I love Eggnog Cookies

I Love Eggnog Cookies… are for all of you out there that LOVE Eggnog as much as I do! I love it. Always have. AND I can’t tell you how happy I was when they started making a Halloween version of Eggnog a few years ago… the earlier the better I’m thinking

I love Eggnog Cookies…

Author: www.whatscookingwithruthie.com

Prep time: 1 hour 30 mins

Cook time: 15 mins

Total time: 1 hour 45 mins

Serves: 36

Ingredients

½ C butter, browned
¾ C non-fat plain greek yogurt
1 C brown sugar, packed
2 eggs
2 Tbsp Eggnog
1 tsp soda powder
½ tsp rum extract
3 C all purpose flour
Eggnog Frosting:
¾ C butter, softened
1½ tsp rum extract
½ tsp nutmeg
¼ tsp cinnamon
3 Tbsp eggnog
4 C powdered sugar
additional nutmeg for dusting

Instructions

Cookies:
In a sauce pan over medium high heat, melt butter, continuously stirring until turns a medium brown color and smells fragrant.
Set aside.
In a large mixing bowl beat eggs, add brown sugar; mix well.
Add greek yogurt and browned butter; mix well.
Add rum extract, eggnog, soda powder; mix well.
Add flour 1 cup at a time and mix just until incorporated. (Don’t over mix)
Cover with wax paper and refrigerate at least 1 hour.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Place 1 inch (a small cookie scoop works well) rolled cookie dough on un-greased cookie sheet, 2 inches apart.
Press with the bottom of a cooking sprayed glass until ¼ inch thick.
Bake 13-15 minutes until bottoms are very lightly browned.
Remove to rack to cool.
Eggnog Frosting:
In a medium mixing bowl beat butter until smooth.
Add rum extract, nutmeg, and cinnamon; mix well.
Add 1 C powdered sugar; mix in.
Alternate remaining powdered sugar 1 C at a time with 1 Tbsp Eggnog; mix until incorporated.
Frost cookies, add additional nutmeg for dusting.
(I used a Wilton 20 tip and starting on the outer edge swirling to the center.)
Enjoy!