I’m super duper excited to share this! I realized that I hadn’t shared a single German recipe. That’s because for the most part, I don’t like German baked goods. Bread is the exception. And fresh pretzel rolls.
I made eggnog last week, thinking that eggnog and egg liqueur were the same thing. They’re not. People enjoyed the eggnog, but it wasn’t what I had wanted to make. This is what I wanted! And I found the perfect recipe from the German equivalent of allrecipes.com. It’s a traditional German drink that is usually served at Christmas or Easter, but people drink it throughout the year.
It’s easy, crazy delicious and everyone I’m giving presents to this year is getting some as a present. The eggnog bundt cake I was going to make is now an egg liqueur cake. The Irish cream fudge is now going to be egg liqueur fudge. And I already have an egg liqueur baked donuts recipe to share after Christmas. :)
I’m going to freeze the leftover egg whites and make pancakes with them, but you could also make an angel food cake. After refrigeration, it’s pretty thick, kind of like a thin pudding, but I think it’ll work in anything that calls for eggnog.
I think most egg liqueur recipes have raw egg. I can’t do raw egg. Raw egg in cookie dough or cake batter? Sure! Drinking it, though? Eww. This one is cooked to the same temperature you cook ice cream to, so it’s definitely safe.
I don’t have a cool label maker program. :(
What you see above is actually 1.5x the recipe and we’re making it again tomorrow so that we can actually have some after giving it all away as presents.
8 egg yolks
2 cups* (250 grams) powdered sugar
1 1/2 cup + 1 tablespoon (375ml) evaporated milk**
1 8-gram packet vanilla sugar OR 2 teaspoons granulated sugar***
1 cup + 1 tablespoon (250ml) 54% dark rum (we used about 1 cup + 3 tablespoons (275ml) of 37.5% rum)
* 2 cups is only approximate – it’s really easier just to weigh this one
** Mine was 10% fat, but I don’t know if it comes in percentages like that everywhere. If you have the option, get 10% and not the lower fat versions! Please. It won’t taste nearly as good if you use low fat stuff.
*** If you use plain granulated sugar, add maybe one or two teaspoons of vanilla to the mixture before pouring the liqueur in the glasses.
Directions:
With an electric mixer, beat the egg yolks and vanilla sugar until foamy. I did mine for about 2 – 3 minutes. You can kind of see the texture here.
Slowly add the powdered sugar. It’ll look like this. Make sure there aren’t clumps of powdered sugar like I have below!
Then add the evaporated milk and then the rum. Mix slowly until well combined.
Put it in a pot large enough for all the liquid, but leave at least an inch free from the top of the pot. If you have to do it in two batches, then do it in two batches. If you fill it almost to the top of the pot, it will be bad. Trust me. Then put that pot in a larger pot, which has been filled slightly less than halfway with water. How far you’ll need to fill it depends on the size of the pots. Heat it slowly until it reaches 160°F / 71°C. This took about 15 – 20 minutes. We also didn’t let the water boil. It started to for a few seconds, and I spotted a bubble in the liqueur and immediately took it off to prevent it from becoming overdone. Do NOT let the liqueur boil! Or the water!
I just looked in David Lebovitz’s The Perfect Scoop, the best ice cream book ever, and on page four he says that egg experts recommend 160°F as a safe temperature, and that if you let it go above 185°F / 85°C it’ll become scrambled eggs. So please, be really careful and stop cooking at 160°F / 71°C! Add your vanilla if you didn’t use vanilla sugar.
Run some hot water over the outside of your bottles and then dry it off. We did this just to make sure that the bottles wouldn’t crack, but I’m not sure if it’s really necessary. We did it anyway!
Don’t fill it absolutely to the top. If you used the higher percentage alcohol, your liqueur will be quite thick and you might need to add a little extra rum the next day to loosen it up a little. If you used the lower percentage stuff, it was definitely liquid enough to pour on the next day so you can fill it almost to the top.
We let ours cool and then put them in the fridge.
In the comments, people claim that they had made this exact recipe and have kept it for years. The only thing was that it got a little thicker. I think I’ll keep mine in the fridge for a few weeks and keep a little in a jar as an experiment. I’ll tell you next Christmas if it really lasts so long. :)
Yields: 5 cups or 1.2 liters
Source: Egg Liqueur – GDR recipe
German bakers: Evaporated milk = Kondensmilch and you can get it in cartons everywhere including the discounters, although I couldn’t find 10% at the discounters. Go to Kaiser’s or Edeka and spend 5 cents more to get the fatter stuff. :)
8 comments on "Eierlikör – German Egg Liqueur (cooked!) a.k.a. Advokaat" — Add one!
To Beth – I have no idea where your comment went! I got an email saying you left one but for some reason, it's not here. The question was if you could use something else instead of rum to make it alcohol-free. I'm not positive about it but Mr. Texanerin (he's German) googled it and people were saying you could use some rum extract. The question is how long the drink would stay good for! I'd be worried about that. Let me know how it turns out if you try! Just add the extract at the very end. Happy holidays to you. :)
Hi Anja! We just finished making it for the third time. It's really good stuff. Let me know how it comes out if you make it! I hope you had a lovely Christmas. :)
I love Eierlikoer! I'm from Germany, living in the US now, can't find it anywhere here & yes, it's true, Eierlikoer tastes better than Eggnog, thank you so much for the recipe! ;-)
Miryam – It really doesn't taste like eggnog. Promise!
I hope you like the cookies! I have to admit that I don't find them super exciting after all this fun holiday baking, but at least they're healthy. :)
Superb pictures :-)
I am not an egg nog person but your recipe looks really luxurious and yummy.
I got maple syrup the other day so I rembered the maple cookies you made a while back…..after Christmas and coming back from TN I will make them ;-) I will let you know how they turn out!
Whoa! This sounds insanely delicious. Can't wait to try!
Yeah! You've got to make it! It's not like eggnog. It's way way better. :) It really tastes like some kind of crazy delicious pudding, with a nice drinkable texture. Just put it in some old jelly jars! That's what we did.
OMG, OMG, OMG! I'm not an egg nog person ( I think I've maybe had it once in my life, and I can't remember what it tasted like), but I really really want this. It looks creamy and good and scrumptious! I'd just need to figure out what to put it in, haha.