‘Eggnog Kringla‘ is the shape of a cookie and is primarily cooked in Norway during Christmas. The following recipe for cooking Eggnog Kringla cookies makes around 60 cookies and takes around 6-8 hours depending upon the cooking experience. The ingredients required are:

  • All purpose flour – 4 cups
  • Baking powder – 1 teaspoon
  • Baking soda – Half teaspoon
  • Butter – Three quarters of a cup
  • Eggs – 1 piece
  • Eggnog (dairy or nondairy) – 1 cup
  • Ground Nutmeg – Half teaspoon
  • Sifted powder sugar – 1 to 1.5 teaspoon
  • Sugar – 1 to 1.5 cups

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Other things required:

  • Large bowl
  • Mixing bowl
  • Oven

Directions to prepare Eggnog Kringla cookies:

  1. Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda and nutmeg together in large bowl.
  2. Cream the butter for about 30 seconds in a large mixing bowl. Add sugar and beat the paste until it’s fluffy. Add egg and mix it well.
  3. Add the above two in a bowl, cover the dough and chill the dough for at least 4 hours in the refrigerator. The dough may still be sticky but it is soft.
  4. Take half of the dough and make rolls of it on a lightly floured surface into rope shape which are about half inch thick and around 8 inches long.
  5. Cris cross the ends of the rope in a loop over the other on an ungreased cookie sheet or lightly floured surface giving itan oval shape and bake the cookies for about 6-8 minutes in a 350F preheated oven until the edges are lightly browned.
  6. Take the cookies out and while they are warm, sprinkle tops of sifted powder sugar and the nutmeg.

For those who are unaware of an eggnog: it’s a Christmas beverage consisting of milk & ice cream, beaten eggs, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and liquor (like brandy or rum).