Milk Nog, or Eggless Egg Nog, is such a fun festive beverage to serve at the holidays. Spices, vanilla extract, maple syrup, milk, and cream make for a great drink — no raw eggs or instant vanilla pudding mix required!
Serve this egg free Milk Nog with your favorite Christmas Cookies for a fun and simple dessert or include it in your Christmas Brunch alongside your favorite breakfast foods. Eggless Egg Nog is good any time of day!
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I tasted egg nog, the traditional Christmas drink, for the first time as an adult. I loved it. Years ago I discovered a dairy that produced its own “Milk Nog” a type of eggless eggnog. I loved it even more.
What I love to the nth degree? Being able to make this deliciously refreshing holiday beverage, an eggless eggnog at home on a moment’s notice.
My kids love this easy Homemade Eggnog recipe without the eggs. It’s delicious cold with cookies, but equally good in a type of eggnog latte with coffee.
Why Make This
It’s easy. You need just a few ingredients to make Milk Nog and it mixes together in just seconds.
It helps avoid waste. Eggless Egg Nog is a great recipe to use up milk, especially when you have a lot you don’t want to waste. If you’ve got leftover evaporated milk, add it in as well as frozen milk cubes or even frozen almond milk cubes if you like. That’s a great way to keep it chilled without diluting the flavors.
It’s cheaper than traditional eggnog. With the price of eggs these days, making an eggless egg nog is the way to go! Be sure to try our Eggless Pancakes, too!
Ingredients
Here’s what you’ll need to make Eggless Egg Nog:
whole milk – I like using whole milk as it’s thicker and creamier than lower fat milks. You can use whatever you like or have on hand. Scroll down for a vegan variation.
whipping cream – Whatever milk you use, a little whipping cream helps thicken your eggnog without eggs or the pudding mixes that others may use.
maple syrup or warm honey – I like to use a liquid sweetener instead of sugar since it dissolves more easily in the milk. You could also use a simple syrup, powdered sugar, or agave nectar if that’s what you have.
vanilla extract – I love the flavor that vanilla extract brings to eggnog. You can use another extract, such as rum or almond, if you prefer.
spices – I like to use ground cinnamon and ground nutmeg. Ground ginger or cloves would also be nice here, just a very little bit of the cloves, though.
Variations
If you want to veer from this standard eggless egg nog, here are some fun variations for Milk Nog:
- Vegan: Use 1 quart almond milk for the regular milk and a ¼ coconut cream, coconut milk, or Nutpods.
- Traditional Cocktail: Rum, brandy, or cognac are often used in traditional eggnog. Add a shot of your preferred alcohol to a glass of chilled Milk Nog and serve.
- Eggnog Latte: Pour a shot of espresso into a mug or cup. Heat the milk nog until steaming. Add to the espresso and serve.
- Milk Nog Shake: Combine 1 cup of milk nog and 2 scoops of ice cream in a blender cup. Blend until smooth. Serve with whipped cream and a pinch of ground nutmeg.
- Sugar free: If you want to make your eggnog egg-free and sugar-free, omit the sweetener all together.
Step-by-Step Instructions
Here’s how to make this Homemade Eggless Eggnog recipe:
- In a large pitcher, whisk together the whipping cream, maple syrup, vanilla, cinnamon, and nutmeg until well combined. Stir in the milk.
- Serve chilled.
- Leftovers are good in the fridge for up to a week. Use it in sweet baked goods for an extra twist of flavor.
TLDR? Watch the How to Make Eggless Egg Not web story.
FAQs
Traditional eggnog is a heated egg custard that is then chilled. Whipped egg whites are then added to the mixture.
Eggnog without eggs is basically a sweet, spiced milk drink. It’s easy to make eggnog eggless!
You can make a vegan egg nog by using plant-based milks, sweetener, and spices.
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Milk Nog or Eggless Egg Nog Recipe
Equipment
- glass pitcher
Ingredients
- ¼ cup whipping cream
- ¼ cup maple syrup or warm honey
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 qt whole milk
Instructions
- In a large container or pitcher, whisk together the whipping cream, maple syrup, vanilla extract, cinnamon, and nutmeg. stir in the milk.¼ cup whipping cream, ¼ cup maple syrup, 2 teaspoon vanilla extract, ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon, ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg, 1 qt whole milk
- Chill well before serving.
Notes
Variations
If you want to veer from this standard eggless egg nog, here are some fun variations for Milk Nog:- Vegan: Use 1 quart almond milk for the regular milk and a ¼ coconut cream, coconut milk, or Nutpods.
- Traditional Cocktail: Rum, brandy, or cognac are often used in traditional eggnog. Add a shot of your preferred alcohol to a glass of chilled Milk Nog and serve.
- Eggnog Latte: Pour a shot of espresso into a mug or cup. Heat the milk nog until steaming. Add to the espresso and serve.
- Milk Nog Shake: Combine 1 cup of milk nog and 2 scoops of ice cream in a blender cup. Blend until smooth. Serve with whipped cream and a pinch of ground nutmeg.
- Sugar free: If you want to make your eggnog egg-free and sugar-free, omit the sweetener all together.
Nutrition
This post was originally published on November 5, 2012. It has been updated for content and clarity.
Margo, Thrift at Home
pinning this for sure! Looks fantastic. Don’t know why it never occurred to me to skip the eggs. The flavor is probably mostly the same.
Annie Kate
It’s a hit at our house! We skipped the cream because it’s too expensive and too full of calories, but it was still perfect. Thanks!
Debbie
My m-i-l makes her own from the Betty Crocker or Better Homes & Gardens cookbook using egg beaters. I never liked egg nog until she made it!
Karen
Love this idea! We used to be able to get a fabulous, but very expensive real eggnog from a certain dairy about 75 miles from here until the only store that sold it closed because of competition from Wally. None of us like the other commercal stuff, but this looks like a brilliant alternative – with healthy natural fats instead of chemicals. Yay!
Annie Kate
Yay! This looks great and is a whole lot easier to make than real eggnog.
Besides, we have one child with an egg-white allergy who wants to devour the macaroons we always make in conjunction with eggnog (gotta do something with all those left over eggwhites, and with her allergy we certainly cannot put them into the eggnog!). So I’m looking forward to trying this.
Thanks.
cherie
Well I’m looking forward to the ginger cookie recipe! This milk nog recipe is just the sort of thing I need – hate seeing my kids drink the processed egg nog at grandma’s house – hate making it a point of argument. It makes my husband ill every time he drinks it too – but they all love it [not me LOL]
This is a perfect solution – will sell them on it before we go to grandma’s and bring grandma a jug of it as a gift LOL
Sheila
Those cookies look good! What kind are they?
Jessica
@Sheila, those are a new ginger cookie I made this weekend with my mom. I’ll be posting the recipe later this week on Life as MOM.