Eggnog Bread
All the fabulous flavors of eggnog - baked into a delicious and aromatic loaf.
Equipment
- Oven
Ingredients
- 2½ cups all purpose flour (plain flour)
- 2 eggs (lightly beaten)
- 1½ cups eggnog
- 1 cup sugar
- ½ cup butter (softened)
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 teaspoons rum or rum flavoring
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 360 degrees F (or 180 degrees C).
- Grease & flour (or line with parchment paper) a 9 x 6 x 3 inch (or 23 x 12 x 6cm) loaf tin.
- In a large bowl, combine sugar, beaten eggs, eggnog, rum/ rum flavoring, vanilla extract, and softened butter.
- Sift flour, baking powder, salt, nutmeg, and cinnamon into the eggnog mixture.
- Stir util just combined. (Do not over-stir!)
- Scoop dough into prepared greased (or papered) loaf tin.
- Bake in preheated oven for 50 minutes.
- Remove from oven and check for doneness with skewer.
- If cooked, allow eggnog bread to cool in the loaf tin for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a cooling rack. Allow to cool completely on cooling rack before cutting into thick slices.
Notes
You can use store-bought eggnog, or you can use one of my homemade eggnog recipes.