Recipe: Perfect Eggnog Sugar Cookies

Eggnog Sugar Cookies. 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. Cream butter, sugar, egg, and vanilla until light and fluffy. Add flour, baking powder, and salt, alternating with egg nog.

Roll into balls the size of walnuts and place on ungreased baking sheet. 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. You can cook Eggnog Sugar Cookies using 10 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Eggnog Sugar Cookies

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

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. Eggnog sugar cookies are cake-like sugar cookies, iced with spiced eggnog buttercream! I wanted to play the violin when I was my daughter's age.

Eggnog Sugar Cookies instructions

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!.

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. The recipe comes from the Fairmont Hotel in downtown Chicago, which hosts an annual cookie swap. Eggnog Sugar Cookies - Soft homemade sugar cookies made with eggnog and frosted with the BEST sweet eggnog frosting!