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These Pan de Volvo cookies are one of her favorite traditions, and with cinnamon, sugar, and butter, they don't sound bad to us, either.
Ingredients:
2 cinnamon sticks
2¼ cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/8 tsp salt
2/3 cups butter-flavored shortening
½ tsp vanilla extract
½ cup, plus 2 tsp sugar
2 tbsp ground cinnamon
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 325°F.
2. In a saucepan bring to a boil cinnamon sticks and 1½ cups water. Let cool. Discard cinnamon sticks. Refrigerate liquid until chilled.
3. In a medium bowl combine flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
4. In a large mixing bowl, beat shortening, vanilla, ½ cup sugar and ¼ cup cinnamon “tea” until light and fluffy. Stir in flour mixture.
5. Roll dough into 1″ balls. Place 2″ apart on baking sheet. Bake 15 minutes or until slightly browned around edges.
6. In bowl combine 2 tbsp sugar and ground cinnamon. Dip cookies while still warm in sugar-cinnamon mixture.
Makes 3 dozen.
These Pan de Volvo cookies are one of her favorite traditions, and with cinnamon, sugar, and butter, they don't sound bad to us, either.
Ingredients:
2 cinnamon sticks
2¼ cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/8 tsp salt
2/3 cups butter-flavored shortening
½ tsp vanilla extract
½ cup, plus 2 tsp sugar
2 tbsp ground cinnamon
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 325°F.
2. In a saucepan bring to a boil cinnamon sticks and 1½ cups water. Let cool. Discard cinnamon sticks. Refrigerate liquid until chilled.
3. In a medium bowl combine flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
4. In a large mixing bowl, beat shortening, vanilla, ½ cup sugar and ¼ cup cinnamon “tea” until light and fluffy. Stir in flour mixture.
5. Roll dough into 1″ balls. Place 2″ apart on baking sheet. Bake 15 minutes or until slightly browned around edges.
6. In bowl combine 2 tbsp sugar and ground cinnamon. Dip cookies while still warm in sugar-cinnamon mixture.
Makes 3 dozen.
This Real Housewives star is known for her health-conscious lifestyle, but that doesn't mean she can't eat cookies. Her banana oatmeal chocolate chip cookies don't sound bad, either:
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups oat flour
3/4 cup rolled oats
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup raw sugar
1/3 cup chocolate chips
1 teaspoon canola oil
1/3 cup soy milk
1/2 cup banana puree (1 medium-size banana)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions:
1. Preheat oven to 375°F.
2. Combine all the dry ingredients in a bowl.
3. Combine all the wet ingredients in a separate bowl. Mix the dry and wet ingredients together, until well combined.
4. Use a medium-size ice cream scoop or a large spoon to scoop batter onto a cookie sheet covered with wax paper.
5. Bake for 12 minutes, rotating the pan halfway through cooking, or bake until the edges of the cookies are light brown.
Cusack works with Glad to Give's Cookies for Kids' Cancer, which promotes using bake sales to help raise money for pediatric cancer research. Cusack has contributed her own oatmeal chocolate chip recipe on the site:
Ingredients
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup packed light brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
3 cups quick-cooking oats
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
Preparation
1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
2. In a large bowl, cream together butter, brown sugar and white sugar until smooth.
3. Beat in eggs one at a time, then stir in vanilla.
4. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; stir into the creamed mixture until just blended. Mix in the quick oats, walnuts and chocolate chips.
5. Drop by heaping spoonfuls onto ungreased baking sheets.
6. Bake for 12 minutes in the preheated oven.
7. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
Silverstone is vegan, but there are plenty of ways to make sweet treats without using butter or eggs. Her oatmeal, walnut, and dried plum variety sounds tasty to us:
Ingredients:
1 cup quick-cooking rolled oats
3/4 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
1/3 cup maple sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. fine sea salt
1/3 cup maple syrup
1/2 cup safflower oil
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1/2 tsp. molasses
1/4 cup chopped dried plums or other dried fruit
1/4 cup finely chopped walnuts
Instructions:
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. Combine the oats, flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl. In a separate bowl, combine the syrup, oil, vanilla extract, and molasses. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients, and stir to combine. Fold in the dried plums and nuts.
3. Using your hands, roll tablespoon-size scoops of dough into balls. Place the balls onto the prepared baking sheet and press down slightly on the balls to flatten the tops. Bake for 8 to 12 minutes or until lightly browned. Transfer cookies to a baking rack to cool completely.
4. For variety, replace the all-purpose flour with whole wheat pastry flour, barley flour, spelt flour, or a gluten-free baking mix (choose one that does not include baking soda and baking powder). You can also substitute chocolate chips for the dried fruit and any kind of nuts for the walnuts.
This shortbread cookie from the FLOTUS' was served in the inaugural rooms of the Ritz Carlton. Thankfully, we don't have to reserve a suite to get the recipe:
Ingredients:
1 cup or 2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1 egg, separated
1-1/2 tablespoons Amaretto
¼ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon grated orange rind
1 teaspoon grated lemon rind
2 cups flour
¾ cup slivered almonds
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
2. Beat sugar and butter until mixture is smooth.
3. Slowly add egg yolk, Amaretto, salt, orange and lemon rind, mixing well.
4. Slowly mix in flour until mixture is well blended.
5. Pat the mixture into an even layer in an ungreased 10 by 15 inch jelly roll pan.
6. Whisk the egg white until foaming and brush on top of dough. Sprinkle with almonds.
7. Bake for 25 to 35 minutes until lightly browned.
Cool slightly and cut into two inch squares while still warm.
Yield: 40 squares
The singer is known for belting out a good Christmas tune, but she can also make a mean batch of holiday cookies. Check out her "Merry Christmas II You" recipe while you listen to her album of the same name:
Serves 4 dozen
Ingredients:
1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon of lemon zest
1 tablespoon milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
Directions:
Cream butter, gradually add sugar and beat until light and fluffy. Beat in egg, milk, vanilla and lemon zest. Combine flour, baking powder and salt. Gradually add to creamed mixture. Chill for easy handling. Roll out dough to 1/8" thickness on a lightly floured surface. Cut dough into festive holiday shapes with floured cookie cutters. Bake on a cookie sheet in a preheated 350-degree (Fahrenheit) oven for 10 minutes, or until lightly browned. Remove to wire racks to cool. Decorate with icing and green and red sprinkles.
The actress and author of GOOP newsletters shared some of her favorite cookie recipes, including "Evi's Vanillekipferl," a Viennese crescent cookie. We knew her newsletter was good for a reason:
Yield: About 10 dozen very small cookies
1/3 cup superfine sugar
1/3 cup ground almonds
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
2 1/2 cups self-rising flour*
pinch of salt
1/4 cup icing sugar
*If you can’t find self-rising flour, simply measure out one cup unbleached, all-purpose flour and remove two teaspoons. Add a half teaspoon salt and one-and-a-half teaspoons baking powder.
Mix the superfine sugar, almonds, butter, flour and salt together in a bowl with a wooden spoon or your hands. Let the dough chill in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.
Roll the dough into half-inch thick ropes and cut into quarter-inch thick slices. Shape each slice into a small crescent and place on un-greased cookie sheets. You can space them quite close together as they don’t expand that much. Let the cookies rest for half an hour.
Meanwhile, preheat your oven to 350ºF. Bake the cookies for 12 minutes (until they’re barely browned), rotating the trays after six minutes. Move the cookies to a wire rack and let cool for ten minutes before sifting over the icing sugar. Allow the cookies to cool completely before eating (if you can).
The Twilight actor's chocolatey cherry cookies sound about as good as it gets. And did we mention he's in Twilight?
Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
12 ounces semisweet chocolate chips
1 cup dried tart cherries
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 375°F.
2. Whisk together the first four ingredients in a small bowl.
3. Beat together butter and sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer until blended. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition, and vanilla.
4. Beat in flour mixture on low speed until blended well, then mix in chocolate chips and cherries with a wooden spoon.
5. Put level tablespoons of dough 1 inch apart on greased baking sheets and bake in batches in middle of oven until golden around edges; bake for 12 to 15 minutes.
6. Cool on baking sheets 2 minutes before transferring to a rack to cool completely.
