Eggnog Snickerdoodles
There aren’t many cookies that remind me of Christmas the way snickerdoodles do. And there aren’t many things that remind of of Christmas like cookies! The two obviously go hand in hand.
My Christmas cookie association came at a very young age, when my grandma made 15 different cookies every year. And still does. The woman spends days upon days in the kitchen rolling out and making all of the classics she’s made since the dawn of my time, and before. Her prized volcano cookies with boozy cream filling are everyone’s favorite. Love that woman. And NO ONE can make volcano cookies like she can. In all the years of my life, I will never be able to perfect the Christmas cookie like her.
But it doesn’t mean that I’m not going to give it my best shot with my own Christmas cookie recipes. And maybe one day, with lots of practice, I’ll rise to become my grandma’s caliber Christmas cookie baker. I think these eggnog snickerdoodles are a good place to start.
I don’t know what it is about snickerdoodles that makes them so impossible to resist. They’re soft, fluffy, buttery and so comforting. There isn’t a man on this planet that could resist one of these eggnog snickerdoodles.
I’m enamored with these women – they’re confections floor me day in an day out. I just know you’ll find a keeper holiday recipe in here somewhere. Join me and 9 of your favorite foodies as we share our love of baking with Gold Medal Flour. Baking and creating holds special value to each and every one of us.
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Eggnog Snickerdoodles
- Prep Time: 15 Minutes
- Cook Time: 8 Minutes
- Total Time: 23 minutes
- Yield: 24 Cookies 1x
- Category: Cookies
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
For Cookies:
2 ½ cups Unbleached All Purpose Gold Medal Flour
2 tsp Cream of Tartar
1 tsp Baking Soda
1 cup Butter, softened
1 ½ cup Sugar
2 Eggs
2 tsp Rum Extract
¼ tsp Ground Nutmeg
¼ tsp Ground Cinnamon
For Snickerdoodle Coating:
1 cup Sugar
½ tsp Nutmeg
¼ tsp Cinnamon
Instructions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Adjust oven racks to upper middle and lower middle racks.
In a bowl, stir to combine flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, nutmeg and ground cinnamon. Set aside. In a stand mixer with a paddle attachment set on medium speed, add in softened butter and sugar beating until smooth. Add in eggs one at a time, beating for 30 seconds in between additions. Add in rum extract. With mixer speed set on low, add in dry ingredients mixture until just combined.
In small bowl, whisk together snickerdoodle coating ingredients. Roll about 1 Tablespoon of dough into ball. Roll the dough ball into the snickerdoodle coating mix until the dough ball is evenly coated. Place on a parchment lined baking sheet. Repeat until two baking sheets are full.
Place baking sheets in the oven and bake for 4-5 minutes. Remove cookie sheets, rotate and switch the sheets to the opposite baking rack. Bake an additional 4-5 minutes. Remove from oven, and allow the cookies to cool on the sheet for 5 minutes before removing them to a wire rack to finish cooling. Serve when cool.
Keywords: Snickerdoodles, Eggnog, Christmas cookies, Cookies
Those dresses are FAB!!
Thanks Mary Beth!! My husband was so man that I brought them into work for the guys and left him ONLY 7!! hhaha He wanted them ALL!
Volcano cookies?! When are those coming? 😉 You can totally do it!
Snickerdoodles are already perfect. But snickerdoodles with eggnog?! I want, I want!
As soon as I can PRY the recipe from her mitts, I will be posting the Volcano cookies hahah They’re THE prized cookie of our family.
Sounds wonderful but where is the eggnog part in this recipe?
The egg nog is in the rum and nutmeg flavoring. There is no actual egg nog in this recipe. But I PROMISE that it is spot on to the real drink. 🙂
LOVE these!!
Thanks Tiegs!! I’m going to make more this weekend for Ben. He’s mad I took them all into work for the crew and only left him a half dozen! Whoops!
You can put eggnog in ANYTHING and I’ll love it – thanks for sharing 🙂
Right? I’m a sucker for the eggnog, too! hhaa
Oh my gosh!! Two classic holiday things combined!!!
Totally!! You cant have Christmas without them both!
Eggnog in a cookie!!!! Gurl I just love you for this!!
*BLUSHES* Thanks doll face!! Happy Eggnog season to YOU!! XO
Just give me a stack of cookies and a glass of eggnog STAT! YUM!
Word. Let’s sit back and get fat on cookies and nog. That’show the holiday season is DONE!
15 cookies?!? Sounds like you and your grandma are kindred spirits. 🙂
These cookies are fabulous!
Oh we totally are. She’s nuts, 15 different types of cookies, all intricate and different. I can’t believe it. At 74 she’s still going strong with the cookie craze!
Oh, these look so good!
What a fantastic idea! I can’t wait to try these! I love a good snickerdoodle.
I’m with you, snickerdoodles are 100% irresistible! Oh, and I’m gonna need to hear more about the volcano cookies.
Fantastic idea! And those volcano cookies…with booze?? We’re going to need to hear more about those. Guest post by Grandma perhaps?
Oh man you can totally dunk these cookies into egg nog on the side. You can’t have too much egg nog.
I am adding all of these wonderful cookie recipes to my christmas baking list thank you so much
Ohhhh these sound SO good!
Love these! What a fun twist on snickerdoodles!
I’m not sure I’ve ever had a snickerdoodle but I’m very tempted by this recipe; your cookies look so perfect!
I love snickerdoodles and with eggnog, oh boy, even better! Glad we could both participate in the event today! 🙂
There is so much goodness going on I can hardly handle it.
I’ll take a dozen, please!
Yum! The volcano cookies sound interesting too!
I love the idea of eggnog snickerdoodles 🙂 I know my husband will be thrilled when he sees these!
I made these for a party yesterday. They were gobbled up.
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These look fabulous! I think I’ll be making them tomorrow 🙂 Thanks girl!