Canadian Home Trends Kitchen & Bath/Holiday 2013 | Page 113

Eggnog Cookies
This one is for all you eggnog lovers out there

Ingredients
2 1/4
1
1/2
1/2
3/4
3/4

cups All-purpose flour
tsp. Baking powder
tsp. Ground cinnamon
tsp. Ground nutmeg
cup Butter (or hard margarine),
softened
cup Brown sugar, packed

1/2

cups Granulated sugar

1/2
1
2

cup Eggnog
tsp. Rum extract
Egg yolks (large)

ICING
2
cups Icing (confectioner’s) sugar
3
2

tbsp. Butter (or hard margarine),
softened
tbsp. Eggnog
Nutmeg, sprinkle

Combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon and
nutmeg. Set aside.
Cream butter and both sugars until light and
fluffy. Add eggnog, rum extract and egg yolks;
beat until smooth. Add flour mixture and beat
until just combined. Do not over mix. Drop by
teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet 1
inch apart. Bake in 300ºF (150ºC) for 20 to 23
minutes until bottoms turn light brown. Makes
about 54 cookies.
Icing: Beat all 3 ingredients in medium
bowl, adding more icing sugar or eggnog
if necessary until spreading consistency.
Spread about 1 tsp. (5 mL) icing on top of
each cookie. Sprinkle lightly with nutmeg.
Recipes reprinted from Company’s Coming Publishing Limited