Today, I am presenting you another cookie I made for Christmas. It is a more or less a sugar cookie, flavoured with nutmeg, vanilla and eggnog, frosted with eggnog icing.
For the cookie you need:
1/2 vanilla bean
1 1/4 cups softened butter
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp. salt
1 egg
1 tbsp. eggnog
3 1/4 cups flour
Scrape the inside of the vanilla bean into a tiny bowl. Do not discard the vanilla bean, but fill a small glass (with a lid) with sugar and add the bean, to make your own vanilla sugar. That is what I did :)
Beat butter until fluffy. Then, add sugar, nutmeg and salt. Beat until well incorporated. Add egg, eggnog and vanilla and stir until combined. Finally, add flour and baking powder and proceed likewise. Divide in two and wrap in foil. Refrigerate for one hour.
Preheat the oven to 180°C. Roll out the dough to 5 mm thick and cut out cookies with a cookie cutter. Place the cookies about 3 cm apart on a lined baking tray. Bake for 8-10 minutes.
When all cookies are completely cooled down, prepare the eggnog icing.
What you need is:
3 cups powdered sugar
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
3-4 tbsp. eggnog
Stir all ingredients together. Add either powdered sugar or eggnog to achieve spreading consistency.
Spread cookies with the icing and let dry.
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