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The recipe for Taylor Swift's chai cookies is fairly straightforward. All you need to do is measure out and combine every ingredient into a large bowl and mix it all together! After chilling the dough for an hour or so, you'll be ready to roll it into balls before baking in the oven. All in all, making the chai cookies took me under an hour – so this could make for a great weeknight baking project, or a weekend activity to beat a cold-weather slump. I've made them several times for friends' parties!

Ingredients For Taylor Swift's Chai Sugar Cookies

• ½ cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
• ½ cup vegetable oil (I used olive oil, since I didn’t have any vegetable oil)
• ½ cup white sugar, plus more for topping
• ½ cup powdered sugar, plus more for the icing
• 1 large egg
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 cups flour
• ½ tsp baking soda
• ¼ tsp salt
• 1 chai tea bag, plus more for the icing

How To Make The Taylor Swift Chai Cookies

1. Set your oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a cookie sheet and set aside.
2. While the oven warms, beat the butter in a large bowl. After it gets fluffy, add the vegetable oil.
3. Add the sugar, powdered sugar, egg, and vanilla.
4. Add the flour, baking soda, salt, and the chai tea to the bowl, and mix.
5. Chill the dough for about an hour.
6. Pour a small amount of white sugar onto a plate, for rolling the cookie dough in.
7. Roll the dough into 12 balls using your hands, covering each one in the white sugar before placing them on your cookie sheet.
8. Bake for “9ish” minutes. I ended up baking them for 10.
9. While the cookies are baking, make your chai icing – mix together a small amount (I used about ½ cup) of powdered sugar and half of a chai tea bag. Adding a capful of milk at a time, stir together until you reach your desired icing consistency.
10. When the cookies are done and completely cool, cover the tops with the chai icing. Then you’re ready to dig in!

Recipe notes:

• For step 1, pro tip: use the wrapper from your butter to grease your cookie sheet!
• For step 2, I used an electric hand mixer to beat the butter – much less physical work on the baker’s part.
• For step 4, I found that mixing with a fork helped incorporate the mixture really well. I then used a rubber spatula to scrape the sides of the bowl that I missed.
• For step 5, I didn’t end up chilling the dough, but the cookies turned out just fine!
• For step 8, Taylor’s recipe says to bake for 9 minutes, but I found I had to bake mine a little longer, around 12 minutes. This might be because I baked them at a higher altitude here in Colorado!

Voila! Now you can treat yourself like Taylor Swift would! Happy baking!

Ingredients for No-Bake Apple Pie Bites

• 1 cup cashew butter
• 5 tablespoons honey
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1 cup flaxseed meal
• 1/2 cup unflavored protein powder
• 1/2 cup dried apples, finely chopped
• 1/4 cup fresh Honeycrisp apples, finely chopped

How To Make No-Bake Apple Pie Bites

1. Add all the ingredients to a large mixing bowl, except for the freshly chopped apples. The mixture will be quite thick, so feel free to use your hands to get it mixed well together.

2. Scoop out the bites using a cookie scooper (about 1 and 1/2 tablespoons) and roll in the fresh chopped apple bits. Then roll the bite to form an evenly curved ball shape. Set aside on parchment paper and repeat with the remaining dough.

These apple pie bites are ready to eat as is, or you can place them in the refrigerator to firm them up a bit. The perfect fall energy snack!

What is the Oh Canada movie about?

Oh, Canada Plot

Oh, Canada follows the life of legendary (albeit fictional) filmmaker Leonard Fife. This story probably approaches Leo's career the way we think about Steven Spielberg's. AKA, he's very important. Leonard decides to tell his life story before he runs out of time. And even though he's got an impressive resumé, he also has to decide if he wants his Vietnam draft dodge and sticky relationships to become public knowledge.

"Leonard sits for an extended interview with his former student Malcolm (Michael Imperioli), relating candid stories about his younger self (Jacob Elordi) in the tumultuous 1960s and beyond," the synopsis says, adding that "at Leonard’s insistence, his wife and indispensable artistic partner, Emma (Uma Thurman), bears witness to it all."

How to watch Oh Canada?

Oh, Canada Release Date

Jacob Elordi's new movie is coming to theaters December 6, 2024 — the same day as Rachel Zegler's Y2K and Amy Adams' Nightb—ch!

Who's in the movie?

Oh, Canada Cast

The cast of Oh, Canada includes Richard Gere, Jacob Elordi, Uma Thurman, Michael Imperioli, and Victoria Hill, while the movie is written and directed by Paul Schrader (who also worked with Richard on 1980's American Gigolo!

What has the cast said about the movie?

Uma Thurman has been vocal about how excited she is to be a part of the project and told Deadline the movie feels like a "reverie" and has a "lyrical, sort of loosely knit, poetic" quality about it.

"The cinematic hand of Paul, of course, carried the day, as far as bringing this sort of illusionary dream together into something that you walk away from with the strong impression of a story," she says. "Just the presence of a master like Paul Schrader on a set of any size, is as distinct as, I don’t know, a warm wind. It’s like the wind that hits you when you get off a plane in the tropics. There’s only one thing of its ilk, and he’s kind of a master like that. You could really be anywhere; you can’t miss it."

That sounds like my kind of movie.

Director Paul Schrader revealed he fell in love with Jacob's performance the moment he saw him — which was before he took the world by storm in Priscilla. “I saw his performance on Zoom and, if this was 40 years ago, this is the guy I would have cast for American Gigolo,” he told The Hollywood Reporter.