Increase your holiday cheer with this easy eggnog recipe you can make at home. You can make it safe for kids, or spice it up for adults. This recipe is simple, versatile, and delicious.
With the recent disruption to the dairy and grocery supply chain here in B.C. it’s become more important to be able to make holiday staples from scratch. With some delays, and lower supply of some processed dairy drinks, we don’t actually have much eggnog available in the grocery stores. What we do get, sells out fast. So, homemade eggnog it is this year. The awesome thing is that homemade eggnog tastes even better than the commercial type, without as many ingredients.
When the Joybilee kids were young, we’d make the eggnog recipe with rum flavoring. However, as the kids grew older, and we used up more of the expensive flavoring I ended up reading the label. Rum flavoring is alcohol based, and you can use an identical amount of real rum instead of rum flavoring and actually end up with a lower alcohol percentage in the finished eggnog. Also, real rum is cheaper than the artificial, alcohol based, rum flavoring. It takes us several years to go through a small bottle of dark rum, but it works out less expensive, and tastier. Also, you can make these awesome gluten free rum balls too.
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Easy Eggnog Recipe
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Yield: 2 servings 1x
- Category: Christmas
Description
A quick and basic eggnog recipe
Ingredients
- 2 cups whole milk
- 2 whole eggs (pasturized liquid egg if you don’t have farm fresh available)
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly gratted nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon rum (1 teaspoon rum flavoring if serving to kids)
- 1–2 tablespoons sugar
Instructions
- Pour milk and egg into a small blender
- Add spices, rum or rum flavoring, and sugar
- pulse blend for 5-15 seconds
- Serve cold
Notes
This eggnog won’t be quite as thick or smooth as commercial eggnog, but the flavor will be the same.
Makes two adult servings, or four children sized servings
Easy Eggnog Recipe:
Ingredients:
- 2 cups whole milk
- 2 whole eggs (pasturized liquid egg if you don’t have farm fresh available)
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly gratted nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon rum (1 teaspoon rum flavoring if serving to kids)
- 1-2 tablespoons sugar
Directions:
- Pour milk and egg into a small blender
- Add spices, rum or rum flavoring, and sugar
- pulse blend for 5-15 seconds
- Serve cold, top with a dusting of cinnamon or whipped cream if desired.
Making your Perfect Eggnog
You can make this easy eggnog recipe with half whole milk and half heavy cream if you prefer a creamier drink. Many eggnog recipes are cooked to a certain extent, but when using farm fresh, clean, eggs or pre pasturized eggs, there’s no real need to make this a drinkable custard.
Eggnog doesn’t have to be rum flavored, you can use bourbon, brandy, or whiskey, instead, or a combination. While this recipe specifies just a small amount of alcohol, if you prefer a stronger spiked drink you can double, triple, or quadruple the amount of alcohol used. You can also omit the rum flavoring and alcohol completely if desired.
Holiday Recipes for Your Celebration:
Holiday dinner wouldn’t be the same without making a turkey. Make it one you can be proud of with grandma’s tips and tricks for the perfect turkey! Don’t forget the sizzling goodness of fresh, hot,gluten free gravy either.
My favorite holiday dish is always the mashed potatoes. Who doesn’t like mashed potatoes? Skip the “instant” boxed stuff, and make your own that’s tastier, creamier, and over-all better. And, honestly, the stove’s already on anyway.
It may have become a trope, but don’t forget the cranberry sauce. This cranberry orange relish is a raw take on traditional cranberry sauce, and this fermented version is also delicious and can keep for months in the fridge.
For a drink, try this cranberry kombucha. It’s healthier than soda, or soda masquerading with added cranberry juice, and has even gotten the kid-seal of approval in our house. It’ll also give you the probiotic boost you need to avoid the after dinner bloat from enjoying too much turkey, gravy, and mashed potatoes. Yum!
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This recipe is delicious and so easy. As soon as I read your recipe, I had to make it. My mother used to make a similar eggnog for me many years ago when I was a child. So delicious and so comforting Definitely making this again.