Homemade Eggnog
A smooth, lightly creamy homemade egg nog with warm spices, easily adjusted to your preferred thickness for the perfect holiday sip.
Ingredients
- 2 cups milk
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp allspice
- 1 tsp nutmeg
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 5 egg yolks
- ⅓ cup sugar
- 1 cup heavy cream (whipped)
Instructions
- Into a bowl mix together 5 egg yolk and sugar. Whisk and set aside.5 egg yolks, ⅓ cup sugar
- Into a saucepan add milk, heavy cream, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, and vanilla.2 cups milk, 1 cup heavy cream, 1 tsp cinnamon, 1 tsp allspice, 1 tsp nutmeg, 1 tsp vanilla
- Warm over medium heat white stirring until it starts to steam or about 80F.
- Add your warm milk 1 cup at a time into the egg yolk mixture while stirring. Make sure not to add it all at once, otherwise it will cook the eggs. This process of slowly incorporating the hot milk into eggs is called tempering.
- Once all the milk in fully incorporated add everything back into the saucepan to cook over medium heat. Let this go until your desired consistency and flavor, I just let it cook another 5 minutes. Make sure you continue mixing so you don't steam the eggs.
- Let this mixture cool down and fold in 1 cup of heavy cream for extra light texture.1 cup heavy cream
- Serve with extra nutmeg.
