Eggnog Coffee Cake

Eggnog Coffee Cake
for the New Year
By
www.BuyOrganicCoffee.org

http://buyorganiccoffee.org/1564/eggnog-coffee-
cake-for-the-new-year/
New Year’s Eve is almost upon
us and it is time to think of what
to serve your guests.

We ran into a great idea from
The West Australian in their Life
& Style section,

a recipe for eggnog coffee cake.

Eggnog is a classic for the
holiday season and it gives a
great flavor to coffee cake.

Have a slice of the cake, and it
will remind you of sipping the
rich, delicious and high-cal
holiday drink.

O EGGNOG COFFEE CAKE
 4 cups flour, plus more for dusting
 2 cups any brand commercial eggnog
 1 package instant yeast (1 tablespoon)
 1 tablespoon fine salt
 Measure flour into a medium bowl. Set
aside.

Image Courtesy of the West Australian

Follow the link to the article for
detailed directions on how to
make eggnog coffee cake. Or
take a look at our organic coffee
cake recipe from a few years
ago.

Follow this sequence for all
organic coffee cake recipes. Mix
dry ingredients first. Then add
organic shortening or butter
cutting it into the dry ingredients
with a pastry blender or by
breaking it up with your hands
and mixing in.

Then add milk and eggs and mix
with a mixer or preferably a
wooden spoon until just mixed.
Add all ingredients to the
greased baking pan and put on
the center rack of your oven.

Bake for 25 to 30 minutes. The
coffee cake will be ready when
you can insert a toothpick or
tines of fork into the coffee cake
and is dry when removed.

And what should you drink with
your eggnog coffee cake? How
about an eggnog latte?

Mixing Coffee and Eggnog

Last year we wrote about
Eggnog Latte for the Holidays.
Since our favorite season has
arrived again here is a refresher
on the origin of eggnog and the
recipe for a great eggnog latte.

Eggnog probably originated in
East Anglia, England and has its
roots in a medieval European
beverage made with hot milk
called posset. Nog comes from
noggin which was Middle English
for a small carved wood cup
used to serve alcohol.

At the time of its origin the drink
was also called egg flip because
the preparer flipped or rapidly
poured it between two pitchers to
mix it. An early reference to egg
nog in the colonies in the 18th
century is by Isaac Weld who
wrote that

“The American travelers, before
they pursued their journey, took a
hearty draught each, according
to custom, of egg-nog, a mixture
composed of new milk, eggs,
rum, and sugar, beat up
together”

Making the Eggnog

O Ingredients:
 A dozen egg yolks
 1 cup of sugar
 4 cups of milk
 1 cup of chilled heavy cream
 Nutmeg, grated
 ½ cup of bourbon, rum, or brandy
 Preferably all organic

O Preparation:
 Use a medium saucepan.
 Whisk the milk and sugar over medium heat
until sugar is dissolved.
 This takes a minute or two.
 Use a large bowl to whisk the egg yolks.
 Continue to whisk and pour the hot mixture
into the yolks, slowly.

 Put the mixture back into the cooking pan.
 Cook over medium to low heat just below the
temperature needed to simmer until the mixture is thick
enough to coat the back of a stirring spoon.
 This takes twenty to twenty-five minutes.
 Pour through a strainer into a bowl.
 Stir in the bourbon, rum or brandy and then the cream.
 Garnish with grated nutmeg.
 Cover with a plastic wrap and put in the refrigerator to
cool.

Eggnog Coffee Cake

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