Egg Nog Cookies

Today I'm sharing a recipe I came across on The Recipe Critic. (Thanks Alyssa!) As soon as I saw these delicious looking cookies I knew they would be my Cookie Exchange cookies! Don't egg nog cookies just scream Christmas? They do to me. I can not even begin to tell you how good these are. Scary good! Bake with caution - I mean it. And don't blame be if you eat a dozen yourself and your jeans are too tight. lol I wasn't counting, but I think I ate five or six yesterday.  ; )

Egg Nog Cookies

adapted from The Recipe Critic

makes 3 - 4 dozen

Ingredients:

• 1 1/4 cups white sugar
• 3/4 cup butter, softened
• 1/2 cup eggnog
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 egg yolks
• 1 teaspoon nutmeg
• 2 1/4 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

Eggnog Glaze:

• 1 ½ cup powdered sugar
• 3 tablespoons eggnog

1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
2. Combine the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and nutmeg.  Set aside.
3. Cream sugar and butter together in mixing bowl.
4. Add eggnog, vanilla, and egg yolks.  Beat at medium speed with a mixer until smooth.
5. Add the flour mixture and beat at low speed until combined. Do not over-mix.
6. Spoon onto ungreased cookie sheet or parchment paper and make the dough balls rather small because they will spread in the oven. Sprinkle the cookies with nutmeg.
7. Bake 10-12 minutes until the edges are lightly brown.
8. While the cookies are in the oven make the glaze by combining the powdered sugar with 3 T eggnog.
9. Drizzle the glaze over cookies.

**Notes 

•  Mine took 12 minutes to bake.
•  I put the glaze in a baggie and snipped a teeny tiny bit of the corner off. It made it much easier to drizzle.

You should most definitely add these to your holiday baking list! They will not disappoint. Really. 

Happy Holidays!  

Join me again tomorrow - I'll be sharing no flour peanut butter cookies.

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Spring, where are you??

So, I have to start by saying, I am sick of winter! The past few weeks we've had much more extreme cold than normal cold, and it's getting to me. When it's this cold I feel like a hermit with my living room blinds closed 24 hours a day and all the lamps on. In the bedrooms the curtains are drawn closed too. This house gets almost breezy due to the lack of insulation which makes me chilly ALL day. I'm done!

However I am looking forward to Spring coming, eventually, and being able to get outdoors. Since I've been so cooped up I've been online (a lot!) discovering different home decor blogs. Wow are there a ton of them out there! I've stumbled across a couple I just love and browse nearly everyday. They are Centsational Girl and Thrifty Decor Chick . You should check them out! Love them!!!

Anywaaay, back to getting outdoors. I can't wait because I have a list of projects I want to get started on and pretty much all of them require me to be in the garage and paint. I can't be outside painting when it's -25! These blogs have totally inspired me. Yes, I can paint furniture and make my home beautiful for little money! Around the house I've been rearranging little things, painting the random frame or basket, and hemming up curtains for Adia's room. Things are already starting to look nicer. It makes me happy! Oh, I scored the cutest wood side table off Kijiji for $10. As soon as we get one nice day I'm gonna be in the garage painting it. I'll post before and after pics when it's done.  : D

A little taste of Spring for ya. Aren't they beautiful?!?!