Cookie of the Day: Eggnog Gooey Butter Cookies
They taste good, they look good, and they’re made by good people — talented bakers from around the world. Today, Ellen Stimson shares festive cookies for the holiday season from her cookbook An Old Fashioned Christmas.
Eggnog Gooey Butter Cookies. (Photo: Natalie Stultz Photography)
Eggnog Gooey Butter Cookies
Hannah loved eggnog when she was little. Starting just after Christmas I would mix it up a couple of mornings every week for breakfast and she would lick the blender. A cookie just seemed like the next natural step, so we made up this recipe together when she was in first grade. It used boxed cake mix—we use golden butter or yellow. We liked them from the very first batch and so we’ve just kept the recipe the same all these years. One year we figured out that you can frost them too with a little butter, eggnog, and powdered sugar. They are pretty divine either way.
A word about ground nutmeg: Buy the whole ones and grate them. It’s cheaper and in all ways tastier besides.
1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, room temperature
½ cup butter, room temperature
1 egg
1 ½ teaspoons rum extract
¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 package yellow cake mix
½ cup powdered sugar and more for sprinkling
Preheat oven to 350°F. In a large bowl with an electric mixer, beat the cream cheese and butter until smooth. Beat in the egg. Mix in the rum extract and nutmeg. Lastly, mix in the cake mix until thoroughly incorporated. Cover bowl and refrigerate for 2 hours.
Roll the chilled batter into 1-inch-sized balls and then roll them in powdered sugar. Place on an ungreased cookie sheet, 2 inches apart. Bake 12 minutes. The cookies will remain soft and gooey. Cool completely and sprinkle with more powdered sugar (more is always better).
Reprinted with permission from An Old Fashioned Christmas by Ellen Stimson (Countryman Press).
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