I’ve been making these spritz cookies for so long—at least two cookie-presses ago—that I have no memory of where I got the original recipe. Also, I probably fiddle with this recipe every year, and this year, I upped the nutmeg and the rum flavoring!  

Eggnog Spritz Cookies

INGREDIENTS

• 3½ cups all purpose flour—I always use unbleached all purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg—fresh! A bottle from a few years ago won’t have much flavor
• 1½ cups butter, 3 sticks, at room temperature
• 1 cup sugar
• 3 egg yolks
• ½ teaspoon vanilla
• 1½ teaspoons rum extract
• Nutmeg Sugar—mix 1 tablespoons sugar with 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• Freshly grated nutmeg, if desired

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 400°.
2. In a medium bowl combine flour, baking powder and nutmeg, and stir to combine.
3. In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes.
4. Stir in egg yolks, vanilla, and rum extracts, beat until well combined.
5. With mixer running, gradually add flour mixture to butter-sugar mixture—dough should be very soft.
6. Force dough through a cookie press and onto ungreased or parchment-lined cookie sheets—I usually make the small star shaped spritz cookie, but the manual cookie press I borrowed didn’t have a star disk. My second cookie press—one was battery operated, one was electric—had just burned out. I just made long logs, baked them, and then broke into pieces. This worked, but wasn’t as attractive as individual star shaped cookies 🙂
7. Sprinkle cookies with nutmeg sugar—if desired, add an extra grating of freshly grated whole nutmeg over the cookies.
8. Bake in preheated 400° oven for 6-7 minutes.
9. Cool cookies on tray for a minute, and them remove to a rack to cool completely. 

Makes approximately 5 dozen small spritz cookies.

I have never glazed these cookies, but here is a glaze if you’d like to try it:

• 1 cup powdered sugar
• ¼ cup butter, melted
• 2-3 tablespoons white rum OR ¼ teaspoon rum extract and 2 tbsp hot water

1. Stir together the glaze ingredients.
2. Add additional rum or rum extract/hot water to desired glazing consistency. You can microwave the glaze for a few seconds to make the glaze more fluid-y.
3. While still warm, brush the tops of cookies with glaze.
4. Sprinkle with candies if desired.

The cookies in the photo are glazed, from TheBestDessertRecipes.

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