Perfect Holiday Eggnog Cookies this Christmas

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Embrace the festive spirit with our creamy-tasting Eggnog Cookies, a perfect twist for your holiday baking. While traditional chocolate chip cookies are a classic choice, these Eggnog Cookies offer a delightful blend of holiday spices in a soft, gooey treat that will impress friends and family.

This Eggnog Cookie recipe is about sweetness, softness, and a melt-in-your-mouth experience. Imagine wrapping up these cookies as a special Christmas gift! Featuring a sugary coating and topped with an easy-to-make eggnog icing, each cookie is transformed into a divine holiday delight, ideal for sharing the season’s joy.

Eggnog Cookies Ingredient Flavor

The Cookies Dough:

  • All-Purpose Flour: Provides the structure for the cookies, ensuring they hold their shape while remaining soft and tender.
  • Cream of Tartar: Acts as a leavening agent with baking soda, contributing to the cookies’ light and airy texture.
  • Baking Soda: Works with cream of tartar to give the cookies a nice rise and a fluffy texture.
  • Unsalted Butter: Adds richness and moisture, creating a tender crumb and contributing to the cookie’s melt-in-your-mouth quality.
  • Granulated Sugar: Provides sweetness and helps to create a crisp outer edge while keeping the inside soft.
  • Salt: Enhances all the flavors in the cookie, balancing the sweetness.
  • Rum: Infuses the cookies with a subtle, warm flavor that complements the eggnog theme.
  • Nutmeg: An essential spice in eggnog, nutmeg adds a warm, nutty flavor that’s quintessential to the holiday season.
  • Eggs: Eggs bind the ingredients together, while the extra yolks add richness and a tender texture.
  • Vanilla Extract: Enhances the overall flavor profile with its sweet, aromatic essence.

Sugar Rolling:

  1. Sugar Mixed with Nutmeg: Coating the dough balls in this mixture adds a sweet and spiced crust to the cookies, reinforcing the eggnog flavor.

For the Icing:

  1. Powdered Sugar: Creates a smooth, sweet base for the icing.
  2. Butter (soft but not melted): Adds creaminess and richness to the icing.
  3. Nutmeg: Echoes the spice used in the cookie dough, providing continuity in flavor.
  4. Rum: Brings in a hint of warmth and depth.
  5. Eggnog: The star ingredient of the icing imparts a creamy, festive flavor that ties the icing to the cookie’s eggnog theme.

Each ingredient plays a specific role in creating the distinctive taste and texture of Eggnog Cookies, making them a special treat for the holiday season.

Tips for the Perfect Holiday Eggnog Cookies

  • Be sure your butter and eggs are at room temperature. The butter should be soft but not melty. If you’re in a pinch, microwave the butter for about 10 seconds. Check after 5 seconds because microwaves vary, and you don’t want melted butter! Take out your eggs a few hours ahead of time to make the perfect cookies. If they are too cold, they won’t blend as well into this creamy, dreamy batter. No one wants a lumpy cookie!
  • If you decide to use my flavored sugar, after you form the cookie dough into a ball, use your hand or the bottom of a cup to press the top of the cookie to flatten gently. Don’t flatten them too much. They should still resemble a ball when you place them in the oven.
  • If you ice your dough before baking, keep it round and avoid flattening it.
  • When frosting your cookies, completely cool them beforehand. As tempting as it will be, the cookies are very hot when they leave the oven and will melt the icing. But trust me, it is worth the wait!
  • Patience is key! After you frost the cookies, let them settle for a few hours before eating.
How to Make Perfect Holiday Eggnog Cookies this Christmas

Preparation

1.
Preheat the oven to 350 F. Cream the sugar and butter until smooth and light in color with a hand mixer or standing mixer with the paddle attachment.
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Add the eggs, followed by the rum and vanilla mix well.
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3.
Mix and sift the flour with the cream of tartar, baking soda, and salt in another small bowl.
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4.
Add to the creamed butter and mix until the dough comes together; scrap the sides a couple of times.
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5.
Using either a small ice cream scope or your hands, make small balls of about 35 grams each. Roll into the sugar glaze and place in the baking sheets lined with either a silicon mat or slightly sprayed. Bake for about 13 to 15 minutes, until a slightly caramel color from the bottom and the center is cooked.
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6.
Let it cool completely before icing.
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7.
Hold the cookie upside down and skinny dip (haha) into the icing until covered. Place your cookies on a cooling rack until it is settled, about 2 hours!
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Enjoy eating a cookie and sharing a cookie with your family and friends!
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Ingredients:

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3 ½ cups all-purpose flour
1 ½ teaspoon cream of tartar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup 2 sticks of unsalted butter at room temperature
1 ½ cup granulated sugar
2 tablespoons rum
2 teaspoons nutmeg
1 large egg (plus two egg yolks at room temperature)
1 tablespoon vanilla
Sugar rolling:
¼ cup sugar mixed with ½ tablespoon nutmeg
Icing (mix all the ingredients until silky, no clumps)
2 cups powdered sugar
1 stick butter (soft but not melted)
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 tablespoon rum
4 tablespoons eggnog

Preparation

1
Preheat the oven to 350 F. Cream the sugar and butter until smooth and light in color with a hand mixer or standing mixer with the paddle attachment.
2
Add the eggs, followed by the rum and vanilla mix well.
3
Mix and sift the flour with the cream of tartar, baking soda, and salt in another small bowl.
4
Add to the creamed butter and mix until the dough comes together; scrap the sides a couple of times.
5
Using either a small ice cream scope or your hands, make small balls of about 35 grams each. Roll into the sugar glaze and place in the baking sheets lined with either a silicon mat or slightly sprayed. Bake for about 13 to 15 minutes, until a slightly caramel color from the bottom and the center is cooked.
6
Let it cool completely before icing.
7
Hold the cookie upside down and skinny dip (haha) into the icing until covered. Place your cookies on a cooling rack until it is settled, about 2 hours!
8
Enjoy eating a cookie and sharing a cookie with your family and friends!

Recipe Tips & Suggestions

How To Store Your Eggnog Cookies?

If you and your loved ones don't eat them all in one sitting, you can store your cookies in an airtight container and pop them in the fridge. The cookies will stay tasty for about four days before they deteriorate in quality. But I doubt they will last that long! So, after you pull them from the fridge, please bring them to room temperature before serving. If you want to make these eggnog cookies ahead of time, they can also be stored in the freezer. Just freeze the cookies and frosting separately. After the cookies have been thawed, you can frost them before serving.
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