Recipe: Yummy Eggnog Sugar Cookies

Eggnog Sugar Cookies. These eggnog sugar cookies were my contribution to this year's Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap, an annual cookie exchange that raises money for Cookies for Kids' Cancer (last year I made cinnamon chipotle crinkle cookies.). It always amazes me how participants' cookies criss-cross the country in order to get to their final destinations. These Melt Away Eggnog Sugar Cookies are down right perfect. The minute you sink your teeth in for the first bite, you won't be able to stop. Be sure to check out my other recipes from cookie week: Peppermint Cream Pie Cookie Cups, Orange Cranberry Almond Bark, Soft Baked Molassas Cookies with a Brown Butter Glaze, Andes Peppermint Crunch Cookie Dough Truffle Bars.

In a medium bowl whisk together flour, baking soda, cream of tartar, nutmeg, and salt. Gradually mix dry ingredients into wet ingredients until dough comes together. Eggnog sugar cookies are cake-like sugar cookies, iced with spiced eggnog buttercream! You can cook Eggnog Sugar Cookies using 10 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Eggnog Sugar Cookies

1. Prepare 1 cup of sugar.
2. You need 1 cup of (2 sticks) butter, softened.
3. You need 2 large of egg yolks.
4. Prepare 2 1/2 cup of flour.
5. You need 2 tsp of baking powder.
6. It's 1/2 cup of eggnog.
7. Prepare 1 tsp of ground nutmeg.
8. Prepare of For Topping.
9. Prepare 1 tsp of ground cinnamon.
10. Prepare 1/3 cup of colored decorating sugar.

I wanted to play the violin when I was my daughter's age. But my parents weren't keen on the price. So I played the recorder instead (which was free). The eggnog flavor in these buttery cutouts comes from nutmeg and rum extract; it's subtle enough to be a pleasant twist on classic holiday sugar cookies without being overpowering.

Eggnog Sugar Cookies step by step

1. In a large mixing bowl, cream together butter and sugar until fluffy..
2. Beat in egg yolks until combined..
3. Add eggnog..
4. Whisk together flour, baking powder & nutmeg; add to butter mixture beating well until thoroughly combined..
5. Refrigerate dough for 2 hours or until firm..
6. For topping, combine colored sugar and cinnamon in a bowl on on a dish..
7. Roll dough into 1 inch diameter balls; roll in topping mixture..
8. Place 2 inches apart on a lightly greased cookie sheet..
9. Bake in a 400° ove for 8 to 10 minutes or until cookies are set..
10. Place on a cooling rack..
11. ENJOY!.

The recipe comes from the Fairmont Hotel in downtown Chicago, which hosts an annual cookie swap. In a large bowl, beat together the butter, confectioners' sugar, and corn syrup until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggnog flavor (or rum extract), nutmeg, baking powder or baker's ammonia, and salt. Add the egg and water to the butter mixture and mix to combine. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.