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Eggnog Cookies with Eggnog Frosting
Eggnog Cookies with Eggnog Frosting are perfectly sweet cutout cookies with a luscious eggnog frosting on top. Don’t forget those holiday sprinkles!
Ingredients
2 1/2 sticks room temperature butter (1 1/4 cups)
1 cup packed brown sugar
4 large egg yolks
1/4 cup eggnog
1 tablespoon of spiced rum, or 1 teaspoon rum extract
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Pinch of allspice
Frosting
6 tablespoons room temperature butter
2 1/4 cups confectioner’s sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons spiced rum, or 1/4 teaspoon rum extract
2 tablespoons eggnog
1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
Pinch ground cinnamon
Other
Flour for counter
Holiday sprinkles
Instructions
- In the bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, beat butter until pale, about two minutes.
- Add sugar and beat one minute.
- With mixer running on low, add one egg yolk at a time and then add the eggnog and rum and mix to combine.
- In a medium bowl, whisk the flour, baking powder, salt, nutmeg, cinnamon and allspice and with mixer running on low, slowly add in the dry ingredients.
- Mix just to combine, scrape and mix one more time.
- Wrap the dough in plastic and chill two hours.
- Make the frosting by creaming the butter and sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle attachment.
- Add rum, eggnog, nutmeg and cinnamon and mix until creamy and smooth. Set aside at room temperature.
- Line a few cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F with rack in upper third of oven.
- Flour the counter and place half the dough on the flour and roll to ¼ inch thick.
- Use holiday cutouts and place cutout cookie shapes on one of the prepared cookie sheets. The cookies do not spread much so they can be as close as a half inch from each other.
- Bake one pan at a time for 12 minutes until the bottoms are browned and the tops a pale light brown.
- Repeat for remaining dough reusing dough scraps as you go. I reused dough scraps four times.
- Cool on racks then frost. If the frosting is too stiff, whisk in a small amount of milk to loosen it up.
- While still wet, sprinkle on holiday sprinkles.
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