I Tried 6 Celebrity Cookie Recipes And Here’s What I Thought As The World’s Most Average Baker

Hello! My identify is Audrey and I’m 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 often fail at.

The vacation season, nevertheless, conjures up me to bake, regardless of how unhealthy I’m at it. Therefore, I made a decision to analysis and take a look at my hand at six completely different superstar cookie recipes in an try and steal one to make use of yearly and turn out to be the most important hit on the vacation get together.

First of all, you may want to buy elements. I broke down the value of every cookie beneath, however my whole invoice (save the honey, cream of tartar, and baking soda I already had) to make all six varieties 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 elements by 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 created from sugar, cinnamon, and cayenne pepper, which seemed and smelled so good, I stored the remaining in a baggie that my husband has been sprinkling on prime of his Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

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

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

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

Meringue, I came upon, is simply numerous affected person mixing. After the combination is mixed and stiff peaks kind, 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.

Not an entire lot of taste, however perhaps that is the purpose with meringue? I’m not an enormous sweets individual so I loved how delicate they had 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 had been the one cookies with shortening in them and I assume it is what made the batter really feel so gentle 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 traditional 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 blended numerous textures and tasted extra like a conventional chocolate chip cookie. While I had excessive hopes these can be delicate cookies…they weren’t, however that could possibly 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 skilled?

Cookie Monster required you to roll out his dough and reduce shapes in them. I solely had a circle cookie cutter and a coronary heart, and since Meryl’s had been actually referred to as “Heart cookies,” Cookie Monster bought 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 just a few crispy ones. After they got here out of the oven, I used to be 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 incredible texture and the flavour is a impartial base so that you can prime it with one thing candy. I had powdered sugar that I blended with somewhat little bit of pineapple flavoring and water to create an icing, then coated them in granulated sugar. It made the cookie 6,000 instances higher.

Then, we moved on to Meryl Streep‘s Heart Cookie. The fascinating factor about Meryl’s recipe is that it has no sugar. All of the sweetness of the cookie comes from honey.

I blended 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 arms. The dough was very tough to roll out and get a clear reduce in due to the almond slivers.

Meryl’s recipe claims it makes 5 dozen cookies. I’m unsure the place she bought her cookie cutter, however I had a tough time slicing out eight massive heart-shaped cookies, so I can not 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 unhealthy slathered in preserves, however the cookie itself is dry and tasteless. It may have been due to the no sugar and two several types of flour, which made me elevate my eyebrows whereas I used to be 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 arduous.

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 delicate 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 last item 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 may now actually style the love and craftsmanship in each chew.