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This Easy Eggnog Bread Recipe whips up in just a few minutes. It’s something you can throw together before everyone gets up then bake it while everyone trickles down to the kitchen.

Eggnog is one of those things where you either like it or hate it. I don’t know very many people who are just meh about it. Maybe there are some out there, but for the most part I’ve usually gotten like it or hate it when I ask if they like eggnog. I am totally #teameggnog.

I don’t think I’ve had spiked eggnog. Maybe I have and just can’t remember. I made a spiked eggnog white hot chocolate that was out of this world! It highlighted one of my favorite craft distilleries that’s about 20 minutes from the house. KO Distilling has been in Manassas almost as long as we have. They have great spirits and are veteran owned.

Can you bake with eggnog?

That’s a resounding yes. I would hazard a guess that you can swap milk or cream for eggnog in most baking recipes. It has a similar consistency to buttermilk, so it’s easy to swap eggnog for buttermilk. And it doesn’t have a lot of fat in it, so you can easily swap it for milk, too.

However, it doesn’t have enough fat in it to swap it for heavy cream. I was thinking an eggnog whipped cream would be delicious. To make that it’s 1 cup of heavy cream and half a cup of eggnog. Can you imagine? Eggnog whipped cream! Doesn’t that sound like a delicious topping for a pie or a steamed pudding?

It’s a great addition to a cake mix! Take a spice cake mix and do half eggnog half water. Or a vanilla cake mix and do the same. You don’t want to replace all the water with eggnog. The cake might not have enough moisture and be a little dry. So, cut the milk with half eggnog and add another layer of flavor to a boxed cake mix.

I did not do that with this easy eggnog bread recipe. I replaced the banana with eggnog in this recipe. Other than that, it’s a basic quick bread recipe. Butter, sugar, flour, spices, eggs. All the basics are in there and just use the eggnog in place of the mashed bananas. And that’s how my easy eggnog bread recipe was born.

What else can you make with eggnog?

https://www.akitchenhoorsadventures.com/eggnog-macaroons/
One year I got a wild hair and decided to turn eggnog into sweetened condensed… eggnog. It made the eggnog turn this rich caramel color. And then I turned that sweetened condensed eggnog into eggnog macaroons! That was the whole purpose of making the sweetened condensed eggnog.

I have some leftover eggnog and some eggnog bread. I’ll get to that part in a little bit. So, I was thinking either eggnog French toast with the eggnog and the eggnog bread. Or an eggnog bread pudding. I’m thinking the latter will be a better use for the leftovers. What do you think?

How do you make this Easy Eggnog Bread Recipe?

I made this recipe twice. Remember when I said earlier that you can’t swap all the water for eggnog in a cake mix? Because it will be too try? Well, that’s what happened with this recipe. I didn’t put enough eggnog in there and put too much flour. So, the second time I made the recipe I used less flour and more eggnog. And that was the perfect combination to get this easy eggnog bread recipe to be moist and delicious.

And that’s how I wound up with extra eggnog bread. It doesn’t taste bad, it’s just dry. Too dry to eat unless you make toast with it, or French toast. Or make bread pudding! It’s not a total fail because I can repurpose that loaf into another recipe I can share with y’all!

It’s a typical quick bread recipe. You cream the sugar and butter together then add in the eggs and vanilla extract. And finally, the eggnog. Stir everything until it’s very well combined. It will be very liquid. Not to worry.

Do you need to sift the dry ingredients?

I combine the dry ingredients together in a bowl and stir it with a whisk. This is my lazy way of sifting the ingredients. I haven’t sifted ingredients in forever. I might have once or twice because the flour just looked a little too clumpy, but usually I do not sift things together. For me, I feel like the ingredients we purchase today are not like they were years ago when sifting was almost a necessity.

The need for sifting back in the day was due to milling techniques. Back then it was common for milled flour to be inconsistent in size. Sifting was a way to prevent lumpy baked goods from these inconsistencies. Today, most of the flour we purchase is refined and basically clump-free. Even if it’s sort of packed down in the bag, you can fluff it up with a spoon or your measuring cup to aerate it.

Finally, stirring it all with a whisk aerates it even more and ensures that the dry ingredients are thoroughly combined. Yes, the salt goes into the dry ingredients. It doesn’t usually require dissolving it in wet ingredients to make the recipe work. Unlike sugar. It needs to be dissolved to make the recipe work.

What does this Easy Eggnog Bread Recipe taste like?

Moist, deliciously sweet, and with a rich eggnog flavor. The eggnog flavor is amped up a bit by adding a little more nutmeg to the recipe. Sometimes the eggnog flavor sort of bakes out. That’s why I felt adding more nutmeg to the recipe would prevent that from happening completely.

It’s buttery and sweet. But not overly sweet that it makes your teeth hurt when you eat it. And not so buttery that you need to wash your hands when you’re done eating a slice. It holds together well. I know because I nibbled on a piece while I worked on another recipe. I had to do a quality control check! And I had to stop myself from doing 2 or 3 more. It’s that delicious!

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Monday’s Recipes

• Brandy Alexander with Ice Cream from Art of Natural Living
• Easy Eggnog Bread Recipe from A Kitchen Hoor’s Adventures
• Grinch Christmas Kiss Cookies from Cheese Curd In Paradise
• Holiday Rum Balls from Palatable Pastime
• Honey Apple Baked Brie from A Day in the Life on the Farm
• Maple Glazed Pecans from Shockingly Delicious
• Peppermint Sandwich Cookies from Karen’s Kitchen Stories
• Santa Munch Christmas Popcorn from Blogghetti
• White Chocolate Candy Cane Kheer from Magical Ingredients

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