Line cookie sheets with parchment paper.

Christmas cookies using egg yolks. This is a great recipe to use up egg yolks. If desired, roll each cookie ball over sprinkles, or add chocolate chip, m&ms, or any other topping you want. The addition of two eggs gives the centers a tender and soft texture, while the crinkled edges get ever so slightly golden and crisp.

The yolk biscuits are assembled after baking, in our case with strawberry jam, and decorated with a dark chocolate couverture. The ingredients for linzer cookies (or spitzbuben) are common, but a few may surprise you. Raise your glasses for a toast on the day before christmas with a creamy and delicious mug of nog.

Often other ingredients are stirred in. Cream the sugar and butter together in a large bowl using an electric mixer. Yep, even with just the yolks, you’ll be able to create the most addictive sweets known.

Hard boil 4 eggs and separate the yolk. Just like most cookie recipes, you must first start off with creaming together the butter and sugar. These cookies are actually very simple to make!

1 cup butter (or shortening for cookies that won't spread quite as much) 1 1⁄2 cups sugar. Salt, vanilla, flour, bittersweet chocolate chips, sugar, baking powder and 5 more. Jump to recipe print recipe.

You can also make these cookies using three whole eggs. 1 teaspoon cream of tartar. These eggnog cookies are soft and tender with a delicious eggnog flavor and a layer of thick and creamy eggnog frosting.