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Snickerdoodles with Egg Nog Ganache Frosting

December 10, 2017 4 Comments

I am a big fan of Tidy Mom.  Cheryl’s style is inspirational and her recipes are always delicious and easy to follow… in fact, foolproof.  Unless of course a fool like me decides to substitute an ingredient in one of her recipes.  I discovered I didn’t have an ingredient and couldn’t bear the thought of returning to the mad-house of a grocery store.  So I improvised.  (Cooking is art, baking is chemistry.  Do not monkey with chemistry.)

I spied Tidy Mom’s Egg Nog Truffles the other day and knew they would be fab, so I doubled the recipe off the bat.  (With the wrong ingredients.)  I had a delicious concoction that wouldn’t hold a truffle shape.  So you know what I did?  I turned that delicious mess into a frosting instead.

Snickerdoodles with Egg Nog Ganache Frosting

There was no way I wanted to waste that deliciousness, and these cookies were a serendipitous solution!

I used a boxed Snickerdoodle mix and simply turned my failed truffles into a perfect ganache frosting.

To make the frosting, go to Tidy Mom and double her Egg Nog Truffle recipe, but instead of using 1 tsp of Rum Extract, substitute 1 Tbsp of Rum.

Bake cookies as directed and then slather on a big dollop of frosting.

Snickerdoodles with Egg Nog Ganache

These cookies were amazing.  I say were, because they were eaten up within a few hours.

By the way, I gave the Egg Nog Truffle recipe again, following the recipe to the letter, and they turned out beautifully. If you are looking for delicious recipes, Tidy Mom is always a great resource.

(And in the unlikely event you mess up a recipe, play around with it and see what you can make instead.  Sometimes accidents are delicious.)

Happy holidays!

 

Filed Under: Christmas, dessert, recipes Tagged With: baking, cookies, recipe

Comments

  1. TidyMom says

    December 22, 2014 at 11:45 AM

    you, my friend are TOTALLY AWESOME!! and I LOVE that you turned it around to frosting!!
    I bet they were amazing!!
    Happy Holidays!! xoxox

    Reply
    • Vivienne says

      December 22, 2014 at 11:48 AM

      They were amazing, but only because one of your recipes was the base. mmmmmm

  2. Shannon says

    December 22, 2014 at 12:36 PM

    These look gorgeous and Dee-licious! Thanks for the inspitaion.

    Reply

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