Eggnog Thumbprint Cookies

By tjm01

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup butter or margarine, softened
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 egg
• 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 1/4 cup butter or margarine
• 1 cup confectioner's sugar
• 1/4 tsp. rum extract
• 1 tbsp. milk
• 1 dash ground nutmeg

Details

Servings 4

Preparation

Step 1

Cream 3/4 cup butter with white and brown sugars. Add egg, vanilla, and salt; mix well. Gradually add in flour at slow speed of mixer, or by hand until a dough forms.
Shape into 1" or 1/2" balls (1" balls yield 40 cookies, 1/2" balls yield 75-90 cookies). Place dough balls on ungreased cookie sheets and make thumbprint wells into cookies.
Bake at 350 degrees for 12 minutes. Then cool completely.
To make filling, combine the 1/4 cup butter or margarine, confectioner's sugar, rum extract & milk. Spoon rounded teaspoons of filling into cookies. Sprinkle with nutmeg.