Our delicious Eggnog Meringue Cookies are a true holiday delight featuring the rich flavors of the Christmas-time favorite spiced Eggnog!
We are very happy to share this easy recipe this year, just in time for the holidays.
We love making these cookies, and always have to incorporate our favorite spice, nutmeg!
Always fabulous, but even more amazing when freshly grated right into whatever you are making.
(we love nutmeg in everything from sweets like our dutch baby pancakes, preacher cake, peanut butter banana cookies and eggnog sugar cookies to savory like our leftover prime rib hash and honey garlic pork chops)
These dainty cookies are an eye catching part of a Christmas cookie display, too!
Like many of you, we love to have quite an assortment of Christmas cookies to share with friends and family...and whether you make these meringue cookies with eggnog or our gingerbread spice, they are always a hit!
Enjoy!
Christmas Eggnog Meringue Cookies
Ingredients
- 3 large egg whites (room temperature)
- ½ cup sugar
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon cream of tarter
- ½ teaspoon eggnog
- ½ teaspoon vanilla paste (or extract)
- ¼ teaspoon nutmeg (freshly grated)
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 200 degrees F (93 degrees C) - or as low as your oven can go, I know some ovens can only go down to 250 degrees F. Line your baking sheets with parchment paper and move your oven racks to the bottom racks in your oven.
- Separate your egg whites from your room temperature eggs (if they are not room temp, place your eggs in a glass or bowl of warm tap water for about 5-10 minutes). Be sure when you separate the egg whites that the whites go into a clean, dry bowl. Any water or residue will affect how well your egg whites stiffen into soft peaks.
- Place your egg whites into the bowl of your stand mixer, add salt and cream of tartar and use the whisk attachment at medium speed until soft peaks are formed (about 1-2 minutes).
- Add the sugar to the egg whites slowly incorporating it into the meringue (you can process your sugar in food processor by pulsing a few times to make super fine sugar so that all of the sugar melts easily). Once all of the sugar is added and well combined, test the consistency by rubbing between your finger tips to enure that all of the sugar has melted.
- Add eggnog and vanilla paste (or extract) and freshly grated nutmeg. Continue to mix on high speed until stiff peaks are formed, and your meringue is smooth and glossy.
- Use a piping bag with a large star piping tip, or a ziploc baggie (with the corner cut off) and pipe the meringue onto your parchment paper lined baking sheets. Leave about ½" between each 1-1 ½" sized meringue star.
- Place baking sheets into the oven on the lower racks, and bake at 200 degrees F (93 degrees C) for 1 hour 15 minutes. If you need to use a higher baking temperature, reduce the baking time until the outside of the meringues are dry but not changing color, or browning at the bottoms.
- When the meringues are dry to the touch, turn off your oven and allow them to cool completely in the oven and preferably overnight.
- **To make the 'Gingerbread' meringue cookies shown in the photos with our white eggnog meringue cookies: Follow all instructions but increase the vanilla paste (or extract) to 1 teaspoon and substitute 1 teaspoon of our Homemade German Gingerbread Spice Blend (Lebkuchengewurz) for the ¼ teaspoon of nutmeg.
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Angela is an at home chef that developed a passion for all things cooking and baking at a young age in her Grandma's kitchen. After many years in the food service industry, she now enjoys sharing all of her family favorite recipes and creating tasty dinner and amazing dessert recipes here at Bake It With Love!
Shanna says
These are baking right now, but are going to be fabulous! I too had the liquid problem and ended up beating in another egg white, even after mixing everything, and thankfully that did the trick! ❤
Shanna, thank you very much for sharing your quick-fix for the runny batter! Meringues can be touchy with humidity, egg quality, etc so I'm happy you were able to solve this easily. Hope they turned out wonderfully! Enjoy!
Heather says
So I've attempted these twice and both times all I get is liquid. So here are my questions. Once I have the sugar dissolved do I keep the mixer on high speed and slowly add the eggnog and vanilla liquid? Cause i stop the mixing to add the liquid? And it never recovers from there..
Hello Heather, here are a couple of quick thoughts. Bring your eggnog close to room temperature before adding. You can also try folding the eggnog and vanilla in to not deflate your meringue mixture. If you want to send me more info, I can be of more help! Send additional info to me at angela @bakeitwithlove .com
Thanks for asking and I hope to hear from you soon! Angela
reneass says
Angela--these are so pretty and festive looking. Good job!
Aw, thank you so much! We really are true meringue fans in the household, I'm really amazed I don't already have dozens of varieties shared!!
Jenny says
I am a big fan of meringue, so thank you so much for sharing this with the food advent calendar!
So are we! And we love decorating our meringues, so we knew we had to have these 🙂