These spiced eggnog oatmeal cream pies are positive to get you into the vacation spirit! Chewy oatmeal cookies flavored with eggnog, cinnamon, and nutmeg are sandwiched along with wealthy, spiced eggnog buttercream. They’re gentle, candy, creamy, and in the end festive.
Ahh, eggnog, the basic seasonal beverage that pops up solely on the finish of the yr. This creamy drink has been round for hundreds of years, and has such a particular style and texture. It’s thick, wealthy, and creamy; and tastes like candy vanilla custard spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg.
It may be loved chilly or heat, spiked with alcohol for a wintry cocktail, or blended with espresso in a latte… however I get pleasure from it greatest this manner: in these spiced eggnog oatmeal cream pies!
Sure, These Are Eggnog Oatmeal Cream Pies!
Right here’s why I believe you’ll love them:
- Tender and chewy cookies textured with oats
- Additional creamy eggnog buttercream filling
- Candy and spiced with nutmeg and cinnamon
- Pretty eggnog taste, in each the cookies and the frosting filling
- No uncooked eggs and no booze—so no worries!
Pair with peppermint mocha cookies for a duo of vacation drink-inspired cookies!
Behind the Recipe
I didn’t begin out making an attempt to make an eggnog model of an oatmeal creme pie. I needed to make a chewy frosted eggnog-flavored cookie. A whole lot of eggnog cookie recipes don’t embrace it within the dough, simply within the icing, however I actually needed it in each the cookie dough and the icing.
Once I tried making an iced eggnog sugar cookie, it was simply manner too candy. Eggnog is already candy, and a sugar cookie was simply not the fitting match for this flavoring. So I began enjoying round with my recipe for iced gingerbread oatmeal cookies. I diminished lots of the components, particularly the butter and oats, and took out the molasses, and added some eggnog.
Once I added extra flour, they have been turning into cakey. However utilizing a cautious steadiness of not-too-much flour and not-too-many-oats, they stayed completely chewy, with some pleasant texture from the oats.
Key Substances You Want & Why:
- Flour: All-purpose flour provides these cookies construction.
- Spices: Cinnamon + nutmeg amp up the eggnog taste within the cookies and frosting. If you could find it, utilizing freshly floor nutmeg actually provides it that little one thing further!
- Oats: Oats don’t soak up as a lot liquid as flour, so the cookies keep chewy as a substitute of turning into cakey.
- Baking Soda: So the cookies will puff up a bit within the oven, then deflate a bit when cooling.
- Salt: Taste enhancer + sweetness balancer.
- Butter: You’ll want room-temperature butter for each the cookie dough and the buttercream, to verify it lotions correctly.
- Brown Sugar: For extra-soft cookies. You need to use gentle or darkish, however I want darkish brown sugar in these cookies. The additional molasses content material deepens the flavour.
- Eggnog: I exploit store-bought eggnog in each the cookies and the frosting, so it’s alcohol-free and pasteurized. My crew and I haven’t examined this recipe with home made eggnog, although I can think about it could be simply high-quality.
- Egg: For binding the dough components collectively.
- Vanilla: Provides taste to each cookies and frosting.
- Confectioners’ Sugar: For the eggnog buttercream frosting.
This recipe makes 24 cookies, so 12 eggnog oatmeal cream pies. Be happy to double the recipe—I can promise you folks will ask for extra! Or be happy to only unfold/pipe the buttercream on high of every cookie… there’s a lot to make use of.
Let Me Present You The right way to Make Them
You desire a thinner cookie right here, so the sandwiches aren’t tall and ginormous. (Assume store-bought oatmeal cream pies vs. a double-decker sandwich… LOL.) Subsequently, you want a stickier dough that can unfold extra:
This dough wants 2 hours within the fridge earlier than you may form it. That is the case with MANY cookie recipes! Should you’re quick on time, listed below are all my cookie recipes that don’t require dough chilling.
Even after chilling, the dough is a bit sticky, and that’s okay. It’s nonetheless stable sufficient to roll into balls:
Eggnog Oatmeal Cream Pies: Shaping Ideas
You wish to roll them into evenly sized balls, to make it simpler to match up 2 cookies for sandwiching collectively. I discover a meals scale tremendous helpful for getting the cookies to be uniform in measurement. Scoop a heaping Tablespoon of dough, then drop it on the meals scale, and add or take away some dough to get it to be about 24–25g. Then roll right into a ball, place it on a lined baking sheet, and repeat with the remaining dough.
These will unfold a bit whereas baking, which is what you need so you’ve gotten a pleasant flat floor for the eggnog cream filling. I often bake 8 cookies on a baking sheet, to offer them loads of room to unfold out. These cookies bake in about 11–12 minutes, however test on them round minute 9 of baking to see how they’re wanting.
Success Tip: In case your cookies are spreading an excessive amount of or erratically, take away them from the oven and use a spoon to calmly push any wonky edges again in in the direction of the middle, to reshape into circles. (I do that so much with chocolate chip cookies.) Return to the oven to proceed baking. You may repeat this trick once more as quickly as you are taking them out of the oven after baking.
Don’t fear in the event that they don’t all look fairly—you’re turning half of them the other way up anyway!
Let’s evaluate the shaping suggestions:
- Use a meals scale to make the cookies uniform in measurement.
- If cookies aren’t spreading, bang the baking sheet on the counter a pair instances, then return to oven to complete baking.
- If cookies are overly or erratically spreading, use a spoon to reshape.
Make the Eggnog Buttercream Filling
As soon as your baked cookies are cool, make the eggnog buttercream frosting to your cream pie filling. That is very easy and similar to vanilla buttercream, however scaled down and consists of eggnog and spices.
Pipe or unfold the filling onto the bottoms of 12 of the cookies, then place the opposite 12 cookies on high (flat/backside sides in). I used a small star tip (Wilton 199), however something would work.
Can I Make These Cookie Cream Pies With out Eggnog?
Should you’d prefer to adapt this recipe to omit the eggnog, you may substitute it with heavy cream in each the dough and the buttercream. Or attempt my recipe for traditional oatmeal creme pies.
Flip Them Into Eggnog Ice Cream Sandwiches
These gentle and chewy eggnog oatmeal cookies would additionally make fantastic ice cream cookie sandwiches. Merely swap the eggnog buttercream frosting for eggnog ice cream, and observe the directions for sandwiching the cookies with softened ice cream, wrapping, and freezing from my cookie ice cream sandwich recipe.
Sally’s Cookie Palooza
This recipe is a part of my annual cookie countdown referred to as Sally’s Cookie Palooza. It’s the most important, most scrumptious occasion of the yr! Browse dozens of cookie recipes over on the Sally’s Cookie Palooza web page together with:
and listed below are 75+ Christmas cookies with all my greatest success guides & suggestions.
Description
These are chewy cookies with oats and flavored with eggnog, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Sandwich them along with richly candy and spiced eggnog buttercream. See my cookie shaping suggestions above earlier than beginning.
Eggnog Buttercream Filling
- Make the cookies: Whisk the flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, oats, baking soda, and salt collectively in a medium bowl. Put aside.
- In a big bowl utilizing a hand mixer or a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat the butter and brown sugar collectively on medium-high pace till creamed, about 2 minutes. Add the egg, eggnog, and vanilla extract and beat on excessive pace till mixed, about 1 minute. Scrape down the edges and up the underside of the bowl and beat once more as wanted to mix.
- Add the flour combination to the moist components and blend on low till mixed. Dough shall be very sticky.
- Cowl dough tightly and chill within the fridge for no less than 2 hours and as much as 3 days. Chilling is crucial for this sticky cookie dough.
- Preheat oven to 350°F (177°C). Line massive baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats. Put aside.
- Roll chilled cookie dough into balls, about 1 heaping Tablespoon (24-25g) of dough every, and place 3 inches aside on the baking sheets. (It’s best to get 24 cookie dough balls.)
- Bake for 11–12 minutes, or till very calmly browned across the edges. The facilities will look very gentle. Take away from the oven and permit cookies to chill on the baking sheet for 10 minutes earlier than transferring to a wire rack to chill fully. (Success Tip: In case your cookies are spreading an excessive amount of or erratically, take away them from the oven and use a spoon to calmly push any wonky edges again in in the direction of the middle, to reshape into circles. You may repeat this trick once more as quickly as you are taking them out of the oven after baking.)
- Make the buttercream filling: Utilizing a handheld or stand mixer fitted with a paddle or whisk attachment, beat softened butter on excessive pace till creamy, about 1 minute. Add the confectioners’ sugar and beat on medium pace for 1–2 minutes. Pour in eggnog and vanilla extract, and add a pinch every of cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt. Beat on excessive for two–3 minutes till fluffy. Pipe or unfold among the cream filling on the underside facet of half of the cookies; high with remaining cookies, proper facet up. I used Wilton 199 tip to pipe.
- Cowl and retailer leftover cookies at room temperature for as much as 1 day. After that, retailer within the fridge for as much as 1 week to maintain the creamy filling contemporary.
Notes
- Make Forward & Freezing Directions: You can also make the cookie dough and chill it within the fridge for as much as 3 days. Baked cookies, cooled however not frosted/sandwiched, freeze nicely for as much as 3 months. (For greatest style and texture, eggnog buttercream filling must be contemporary!) Comply with recipe via step 7 earlier than freezing. Thaw in a single day within the fridge and produce to room temperature earlier than persevering with with step 8. Unbaked cookie dough balls will freeze nicely for as much as 3 months. Bake from frozen, including a minute or two to the baking time. Learn my suggestions and tips on the right way to freeze cookie dough.
- Particular Instruments (affiliate hyperlinks): Electrical Mixer (Stand Mixer or Handheld) | Meals Scale | Baking Sheets | Silicone Baking Mats or Parchment Sheets
- Eggnog: I like to recommend utilizing store-bought pasteurized eggnog. My crew and I haven’t examined this recipe with home made eggnog, although I can think about it could be simply high-quality. Should you’d prefer to make this recipe with out eggnog, you may substitute it with heavy cream in each the cookies and frosting; or do that recipe for traditional oatmeal creme pies.
- Make sure you try my high 5 cookie baking suggestions AND these are my 10 must-have cookie baking instruments.
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