Eggnog Loaf #WinterHoliday @MaddieDayAuthor #giveaway

MADDIE DAY here, starting our two weeks of winter holiday recipes!

Over on my Facebook author page, I recently posted a recipe from Candy Slain Murder for No-Egg Eggnog. 

Readers Valerie Humowiecki and Pauline Britnell commented that they often make an eggnog loaf. I thought that sounded like a tasty and easy treat and went hunting for a recipe to adapt to my own needs. Thanks, Valerie and Pauline, for the inspiration!

Eggnog Loaf Cake

Ingredients

(The alert reader will notice I left the baking powder out of the picture -
and where's the EGGNOG?)

½ cup butter, softened

1 cup white sugar

2 large eggs, beaten 

1 cup eggnog, commercial or homemade (thus no commercial eggnog carton in the photo - I whisked up mine from milk, cream, sugar, nutmeg, and vanilla)

2 teaspoons rum 

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

½ teaspoon salt

¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9x5-inch loaf pan.

Blend the sugar and butter together in a large bowl until fluffy. Beat in the eggs, then add the rum and vanilla.

 

Stir flour, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg together in a large measuring cup. Add to eggnog mixture and stir just enough to moisten. 

Pour batter into prepared pan.

Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of loaf comes out clean, about 60 minutes. 

Let cool in the pan for 10 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely. 

(And if somebody can't help himself from slicing into it before it's cool, well hey, Happy Eggnog Cake Day!)

Baking this in several small loaf pans would make great homemade holiday gifts. Cool the loaves, wrap in plastic wrap and a red ribbon, and call it Christmas! Or pour a little rum and enjoy a slice with a great collection of holiday stories (mine, "Murderous Mittens," includes a suspenseful scene after a community menorah lighting).

Readers: Do you bake holiday gifts? What kind of loaf would you like to receive from someone as a gift? I'll send one commenter a signed copy of Christmas Mittens Murder!

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Maddie Day (aka Edith Maxwell) is a talented amateur chef and holds a PhD in Linguistics from Indiana University. An Agatha Award-winning and bestselling author, she is a member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America and also writes award-winning short crime fiction. She lives with her beau and sweet cat Martin north of Boston, where she’s currently working on her next mystery when she isn’t cooking up something delectable in the kitchen.