Craving Christmas cookies? Try these five delish recipes by celeb chefs at home

There’s no fun celebrating Christmas without cookies. So, why not try these easy recipes by star chefs Sanjeev Kapoor and Ajay Chopra at home? Whether you prefer eggless cookies or chocolate ones, or love the gingerbread texture, there’s a cookie for everyone...

Eggless Thumbprint Cookies by Shivesh Bhatia

Youtube

These cookies can be easily made by little chefs at home this festive season.

Ingredients

2 cups butter
1 cup castor sugar
2 tbsp vanilla extract
4 cups all-purpose Flour
Strawberry jam / or any flavoured jam

Recipe

Mix butter, castor sugar and vanilla extract
Add all-purpose flour halfway through the mixture and mix again
Place parchment paper on baking tray
Make small dough balls and place them on parchment paper
Make thumb impression on each dough ball
Fill the thumb impression with strawberry jam or jam of your choice
Bake at 180 degree centigrade for 12-15 minutes and you are ready.

Sugar-coated Spiced Cookies by Ajay Chopra

Youtube

If you like your cookie mildly spicy, then these sugar-coated spiced cookies are perfect for you.

Ingredients

1 cup butter
½ cup castor sugar
1 cup maida
1 tbsp spice mix (cloves, cinnamon, star anise, black pepper)
1 tsp baking powder
1 egg
1 tbsp milk
Dusting flour to roll out the dough
Icing sugar for garnish

Recipe

Mix castor sugar and butter
In a separate bowl mix maida, spice mix, and baking powder. If you do not have a spice mix, you can use only cinnamon powder.
Add dry ingredients into the castor sugar and butter mixture and continue mixing.
Halfway through, add an egg. If you prefer eggless then skip this step.
Add milk. If you prefer eggless then add condensed milk.
Once the mixture is ready, roll the dough.
Use a Christmas themed cookie cutter to cut out cookie shapes.
Bake at 180 degree centigrade for 14-15 minutes.
Sprinkle icing sugar for garnish.

Eggless Gingerbread Wreath Cookie by Sanjeev Kapoor

Youtube

Gingerbread is a people’s favourite during Christmas. This easy recipe gives you the simple steps of making your own gingerbread cookies in a wreath. It is also a perfect handmade gift for your loved ones.

Ingredients

1½ sps. dried ginger powder
2 cups refined flour (maida) + for dusting
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon powder
¼ cup castor sugar
¼ cup milk
½ cup melted butter
4 tbsps golden syrup
Glaze
2 cups icing sugar
Drops of green food colour as required
Drops of red food colour as required

Recipe

Mix refined flour, baking soda, cinnamon powder, ginger powder, castor sugar, milk, melted butter and golden syrup to form a dough.
Refrigerate dough for an hour.
Mix icing sugar and water and divide mixture into three halves.
Add red and green food colouring to two halves. Leave the third as natural.
Divide dough into two halves. Roll out the first half. Use circular cutters to cut out a wreath shape. Bake for 20-25 minutes at 180 degrees.
Roll out the second dough half. With the use of a cookie cutter cut Christmas tree, gingerbread man, stars etc. Bake for 8-10 minutes at 180 degrees.
Use your choice of icing to decorate the cookies.
Place them on the wreath with the help of icing sugar and you are set.

Butter Cookies by Vineet Bhatia

Youtube

Prefer plain butter cookies? No worries, there’s a recipe for that too.

Ingredients

½ cup soft butter, room temperature
1/3 cup sugar
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
salt
3/4 cup plain flour
¼ cup corn flour

Recipe

Mix butter, sugar and vanilla extract till mixture is smooth and fluffy
Add salt, corn flour and plain flour to the mixture and whisk
Use spatula to beat the mixture to make it smooth and creamy
Pour mixture into a piping bag
Lay baking tray with a parchment paper
Pipe out the mixture to form circular cookie shapes
Bake at 165 degrees of 333 Fahrenheit for 10-12 minutes or till the edges turn light golden brown

No-bake Chocolate Cookies by Sneha Singhi Upadhyay

Instagram

Who doesn’t love a good chocolate cookie during Christmas? It’s the season of cheat meals, right? Here’s a quick no-bake cookie recipe by our very own Kolkata chef, Sneha Singhi.

Ingredients

300g Marie biscuits
1 tbsp powdered sugar
4 tbsps cocoa powder
¼ cup melted butter
¾ cup milk
Melted dark chocolate

Recipe

Blitz the marie biscuits in a mixer till finely ground.
Add powdered sugar and cocoa powder and mix.
Add melted butter and mix well till you reach a sandy consistency
Add milk and knead the dough.
Shape it like a cylinder. Place it on a butter paper roll. Tightly lock the ends.
Freeze for an hour
Start cutting disc shaped cookies from the cylinder
Dip them in melted dark chocolate or use shaved chocolate and sprinklers for garnishing