Christmas Eggnog Bread
This holiday bread is moist and tasty. It has pecans and golden raisins, along with eggnog and applesauce. It’s a tasty sweet bread which is ideal for Christmas breakfast.
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 egg
- ½ cup white sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ cup chopped pecans
- 1 cup golden raisins
- ¼ cup applesauce
- 1¾ cups eggnog
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg
- ¼ cup vegetable or canola oil
- Splash of rum extract optional
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- Mix the dry ingredients in one bowl and the eggnog, egg, oil, applesauce, and rum extract (if using) in another.
- Now combine both mixtures.
- Stir in the nuts and raisins.
- Divide this batter between a pair of greased loaf pans.
- Bake the eggnog bread for 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the middle of a loaf comes out clean.
- Let the loaves cool for 10 minutes, then turn out of the pans and let them finish cooling on a wire rack.