Eggnog Cookies
- Ready In:
- 4hrs 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Yields:
-
3 dozen
ingredients
- 473.18 ml flour
- 236.59 ml sugar
- 3.69 ml baking powder
- 1.23 ml salt
- 2.46 ml freshly grated nutmeg
- 158.51 ml unsalted butter
- 1 egg
- 59.14 ml eggnog
- 118.29 ml finely crushed butterscotch candy
- nutmeg
-
Eggnog Glaze
- 709.77 ml sifted powdered sugar
- 2.46 ml rum extract
- 29.58 ml eggnog
directions
- Mix together dry ingredients.
- Cut in butter until the pieces are the size of peas.
- Make a well in the center.
- In a small bowl, beat together the egg and eggnog until well mixed.
- Pour the eggnog mixture into the well and stir until moistened.
- Cover the dough and chill for at least three hours.
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
- Line a cookie sheet with foil and lightly grease.
- Roll out the dough on a well floured surface to quarter-inch thickness.
- Using cookie cutters in two sizes, cut out cookies.
- Cut out cookies with the large cutter first, and then cut out centers with the smaller cutter.
- Reroll the dough and continue to cut.
- Place the cookies on the foil-lined cookie sheet about one inch apart from each other.
- Sprinkle the crushed candies into the center of the cookies.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes, or until the edges are firm and lightly golden brown.
- Cool the cookies on the sheets for five minutes.
- Transfer the foil with the cookies attached to a baking rack.
- Once the cookies are cooled, carefully remove the foil from the bottoms of the cookies.
- Spread the tops with eggnog glaze and sprinkle with additional crushed candy and/or nutmeg if desired.
- -----EggnogGlaze-----.
- Mix powdered sugar, rum extract and eggnog.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
RecipeNut
Smithfield, Rhode Island