- I just feel like this is wrong!
I don't know, I feel like it's wrong!
Hey, it's me, Lindsay, again.
Welcome to the final part of my three part series
where I try to make a holiday dinner
using only celebrities' recipes.
Last time I made a lot of food.
This is gonna look like kitchen porn.
- Wow.
- Well not, nah, that's not what I meant.
That's not what I meant.
Today is dessert day,
and the culmination of all my hard work,
dinner party day.
Everyone's gonna try everything I've made,
put it to the ultimate test,
I'm terrified.
(laughs)
I'm gonna be making Taylor Swift's
chai tea egg nog cinnamon cookies.
This sounds like the most Taylor Swift recipe ever,
which is just like cute and cinammony.
Taylor Swift loves baking
and I'm assuming these cookies taste super good.
Today we're gonna actually see everyone
try everything I've made.
My friends do not shy away
from telling me how they feel, the truth.
They appreciate and love good food,
they love the holidays, I wanna make this, like,
the most special and fun for them ever.
If I pull this off, it'll prove to them
that I can actually cook,
and they can't tease me about it any more,
it's gonna be good, if I pull it off.
(laughs)
While I'm baking, I've sent my best friend Jazz
on a little task to make the holiday dinner table
look spectacular, she's gonna decorate,
it's gonna be cute, it's gonna be great.
- Helping Lindsay out, she's been working really hard.
I'm going to set the table.
I was given a little bit of a budget,
(ka-ching)
so I'm excited.
- Jazz is like, the best decorator ever,
like, she loves this
(censor beep)
She's gonna have too much fun.
All right, cookie time!
Taylor Swift's yummy chai tea egg nog cookies.
These look beautiful.
Taylor Swift I think is known for her cookie recipes.
I love egg nog and I love chai
so I think I'm gonna like these cookies.
Boop!
Awaugh!
Giving a half cup vegetable oil.
Ooh, I just got vegetable oil over my laptop!
No!
First the pomegranate, now this?
Oh, I got egg on their too, man.
I should just serve my laptop,
it's definitely at this point.
(upbeat music)
Cute, love a good egg.
There we go.
Medium speed.
Woohoo.
- I know this is like a holiday thing,
but I don't want to go like red and green.
I'm gonna go with gold
and I'm just gonna make everything look bright.
I'm looking for candles and, jeez,
there's so many options it's a little overwhelming,
and then you gotta put 'em in stuff, like,
I want it to be fancy.
(sighs)
- Now we cut one chai tea packet open,
empty the crushed tea leaves into the batter.
You can eat tea leaves?
Okay, I thought it'd be like chai powder or something,
like, not like leaves.
They're kinda small.
Oh, it smells so good.
It's just gonna be crunchy.
Oh, jeez.
I just feel like this is wrong!
I don't know, I feel like it's wrong!
Taylor, I mean, I love you,
but like, mmmmmmm.
Did you know that if you put baking soda in your shoes,
it absorbs the bad smell?
Fun fact!
Oops, see, I'm glad I didn't do that over the (laughs)
I don't know what's gonna happen.
This actually looks beautiful, I take everything back.
Oh!
That's nice!
Ooh, this is gonna be good!
Okay!
Now we gotta refrigerate the dough for an hour
or freeze, oh, for fifteen minutes.
We're doing the fifteen minute version.
Okay, we've put 'em in the freezer, they've toughened up,
we're gonna take 'em out and dollop!
I'm so proud of these!
I'm going to eat these regardless of what they look like,
to be honest, I mean, I'm already eating them
in the batter format, so.
I'm so excited for these, they're going in the oven.
We've got three whole trays, so.
Ooh, yeah.
Woo!
- Leaving the store.
My budget was 150, I ended up spending 170,
but this gonna be a cute little dinner, I'm excited!
My bags, ready to decorate!
Okay, so Taylor makes her own, like, icing for the cookies.
So, we're going to mix powdered sugar, nutmeg,
cinnamon, and eggnog to create the icing,
and then we just drizzle it on top when it's done.
Cute!
(playful music)
I don't know if the recipe I got is wrong,
but this is not a glaze.
It tastes good, but it's not a glaze,
so I'm gonna add more egg nog.
It looks like a lot.
Yeah, look at this!
Oh, it looks so yummy!
Look at that glaze!
All right!
Ooh!
Ooh, these ones at the bottom are donezo.
They are lighter, but I think that's on purpose.
All right, so the cookies are outta the oven,
they're looking good,
and we're gonna glaze them.
- [Jazz] Hello!
- Jazzy!
- [Jazz] Ya!
- Are you back with your goodies?
- [Jazz] Yes!
I bring bags and bags. - Oh my god!
That is so much!
- It is.
- Will you help me glaze these?
- Oh, yeah.
- It doesn't tell you how to do it,
but I think we could just take a spoon, and.
- Just drizzle?
- Yeah, I like that.
Okay yeah, that's too much, sorry.
How did your shopping go?
- You know what, it went really well.
I went with a little bit of a fancy gold theme.
- Oh, we're classy now!
- Right.
There were so many candles.
- Let's try.
- All righty.
(drum roll)
- They're like sugar cookies.
- Yeah, I was gonna say, they taste just very sweet.
- The glaze is what helps it.
- The cinnamon on top will be good.
- Oh, we gotta do the cinnamon on top, yeah, okay.
- A sprinkle.
- A sprinkle of cinnamon.
- You, beautiful, okay, that's a little heavy!
(laughs)
That's a little heavy over there!
Just a real soft sprinkle there, cute.
- All right, people are about to come over,
I gotta prepare everything, reheat things, make it all good.
- Oh yeah, I'm gonna set my table,
and make it look all beautiful!
I'm excited.
- I'm excited to see it!
(upbeat festive music)
- Hi, hi!
- Hiya, hey!
- [Guests] Hi!
- Happy Holidays!
Hi!
- I think this dinner's gonna turn out really well.
- It went from zero to like a hundred really quick,
and suddenly it's like, homemaker Linda in here.
She's like seasoning things as we speak.
No kidding, she's playing with the cornbread.
- I've helped look onto some things to make sure
they were supposed to be what they are this very day.
- I think Lindsay's gonna do a great job
'cause she's a perfectionist to the point
where it's kind of a flaw.
- But yeah, I think she did really well,
I think it's gonna taste really good.
- It's gonna be cooked to perfection,
so the only people I can really judge
are the celebrities themselves and not Lindsay.
- I'm very excited to be here at the holiday dinner.
I haven't seen Lindsay in a while.
Nothing else, it'll be a good time,
'cause the holidays are about spending time
with people you love, and I love these people,
and I'm excited to eat with them.
- There's such a high bar for like,
holiday traditional food,
that I'm like, Lindsay better get it.
(upbeat music)
- We got the drinks!
This is Rihanna's punch.
- Ooh!
- Right, should I say a speech?
- [Guests] Yes!
- I don't know why I just volunteered to do this
'cause I realize I've never done a speech in my entire life.
Okay, thank you guys so much for being here.
You guys are seriously my best friends in the entire world.
I love you so much.
I know that you're taking a risk here tonight
and eating my food,
but I love you,
and this is just a great start to the holiday season
and I'm glad to spend time with you,
and I hope you like my food.
- I love that you said this is a risk.
(laughs)
- I'm sorry!
Cheers!
- Oh, this is really good.
- Is it?
- I know, that's trouble, that's trouble.
- It's good!
- It's trouble.
- That's a sneaky rum, that's a sneaky rum.
- It is.
- [Ryann] How much rum is in it?
- A lot, like two kinds.
- Those are my favorite drinks.
- The drinks with five different colorings
and you know you're gonna black out
by the time you're done with the second.
- I don't know if you can tell,
- Rihanna's punch.
- I am feeling it!
- Rihanna knows how to make a good drink,
but that's not surprising.
- Mhmm.
- You guys ready for the appetizer.
- Yes!
- Appetizers!
- This is Oprah's deviled eggs.
- Ohh, rich.
- So take as many as, whatever you want, I don't know.
- I'm so confused, so I've tried green deviled eggs,
I've tried regular colored deviled eggs,
but I can't understand what the orange would be.
- So they're not supposed to be orange,
that's what I'm gathering.
The way you're smiling, your face tells me
that's not supposed to be orange.
- Okay, so basically, Lindsay was supposed to,
- Oh my god.
- sprinkle paprika and the parsley on top.
It says garnish, and we all know garnish means put on top.
- I have never had a deviled egg.
- You've never had a deviled egg before?
Whoa.
- Really?
- They kind of freak me out.
- This is not it.
(laughs)
This is like it but just not the standard deviled egg.
- This is not the standard.
(laughs)
- Mm, mmh, mmhmm.
- Go ahead, oh?
- It's like, tangy.
- What makes it orange?
Stop it, the way you're responding makes me scared.
I don't understand why they're orange.
- I was supposed to put the paprika on the top,
I accidentally put it inside. - It's inside.
- Joyce likes it, it's fine.
- It's F, R, E, E, baby.
(laughing)
(festive violin music)
- Din din!
- Wow!
Wow.
Lindsay, this looks bomb!
- So the salad is Chrissy Teigen's recipe,
it's a squash pomegranate autumn salad.
with a homemade dressing.
- Oh wow, that is really good.
- We peeled the squash.
- It's very citrusy too.
- Mhmm.
- Very citrusy.
- The dressing, perfect, nice little layer.
- We have John Legend's Mac and Cheese recipe.
Here we go.
- It looks really pretty, I love how thick it is.
It looks like something I'm like,
oh yeah, my mom, like, it feels homemade.
- I wouldn't call the mac and cheese legendary.
- Honestly?
- But very good, I like the crispiness on top.
- The mac and cheese, you know,
it was missing a little salt, a little pepper,
but it was still cooked perfectly.
- Then we have the corn bread,
it's actually Kim Kardashian's corn bread hack.
- Mm.
(laughs)
- It tastes boxed, tastes corn.
- Yeah, she added.
- Sugar?
- Something sweet.
- Sugar on the outside, lots of honey, yeah.
- Okay.
- But it is good corn bread.
- The corn bread, by Miss Kim Kardashian, was okay.
- If I was like writing like a Yelp review, I'd come back.
- Oh yeah.
- Definitely come back.
- Four and a half stars, for sure.
- And then, we got the ham.
It's Martha Stewart's honey ham.
(censor bleep)
- [Cissy] That is delicious. - You put your foot in that,
young lady, I'm taking leftovers.
- Whoa!
- Wow, yeah no!
- I'm not surprised that we liked it,
because we usually like everything Lindsay does.
- [Joyce] The standout was the ham.
- [Ryann] The ham!
- [Cissy] The ham, it takes the cake.
- [Ryann] That, Martha Stewart really knows
what she's doing, yeah.
- Martha knows, Lindsay Stewart.
- Lindsay Stewart.
- But we have more!
- More?
- This is Taylor Swift's egg nog chai tea cookies.
Just pass this around, you can get as many
or as little as you want.
- [Joyce] So many cookies.
- Dessert is served!
- Yay!
Oh, they're cute.
- They're cute!
- [Cissy] Yeah, the glaze is fun.
- Yeah, they're like fearless, Taylor Swift's first album.
- Lindsay did a great job.
- Marvelous.
- This, a good dinner, I'm very full, very very full.
- I loved it, you know, it was classy,
it was bourgeoisie, it was instagrammable, it was cute.
Lindsay did a great job cooking, she's iconic.
I love free food.
- You know what, this ended up being very very good.
I've watched Lindsay cook for the past day,
she had some hickups for sure but she bounced back.
- I know one day Lindsay will be friends
with all these celebs, and I just hope
that we still get invited.
- I've finally finished my holiday meal for my friends
and they liked it.
I feel really good.
I was super self-conscious this entire process
but there's nothing better than sitting around your friends
and them being like, 'this is so good!',
I feel like that's the pay-off of cooking.
I'm proud of myself,
I feel like I have stepped up my adulting,
like the fact that I can make a ham, who am I?
Who ham I?
(jazzy festive music)