
How To Make Eggnog Cookies with Eggnog Cream Cheese Frosting
These eggnog cookies are baked until soft and chewy and topped with an eggnog-infused cream cheese frosting. It’s a new way to approach a holiday staple.
Serves:
Ingredients
For Eggnog Cookies:
- 2½cupsall-purpose flour
- 2½tspbaking powder
- ¾tspnutmeg
- ½tspsalt
- ½tspcream of tartar
- ½tspground cinnamon
- ¼tspground cloves
- ¼tspground ginger
- 16tbspunsalted butter,softened
- 1cupbrown sugar
- ½cupgranulated sugar
- 1ozcream cheese,softened
- 1egg
- 2large egg yolks,hard cooked and pressed through a fine mesh strainer
- 2tspvanilla extract
- â…“cupeggnog
For Eggnog Cream Cheese Frosting:
- 4tbspunsalted butter,softened
- 2¼cupspowdered sugar,divided
- 4ozcream cheese,softened, cut into 8 pieces
- 1tspvanilla extract
- ¼tspground nutmeg
- ¼tspground cinnamon
- 1tbspeggnog
Instructions
Cookies:
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper or nonstick liner and set aside.
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In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, nutmeg, salt, cream of tartar, ground cinnamon, ground cloves and ground ginger. Set aside.
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Using a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter, sugars and cream cheese for 2 to 3 minutes or until light and fluffy.
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Beat in whole egg just until combined. Add egg yolks, vanilla extract and eggnog and beat just until combined.
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With mixer on low, slowly add flour mixture and beat just until combined.
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Drop dough by the heaping tablespoon at least 3 inches apart on prepared baking sheets, about 6 pieces per sheet. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes or until the tops are set.
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Let cool for 3 minutes then transfer cookies to a wire rack to cool completely before frosting.
Eggnog Cream Cheese Frosting:
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Beat butter and 1½ cups of powdered sugar with handled mixer at medium-high speed for about 2 to 3 minutes or until creamed together and light and fluffy. Add cream cheese, 1 piece at a time, beating thoroughly after each addition.
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Add vanilla, ground nutmeg, ground cinnamon and eggnog and beat to combine. Beat in remaining powdered sugar. Add additional eggnog, if needed, a teaspoon at a time to reach desired consistency.
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Evenly spread frosting on cooled cookies. Garnish cookies with crushed candy canes or ground nutmeg if desired.
Nutrition
- Calories:Â 149.29kcal
- Fat:Â 7.50g
- Saturated Fat:Â 4.54g
- Trans Fat:Â 0.23g
- Monounsaturated Fat:Â 1.98g
- Polyunsaturated Fat:Â 0.36g
- Carbohydrates:Â 19.36g
- Fiber:Â 0.25g
- Sugar:Â 13.01g
- Protein:Â 1.47g
- Cholesterol:Â 33.87mg
- Sodium:Â 70.20mg
- Calcium:Â 36.33mg
- Potassium:Â 33.88mg
- Iron:Â 0.50mg
- Vitamin A: 67.99µg
- Vitamin C:Â 0.04mg
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