My favorite part of the holidays is all the smells and flavors… From peppermint to gingerbread, vanilla to eggnog, I love them all. So it should come as no surprise that I love baking during the holidays. This year, I decided to turn one of my favorite holiday beverages into a portable dessert. And thus, these eggnog cookies with bourbon cream filling were born! Get a printable recipe and links to 8 more ideas for holiday cookie fun at the end of this post.

Eggnog Cookies: A Festive Twist on Traditional Sugar Cookies

There is no more perfect ending to a cold, winter evening during the holidays than curling up in front of the fire with a cup of eggnog, sprinkled with nutmeg, and for a little extra warmth, a splash of good bourbon. Our family’s traditional sugar cookies are made with whipping cream, so while enjoying a cup of eggnog I realized it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to swap the cream for eggnog.  The end result? A holiday flavor bomb that is guaranteed to be a crowd pleaser!

Eggnog Cookies with Bourbon Cream Filling

Eggnog is made from eggs, cream and sugar – so you pretty much just need butter and flour to take it from beverage to cookie. After that, you just need nutmeg and bourbon to give you the full mouthful of flavor in each cookie bite!

Cookie Ingredients

1 TBSP butter (room temperature)
3/4 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp baking soda
1 heaping tsp baking powder
1 cup eggnog
3 – 3 1/2 cups flour

Filling Ingredients

1 cup butter (room temperature)
8 oz. cream cheese (softened)
1 TBSP bourbon
4 cups powdered sugar

Eggnog Cookies Recipe

In a large mixing bowl, combine all cookie ingredients except flour. This will be a chunky, liquid consistency. Refrigerate for 1-2 hours.

Position oven rack in top third of oven and preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Remove liquid ingredients from refrigerator. Add flour to your liquid 1 cup at a time until dough begins to forms. Fold in additional flour, until dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl and no longer sticks to your fingers.

On floured surface, roll dough to 1/4 inch thickness. Transfer cut cookies to parchment lined cookie sheets.

Bake at 375 degrees for 10 minutes, or until cookies are golden brown on the bottom.

Eggnog Cookies Bourbon Cream Filling Recipe

Use a mixer on medium to high speed to whip butter and cream cheese together. Fold in bourbon.

Add 1 cup of powdered sugar at a time until your filling achieves desired consistency.

Assembling Eggnog Cookie Sandwiches

I wanted my eggnog cookies to resemble an actual mug of eggnog. And to maximize the bourbon cream on every cookie and the mug effect I was looking for, I decided a cookie sandwich would work best. I built my cookie sandwiches using two alphabet cookie cutters – the ‘O’ for the bottom layer and the ‘Q’ for the top, with the tail resembling the mug handle. I left the centers in the Os, but removed them from the Qs.  The little circle centers made for great bite sized eggnog cookie treats too, especially when topped with a dollop of bourbon cream.

Once cookies cool, use a piping bag with no tip, add a layer of  bourbon cream to the bottom layer of your cookie sandwich. Press the top layer onto the bourbon cream. Add a star tip to your piping bag to add a decorative swirl of bourbon cream to the top of your cookie, and garnish with a sprinkle of nutmeg! YUM!!!!

More Holiday Cookie Fun!

Looking for some more holiday cookie recipes? My family always makes these Gingerbread and Whipping Cream Sugar Cookies EVERY year. If you are short on time, these Quick and Easy Christmas Cookies are the way to go! We also love these Poinsettia Spritz Cookies from Arts & Crackers. These Ornament Cookies from Craftulate are the perfect blank decorating canvas for decorating with kids.  And these hard candy, Stained Glass Window Cookies from Life is a Cabaret are almost too beautiful to eat. When you are done with your holiday baking, turn them into a Simple DIY Christmas Gift with these wrapping tips and free printable card from Sunny Day Family.

Want to play with cookies after the holidays are over? Stuff your kids stockings with this precious Hand Knit Gingerbread Man from Knits’ End. Check out this Printable Macarons Coloring Page from Moms and Crafters.  I also totally love this list of books to inspire your cookie baking ALL YEAR LONG from Growing Book by Book.

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Festive Eggnog Cookies with Bourbon Cream Filling

Prep Time: 1 hour

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Yield: 2 dozen 2 inch diameter cookie sandwiches

Serving Size: 1 cookie

Your favorite holiday beverage - eggnog - in cookie form, complete with nutmeg and bourbon!

Ingredients

Cookie Ingredients

1 TBSP butter (room temperature)

3/4 cup sugar

1 tsp vanilla

1 tsp nutmeg

1 tsp baking soda

1 heaping tsp baking powder

1 cup eggnog

3 - 3 1/2 cups flour

Filling Ingredients

1 cup butter (room temperature)

8 oz. cream cheese (softened)

1 TBSP bourbon

4 cups powdered sugar

Instructions

Eggnog Cookies Recipe

In a large mixing bowl, combine all cookie ingredients except flour. This will be a chunky, liquid consistency. Refrigerate for 1-2 hours.

Position oven rack in top third of oven and preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Remove liquid ingredients from refrigerator. Add flour to your liquid 1 cup at a time until dough begins to forms. Fold in additional flour, until dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl and no longer sticks to your fingers.

On floured surface, roll dough to 1/4 inch thickness. Transfer cut cookies to parchment lined cookie sheets.

Bake at 375 degrees for 10 minutes, or until cookies are golden brown on the bottom.

Eggnog Cookies Bourbon Cream Filling Recipe

Use a mixer on medium to high speed to whip butter and cream cheese together. Fold in bourbon.

Add 1 cup of powdered sugar at a time until your filling achieves desired consistency.

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Still need more cookie recipes? I love to bake holiday gifts, so I have an endless list of cookie recipes – including 50+ Holiday Cookie Recipes. You can find these, my Eggnog Cookies recipe, and all of the cookies listed here, along with 100s more on my Gotta Eat! Cookies board on Pinterest!

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