Hot Buttered Rum

[MrsPinecone]

1 lb melted butter
2 lbs brown sugar
3 large eggs
1 teaspoon each cinnamon, allspice and cloves
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

Pour melted butter over brown sugar and add spices. Mix. Add eggs and beat well.

To serve: 1 heaping tablespoon to 6 oz boiling water. Rum to taste. (I use dark rum.)

This lasts for months in the fridge, because the sugar keeps the eggs from spoiling.

The recipe makes a ton. I put into little decorative jars for the holidays with the recipe on a tag around the neck. Makes a great gift for neighbors and as something to take when you do one of those holiday drop-in visits.

[clarkestep]

Larissa,
This sounds wonderful. When I was a little girl I remember my mom making the 'mix' (even though I never got any). I don't remember the eggs though. What do the eggs do? Make it creamy? I have no idea, but I know what I'm about to make in a few minutes! LOL

[cuzisaidso]

Will it make me drunk? I hope. JK

[MrsPinecone]

Only if you actually add the rum! I sometimes don't, and it's still tasty. I may actually make this early, while I am still pregnant, and try to convince myself that there's rum in it! LOL

The eggs make it thicker and creamy, as opposed to the nasty excuse for hot buttered rum that you usually get at a bar. I actually had one bartender float a pat of butter on a glass of hot water and cinnamon (very little rum) and try to tell me that's the way it's supposed to be. Riiiiight.

[clarkestep]

Yup, the eggs DEFINATELY give it smoothness! I just had to make a batch! I halved it but used 2 eggs and dark brown sugar. I only had about an ouonce of dark rum in the house, so I was only able to make one glass. I let DH try it and almost didn't get it back! I'm gonna try it with rum extract and see how it tastes. Then I'll get the taste without the alcohol. I wouldn't want to get drunk on this stuff and seeing how it tastes so good even with the real rum in it, it would be easy to do. But I don't want to go that far.

Thanks for posting the recipe!

[MrsPinecone]

OK, I didn't even think about rum extract. Let me know how it tastes!

[catinhat]

I don't use eggs, but ice cream instead. I'll have to dig out the recipe.........

[Kristen.C]

This sounds incredible! I've never tried it before, but as you said-- it seems like it would definitely be nice for the holidays. I can imagine chasing down some sugar cookies with it! YUM.

[clarkestep]

OK, I didn't even think about rum extract. Let me know how it tastes!
Made more yesterday and used the rum extract. I thought it actually tasted better.

Oh, and I made it with unsalted butter this time, rather than the ICBINB fake stuff. It was good, but the unsalted butter was much better!

[MrsPinecone]

I always use real butter. That may have been the taste difference you noticed. But I am a rum drinker, so will probably prefer the real stuff! LOL

[catinhat]

Hot Buttered Rum

1 lb. brown sugar
1 lb. butter (only use real butter, not margarine)
1/2 gallon vanilla ice cream
1 1/2 tsp nutmeg
1 1/2 tsp cloves
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon

Soften ice cream. Blend with other ingredients in mixer. Freeze. To serve, measure jigger of rum into mug; add 1 to 2 tablespoons mix and fill with boiling water.

YUM!

[clarkestep]

I saw a show on Food network and the woman made a hot apple toddie almost like this recipe. I've made it using this recipe and it was pretty good.

Instead of using water she used apple cider.

Instead of using rum she used whiskey. I only had rum, I'll find out how the other tastes soon and report back.

She also didn't use eggs.

She added about a teaspoon of rum extract to a thing of cool-whip and mixed it well and put a dollap on top. She then sprinkled some pumpkin spice over it.

Even though I've only made it with the rum, it tastes great. You don't want to over do the rum though or it isn't drinkable.

Enjoy! -but not too much- LOL

[liane66]

So I'm sitting here on this cold snowy/icy night (can't believe it was near 80 a few days ago) and I decided to have a hot buttered rum. A few weeks ago I made one from the recipe in the bartender's book that I have which is basically a pat of butter, hot water, brown sugar & rum.

Tonight I decided to try this recipe. I'm so glad I did its fantastic! The only changes I made were I decreased the brown sugar (didn't have 2 pounds) & added vanilla extra.

Thanks so much for sharing!

[MrsPinecone]

The weather is getting cooler and I can't wait to make a batch of this to keep in the fridge.