Eggnog Cake with White Chocolate Rum Ganache

I’ve grown such a love for making cakes over the past distich months as well as I’k thinking nearly making one every calendar month for the web log. They’re simply so fun and therapeutic to make as well as decorate..I’thousand obsessed! I wanted to make a wintery 1 that you lot could make during the holidays instead of the loads of cookies too pies that nosotros all typically take. This ane power expect intimidating but it’second honestly SO slowly. Trust me!

You literally make the ganache inward the microwave..inward 40 seconds. It couldn’t live easier! The cake itself is super unproblematic together with the frosting is an slow cream cheese buttercream that yous can brand alongside an electrical mixer or your stand mixer! Who else loooves cream cheese frosting?

I can’t stand those super sugary frostings that are normally on the cakes you lot go at the grocery shop..but cream cheese frosting that isn’t super sweet? I’thousand all inwards.

H5N1 funny floor well-nigh this cake. I was picking from the bushes outside my family to try to observe holly berries or something similar to mode this cake, and I constitute these pretty lilliputian cherry berries with pretty twigs as well as long, dark-green leaves. Several hours afterward styling together with shooting the cake, I asked my mom, “what’sec that bush alongside the reddish berries inwards forepart our home?” And she said “H5N1 nandina.” So I googled “are the berries on a nandina bush toxic?”

Hahahah. The respond is yep, they contain high levels of cyanide in addition to are extremely toxic to all mammals. Of grade I commencement freaking out because I had to sense of taste roughly of the cake for character control purposes! But that piece wasn’t touching anyway. So nosotros’re good! Moral of the floor: make sure yous know if things from nature are poisonous before you lot lay them on your nutrient. Whoooooops.

So I actually don’t actually similar eggnog inward its pure class, unless it’sec IN things. Like inward baked goods or lattes. It’second and so sickeningly sweet as well as rich on its own. I could never take more than a duet sips. But in this cake, it is seriously to give-up the ghost for! It’s perfectly spiced as well as has a low-cal sweet/butterscotch/rum flavor that is perfect for the holidays.

And the frosting has a niggling bit of eggnog in addition to nutmeg inwards it inwards add-on to the cream cheese in addition to it’sec super light and fluffy because I whipped it for so long. You cannot beat a good homemade frosting!

Oh as well as did I refer in that location’s rum in the ganache likewise? Just a litttttle chip of booziness. It’s and then and so skilful. I used dark rum hither but you could definitely function a spiced rum or whatsoever you accept!

This is something you lot could semi make ahead of time if you lot’re having guests over. You tin make the cake role a 24-hour interval or ii in advance too merely keep them tightly wrapped in plastic wind before the twenty-four hour period of! Then but gather and yous’re skillful to get.

Also, using imitation plants is in all likelihood the best idea to decorate it. Or, you could use something like peppermints or candies, or even sprinkles! Or any your center desires. Sugared cranberries would live super pretty besides!

I want to live inwards this scene!

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Eggnog Cake alongside Spiced Cream Cheese Buttercream and White Chocolate Rum Ganache

This eggnog cake is then festive in addition to perfect for the holidays! It's frosted with a spiced cream cheese buttercream, as well as topped alongside white chocolate ganache!

Course

Dessert

Prep Time i hr

Cook Time 25 minutes

Total Time 1 60 minutes 25 minutes

Author Spices in My DNA

Ingredients

For the cake

• 
  two 1/ii
  cups
  all use flour
  


• 
  two
  teaspoons
  baking powder
  


• 
  one
  teaspoon
  baking soda
  


• 
  two
  teaspoons
  cinnamon
  


• 
  ane/two
  teaspoon
  nutmeg
  


• 
  1
  teaspoon
  common salt
  


• 
  iii
  large
  eggs
  


• 
  ane
  loving cup
  granulated saccharide
  


• 
  one
  cup
  low-cal chocolate-brown carbohydrate, loosely packed
  


• 
  i
  cup
  unsalted butter, melted too cooled
  


• 
  ane
  tablespoon
  vanilla extract
  


• 
  one/3
  loving cup
  nighttime rum
  


• 
  one/2
  cup
  sour cream
  


• 
  one
  cup
  eggnog
  

For the eggnog buttercream frosting

• 
  i ane/2
  cups
  unsalted butter, softened to room temperature (three sticks)
  


• 
  four
  ounces
  cream cheese, softened to room temperature
  


• 
  three one/two
  cups
  powdered carbohydrate
  


• 
  one
  teaspoon
  vanilla extract
  


• 
  one/ii
  teaspoon
  nutmeg
  


• 
  ii
  tablespoons
  eggnog
  


• 
  pinch of salt
  

For the white chocolate rum ganache

• 
  iv
  ounces
  white chocolate, chopped
  


• 
  ii
  tablespoons
  heavy cream
  


• 
  one
  tablespoon
  dark rum
  


• 
  dash of vanilla extract
  

Instructions

1. 
   

   Preheat the oven to 350℉. Grease together with flour 3 eight'' cake pans too job the bottoms alongside parchment newspaper. Set aside.

   
   


2. 
   

   In a medium mixing bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, together with table salt. Whisk to combine.

   
   


3. 
   

   In a large mixing bowl, combine the eggs, granulated carbohydrate, and chocolate-brown sugar and whisk until polish. Add the butter, vanilla, rum, sour cream, too eggnog too whisk until combined. Add the dry ingredients too mix amongst a safe spatula until only combined. Pour the batter evenly into the pans together with polish out the tops with a spatula. Bake for twenty-22 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Let the cakes cool for ten minutes, and then take away them from the pans too allow cool the balance of the way on a cooling rack.

   
   


4. 
   

   Make the frosting. Add the butter as well as cream cheese to the bowl of a stand up mixer as well as whip on medium high for 2-iii minutes until light together with fluffy. Reduce speed to depression too gradually add together the powdered sugar until combined. Add the vanilla, nutmeg, eggnog, in addition to salt too increase speed to medium-high too whip for iv-five minutes or until super fluffy.

   
   


5. 
   

   To brand the ganache, add white chocolate, heavy cream, together with rum to a medium microwave rubber bowl. Microwave for twenty seconds, stir, as well as then microwave for another xx seconds or until completely melted. Stir until smoothen in addition to pourable. Let cool for v-ten minutes.

   
   


6. 
   

   To get together the cake, home one layer on a plate or the cooling rack (only so you lot don't mess upwards the plate y'all are serving on, or the cake stand up!), together with spread the acme with the frosting. Top with another layer as well as spread top alongside frosting. Top alongside the tertiary layer in addition to spread with another layer of frosting, leaving a trivial bit left for the sides of the cake. Use the leftover frosting to "half" frost the sides, to create a "semi-naked" upshot. Use an get-go spatula or bench scraper to smoothen out the sides of the cake. Pour the cooled ganache over the cake as well as let it drip down the sides. Garnish alongside twigs, cherry berries, branches, sprinkles, crushed peppermint candies, sugared cranberries, or whatever your center desires!