Delicious and easy EGGNOG COOKIES are perfect for the holidays. This great Christmas cookie recipe is ideal for taking to cookie exchanges or holiday parties.
If you love snickerdoodles and you love eggnog, wait until you try these incredible eggnog cookies! Packed full off eggnog flavor, but with the delicious simplicity of snickerdoodles, these eggnog cookies need to make their way onto your holiday baking list!
Eggnog Cookie Recipe
When the eggnog starts hitting store shelves that’s my cue to start my holiday baking and Christmas cookie making. Bring on the holiday cookies!
Eggnog in our refrigerator last week. Thanks to my friends at Shamrock Farms for sponsoring this post.
My family has a love of snickerdoodles.
After the big hit my pumpkin snickerdoodles were, I decided we needed to make egg nog snickerdoodles as well.
These egg nog cookies bring together everything I love about snickerdoodles and eggnog, all in one soft, chewy cookie.
They have an optional eggnog glaze and are delicious either way you make them.
As an AZ girl, Shamrock Farms dairy products have always been my go-to choice. Shamrock Farms is the richest, thickest, noggiest eggnog around, with the creamiest, premium taste and a custom blend of spices. It’s a staple item in our fridge the entire holiday season. Made with pure, fresh ingredients and is made straight from the farm as fresh as can be. I love that it’s available in both regular and low-fat varieties.
Christmas Cookies
For this eggnog cookie recipe I use eggnog both in the cookie dough and in the glaze. These cookies truly have the perfect amount of eggnog flavor.
As I mentioned the eggnog glaze on top is optional. Make them both ways and you have egg nog cookies that can do double duty on those Christmas cookie platters.
Eggnog Cookies
Eggnog Cookies
Equipment
- Baking sheet
Ingredients
- 4 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1 teaspoon nutmeg (may use 2 tsp for stronger eggnog flavor)
- 1 cup butter
- 3/4 cups granulated sugar
- 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar light or dark
- 2 eggs
- 1/4 cup Shamrock Farms Eggnog
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract or rum extract if desired
Topping
- 6 tablespoons sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons nutmeg
Glaze
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1/4 cup Shamrock Farms Eggnog
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
Instructions
- For the dough: In a bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, nutmeg and cream of tartar. Set aside. *MAKE SURE YOU GENTLY SPOON YOUR FLOUR INTO YOUR MEASURING CUP, VS SCOOPING THE FLOUR. SCOOPING CAN RESULT IN TOO MUCH FLOUR.
- In a separate bowl, cream the butter and sugars until fluffy. Add the eggs, eggnog and vanilla or rum extract. Mix well.
- Stir in the dry ingredients. Stir until just combined.
- Cover bowl (or remove dough from bowl and wrap in plastic wrap) and chill for 1+ hours.
- When ready to bake, Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Form the dough into 1 inch balls. Mix nutmeg and sugar in a small bowl and roll each ball of dough through the sugar mixture to coat one side.
- Place on a greased baking sheet or a cookie sheet covered with wax paper or silicone baking mat.
- Bake 8-9 minutes. Do not overbake. Allow to cool on baking sheet for at least ten minutes before transferring to a wire cooling rack.
For Glaze
- Combine powdered sugar, eggnog and nutmeg. Stir well to combine. Drizzle over cookies and allow to set up. Glaze stays slightly soft so best not to stack cookies if glazed.
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Nutrition
The nutrition facts provided are calculated using a third-party tool and are estimates only. Actual nutritional content may vary based on the ingredients and brands you use, as well as portion sizes. For accurate results, please consult a registered dietitian or nutritionist.
Check out all of the recipes for Christmas Cookies here on Love From The Oven!
More Eggnog Recipes
If you love eggnog recipes, I’ve got more for you to try! Here are four of my favorites: Eggnog Cake, Eggnog Crumb Cake, Eggnog Pie, and Eggnog Pancakes.
My friends also have some amazing eggnog recipes for you as well!
Lisa at Wine & Glue has an amazing Eggnog Dip that you’ll want to dip everything in.
Holly over at Spend With Pennies has a Spiked Eggnog Latte for you. You are right, it does sound amazing.
Deborah at Taste & Tell has an Eggnog Croissant Bread Pudding With Caramel Eggnog Syrup you need in your life. I dream about it at night.
My sweet friend Rebecca from Foodie With Family has 5 Minute Eggnog Ice Cream for you. Five minutes people, make it happen!
Finally my friend Lynne from 365 Days Of Baking has some Eggnog French Toast that is pretty much a perfect holiday breakfast. I told you we had you covered for eggnog recipes!
On the chance you’ve hit your eggnog quota, I’ve got more holiday cookies for you! Try my Hot Chocolate Cookies!
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How long can I leave it in the refrigerator before rolling into balls and baking?
I’d love to know what the weight of the flour is. It seems like measuring flour by weight is much more accurate since this recipe appears to be very specific on the amount of flour and how its measured. Listing it by weight eliminates the guess work. If anyone makes this recipe and weighs the flour they used I’d love to know. Thanks!
Hi Shelby, while it is more accurate, since the average home cook in the US does not measure by weight, I do not use that for the majority of my recipes. The exception is certain bread recipes where precision is extremely important. This recipe however is an easy and forgiving cookie that works just fine by using a measuring cup, no need to overcomplicate it. If you would like more details on how I measure my flour, I have a whole post for that.
I may have a possible solution to the thickness of the dough. In other eggnog recipes from your site several people said that the eggnog is very thick and some cut it with the use of milk. Do you think using half eggnog and half milk would help with the thickness of the cookie dough? I am unsure of how it would affect whether or not the cookie spreading out too much.
There is definitely a wide variety of thickness when it comes to eggnogs. Some look like 2% milk and others look like heavy cream. If the eggnog is particularly thick, this is absolutely an option.
Is it 132 cal a cookie? We made these! Absolutely amazing!!
Delicious! Made them last year without glaze and even the family members who dislike eggnog were eating them. It has a subtle flavor so I think that’s why everyone enjoyed them. Just looked up the recipe to make again.
help!!! I don’t have cream of tartar what can i use in place of it????
In this case you’ll just want to leave it out as there isn’t an ideal replacement. They’ll still be good, it just helps make them a bit softer.
What is the shelf life? How do I store them? Thank you
Like any other cookie, store tightly covered and they are at their best within about 5 days.
Loved these cookies!!
I made a few changes. I used our Canadian brand of egg nog (any egg nog works) and omitted 3/4 of the dry mixture. I found the dough was becoming to hard and was worried the cookies wouldn’t spread properly. It worked beautifully. I coated the entire ball in the sugar mix but added double the nutmeg to the sugar mixture coating. Then for the glaze, I added some egg white to help harden the glaze for stacking. Definitely a favourite in our house now and we will continue to make them each year. They look beautiful and come out looking like they were made for a cookie photo shoot! Thank you for posting!
Do these need to stay refrigerated?
We do not refrigerate ours.
I am very interested in making the eggnog cookies but am a little confused about the flour. Is it 4 cups before or after sifting?
My flour measurements here are always measured from just spooning the flour into the measuring cup (NOT SCOOPING) and leveling it. Since most people will never bother to sift, I do not with my recipes. I find it’s best to create there recipes how I know most people at home will recreate them. Hope that helps.