Eggnog Spice Cake
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Eggnog Spice Cake turns your favorite holiday drink into the perfect dessert.
Ingredients
- FOR CAKE
- nonstick cooking spray
- 2 c. all-purpose flour
- 1 tbsp. baking powder
- ¾ tsp. cinnamon
- ¼ tsp. freshly ground nutmeg
- ½ tsp. kosher salt
- ½ c. (1 stick) unsalted butter
- 1½ c. granulated sugar
- 3 large eggs, room temperature
- 1 c. store-bought eggnog
- 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
- FOR PUDDING
- 1 (3.4-0z) box instant vanilla pudding mix
- 1 c. cold store-bought eggnog
- ¼ c. bourbon
- pinch freshly grated nutmeg
- ½ c. cool whip
- FOR FROSTING
- 3 sticks unsalted butter
- 5 c. powder sugar
- ½ c. store-bought eggnog
- ¼ tsp. kosher salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350º. Spray two 8-inch cake pans. Line bottoms of pans with parchment; spray parchment.
- In a medium bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt.
- In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add eggs and beat until fully combined. Add dry mixture and beat until combined. Add eggnog and vanilla and beat until combined.
- Pour batter into prepared pans. Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 40 to 44 minutes. Cool completely.
- Meanwhile, make pudding: In a large bowl, whisk pudding mix, eggnog, bourbon, and nutmeg and stir until thickened, about 5 minutes. Fold in Cool Whip.
- Make frosting: In another large bowl using a hand mixer, beat butter with half the powdered sugar until smooth. Add remaining powdered sugar, eggnog, and salt and beat until fluffy. If mixture is too stiff, add more eggnog.
- Transfer half the frosting into a pastry bag fitted with a ½-inch round pastry tip.
- Level the top of each cake with a serrated knife to create even layers. Place down one cake and pipe frosting around the perimeter of the cake. Fill in center with vanilla pudding. Top with remaining cake.
- Using about 1½ cups of frosting, smooth a crumb coat around outside of the cake. Transfer cake to refrigerator until frosting is hardened, 30 minutes to 1 hour.
- Spread outside of cake with remaining frosting.
