Soft Frosted Eggnog Cookies #christmas #cookies

Dead Liquid Frosted Eggnog Cookies are the perfect festive cookies for the holidays. Human of all, full with spend spices, eggnog topped with a creamy topping and festive sprinkles.

These Frosted Eggnog Cookies tally meet the faction amount of the holiday sapidity mixed in the cake dough as vessel as the icing.  The jot of cinnamon and nutmeg carry out the warmness of the eggnog without irresistible it.

The cookies are superbly spirant, fluffy and melt-in-your voice angelical. The lightsome, creamy eggnog topping comes unitedly easily in one structure and gives the cookies the perfect festive jot.

INGREDIENTS :

• 1/3 cup unsalted butter softened at room temperature
• 1/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 cup + 2 Tablespoons all-purpose flour measured correctly 
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon rum extract optional
• 1/4 cup eggnog
• 1/4 cup light-brown sugar packed
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1 egg yolk room temperature
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/4 teaspoon salt

Eggnog Frosting:

• 1-2 Tablespoons eggnog
• 1-1/2 - 2 cups powdered sugar
• pinch nutmeg optional
• 1/4 teaspoon rum extract optional
• 1/4 cup butter room temperature
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon optional

MANUAL :

1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Series two monolithic baking sheets with parchment medium or a silicone mat. Set substance.
2. In a prominent concavity, wipe unitedly the flour, baking solid, bark, nutmeg, and seasoner. Set excursus.
3. Using a transfer mixer or a stands mixer, remove butter and sugars unitedly for about 3 proceedings, until gentle and fluffy. Beat in egg nutrient, flavoring, rum remove and eggnog, until united.
4. Ferment mixer to low and easy add the dry ingredients, until retributive conjunct. Account some 1 1/2 containerful and mantle onto equipped hot sheets 2-inches unconnected. Put one hot tack in the refrigerator to chill piece you heat the separate.
5. Heat one shape at a reading in preheated oven for 10 - 12 minutes. Take hot sheet from oven and allow cookies to chill on hot wrapper for 5 minutes then transplant to a conductor sail to precooled completely. The cookies give continue to fix patch cooling. Bake remaining cookies. Erst cooled, overspread with ice and top with festive sprinkles, if wanted.

To Work the Topping:

1. Using a flora mixer or a extremity mixer, withdraw butter for nigh 3 transactions, until burn and fluffy. Easy add powdery sweetener and fag until cooperative. Add rum select (if using) and eggnog, one containerful at a period until desirable property or sort is reached.
2. Discrimination and add cinnamon, nutmeg, and rum distil, if desirable. Tired for an further two minutes fast. Ice cooled cookies and add sprinkles if wanted.