I Tried Celeb Cookie Recipes: Here’s How It Went

Hello! My title is Audrey and I’m not superior within the kitchen. My kitchen abilities 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, nevertheless, conjures up me to bake, regardless of how dangerous I am at it. Therefore, I determined to analysis and take a look at my hand at six totally different superstar cookie recipes in an try to steal one to make use of yearly and change into the most important hit on the vacation celebration.

First of all, you may want to buy components. I broke down the worth of every cookie beneath, however my complete 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).

First up was Danny Trejo’s Mexican Hot Chocolate Cookies.

Danny Trejo’s recipe required sifting dry components via a sieve and the one one I had was this comically small one.

After the dough was made, Mr. Trejo wished us to roll the dough in balls and dip them in a mud comprised of sugar, cinnamon, and cayenne pepper, which appeared and smelled so good, I stored the remaining in a baggie that my husband has been sprinkling on high of his Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

The cookies have been purported to go in for 10 minutes, however at across the 8-minute mark, I realized my oven was out to get me as a result of the cookies began to scent burnt (aspect word: I did not even know you possibly can burn parchment paper).

While the cookies tasted nice, the bottoms have been sadly burnt. They didn’t, nevertheless, detract from the yumminess of Mr. Trejo’s recipe.

After Trejo’s Mexican Hot Chocolate Cookies have been achieved, we moved on to Mary Tyler Moore’s Meringue Cookie.

Meringue, I came upon, is simply loads 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 have been very fluffy, and tasted such as you have been consuming air that an almond had wafted via.

Not an entire lot of taste, however perhaps that is the purpose with meringue? I’m not a giant sweets particular person so I loved how refined they have been, however to anybody else searching for a cookie recipe as an alternative of an edible cloud recipe, these aren’t for you.

We moved on to Michelle Obama’s Winning Chocolate Chip Cookie. These have 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 all the components proved to be a little bit of a problem as a result of these cookies have been chunkier than the remaining with walnuts and three totally 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 presently at warfare.

Even burnt, Michelle Obama’s cookies have been a crowd favourite. They combined loads of textures and tasted extra like a conventional chocolate chip cookie. While I had excessive hopes these can be gentle cookies…they weren’t, however that may very well 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’m 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 type of consistency, however who am I to doubt such an business knowledgeable?

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 have been actually known as “Heart cookies,” Cookie Monster obtained the circle. Since it was recent out of the fridge, the dough was very simple to work with.

I checked on these cookies so usually however nonetheless ended up getting a number of crispy ones. After they got here out of the oven, I was extremely dissatisfied as a result of they’d, in essence, zero taste.

Cookie Monster’s recipe is a superb recipe for a cookie you propose to place icing on. It’s an ideal 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 slightly 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 Heart Cookie. The attention-grabbing factor about Meryl’s recipe is that it has no sugar. All of 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 mainly the consistency of a hockey puck however melted in a short time as soon as I began kneading it in my palms. The dough was very tough to roll out and get a clear lower in due to the almond slivers.

Meryl’s recipe claims it makes 5 dozen cookies. I’m unsure the place she obtained her cookie cutter, however I had a tough time slicing out eight giant heart-shaped cookies, so I cannot think about how tough 60 would get.

Out of the oven, Meryl Streep’s cookies tasted like canine treats. I’m sorry, they did. They aren’t dangerous slathered in preserves, however the cookie itself is dry and tasteless. It might have been due to the no sugar and two several types of flour, which made me increase my eyebrows whereas I was mixing it.

Last was Snoop Dogg’s Rolls Royce Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie. I had actually excessive hopes for this one as a result of I type of felt like the remainder of my cookies flopped onerous.

Snoop’s recipe was easy: combine the dry components, combine the moist components, after which combine the dry within the moist. Scoop them out and make them.

Snoop didn’t disappoint! His cookies have been gentle and the peanut butter and chocolate ratios have been excellent. All in all, it was my favourite cookie, however my household of 5 gave conflicting opinions.

The final thing I wish 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 chunk.