Hi there! My identify is Audrey and I am not superior within the kitchen. My kitchen expertise revolve round no matter I can dump in my Crockpot, and even that requires some planning forward that I normally fail at.
The vacation season, nonetheless, conjures up me to bake, irrespective of how dangerous I’m at it. Subsequently, I made a decision to analysis and take a look at my hand at six completely different celeb cookie recipes in an try to steal one to make use of yearly and turn into the largest hit on the vacation get together.
The celeb cookie recipes we’re testing are:
To begin with, you may want to buy elements. I broke down the worth of every cookie beneath, however my whole invoice (save the honey, cream of tartar, and baking soda I already had) to make all six sorts of cookies was $74.08 (like $13 of that was simply butter lol).
As a result of I am making an attempt six sorts of cookies, and I am busy across the holidays, my dad came to visit to assist me in baking. Please bear in mind we aren’t significantly good at baking. All the baking expertise in our household went to my grandma, who lives too distant for me to enlist her assist with these cookies.
Danny Trejo’s recipe required sifting dry elements by way of a sieve and the one one I had was this comically small one.
After the dough was made, Mr. Trejo needed us to roll the dough in balls and dip them in a mud created from sugar, cinnamon, and cayenne pepper, which appeared and smelled so good, I saved the remaining in a baggie that my husband has been sprinkling on high of his Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
The cookies had been presupposed to go in for 10 minutes, however at across the 8-minute mark, I noticed my oven was out to get me as a result of the cookies began to odor burnt (facet word: I did not even know you could possibly burn parchment paper).
Whereas the cookies tasted nice, the bottoms had been sadly burnt. They didn’t, nonetheless, detract from the yumminess of Mr. Trejo’s recipe.
After Trejo’s Mexican Scorching Chocolate Cookies had been achieved, we moved on to Mary Tyler Moore‘s Meringue Cookie.
Meringue, I came upon, is simply a whole lot of affected person mixing. After the combination is mixed and stiff peaks type, the combination is dolloped onto a baking sheet and baked at 275º for 45 minutes.
When Mary Tyler Moore’s almond meringues got here out, they had been very fluffy, and tasted such as you had been consuming air that an almond had wafted by way of.
Not a complete lot of taste, however perhaps that is the purpose with meringue? I am not an enormous sweets individual so I loved how refined they had been, however to anybody else in search of a cookie recipe as an alternative of an edible cloud recipe, these aren’t for you.
We moved on to Michelle Obama‘s Successful Chocolate Chip Cookie. These had been the one cookies with shortening in them and I assume it is what made the batter really feel so mild and fluffy.
Mixing collectively the entire elements proved to be a little bit of a problem as a result of these cookies had been chunkier than the remaining with walnuts and three completely different sorts of chocolate chips in them.
I popped them into the oven, which I set decrease than instructed, and on a shorter timer than standard annnnnd…burned them once more. My oven and I are at present at warfare.
Even burnt, Michelle Obama’s cookies had been a crowd favourite. They combined a whole lot of textures and tasted extra like a standard chocolate chip cookie. Whereas I had excessive hopes these could be smooth cookies…they weren’t, however that might be my oven’s fault for charring the bottoms.
I had the forethought to learn the recipes and ensure not one of the dough wanted to relax first earlier than making. I am glad I did as a result of Cookie Monster’s recipe and Meryl Streep’s recipe wanted one to 2 hours for the dough to chill within the fridge.
Cookie Monster‘s Sugar Cookie dough was thick and resembled a crumbly shortbread form of consistency, however who am I to doubt such an business skilled?
Cookie Monster required you to roll out his dough and lower shapes in them. I solely had a circle cookie cutter and a coronary heart, and since Meryl’s had been actually known as “Coronary heart cookies,” Cookie Monster received the circle. Because it was contemporary out of the fridge, the dough was very simple to work with.
I checked on these cookies so typically however nonetheless ended up getting a number of crispy ones. After they got here out of the oven, I used to be extremely upset as a result of they’d, in essence, zero taste.
Cookie Monster’s recipe is a superb recipe for a cookie you plan to place icing on. It is an important texture and the flavour is a impartial base so that you can high it with one thing candy. I had powdered sugar that I combined with just a little little bit of pineapple flavoring and water to create an icing, then coated them in granulated sugar. It made the cookie 6,000 occasions higher.
Then, we moved on to Meryl Streep‘s Coronary heart Cookie. The attention-grabbing factor about Meryl’s recipe is that it has no sugar. All the sweetness of the cookie comes from honey.
I combined the dough after which quartered it and wrapped it in plastic wrap to relax within the fridge for the required two hours.
After the 2 hours, it was principally the consistency of a hockey puck however melted in a short time as soon as I began kneading it in my arms. The dough was very troublesome to roll out and get a clear lower in due to the almond slivers.
Meryl’s recipe claims it makes 5 dozen cookies. I am undecided the place she received her cookie cutter, however I had a tough time reducing out eight giant heart-shaped cookies, so I am unable to think about how troublesome 60 would get.
Out of the oven, Meryl Streep’s cookies tasted like canine treats. I am sorry, they did. They are not dangerous slathered in preserves, however the cookie itself is dry and tasteless. It might have been due to the no sugar and two various kinds of flour, which made me increase my eyebrows whereas I used to be mixing it.
Final was Snoop Dogg‘s Rolls Royce Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie. I had actually excessive hopes for this one as a result of I form of felt like the remainder of my cookies flopped exhausting.
Snoop’s recipe was simple: combine the dry elements, combine the moist elements, after which combine the dry within the moist. Scoop them out and make them.
Snoop didn’t disappoint! His cookies had been smooth and the peanut butter and chocolate ratios had been excellent. All in all, it was my favourite cookie, however my household of 5 gave conflicting opinions.
The very last thing I need to point out is to go to your native baker or the baker in your loved ones and provides them a handwritten thanks card. After baking cookies all day, I can recognize how exhausting it’s and might now actually style the love and craftsmanship in each chew.
When you have a tip on how I can’t burn cookies subsequent time, or you have got a favourite cookie recipe you need me to check out when my effort gauge refills, inform me within the feedback beneath!
