Try This Eggnog Bread Recipe for Christmas Brunch! (2025)

Are you looking for something different to make this holiday season? Try This Eggnog Bread Recipe for Christmas Brunch!

Eggnog Bread

This Eggnog Bread Recipe has a really good eggnog flavor. If you didn't frost it, I think it would be great chopped up as a french toast bake!

But in all reality, it would be long gone before you could even do that because it is so delicious!

Try This Eggnog Bread Recipe for Christmas Brunch!

Have you ever wondered why we associate eggnog with the Christmas season? I have...so I googled it!

While culinary historians debate its exact lineage, most agree eggnog originated from the early medieval Britain “posset,” a hot, milky, ale-like drink. By the 13th century, monks were known to drink a posset with eggs and figs.

Milk, eggs, and sherry were foods of the wealthy, so eggnog was often used in toasts to prosperity and good health.

Eggnog became tied to the holidays when the drink hopped the pond in the 1700s. American colonies were full of farms—and chickens and cows—and cheaper rum, a soon-signature ingredient.

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Are you looking for other easy recipes to serve alongside my Eggnog Bread ?

Check out these really fun Christmas recipes on The Rebel Chick, like our Homemade Hot Cocoa Cookies Recipe for Christmas. I am always adding new recipes, especially during the holiday months!

Take a look and see if there is anything that sounds tasty to you! You might especially like our Pumpkin Spice Cookie Bars Recipe!

My top Christmas cookie recipe is actually thisChristmas Cookie Bars Recipeand it gets so many views every holiday season! I’ve been making it for years and it’s actually my second favorite! My other favorite is this!

But believe me, all of these other recipes are equally delicious!

How to Make This Eggnog Bread Recipe for Christmas Brunch!

Eggnog Bread Recipe Bread Ingredients:

• 2-¼ cups all purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
• ½ cup (1 stick) butter, softened
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 eggs
• 1-½ cups eggnog

Eggnog Bread Recipe Icing Ingredients:

• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 2 tablespoons eggnog
• pinch of ground nutmeg
• Christmas sprinkles

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Eggnog Bread Recipe Directions:

Preheat your oven to 350 and grease a loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray, and set it aside.

Combine flour, baking powder, salt and nutmeg in a small bowl and mix well. Set aside.

Add butter and sugar and beat well in a mixing bowl.

Add vanilla, eggs and eggnog and mix well.

Beat in flour just until combined.

Pour batter into prepared pan.

Bake for 45-50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Let cool completely before icing.

Add powdered sugar, nutmeg and eggnog to a small bowl and whisk until smooth.

Drizzle over bread and top with sprinkles. Let set for icing to harden a bit. Slice and serve.

Makes 1 loaf,12-16 slices depending on the thickness of your slices.

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