Reviewed: Dec. 18, 2011

A tasty holiday cookie

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coupgrl

Cooking Level: Beginning

Home Town: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Reviewed: Dec. 16, 2011

This appears to be the exact recipe i've been using for several years now. I can't remember my source, some other now unknown website. Regardless these cookies are great! I'm not an eggnog drinker, but love these cookies. They're soft and have just the perfect amount of spice. You will always find Eggnog Cookies amoung my holiday baking goodies somewhere.

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Jaay

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Living In: Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

Reviewed: Dec. 15, 2011

This is a cake-like cookie. I should have known that when I saw the baking powder in the recipe. If you're looking for a more dense, sugar cookie"ish" texture, keep looking!

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foodiegirl

Reviewed: Dec. 15, 2011

I love eggnog but thought these cookies were just okay. I wouldn't make them again. The nutmeg was a little strong for me. I even tried sprinkling with cinnamon instead but the nutmeg taste was still too much.

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Kellie M.

Reviewed: Dec. 11, 2011

These cookies are VERY rich. Like others, I increased the egg nog to 3/4 C, increased the flour to 2 1/2 cups, decreased the nutmeg to 1/2 teaspoon and used 1/2 tsp rum extract and 1/2 tsp vanilla. They were done in 14 minutes. I coated the cookies in colored sugar because anything else would've been too much. The dough is way to sticky to put in a press and they come out 'ugly' if you don't do something. I dropped it onto a cookie sheet and the lightly rolled it into a ball before sprinkling the sugar on it. The cookies came out round and not as ugly.

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IRISHDAUD

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, USA

Living In: Denver, Colorado, USA

Reviewed: Dec. 10, 2011

Added my own touch to this recipe. Increased the eggnog to 3/4 cup, and the cinnamon to 1 teas. as we are not fans of nutmeg but love eggnog also lightly sprinkled the top with cinnamon, they are great.

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Kathy B.

Reviewed: Nov. 27, 2011

These were great. I did 1/2 white sugar 1/25 brown and reduced the amount of allspice. I also made a glaze out of 1.5 cup powder sugar, 2 tbls soft butter and enough eggnog to get the consistency I wanted.

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AmyMTeets

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Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Morrill, Nebraska, USA

Reviewed: Aug. 9, 2011

I made these cookies for Christmas and my entire family devoured them. Even for people who don't like eggnog these could just be considered your normal sugar/spice cookies with a little extra kick.

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Adrienne_Raine

Home Town: Tampa, Florida, USA

Living In: Valrico, Florida, USA

Reviewed: Jan. 2, 2011

Good recipe with the changes suggested by the other reviewers. I also cut the amount of nutmeg down to 1/4 tsp. I changed the sugar to 1/2 cup white sugar and 3/4 cup brown. The dough is a little strange when you drop by a teaspoon so I put the dough into a ziploc bag and then cut a corner to make my cookie mounds. I then wet my finger with water and pushed down in the middle of the cookie to give it a better shape. This made beautiful round cookies. I did not sprinkle any additional nutmeg on the cookie since I feel it is such a strong spice. After baking, I iced the cookies with a powdered sugar icing mixed with rum. This gave the cookie an extra zing. I only wish that the recipe would have used up more of my eggnog but I am now looking at a bundt cake that uses leftover nog or french toast.

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Starfish

Reviewed: Jan. 2, 2011

Pretty good cookies, I did use 2x as much eggnog and did the sugar 1/2 brown 1/2 white. Tasty and different. Mine stayed soft - maybe should have cooked longer so they would get crispier. But still enjoyed them for something different.

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