Christmas Recipes

Golden Eggnog Cupcakes

Does the thought of eggnog make you yearn for the holidays? Yearn no longer; these richly delicious cupcakes will satisfy your craving at any time of the year!

Golden Eggnog Cupcakes

Hands-on: 10 to 15 min | Bake: 28 to 30 min | Yield: 2 dozen cupcakes

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cups (24 tablespoons) unsalted butter (room temperature)
  • 2 cups granulated sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon grated nutmeg
  • 1 teaspoon salt; reduce to 1/4 teaspoon salt if you use salted butter
  • 1 1/4 teaspoons eggnog flavor
  • 4 large eggs
  • 1/4 cup dark rum or brandy (optional)
  • 3 1/2 cups King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 1/4 cups heavy cream

Instructions

  1. Heat the oven to 325 degrees F. Line two standard muffin pans with cupcake papers or tulip muffin papers.
  2. Beat together the butter, sugar, nutmeg, salt, and eggnog flavor until light and fluffy. Beat the eggs in one at a time, beating well after each addition, and scraping the bottom and sides of the bowl. Stir in the rum or brandy.
  3. Whisk the flour and baking powder together. Beat in half the flour mixture, then half the cream. Repeat, being sure to scrape the bottom and sides of the mixing bowl occasionally.
  4. Spoon 1/3 cup of batter into each of the prepared cups.
  5. Bake the cakes for 28 to 30 minutes, rotating the pans halfway through. When done, the top of a cupcake should bounce back when lightly touched, and a wooden pick inserted into the center of one of the cupcakes in the middle of the pan should come out clean, or with just a few moist crumbs clinging to it.
  6. Remove the pans from the oven. Cool the cakes in the pans for 10 minutes, then turn them out onto racks to cool completely. If you're going to ice them, wait until they're completely cool to do so.
  7. Drizzle with a flavored sugar glaze, if desired. To make glaze, mix confectioners' sugar with enough milk to make it pourable, then flavor to taste with a couple drops of eggnog flavor, or the flavor of your choice.

Attribution

Recipe and photo used with permission from: King Arthur Flour



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