Creative Guest Chef: Eggnog Drop Cookies by The Cooking Photographer

Eggnog Drop Cookies by The Cooking Photographer

These are wonderfully tender sugar cookies with a spiced eggnog background.

1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened

1 cup sugar

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 scant teaspoon mace

1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 egg

1/4 cup full fat eggnog

1 teaspoon baking soda

2 cups all-purpose flour

1. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2. Beat the butter, sugar, salt, mace and vanilla extract together until fluffy. Mix in the egg and eggnog. Mix in baking soda, then beat in flour until just combined.

3. With a standard size 50 cookie scoop, scoop the batter and place on sheets 2 inches apart. Sprinkle dough very lightly with mace and bake for 10 minutes, or until golden around the edges. Let rest for 2 minutes on sheets then move to cooling rack.

Makes 32 cookies.

Recipe & photograph by Laura Flowers