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Eggnog Cookies Recipe
These homemade Eggnog Cookies are super chewy, soft, perfectly spiced, and topped with a creamy, buttery frosting. Perfect for Christmas!
👥 24 Servings⏱️ Prep & Cook: 58 min⏳ Prep: 20 min🔥 Cook: 8 min👤 Jess Rice📖 budgetbytes
🥘 Ingredients
Check off ingredients as you prepare them:
🍳 Cookware
- ●bowl
- ●mixing bowl
- ●whisk
- ●oven
- ●baking sheet
- ●knife
📝 Preparation Steps
1
Preheat oven to 350F. In mixing bowl, combine flour, salt, nutmeg, cinnamon, baking powder, and baking soda. Whisk to combine and set aside.
ground nutmeg ($0.55)1 tspbaking powder ($0.04)1 tspbaking soda ($0.01)1 tsp
2
Cream
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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.
4
Beat the egg, vanilla, and rum extract together and add to the butter/sugar mixture. Mix on low until combined.
large egg ($0.30)1
5
Mix
6
Slowly add all the dry ingredients to wet mixture and mix until a sticky dough forms.
7
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.
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Flatten
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On a parchment-lined baking sheet, place the dough balls 2 inches apart and flatten slightly with the bottom of a clean cup.
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Bake for ⏱️ 8-10 minutes. Let them cool completely before frosting, for about ⏱️ 10 minutes.
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Mix
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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.
heavy cream ($0.30)3 Tbsp
13
Spread
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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!
Nutrition Facts
calories
224 kcal
fat Content
11 g
serving Size
1 cookie
fiber Content
0.4 g
sodium Content
108 mg
protein Content
2 g
carbohydrate Content
31 g
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