Eggnog Cookies Recipe
These homemade Eggnog Cookies are super chewy, soft, perfectly spiced, and topped with a creamy, buttery frosting. Perfect for Christmas!
Servings: 24 cookies
Ingredients
Cookie Ingredients
- 2 ¾ cups flour $0.52
- ¼ tsp salt $0.01
- 1 tsp ground nutmeg $0.55
- ½ tsp cinnamon $0.04
- 1 tsp baking powder $0.04
- 1 tsp baking soda $0.01
- 2 sticks unsalted butter, softened $2.13
- 1 ½ cups granulated sugar, divided (¼ cup reserved for rolling) $0.52
- 1 large egg $0.30
- ½ tsp vanilla extract $0.29
- ½ tsp rum extract $0.18
Icing Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups powdered sugar $0.82
- ¼ cup unsalted butter, softened $0.53
- ½ tsp vanilla extract $0.29
- ¼ tsp rum extract $0.09
- 3 Tbsp heavy cream $0.30
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F. In mixing bowl, combine flour, salt, nutmeg, cinnamon, baking powder, and baking soda. Whisk to combine and set aside.
- Add the room temperature softened unsalted butter and 1 ¼ cups granulated sugar to a mixing bowl. Cream them together with hand mixer on low speed.
- Beat the egg, vanilla, and rum extract together and add to the butter/sugar mixture. Mix on low until combined.
- Slowly add all the dry ingredients to wet mixture and mix until a sticky dough forms.
- Chill the dough for 20-30 minutes. Then, using a 1 oz cookie scoop, portion cookies and roll each into a ball in your hands. Toss each ball in the remaining ¼ cup granulated sugar.
- On a parchment-lined baking sheet, place the dough balls 2 inches apart and flatten slightly with the bottom of a clean cup.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes. Let them cool completely before frosting, for about 10 minutes.
- To make the icing, add powdered sugar, softened unsalted butter, vanilla extract, rum extract, and heavy cream to a mixing bowl and mix on medium-high with a hand mixer until smoothly whipped and creamy.
- Transfer icing to a piping bag (or a ziplock bag with one of the corners snipped off!) and frost each cookie. Alternatively, you can smooth the frosting on each cookie by hand with a butter knife. Enjoy!
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Nutrition
Serving: 1cookie | Calories: 224kcal | Carbohydrates: 31g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 11g | Sodium: 108mg | Fiber: 0.4g