Bakery Style Eggnog Cookies

These Bakery Style Eggnog Cookies are made with festive spices like cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves. Topped with an Eggnog Cream Cheese frosting these are a perfect Christmas Cookie.

Ingredients

• Butter – unsalted butter for both the cookie and the frosting.
• Sugar – brown sugar and granulated sugar for the cookie and powdered sugar in the frosting.
• Egg – acts as a binder for the cookie dough and helps with the texture.
• Eggnog – for the eggnog flavor
• Vanilla Extract – for a warm vanilla flavor
• Salt – for flavor
• Baking Powder and Baking Soda – I use a combination of both in almost all my cookies. I find that it gives the cookies the perfect amount of thickness when baking.
• Spices – ground cinnamon and ground nutmeg for the dough and the frosting
• Cream Cheese – for the eggnog frosting

How to Make Bakery Style Eggnog Cookies

• Preheat oven to 350F.
• In a small bowl combine the sugar mixture for rolling the dough. Set aside. 
• In a large bowl combine butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar. Mix until light and fluffy. 
• Add in egg, eggnog, and vanilla extract. Mix to combine. 
• Add in flour, spices, baking soda, and baking powder. Mix to combine. 
• Scoop out 6 equally sized cookies and roll into sugar mixture from earlier. Set onto a prepared baking sheet. 
• Bake for 10-12 minutes. Allow to cool on baking sheet for 10 minutes. 
• While cookies are baking make frosting. Combine cream cheese and butter. Mix until well combined. Add in eggnog, cinnamon, nutmeg, and powdered sugar. Mix on medium high until fully incorporated. Add in additional powdered sugar if needed. 
• Pipe onto cooled cookies using a small round piping tip. I garnished with star anise, but ground nutmeg is great as well!

How to Store These Eggnog Cookies

Store cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 days. Or freeze them for 2 months. Just let them thaw in the air tight container before opening so they can soften back up. 

What if I don’t want Jumbo Cookies? 

You can make 12 smaller cookies! Follow all the same directions, just divide dough into 12 scoops and bake for 8-10 minutes.

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Bakery Style Eggnog Cookies

5 from 1 vote

These Eggnog Cookies are made with festive spices like cinnamon and nutmeg. Topped with an Eggnog Cream Cheese frosting these are a perfect Christmas Cookie.

Print Recipe

Prep Time:20 minutes mins

Cook Time:10 minutes mins

Servings: 6

Ingredients

Cookies

• ½ cup butter
• ¼ cup brown sugar
• ½ cup granulated sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 tbsp eggnog
• ½ tsp vanilla extract
• 1 & ½ cups all purpose flour
• ½ tsp salt
• ½ tsp baking soda
• ½ tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp ground cinnamon
• ½ tsp ground nutmeg

For rolling the dough

• 1 tbsp granulated sugar
• ½ tsp ground cinnamon
• ⅛ tsp nutmeg

Frosting

• 4 oz cream cheese
• 4 tbsp unsalted butter
• 1 tbsp eggnog
• ⅛ tsp ground cinnamon
• ⅛ tsp ground nutmeg
• 1 & ½ cups powdered sugar

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350F.
• In a small bowl combine the sugar mixture for rolling the dough. Set aside.
• In a large bowl combine butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar. Mix until light and fluffy.
• Add in egg, eggnog, and vanilla extract. Mix to combine.
• Add in flour, spices, baking soda, and baking powder. Mix to combine.
• Scoop out 6 equally sized cookies and roll into sugar mixture from earlier. Set onto a prepared baking sheet.
• Bake for 10-12 minutes. Allow to cool on baking sheet for 10 minutes.
• While cookies are baking make frosting. Combine cream cheese and butter. Mix until well combined. Add in eggnog, cinnamon, nutmeg, and powdered sugar. Mix on medium high until fully incorporated. Add in additional powdered sugar if needed.
• Pipe onto cooled cookies using a small round piping tip. I garnished with star anise, but ground nutmeg is great as well!