low or medium speeds. Just stop the mixer often when adding the dry ingredients so you don’t get a face full of flour dust.

And you don’t want to over mix it either. Cookies are all about “until just combined”. Hand mixing works great for these cookies if you have a bit of muscle.

If you love root beer these cookies need to go to your house. 

Author Miss Karen says….

“I think this should be my recipe of the year for 2015…
The only thing missing is the straw!”

This is a very easy drop cookie recipe. the ONLY tricky part is this.  You need to find the Root Beer Float CONCENTRATE. NOT root beer extract.

Karen Recommends Watkins Root Beer Concentrate. She finds it at Walmart. If you can’t find it in your local stores(I couldn’t) order McCormicks 2 oz. Root Beer Concentrate on Amazon.

That’s what I did and it worked great. SO worth it to get that perfect root beer flavor.

Karen tip: The white chocolate chips should have a high percentage of cocoa butter (like the first or second ingredient) Karen prefers Trader Joe’s mini white chips or King Arthur Flour’s chips.

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F
2. Cream the butter and the sugars. We used a kitchen aid stand mixer on medium low. A large wooden spoon and bowl or electric hand mixer will work well too.
3. Add the egg and beat until fluffy.
4. Add the milk, vanilla extract and root beer concentrate.
5. In a medium bowl whisk together the flour, cream of tartar and baking soda.
6. Stir the dry ingredients into the wet batter until thoroughly combined.
7. Stir in the white chocolate chips. I use Ghirardelli White Chocolate Chips
8. Drop batter by rounded tablespoons, 2 inches apart, on parchment or silicone mat lined cookie sheets. I like to use an ice cream scoop for even size.

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