7 root beer recipes

A very moist cake with the zippy flavor of root beer. Best served with vanilla ice cream or simply dusted with confectioner's sugar.

Rosemary's root beer tonic: a traditional herbal decoction made with sassafras, dandelion, burdock, ginger, cinnamon, and orange peel. Old-fashioned homemade root beer.

Root beer baked beans with bacon, barbecue sauce, dry mustard, and hot sauce simmered together on the stovetop. A sweet, smoky, slightly spicy side dish ready in 40 minutes.

Homemade root beer cake with reduced root beer baked into the batter and a soaking glaze. This from-scratch recipe delivers pure root beer flavor in every tender crumb.

Easy Crockpot Beef Stew with Root Vegetables and Peas recipe

Beef stew with root vegetables braised slow in red wine until the meat falls apart, then finished with a bright lemon, rosemary, and garlic gremolata. A hearty winter one-pot.

Beef and root vegetable soup made the slow way: a from-scratch stock from meaty soup bones, then simmered with shank meat, barley, turnip, parsnip, and tomato. Hearty, deeply savory, and better the next day.