Simple Eggnog Cookies

Our Eggnog cookies bring delicious holiday flavors to any Thanksgiving or Christmas party. These are DELICIOUS drop cookies with rich eggnog flavor.

And so easy to make. Make them like any drop cookie. Just mix, drop them on a cookie sheet and bake. We have included an optional buttercream frosting if you want to dress them up pretty.

However, these Flavorful Holiday cookies need no added embellishments to win your tastebud devotion. The best eggnog cookies (and these are a contender for that prize), are a rich combination of spices and eggnog.

Unfrosted and unadorned the eggnog treats make tasty Fall goodies for gifting in a pretty Christmas cookie box or adding to an adorable holiday party tray. Your family will beg you to add them to your cookie jar and lunchboxes too.

This eggnog cookie recipe is a simple cookie. We love them unfrosted and eat them all through the holiday season straight from the cookie jar.

How do you make Eggnog Cookies?

This recipe for these tasty eggnog cookies scales easily. Just double the batch by doubling the ingredients. Same goes with cutting this recipe in half. Just use half of all the ingredients.

Eggnog Cookies Ingredients:

Like most sugar cookies, the major ingredients in these cookies are flour, spices, baking powder, butter, eggs and sugar. These cookies replace milk with eggnog for that rich Christmasy flavor.

Eggnog makes a DELICIOUS holiday sugar cookie. Our family can go through a batch in one night. We use a richly flavored eggnog from a local dairy. It makes a difference. See if you can find eggnog from a local dairy. It’s fun to support local farms. You might get lucky, as we have, and find unique and amazingly good eggnogs.

Substitutions For Eggnog Cookies:

Always use the best ingredients and stick to the recipe whenever you can for best results. But when you are out of something, here’s a few ideas on substitutions that can save you a trip to the store.

• If you want a stiffer, denser cookie replace 1/2 of the flour with whole wheat white flour. The cookies will be rounder and thicker and may need a few more minutes of baking time.
• Coconut oil makes a nice substitute for butter as it adds its own delicious flavor. Use 1/2 Cup coconut oil for 3/4 Cup butter in this recipe.
• If you enjoy rum flavor, replace the vanilla with rum flavoring. Or add a teaspoon of rum in alongside your vanilla flavoring.
• Both Nutmeg and cinnamon can be replaced with mace, touch of ginger, pumpkin pie spice or allspice. This will affect the flavor of the cookies but they will still have a yummy holiday aroma and taste like Christmas.
• Out of eggs? Flax eggs can replace them. Read here for more on Flax. Flax eggs are made by combining 1 tablespoon flax meal with 3 tablespoons water. Wait five minutes for the flax to absorb the water and use instead of egg in your recipe. This cookie recipe calls for 2 egg yolks so use 2 Tablespoons flax meal and 5 tablespoons water to replace them.

Ideas on Vegan Eggnog Cookies:

I have made vegan cookies like these peanut butter cookies, and vegan pie crust, by simply replacing the butter with coconut oil and using flax eggs rather than real eggs.

But I have never used vegan eggnog or vegan butter. So with that in mind, I offer the following ideas on how to make this recipe vegan and still retain its character.

Make this cookie recipe vegan:

1. replace the eggnog with vegan eggnog.
2. Use vegan butter, or replace the butter with coconut oil as per the substitution section.
3. The eggs can be replaced with flax eggs as we discuss in the substitution section above.
4. Omit the frosting as we did, or use vegan butter and eggnog.

Feel free to adjust the spices and flour amounts to taste as needed to attain the vegan eggnog cookie of your dreams.

Can you Freeze Eggnog Cookies?

These eggnog cookies freeze well for up to two months unfrosted. Layer them in a rigid airtight freezer container and place parchment between the rows of cookies so they don’t stick together.

To Defrost these cookies:

• Remove container from freezer.
• Allow to defrost at room temperature until the cookies easily separate from the parchment paper.
• Remove cookies to wooden board or plate to continue warming.
• Frost now if doing so.
• Serve at room temperature.

Here is our printable recipe card.

More Holiday Cookie Recipes:

The holiday season is a great time to make homemade peppermint candy, hot cocoa mix, and holiday Bark. Make some shortbread cookies to add to those party trays. Enjoy!

Take a look at all of our cookies here

These are a few of our favorite holiday cookies. They look great on party trays.