We're winding down baking through The Cake Book: Beautiful Sweet Treats for Every Craving by Rebecca Firth. Next month we get to choose whichever cake we want from the book, but for this month I chose Spiced Eggnog Cake with Rum Buttercream.
Now a disclaimer - I don't really enjoy liquor (rum, whiskey, etc.) in baked goods. So that my family would actually eat the cake, I created an adapted version of it. If you want to add more nutmeg, it will make it taste more "eggnoggy."
The cake came out beautifully - a little dense (in a good way), but incredibly tender lightly spiced cake slathered with my own maple buttercream frosting.
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