The Best Soft Eggnog Cookies!

These eggnog cookies are a ready holiday favorite (and family favorite too)! They're deliciously soft and completely divine cookies that do just as their titled - they melt away in your mouth!

With their delicate texture and generous coating of eggnog frosting they are likely to become a cookie you're not going to forget about. They really do taste just like eggnog in cookie form, so really they are one of the ultimate Christmas cookies!

You wouldn't believe how quickly we finished these off. I think they definitely need to be a new Christmas tradition for my family, and yours too.

If you love eggnog I can pretty much guarantee you'll love these cookies! Yes eggnog is great but it doesn't quite curb those dessert cravings but these however definitely do the trick.

We all love the classic cookie recipes during the holidays but it's always so fun to add a new flavor to the mix like these! People will love them!

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People of all ages love this sweet, bubbly drink. You can try it at Universal Studios' Wizarding World of Harry Potter, or brew your own Butterbeer for a Halloween party. Here I also share a lot of DIY Harry Potter Party ideas so you can bring a piece of the magic into your home too!

Homemade Butterbeer Recipe

It's now become a tradition in my house every year to host this party. And of course, the highlight of the party every year is hanging globes with tea lights (to mimic the floating candles in the movies) and the Butterbeer.

I've yet to meet someone who doesn't love Butterbeer. I've tried two Butterbeer recipes and I prefer this one by a long shot. The other one consisted of butter, cream, sugar, cream soda, and rum flavor and it was just too much—even for me. I love that easy Butterbeer recipe isn't overwhelmingly sweet and rich.

I've never had the real deal Butterbeer from the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, but this is just what I'd imagine it to be like. So, in other words, I can't say it's a total copycat recipe but no matter, it's amazing!! And the best part—it's so easy to make! All you have to do is flavor the soda and whip together the toppings.

For this year's party, we also had something like a Thanksgiving feast, sans turkey because I couldn't find one this time of year. So instead I went with ham, mashed potatoes and mom's ham gravy, pumpkin cornbread with cinnamon honey butter, butternut squash and pomegranate spinach salad, corn, pumpkin cheesecake with salted caramel sauce, pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, and apple pie (also, here is the recipe of the caramel apples or you can use the microwave caramel recipe which is also delicious).

They always had those big feasts in the Great Hall so of course a big dinner is a must at the party!

Keep scrolling down for more fun DIY Harry Potter Party ideas, and to view the recipe and learn how to make easy Butterbeer at home!

DIY Harry Potter Party Decorations

You can find the glass globes in multiple places online as well as the battery tea lights. And a must are the class banners.

The lanterns pictured reminded me of the lanterns they'd carry into the Forbidden Forest in the movies. Then of course I found a Hedwig for the centerpiece.

Harry Potter-themed Candy Bar

Here we have a very mini version of Honeydukes candy shop. Including chocolate frogs and wands, Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, caramel apple pops and real caramel apples, "muggle munch" which is candy corn, and "candied worms" which are the gummy worms. Ferrero Rocher chocolates make the perfect snitch truffles. For the wings, I cut one template and then used that for tracing so all the wings were the same and glued them on with hot glue.

Harry Potter Chocolate Treats

Here is the mold for the chocolate frogs. My kids helped me make the chocolate wands, just chocolate-covered pretzels dipped in sprinkles.

DIY Harry Potter Party Decorations

This dementor below actually moved, it was originally a ghost Halloween decoration but we made it work with some black cloth. And the deer is a patronus (a Christmas decoration). The glitter potions are a mixture of corn syrup and glitter. The gold potion is a combination of sprinkles, cocoa powder, leaves, water, and herbs. These mimic the floating jack-o-lanterns in the Great Hall. The dementor was a skeleton, again, I just covered it with black cloth. Little spiders leading to...Aragog.Wanted signs you can search and print online. Since there were so many kids instead of buying 10 ties I just made felt ones for the kids and bought some cheap Harry Potter glasses. We also played games with the kids like "Find the Horcuxes" (similar to a treasure hunt), a wand/class choosing with a Sorting Hat, and pin the scar on Harry. Candles were everywhere. For those in reach of kids/or near cobwebs I used the battery-operated ones.

Are you guys cookie'd out yet? Because I definitely am not :)! I've been sharing cookie recipes like crazy and still have another cookie recipe to share next week too, Lemon Snowball Cookies, they are amazing! As are these perfectly flavored eggnog snickerdoodles. That's right you guys, all the flavors of eggnog combined with all the best things about a Snickerdoodle cookie, and BAM! You get these! And they are dangerously delicious!

Crazy enough, these cookies actually contain no eggnog. I felt if I added it we'd end with more of a cakey snickerdoodle and with these, I wanted something more soft and chewy because to me that's the way a true snickerdoodle should be (plus that must-have, lightly crisp outer layer from the sugar coating that slightly melts while baking. I just love biting through that!). They get their eggnog flavor from a fair amount of nutmeg and also from the rum extract. Rum extract can be found near the vanilla extract in most grocery stores. It's a must in these cookies so be sure not to skip out on it. Plus if you buy it and need more uses for it you can try any of these recipes here.

Another fun way to reinvent this classic Snickerdoodle cookie would be to use red sugar in your cinnamon-sugar mixture! Roll your cookie dough ball in the mixture then place on a silicone mat on your cookie sheet to bake. Sprinkle additional sugar after baking if needed!

And since you can never have too many cookie recipes... I'm so excited today to be part of a virtual cookie exchange with some of my food-blogging friends! You really need to check out all their delicious recipes! I don't know which one to start with first, they all look so delicious! Follow the links below the image to get the recipes.

Happy cookie-making!

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There's nothing like cozying up in your pj's and slippers and settling down to a warm holiday breakfast full of freshly squeezed orange juice, hot-from-the-oven perfectly crisp bacon, soft scrambled eggs that are loaded with cheddar, and a tall stack of warm pancakes slathered with butter and drenched in maple syrup.

One of my favorite parts of Christmas when I was younger was always the breakfast my mom made. She didn't make a hot breakfast often—we were much more of a dry cereal family—so a hot breakfast like this was a big deal to me.

And bacon to this day still reminds me of Christmas morning! Then I'm reminded of how many oranges it took me and my siblings to squeeze by hand with one of those twist-to-juice thingamajigs (manual juicers) to get enough juice for my mom and all 6 kids.

Good times though. Christmas morning is hands down my favorite morning of the year, so a seriously incredible breakfast is a must!

Some of you may be thinking it's a little early to be getting out the eggnog but I think November safely qualifies for serving up eggnog. Next, you know I'll be making these Eggnog Snickerdoodles.

This Eggnog French Toast makes for the perfect holiday breakfast, Thanksgiving or Christmas. Not only does it taste truly delicious but, just like other French toast recipes, it is unbelievably easy to make. It only requires 5 ingredients! Those are my kind of breakfasts because I'm not a morning person, so when I have guests to feed I'm all about easy breakfast recipes. I'd like to start sharing more overnight recipes, I'm sure there is some way this could be turned into an overnight French toast casserole.

Really it's not best with pomegranate arils (kind of an odd flavor combo to do pomegranate and eggnog) I only added them to make it look more festive and fancier, sparkling cranberries would be good for decoration too.

Eggnog French Toast Recipe

1. Stir together store-bought eggnog (homemade eggnog would be amazing), egg mixture, nutmeg, and ground cinnamon in a large bowl.
2. Butter a griddle or skillet and turn to medium heat.
3. Pour the eggnog mixture into a shallow dish or pan. Dip thick slices of a loaf of your favorite brioche bread into the mixture, making sure to saturate each side of the slice of bread.

I'm sure I will be turning to this French toast recipe many times this season. It tastes just like eggnog but in perfectly golden and buttery French toast form. Serve this up with sweetened whipped cream (a holiday must right?), some protein like juicy sausage, and those irresistible slices of salty, crisp bacon we all crave, and you've got a holiday meal worth remembering.

Christmas breakfast here we come! Lucky for me, since I just made these, I got this Christmas-style breakfast a week early. Yesterday I took my latest favorite holiday cookie, these Melt-In-Your-Mouth Eggnog Cookies, to my in-law's family Christmas party.

Eggnog Doughnut Muffins

Yes, I wanted to devour all 30-whatever of those cookies, but somehow I managed to get them to the party :). Since I woke up this morning and my cookies were gone, but I still had half of a carton of eggnog, I decided to make another holiday-inspired treat with a new recipe. All you need to jump from cookies to muffins are paper liners and a 12-cup muffin pan.

My kids and I call these "Santa Drink Muffins" because we all know eggnog is the preferred drink for Santa Claus.

I'm pretty sure eggnog is available all year where I live, but I try to resist buying it until the holidays because it makes it that much more savored and enjoyed.

Is there a better way to start out the day than with Cheesecake? No, probably not. Seeing as it was Thanksgiving these are what I ate for breakfast. It's a good thing Thanksgiving only comes once a year so I'm not tempted to eat cheesecake for breakfast too often.

It was basically like drinking eggnog for breakfast anyway (which still isn't what we'd consider healthy but it's also another delicious breakfast choice, especially when it's a holiday - or near a holiday).