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A Few Things I Love About The Christmas Season:
* Seeing all the beautiful Christmas lights
* Baking and eating lots of cookies
* Buying presents for loved ones
* Wearing new jammies
* Reading the Christmas story
* Decorating our house/tree
* Wrapping presents
* Watching old favorites on tv…Hello, Mr. Grinch
* Making a card to mail out
* Drinking lots of Eggnog Latte’s
I look forward to eggnog latte’s each winter.
After having a few too many of them so far,
I realized that I wanted to recreate my favorite drink
into a cupcake form.
This cupcake is going on my must make list
for every Christmas season after.
It had a mild eggnog flavor paired
with a delicious light coffee frosting.
Just perfect for this coffee addict!!!
I am thinking about freezing some eggnog
just so that I can enjoy these year round:-)
(I say that but, in reality I won’t)
What do you love about this time of year?
Vanilla cupcakes made with eggnog and topped with a coffee butter cream
Ingredients
For the Cupcakes
1 vanilla cake mix
3 eggs
1 c. eggnog
1/3 c. oil
1/4 c. sour cream
1 tsp. rum extract
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
For the Coffee Cream Butter Cream
1/2 c. butter, softened
1/4 c. shortening
2 oz. cream cheese, softened
1 Tbsp. hot water
2 Tbsp. instant coffee
1/2 tsp. rum extract
pinch of salt
4 c. powdered sugar
1 Tbsp. heavy whipping cream
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350*. Line pan with cupcake liners. Beat all ingredients on low for 1 minute and then on medium for 2 minutes. Fill liners 2/3 of the way full. Bake 22 minutes. Cool on a wire rack completely before frosting with coffee buttercream. Dust with nutmeg. Keep cupcakes refrigerated.
- Dissolve the coffee in hot water and set aside. Beat butter, shortening and cream cheese until fluffy. Add coffee water, extract, and salt. Beat in sugar slowly. After all the sugar has been mixed in, beat in whipping cream to thin it slightly. Keep refrigerated.
For the Cupcakes
For the Butter Cream
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Jocelyn is the baker, photographer, and writer behind Inside BruCrew Life. She is married to her best friend, and they have three great kids. She spends her days baking sweet treats, and then trying to find ways to give the treats away without eating them all. Grab a cup of coffee and visit while she shares life from their kitchen.
Have you ever frozen eggnog? I had a reader tell me she does it every year, it might separate a little, but she stirs it up and uses it in her baking.
Not sure if I would enjoy it and look forward to it if it was available to me all year.
Oh, and have I told you lately I love you and your baking? Oh em gee these are so right up my alley. I mean seriously, you think like I think….and I think that’s quite scary
Those looks just delicious. Nothing better than eggnog anything this time of year. Come visit us. We would love to have you. We have a great appetizer for the holiday season today.
Oh boy, do I love eggnog and these look amazing! you always make the most creative things!!
We just decorated our mini Charlie brown tree last night and I think I’m FINALLY REALLY in the Christmas spirit. Which means I want eggnog in everything! Cupcakes, perfect! I’ll take 6 please
Oh yes please, I bet the flavor is awesome.
I completely understand why making these special treats are an every year thing, they look delicious. Coffee and eggnog together is hard to not like-yum!
Totally awesome cupcakes! I LOVE eggnog and eggnog lattes. LOVE them. And the skinny peppermint mocha. I think I get a little skip in my step every year when the red cups appear.
Found you on Miz Helen’s! Your blog is ABSOLUTLY ADORABLE and these cupcakes are SUCHHHHH a must make! CAN NOT WAIT TO TRY THEM!!! Thanks for sharing:)
Those look and sound FABULOUS! I’m totally going to try my hand at these. Pinning your recipe now!
I co-host a weekly foodie meme, Friday Food Fight. I would love for you to link up and share your Eggnog cupcakes. Hope to see you in the ring!
http://deniseisrundmt.com/2011/12/09/peppermint-shortbread/
Can I be your BFF? These looks delicious! I love Eggnog Lattes and Cupcakes, this is perfect! Thank you for sharing at Mrs Fox’s Sweet Party
I noticed your Eggnog Latte Cupcakes when you brought them in and I could hardly wait to get over to see them. This is an awesome recipe that we will just love and perfect for holiday entertaining. Thank you so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday. Hope you are having a great week and come back soon!
Miz Helen
Those look DELICOIUS!! YUM! I am your newest follower. I would love for you to follow me back! I also wanted to invite you to my Christmnas Cookie Link Up – http://livinglifeintentionally.blogspot.com/2011/11/holiday-traditions-3christmas-cookies.html
Beth =-)
Oh wow…I want one right now…for breakfast!
You have captured this perfectly! But I’m not at all surprised. You continue to amaze me with your creations and innovations. I always love checking out what you’ve been up to. Thanks for sharing at this week’s BFF Open House!
Oh man, do those look good. My sister in law would spazz for one of these! Beautiful pictures!
Awwwww I love it. Absolutely amazing!!
I cannot wait to make these. My husband is an eggnog fanatic and I love all things latte so these are sure to be a hit!
These look gorgeous! My husband would absolutely love these. I’d like to invite you to share your recipe on Sweet Indulgences Sunday.
http://www.wellseasonedlife.com/2011/12/sweet-indulgences-sunday-34.html
Come to A Themed Baker’s Sunday for this next week’s theme: Christmas! Actually, this theme will continue until Christmas weekend! Hope to see you there!
Cupcake Apothecary
http://cupcakeapothecary.blogspot.com
These cupcakes look and sound amazing. I would love it if you came to link to my holiday recipe swap blog hop. It is my first ever! Love these recipes.
http://www.mythirtyspot.com
-Erin Kennedy
Is there a substitute for the shortening? Maybe more butter?
I’d love to try these!
I may have to make these for my hubby…he said they sound awesome.
oh these look great. I made eggnog cupcakes last year, but sadly didn’t put rum in them, what was I THINKING! I’ll have to make a batch and try each one to be sure they all taste great!
Congrats! You were featured this week at Mrs Foxs Sweet Party! Come by and grab a button. I can’t wait to see what you link up this week!
Here from Mrs Fox’s link up…I have been looking for a cupcake recipe JUST LIKE THIS!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THX!!!
Super yes please! Usually I’m on the fence about eggnog, but I love eggnog cupcakes. And that coffee buttercream is on point
and hello, your Christmas list is basically identical to mine!!
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