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
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
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
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
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
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
