St. Arnold's Christmas Pub Crawl in Rice

Phew, I've got quite the jam of posts here to get published. Last month I went on yet another awesome St. Arnold's pub crawl through Rice Village. It hit all the usual spots: BW3s (which I missed), Gingerman, Brian O'Neill's, and Baker St. Great times were had by all (even those drinking marshmallow vodka and not beer) and we capped the day with Lights in the Heights. Which, is basically when a street in the Heights decorates the crap outta their houses for the holidays and then a bunch of people walk the street and most likely drink their way through the Heights. Yum, spiked hot cocoa.

Chocolate Root Beer Football Cake for the Superbowl

I'm a little late on my blogging, so you'll have to excuse my Superbowl reporting here. Anywho, for the Superbowl I usually make a chocolate football cake in my fun football pan, but this year I wanted to make it a little different, I found another Baked recipe for a chocolate root beer bundt cake and I figured it would work perfectly as a football cake instead. Plus, the opportunity to buy some St. Arnold's root beer? Sealed the deal. This cake is denser than most so don't go cutting yourself a platter-sized slice, but def dig into as much as you can handle because it's delicious! Here are my pics of the football cake version (try to ignore the poor lighting, I finished the cake right before half-time so I was late and in a hurry to head out!):




You can find the recipe for the cake and frosting in the book Baked: New Frontiers in Baking by Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito. I recommend hitting the library for this one because it's not as good as their second book (in my opinion).

Enjoy!