Eggnog Cookies Recipe
Calling all eggnog lovers! Get your favorite eggnog flavors in baked form with this eggnog cookie topped with eggnog frosting.
Enjoy more of your favorite holiday flavors with this Candy Cane Crinkles Cookie Recipe and alcohol-free Christmas Wassail Punch.
Eggnog Cookies Recipe with Eggnog Frosting
HI! I’m Ruthie from What’s Cooking with Ruthie and I’d love to have you come and visit me for lots of delicious Holiday recipes! I’m excited to share this melt-in-your-mouth wonderful Eggnog Cookie recipe with all of you today…
I Love Eggnog Cookies… are for all of you out there that LOVE Eggnog as much as I do! I love it. Always have. AND I can’t tell you how happy I was when they started making a Halloween version of Eggnog a few years ago… the earlier the better I say 🙂
This I Love Eggnog Cookies Recipe… is perfect for any Holiday gathering, I promise they’ll be a big hit!!
I Love Eggnog Cookies and Frosting Recipe
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Ingredients
Eggnog Cookies
- 1/2 C butter browned
- 2 Tbsp Eggnog
- 3/4 C non-fat plain greek yogurt
- 1 tsp soda powder
- 1 C brown sugar packed
- 1/2 tsp rum extract
- 2 eggs
- 3 C all purpose flour
Eggnog Frosting:
- 3/4 C butter softened
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon
- 1 1/2 tsp rum extract
- 3 Tbsp eggnog
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- 4 C powdered sugar
- additional nutmeg for dusting
Instructions
Instructions for Cookies
- In a sauce pan over medium high heat, melt butter, continuously stirring until turns a medium brown color and smells fragrant. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl beat eggs, add brown sugar; mix well.
- Add greek yogurt and browned butter; mix well.
- Add rum extract, eggnog, soda powder; mix well.
- Add flour 1 cup at a time and mix just until incorporated. (Don’t over mix)
- Cover with wax paper and refrigerate at least 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Place 1 inch (a small cookie scoop works well) rolled cookie dough on un-greased cookie sheet, 2 inches apart. Press with the bottom of a cooking sprayed glass until 1/4 inch thick.
- Bake 13-15 minutes until bottoms are very lightly browned. Remove to rack to cool.
Instructions for Frosting:
- In a medium mixing bowl beat butter until smooth.
- Add rum extract, nutmeg, and cinnamon; mix well.
- Add 1 C powdered sugar; mix in.
- Alternate remaining powdered sugar 1 C at a time with 1 Tbsp Eggnog; mix until incorporated.
- Frost cookies, add additional nutmeg for dusting. (I used a Wilton 20 tip and starting on the outer edge swirling to the center.)
Enjoy!
Thanks to Cassity for having me share a couple of Holiday Cookie recipes with all of you this week! I hope you each enjoy a wonderful Holiday Season filled with wonderful memories and lots of Christmas Baking 🙂
Come on over and visit me at www.whatscookingwithruthie.com I’d love to have you visit or connect with me on Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest ! Love, Ruthie
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Cassity Kmetzsch started Remodelaholic after graduating from Utah State University with a degree in Interior Design. Remodelaholic is the place to share her love for knocking out walls, and building everything back up again to not only add function but beauty to her home. Together with her husband Justin, they have remodeled 6 homes and are working on a seventh. She is a mother of four amazing girls. Making a house a home is her favorite hobby.
