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- Everyone, it is Jesse
from the Tasty team,
and today I'm gonna be baking up
five celebrity chocolate
chip cookie recipes
to see which one is actually the best.
On today's line up
we have recipes from Martha Stewart,
Snoop Dogg, Kourtney
Kardashian, Michelle Obama,
and The Rock himself.
We measure out everything
as the recipe stated
to keep things fair,
and we got three of our
friends to taste them
in a blind taste test.
So, who has the best
chocolate chip cookie recipe?
Let's find out.
First up is Martha Stewart.
She starts by combining flour,
baking powder, baking soda,
and salt, and whisking
'em just until combined.
Set that aside.
Then in the bowl of a stand mixer,
fitted with the paddle attachment,
combine butter, white
sugar, and brown sugar
and beat that until nice and fluffy.
Scrape that down.
To that, add two eggs and vanilla extract.
Scrape that down, and slowly
add your dry ingredients
half at a time, just so it
gets completely incorporated.
And bring in an insane
amount of chocolate chips.
This is four and 1/2 cups,
which seems like more
chocolate than actual dough.
Portion that out using a
scoop, and pop it in the oven.
There you have it, Martha's
classic chocolate chip cookies.
(swooshing)
- Thank you.
(sniffs) I have to eat this?
- (inhales) It smells like chocolate chip.
It looks like a chocolate
chip cookie, very classic.
- This feels good.
This feels like, I want
it to be a little gooier,
but I like the weight,
this is a weighty cookie.
- Breaks apart really beautifully.
It feels under-baked.
- There's chocolate in every bite.
- Firm on the outside,
gooey on the inside.
That's really important in a cookie.
But my hands are a little oily,
which I don't really like that much.
- It's not my favorite, I'm
gonna be honest with you.
I like a more crispy,
crispy cookie.
- [Jesse] Up next is Snoop Dogg.
He starts by combining
flour, baking soda, and salt
in a bowl and mixing
that up until combined.
Set that aside.
Bring in another bowl and
add butter and peanut butter,
white sugar, brown sugar,
and beat that up with a hand
mixer until nice and fluffy.
Scrape that down and add
one egg and vanilla extract.
And mix that up one more
time, just until combined.
Bring back your dry
ingredients, add those,
and slowly mix that in.
Fold in your chocolate chips
and scoop it into balls
onto a baking sheet.
He uses a tablespoon,
so these are a bit smaller than Martha's.
Pop them in the oven,
and there you have it.
Snoop Dogg's Rolls Royce
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies.
(swooshing)
- So this cookie's a lot
lighter than the first one.
- I can already feel
there's not enough
chocolate in here for me.
- This looks very Keebler.
Keebler Elf soft batch.
Also very soft.
It's a little under baked for my taste.
I'm just gonna say that much.
- Is that peanut butter?
- This cookie has peanut butter in it.
I hate peanut butter and I
know that's a strong take,
but it is what it is.
So I'm probably not gonna like
this cookie at all. (laughs)
- Whoo, this is not a
good cookie experience.
It just falls apart.
That's not a cookie.
This is like a granola.
- It's a lotta peanut butter.
- It's good, it's good.
It's good, not great.
I think I'm a chocolate
chip cookie purist.
- Not my favorite.
I wouldn't eat it again,
but if you like peanut butter
I'm sure you would love this.
- Next cookie. (chuckles)
- [Jesse] Next up is a recipe
by Kourtney Kardashian.
She starts by combining melted
coconut oil, palm sugar,
vanilla extract, and pumpkin puree,
and mix that up until smooth.
Takes a good bit of mixing
just to get that melted coconut
oil completely incorporated.
Set that aside, and in another bowl,
combine flour, baking soda, baking powder,
cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt,
and mix that together so it's
nice and evenly distributed.
Bring back the wet ingredients
and add your dry to it.
Mix in half just so it's
not too clumpy at first,
and then mix in the remaining
so it's nice and smooth.
To that, add dairy-free
chocolate chips, stir that up,
and the dough's good to go.
Roll them into one tablespoon size balls,
and place them on a baking sheet.
The dough is a bit greasy, so
my hands got a little shiny.
Pop them in the oven
and there's our cookies.
(swooshing)
- Oh.
This looks like a little nugget.
- Is now the right time to tell you
that I'm allergic to (laughs) this,
whatever this is, I'm allergic to it.
- This is like the dough
and peanut butter cookie
I was talking about.
- It smells like cinnamon.
- I mean this feels to me
like it's not a cookie.
This feels like it's a
salad trying to be a cookie.
- There's not a lot of chocolate,
but that's fine for me.
- Right off the bat I smell cinnamon.
This might be an oatmeal cookie,
which is even more disturbing
than the actual shape of it.
- It tastes healthy.
- This tastes weird.
- I'm gonna take a bite.
Wow, this is awful.
- I don't know what's in this cookie.
I'm a little scared.
- Is this everything that was left over
that you just put into a
bowl and made cookies out of?
Was that what this was?
- If you want a cookie,
then this is not the one
who's gonna win your heart.
- I feel like there's a vegetable in here.
- If this is what your idea is
for a chocolate chip cookie,
just don't bother, like why?
Just eat a celery stick or something.
- [Jesse] Up next is a
recipe from Michelle Obama,
which is actually Sasha and
Malia's godmother's recipe,
but it's Michelle's favorite.
She starts by combining all-purpose flour,
baking soda, and salt in a
bowl, and setting that aside.
In another bowl, combine two
sticks of butter with Crisco,
brown sugar, and granulated
sugar, and vanilla extract,
and using a hand mixer, mix
that all up until fluffy.
Add two eggs, fully mixing
them in with the hand mixer
before you add the next one.
Scrape that down, and to that
you're slowly gonna add
back your dry ingredients
to create a dough,
little at a time, just
so it doesn't get chunky.
To that, add chopped walnuts,
milk chocolate chips,
mint chocolate candies,
and white chocolate chips,
and stir that all up until combined.
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Using a rounded tablespoon,
portion them into balls
and pop them in the oven.
- Awe, a nice looking
normal cookie, thank you.
- Oh this one looks nice.
See, this is getting
closer to a cookie I like.
- Oh, one of these cookies.
This is like a
everything but the kitchen sink cookie.
- It has this kind of laciness.
It's thin, it has a crispiness to it.
- It's crunchy and flaky,
I love cookies like this.
This is like my ideal cookie.
- Not heavy enough.
- Oh my, it's peppermint.
- This has mint. (laughs)
- There's a mintiness
coming off of this one.
I don't know if that's just me.
- Yeah, too much stuff, not enough cookie.
- There's a lot going on in this cookie,
but I'm very much about it.
- This is a cookie for
people who love drama.
- I like the cookie part.
I don't know why it has
a mint flavor to it,
which is not what I want
when I'm diving into a
chocolate chip cookie.
- This is definitely a
holiday cookie, it's crazy.
I wanna make this so that
I can give it to my family.
- [Jesse] Last but not least
is a recipe from The Rock.
He starts by combining butter,
granulated sugar, and
brown sugar in a bowl
and using a hand mixer
and beating that all
together until fluffy.
To that, add vanilla extract and two eggs,
and beat it one more
time until it's combined.
Scrape that down and add flour,
two and 1/2 cups of oatmeal
that's been pulverized into a flour,
salt, baking soda, and baking powder,
and mix that up until a dough forms.
Add chocolate chips, chopped walnuts,
and a grated chocolate bar
and mix that up one more
time until it's combined.
Looks a little dry, but we'll see.
Roll them into balls
and pop 'em in the oven.
And there you have it,
the Rock's favorite
chocolate chip cookies.
(swooshing)
- Oh God!
- This cookie's too perfect.
- It looks delicious and it
looks like it's going to be
a little soft on the
inside but still crunchy,
which is what I like.
- It seems like the kind
of cookie that would be out
for an open house on an apartment.
You wanna live here, 'cause
this cookie lives here, too.
- This is not what a chocolate
chip cookie looks like.
This is an abomination of
chocolate chip cookies.
- Ooh, we got a little pull
there from the chocolate.
- It looks pretty well baked.
Nice job.
- Crunchy on the outside,
soft of the inside,
but still a little crunch.
- It's okay.
I have a suspicion that
this is healthy in some way.
- This is a good cookie.
I changed my mind.
This is a good cookie.
I think there's some salt.
- It's not terrible.
It has a definitely a nutty flavor.
- This is a very elegant ladies cookie.
I think if you brought this
to the Upper East Side,
this would crush.
- It still tastes like a
chocolate chip cookie, it's okay.
- Out of the five cookies
that I just tried,
I think that number five is my favorite.
The reason why is because
there's a lot of textures,
it was a beautiful cookie to look at,
and it just tasted delicious.
I said everything kind of just
melted together and it was all
well distributed throughout the cookie.
I wasn't tasting a big chunk of something,
a big chunk of chocolate.
- Number one was my favorite, hands down.
I'm a cookie purist.
That was the best one.
It wasn't a salad.
It wasn't a real estate agent cookie.
It wasn't a classy lady cookie.
It wasn't a drama filled cookie.
It was pure, it was
doughy, it was intense.
It had density, it had
depth, it had volume.
It was a good cookie.
I love cookies.
- Can't remember, I have basically
just destroyed all these cookies
and there's nothing that remains.
I think the first one probably was,
probably the best, I guess?
It's presenting as a chocolate chip cookie
and delivering that.
We're talking about
chocolate chip cookies.
This one is, by definition I think,
closest to that definition.
- The Rock?
Dwayne?
The Rock?
Johnson?
He be giving you eyebrows and cookies?
(Girl laughs)
- I mean, God bless her.
That does not surprise me.
- Oh, I'm not surprised.
I'm not surprised.
- [Jesse] There you have it!
Martha Stewart has the best
chocolate chip cookie recipe.
Which recipe should we test next?
Let us know in the comments.
- Call me, Martha, I love you.
You've never steered me
wrong, Martha, never.
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