Best Melt In Your Mouth Eggnog Cookies Recipes

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EGGNOG MELTAWAY COOKIES



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The secret to these cookies' melt-in-your-mouth texture is the confectioners' sugar, which easily comes together with almonds in a food processor. The flavors of rum, bourbon and nutmeg make the little snowball lookalikes taste just like your favorite holiday drink.

Provided by Food Network Kitchen

Categories     dessert

Time 2h55m

Yield 4 dozen cookies

Number Of Ingredients 9

1 cup blanched almonds (skinless)
2 cups confectioners' sugar
2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 tablespoon bourbon
2 teaspoons rum extract
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour (see Cook's Note)
1/2 teaspoon fine salt
1 tablespoon freshly grated nutmeg, plus more for serving

Steps:

  • Line 2 baking sheets with parchment.
  • Put the almonds and 1/2 cup of the confectioners' sugar in the bowl of a food processor and process until very finely ground, about 2 minutes. Add the butter and process until smooth, 30 seconds to 1 minute. Scrape the dough off the inside of the bowl if needed. Add the bourbon and rum and vanilla extracts and pulse until smooth. Add the flour and salt and pulse until the dough forms a ball.
  • Roll mounded teaspoons of the dough into balls about 1 inch wide and place on the prepared baking sheets about 1 inch apart. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
  • Meanwhile, position oven racks in the top and bottom thirds of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees F.
  • Bake, rotating the baking sheets from top to bottom and front to back halfway through, until the cookies are firm when gently pressed, completely dry and just beginning to crack at the top, 20 to 25 minutes. Cool the cookies on the sheets for 5 minutes; they will firm as they cool.
  • Meanwhile, put the nutmeg and remaining 1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar in a pie plate or wide baking dish and mix well. Toss the warm cookies very gently in the sugar mixture until evenly coated; the cookies need to be warm for the first coating of sugar to stick. Cool the cookies on a wire rack completely, about 30 minutes, then toss again in the sugar mixture so they are very white. Sprinkle with additional grated nutmeg.
  • Store the cookies in a little bit of extra confectioners' sugar in an airtight container for up to a week.

MELT-IN-YOUR-MOUTH EGGNOG COOKIES



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I'm an eggnog lover. These cookies are very good.

Provided by Roberta Isaacson

Categories     Cookies

Time 40m

Number Of Ingredients 17

2 1/4 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg, plus more for topping
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
3/4 cup butter at room temperature
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup packing brown sugar
2 large egg yolks
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon rum extract
1/2 cup eggnog
FOR THE FROSTING:
1/2 cup butter at room temperature
3 - 5 tablespoons eggnog
1/2 teaspoon rum extract
3 cups powdered sugar

Steps:

  • 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a mixing bowl whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, nutmeg and cinnamon for 30 seconds and set aside. In a bowl of an electric stand mixer whip together butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar until pale and fluffy.
  • 2. Mix in egg yolks one at a time blending just until combined after each addition. Mix in vanilla, rum extract and egg nog. With mixer set on low slowly add dry ingredients and mix just until combined.
  • 3. Scoop dough out by heaping tablespoons and drop onto parchment paper lined baking sheets spacing cookies 2 inches apart. Bake 11 - 13 minutes. Allow to rest on sheets several minutes before transferring to wire rack to cool. Cool completely then frost with Eggnog Frosting and sprinkle tops lightly with nutmeg.
  • 4. For Frosting? In the bowl of a electric stand mixer whip butter until pale and fluffy. Add in rum extract and 3 tablespoons eggnog and mix in the powdered sugar. Add additional eggnog to reach desired consistency.

MELT-IN-YOUR-MOUTH COOKIES



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These cookies really do melt in your mouth, and they're just as good without the pecans if you don't have them to hand.

Provided by Sackville

Categories     Dessert

Time 30m

Yield 60 cookies

Number Of Ingredients 6

2 cups butter, softened
1 cup icing sugar
2 tablespoons water
4 teaspoons vanilla extract
4 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups chopped nuts (pecans are good)

Steps:

  • Cream butter and sugar together.
  • Add water and vanilla to the mixture.
  • Gradually add flour, fold in nuts.
  • Roll dough into 1 inch balls.
  • Place on ungreased baking sheets and flatten with fingers.
  • Bake at 300 F for 20-25 minutes.
  • Cool on a wire rack.

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