Windows, grey with frost. The morn, white. The north wind would have a color too if sharp and icy were of a color. She steps out. Her cheeks turn scarlet, ablaze in the sprinkle of snow. Her hair instantly dotted with white. She pulls her red faux fur closer. Her fingers spread evenly around a hot cup of hazelnut coffee.
Carols sound faintly. So far, perhaps only a memory. Now a familiar voice rings in her imagination. A furry tree (not faux). Promise of presents. She turns back into her door. The house, warmer now with the scent of Christmas tickling her senses. The windows, clear.
A traditional holiday flavor in a streusel muffin, delicate and delicious.
| Muffin Monday: Eggnog Muffins |
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- Batter
- 1/4 cup (1/2 stick, 2 ounces) butter
- 3/4 cup (5 1/4 ounces) sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 1/2 cups (10 1/2 ounces) King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon eggnog flavor or 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 1/4 cups (10 ounces) eggnog or half and half
- Topping
- 1/2 cup (3 1/2 ounces) sugar
- 1/2 cup (2 1/4 ounces) King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/8 teaspoon eggnog flavor, optional
- 3 tablespoons (1 1/2 ounces) butter, melted
- Preheat the oven to 425°F. Line a muffin tin with 12 paper or silicone muffin cups, and grease the cups with non-stick vegetable oil spray; this will ensure that they peel off the muffins nicely.
- In a medium-sized mixing bowl, cream together the butter and sugar till smooth. Add the eggs, beating for several minutes and scraping the bowl, till the mixture is smooth and light colored. Beat in the baking powder, nutmeg, salt, and eggnog flavor or vanilla.
- Stir the flour into the butter mixture alternately with the eggnog or half and half, beginning and ending with the flour and making sure everything is thoroughly combined. Spoon the batter evenly into the prepared muffin cups.
- Stir together all of the topping ingredients JUST till crumbly. Stir gently, and don’t overmix; you don’t want to turn this crumbly topping into a solid mass. Sprinkle the topping over the muffins.
- Bake the muffins for 20 minutes, or until they’re a pale golden brown. Remove them from the oven, and serve warm, or at room temperature.
Holiday Muffin Monday: Round Up
Kate | Food Babbles
Maya | Foodiva Kitchen
Aimee | Food Je T'Aimee
Nastassia | Let Me Eat Cake
Happy Baking!
They look so delicious!
Happy Monday.
Cheers,
Rosa
Perfect for the leftover holiday eggnog!!! Beautiful!
I so wish I could have joined in, they look amazing!!!! I have leftover eggnog too:-) I may need to make these just for fun next week when I am home! I hope you had a very Merry Christmas:-) Hugs, Terra
These look very tasty! I wish I had some leftover eggnog! Hope your holidays have been happy ones. :-)
Loving your Muffin Monday’s! These look wonderful!!!
Just made these muffins and they turned out just like the picture and taste wonderful! Thanks for a great recipe to use up the egg nog (I used low fat egg nog as that was what I had).
Thanks Elizabeth! So glad to know they turned out well.
Happy Holidays!
A
great muffin selection and just so perfect for today!
LOVED this recipe…it turned out so well! If you can source eggnog extract definitely pumps up the flavour and is even better. Keeper muffin recipe :) MERRY XMAS!
Your muffins turned out as good as your introduction to this post.
What a great idea for muffins. They look delicious.
The muffins look amazing and your writing of this post was sheer poetry! Beautifully done & Merry Christmas!
Lovely post! Perfect holiday muffins! Hope you had a merry Christmas!
Just right for when it’s hard to let go of that holiday feeling! Hope you had a wonderful Christmas!!
These muffins look so inviting, great to see after the long drive home from south Texas. Those and my coffee would give delicious tranquility. By the way, I have enjoyed your blog hops events as well as the individual postings from you this year-keep them coming! Have a great day.
Aw. An! And you say you’re not a writer! That was beautiful! I felt warm and all wrapped up in that memory of yours. Wonderfully written.
Loved this muffin and it’s perfect, Christmas flavour. Look forward to seeing what you have in store for us next week!
Yum, what a great holiday flavour of muffin!
I’m now missing my college days in PA :) Pretty outstanding white Christmas
Great muffins!
These look like delicious muffins — I love eggnog, but sadly do not have it often. Beautifully written post, too!
What a wonderful recipe. I love the picture you paint as well with your writing. Congrats on top 9!
What gorgeous holiday muffins. i can smell them baking now, Yum!
Congrats on the Top 9 today!
i’ve never heard of eggnog muffins! they look delicious! congrats on top 9 :)
Eggnog everything, please! These muffins look perfect! Great job as always…
xo
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Love the prose and the muffin recipe! Congrats on the Top 9!
Sigh. I wish I had one of these right now, they look amazing!!
congrats on top nine!! this is a muffin I know would be a hit at our home. we love eggnog!!
What a beautiful post! And the muffins look fantastic, love the festive flavor :)
Wishing you an amazing 2012!
Eggnog is one of the holiday things I’ve encountered in the U.S/ that I wouldn’t want to miss out on. These muffins look perfect – moist, crumbly, and sweet in that spiced way.
These look great! I love egg nog. We still have a gallon left in the fridge, I think I need to whip up a batch of these muffins! :)
Those muffins would be wonderful with some black coffee!
Happy Weekend!
Angie
yummy these look delicious. Nice recipes!
Love these muffins! My favorite way to enjoy eggnog is baked in yummy stuff!
this year I made eggnog donuts, eggnog chai lattes smoothies, and lots of other noggy goodies.
these look great!
I acquired taste for eggnogs last winter, and I am hooked! Love how delicious those mufflins looks :)