Excellent Chewy Eggnog Cookies with Eggnog Frosting

These delicious eggnog cookies are a good idea if your eggnog needs to be used up or if you are wanting a special cookie for the annual holiday cookie exchange! The eggnog icing for the tops of the cookies is optional, but I definitely recommend it for added sweetness. This eggnog lovers dessert recipe makes about 18 cookies. Not too few, not too many.

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Main Ingredients for this Easy Eggnog Cookies Recipe:

• All purpose flour – provides a base
• Baking powder – helps them rise
• Spices – adds flavor
• Sugars – provides sweetness
• Eggnog – for the eggnog flavor; any brand including homemade eggnog should work as long as it is not a special flavor like pumpkin spice

How to Bake Excellent Christmas Cookies:

• Stir together dry ingredients
• Beat together wet ingredients with an electric mixer. I like to use a mixer on medium speed. If you really don’t want to use a mixer, then you can use a whisk. Then, stir in dry ingredients to form the cookie dough.
• Scoop dough onto a sprayed baking sheet using a cookie scoop. Instead of spray, you can also use a piece of parchment paper on the pan. 
• Bake for 13 minutes, or until edges start to brown. I am always over baking my cookies because I can never tell when they are done. I recommend taking them out when the bottom edges are a little brown. When taking them out, I allow them to cook on the baking sheet for 1 minute out of the oven before removing them from the pan.

See recipe card below for full instructions.

If you need other dessert ideas to use up your eggnog, click here.

Variations of Eggnog Cookies:

• No frosting – frosting can be rich for some people, so you can omit the frosting and still enjoy the cookie eggnog flavored
• Other frostings – if you do not a huge fan of eggnog, you might not want to use eggnog glaze on your soft eggnog cookies. You can opt for vanilla frosting or a buttercream frosting if you so wish.

How to store holiday cookies:

• Room Temperature – I like to store these cookies room temperature in an airtight container for about a week.

Other Holiday Season Recipes:

• Pinwheel Appetizer
• Homemade Andes Mints
• Crustless Pumpkin Pie
• Crustless Apple Pie
• Sugar Cookies
• Chirstmas Tree Bread

Eggnog Cookies Recipe

These eggnog cookies are a good idea if your eggnog needs to be used up! This Christmas dessert has frosting too, making it more sweet.

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 13 minutes mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Servings 18 cookies

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Ingredients

  

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Cookie Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cup flour add more if dough is too runny
• 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder
• spices at the amount of your own desire: nutmeg, cinnamon, vanilla
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 6 tbsp softened vegetable spread
• 1/4 cup eggnog
• 1 egg

Frosting Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup powdered sugar add more if wanting it more thick
• 2 tbsp eggnog add more to make more runny if needed
• a dash of cinnamon and nutmeg

Instructions

 

Cookie Instructions:

• In a small bowl, stir together the flour, baking powder, nutmeg, and cinnamon.
• In a larger mixing bowl, beat together the vegetable spread and sugar. Blend in the eggnog and the egg until smooth. Gradually, pour the flour mixture into bowl. Mix to combine.
• Use a cookie scoop to spoon the dough onto a sprayed cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 13 mins, or until bottoms start to look a little brown. Remove from pan and place on wire rack to cool.
• While cookies are cooling, make the frosting. If not using frosting, enjoy!

Frosting Instructions:

• In a small bowl using a mixer, beat together the powdered sugar, eggnog, and spices. Add more eggnog if you want a more liquidity glaze.
• After cookies are fairly cool, drizzle on the frosting with a spoon. Enjoy your Eggnog Cookies!

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