Eggnog Pound Cake

Ok so this cake is the quintessential Christmas cake because if Christmas had a taste this would be it! The moment you bite into it I swear you hear Christmas carols. It's a pretty cake too with a swirl that you can see when you cut it.

I found this recipe a long time  ago and I think it was in some kind of southern living magazine or cookbook that I came across and no longer have. This is the cake I make every year that looks adorable on my cake stand and is a real crowd pleaser. In fact, Scarlet, my youngest, called for the recipe the other night to take her work Christmas party. Now it will be here and all my girls can access it!

1C unsalted butter

3C sugar

6 lg. eggs

3C flour

3/4t baking powder

1/2t salt

1C eggnog

2t vanilla

2T brandy

1t cinnamon

3/4t nutmeg

1/2t allspice

1/4t cloves

Grease and flour bunt pan.

Beat butter and sugar 5-7 min. add eggs one at a time beating after each. Mix together the flour, baking powder and salt. Do not add the spices now. Add the dry ingredients alternately with the eggnog beginning and ending with the dry ingredients.beat at low speed. Stir in the vanilla and brandy.

Pour half the batter in to the bundt pan and add the spices to the remaining batter and pour evenly on top of the batter in the pan. Take a butter knife and swirl in the top batter.

Bake at 350 for 50-55 min. or until a wooden toothpick comes out almost clean with a few crumbs attached but not wet.

Let the cake cool on wire rack for 10 min. Then invert on a plate.

1C powdered sugar

2T plus 1t cream

Mix together and drizzle over warm cake.