No More Leftover Eggnog

I made this cake last night with my husband and 5 year old daughter's help. It was crazy easy. And the whole house smelled like Christmas. The cake was for my husband to take to work and we were having a hard time staying away from it. I finally had to put it in the cake carrier so we couldn't see it OR smell it, because it smelled so good.

If you have a box of cake mix in your pantry and a bottle of Eggnog in your fridge, you can make this cake. Seriously. Now go forth and bake!


Eggnog Bundt Cake

1 box yellow cake mix with pudding
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Vegetable oil*, adjust amount according to package directions.
Eggs, adjust amount according to package directions.
Eggnog, substitute for the water and adjust quantity according to package directions.

Glaze:
2 cups powdered sugar
2 tablespoons butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 tablespoons eggnog

-Preheat oven to the recommended temperature on the cake mix box.
-Grease and flour your bundt pan.
-Combine the dry cake mix with the nutmeg, oil, eggs and eggnog.
-Mix and bake according to package directions.
-Cool the cake completely.
-For the glaze, combine ingredients adding enough eggnog for desired consistency.
-Drizzle eggnog glaze over the cooled cake. Sprinkle the glaze with a little nutmeg if desired.

*Or butter, if your mix is a butter recipe.

Noggy!

Really, if there was any reason for you to have a bottle of ground nutmeg in your pantry it would be for sprinkling over Eggnog, don't you think?

I myself have not been a huge fan of drinking eggnog until recently. I think it's too thick to be drunk in any reasonable fashion, but I love the taste. And thinned down with milk it's quite yummy. They've also come out with a pumpkin eggnog here that is really, really good. My favorite way has always been Eggnog Ice Cream, which is magnificent and gorgeous and if I could I would marry it. YUM.

Anyway, I was looking for some new and interesting recipes to try and I found a recipe for Eggnog Cookies. Something I've certainly never heard of before, but I thought it might be a nice holiday recipe. All I can say is wow. These are not only tasty, but they smell divine! You might as well invite Christmas over to your house and ask it to stay.

Eggnog Cookies

1 and 1/4 cups sugar
3/4 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup eggnog
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 egg yolks
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
2 and 1/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

-Preheat oven to 300 degrees. (Not a typo.)
-Combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon and nutmeg.
-In a seperate bowl cream sugar and butter until light and fluffy.
-Add eggnog, vanilla, and egg yolks. Beat until smooth.
-Add flour mixture until just combined. Don't overmix.
-Drop by teaspoonfuls onto cookie sheets at least 1 inch apart.
-Sprinkle each cookie lightly with nutmeg.
-Bake 20-23 minutes until bottom begins to turn light brown.