welcome friends welcome back to the kitchen today we're going to make
another eggnog cake this one with a streusel crumb topping so it starts out
as always by creaming the butter in a stand mixer and you don't need to use a
stand mixer if you've got a hand blender or even just a wooden spoon you can do
this you don't need a stand mixer okay well the butter is softening up
will make the streusel topping so I have here some melted butter to that I'm
going to add flour cinnamon brown sugar and grate in some nutmeg okay looks like
enough so I'll get a spoon and we'll mix this together now there's one other
ingredient to go into here and that is rum and you've got a lot of choices when
it comes to rum a dark rum a flavorful dark rum is a great idea probably a
spiced rum which would fit with the spices are to go on in this cake and
I've decided that the rum I want to use is this it's called chick choc it's a
Canadian rum which is a little bit weird so this chick jock this is a spiced rum
but it's not spiced with the spices that you would normally think of it has stuff
that you find on the Canadian Arctic peppery green alder spikenard winter rod
berries lovage gale seeds wild Angelica so it brings a real sort of northern
flair to its flavor profile of course use whichever rum you have or would like
to use and if you want to leave the rum
out go right ahead leave the rum out or just
put in rum flavoring so we mix this together until everything is wet looks
like the butter is ready so next in is some white sugar and we just continue to
cream that until it's really light and fluffy
well that's happening I'm gonna mix the baking powder into the flour okay now we
put the eggs into the butter mixture one at a time and you let the egg fully
incorporate or you put the second one in and I found
that by doing it this way they just mix in better if you overload it with egg it
doesn't incorporate in as nicely but feel free to just toss both eggs in at
the same time if you want to okay so we're gonna need a half a cup of eggnog
and this eggnog already has rum in it not enough rum to make it alcoholic just
enough rum to give it a touch of rum flavor and it's just available at the
regular grocery store here I'm gonna put the vanilla into the eggnog just to make
it easier to mix in later so touch your vanilla and I'm gonna be very careful
with this vanilla this is a very potent vanilla mixture very easy to overpower
everything okay with the mixers still running I'm going to add the sour cream
and we're just going to wait until that sour cream is completely mixed in before
we move on okay now we alternate between the dry ingredients and the liquid three
or four additions you put it in you wait till the flours fully incorporated and
then drizzle in a little bit of the eggnog vanilla and then you go back to
the flour mixture got a nine by nine cake pan with a parchment sling just to
make it easy to get the cake out and in goes the batter spread the batter out
right into the corners smooth it as best you can and then sprinkle on the
streusel topping couple of taps and into the oven
hey Jules hey Glenn uh this is super crunchy on top it was it was tough to
slice it is super crunchy not that I'm great at slicing at any time but you
know that was tough so what do we got other than fabulous-looking
crunchy top um well when it kicked off Annie it's an eggnog cake ah with uh you
know the top of it yeah okay that's a really great cake is super moist it is
it is really moist and the eggnog flavor is very subtle yes and I totally love
the crunchy on top and the crunchy on top so it is subtle it's there you could
bump it up a little bit more if you want it to having just a subtle eggnog flavor
means you can partner it with other things well yeah and it's not
overpowering so it's the flavors there it's got that hint you say Oh eggnog
that's great without being eggnog I don't want to have any more eggnog yeah
yeah um and so you can play around with it a little bit you could add a little
bit more rum or you could add whiskey depending on the eggnog that you're
using this could stand for a little bit more eggnog in the batter of the cake if
you wanted to amp up the flavor just like we did with the bundt cake you
could bring it up a little bit higher there's quite a bit that you could do
with this I think to change that eggnog flavor if you wanted more I think
because it has such a lovely rich sweet eggnog flavor to it I actually think it
would be interesting if you kind of partnered it with something that was
tart like a cranberry yes oh that would be really good wouldn't mmm so another
holiday Christmas flavor yeah together with it yeah I think that'd be great
well I need more crunchy topping so thanks for stopping by
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