How To Brand Hot Buttered Rum

Keep warm during the mutual frigidity wintertime months alongside rum-spiked comfort-in-a-mug Hot Buttered Rum.  Not certain how to brand Hot Buttered Rum?  No worries ... exactly follow these few uncomplicated steps.  It's slow to brand your mugful!
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Yo ho ho together with a bottle of rum!  And when that bottle of rum is mixed alongside chocolate-brown sugar, rich spices, together with warm melted butter to create Hot Buttered Rum? ... It's a mugful of pure rum-spiked comfort that I love.

I've been a rum lover basically since the fourth dimension I commencement reached legal drinking age.  Having grown upwards inwards New England ... which I've learned is where Hot Buttered Rum originated inwards USA way dorsum inwards the 1600s ..., I justice it's no surprise I convey such an affinity for the stuff.  Heck, it's likely inwards my genes.

In doing a fiddling interrogation close the root of Hot Buttered Rum, I learned that New England was a hotbed of rum distilling inwards Colonial times, alongside distilleries popping upwards starting roughly the 1650s.

Not sure how to brand Hot Buttered Rum?  No worries ... exactly follow these few uncomplicated steps.  It's slow to brand your mugful!

And alongside the freezing mutual frigidity winters of the Northeast, it's no surprise those locally-made rums institute their way into hot cocktails.  I tin attest from experiencing some 25 Vermont winters that hot drinks similar my favorite Chai Tea Latte Mix or Slow Cooker Caramel Hot Chocolate are a vital agency of survival during those long mutual frigidity wintertime months.

It seems traditional Hot Buttered Rum was but rum together with hot H2O mixed alongside saccharide together with some spices inwards a mug, together with and therefore topped off alongside a pat of butter melted correct in.  Now a'days, it's to a greater extent than customary to mix upwards a spiced butter-sugar batter that is together with therefore combined alongside the rum together with boiling water.

Either way, the final result is pure warm-your-soul deliciousness! 

To continue warm during the mutual frigidity wintertime months alongside this rum-spiked comfort-in-a-mug, follow these few uncomplicated steps on how to brand Hot Buttered Rum. 

First, combine softened butter, chocolate-brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, together with ground cloves ...

... together with crush together to cast the Hot Buttered Rum batter.

At this point, the batter may live on used at i time to develop private mugs of Hot Buttered Rum or it tin live on stored inwards the fridge to live on used a fiddling at a fourth dimension when you'd like.

The batter may live on used immediately, or it tin live on stored inwards the fridge to live on used a fiddling at a fourth dimension when you'd like.

When you're gear upwards to relish a mugful, house 2 {or three, if you'd like} heaping tablespoons of batter inwards a mug together with add together nighttime rum ...

{Note low-cal rum volition non give the same depth of flavour every bit nighttime rum ... therefore stick alongside the nighttime stuff.}

Top off the mug alongside boiling water, together with stir until the butter batter melts together with is fully dissolved.

Then add together a dollop of freshly whipped cream together with a sprinkling of ground cinnamon.

See, simple, right?

The solely affair left to practise is to sip on your rum-spiked comfort-in-a-mug.  Heart-warming, soul-warming, body-warming comfort that volition indeed continue you lot warm together with toasty through the wintertime ... whether you lot alive inwards mutual frigidity New England or not.

Enjoy!

How to Make Hot Buttered Rum
(Printable recipe)
For the Batter:

Ingredients

• 1/2 c. (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
• 3/4 c. brown sugar
• 1/4 to 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
• 1/8 to 1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg
• pinch ground cloves
• small pinch salt

Directions

1. Place butter, chocolate-brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, together with cloves inwards a small-scale bowl. Mash together alongside the dorsum of a spoon or a fork until good combined.
2. Use at i time to develop private mugs of Hot Buttered Rum, or embrace together with refrigerate until gear upwards to serve.

For Each Mug:

Ingredients

• 2 heaping T. Hot Buttered Rum batter {from recipe above}
• 2 oz. dark or nighttime spiced rum
• 6 oz. boiling H2O
• whipped cream {optional}
• ground cinnamon or nutmeg for sprinkling {optional}
• cinnamon stick for garnish {optional}

Directions

1. Place Hot Buttered Rum batter inwards a mug. Add rum together with boiling water. Stir until butter mixture is melted together with fully dissolved. 
2.  Top alongside whipped cream together with a sprinkling of Blue Planet cinnamon or nutmeg.  Garnish alongside a cinnamon stick, if desired.

Enjoy!

Please relish these other tasty drinks from ...

Chai Tea Latte Mix

Peppermint Hot Chocolate {Made alongside Peppermint Patties}

Moscato Bee's Knees Wine Cocktail

Skinnier {Eggless} Eggnog

Slow Cooker Caramel Hot Chocolate

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