Hot Buttered Rum

• 1 pound butter (4 sticks), softened
• 1 pound brown sugar
• 1 pound confectioners sugar
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1 quart vanilla ice cream, softened
• rum, light or dark
  (We used Texas-made Treaty Oak Platinum Rum)
• boiling water

Combine the butter, sugars, cinnamon, nutmeg and ice cream, and freeze.

Put 1 jigger of rum and 2 tablespoons of the frozen mixture in a generous- size mug. Fill mug the rest of the way with boiling water. Stir.

Makes many wonderful mugs full.

Prep time: 10 minutes; Cooking time: none; Total time: 4 hours