The List
Holiday Recipes from SF Ballet Dancers
❄️ Elizabeth Powell’s Spiked Apple Cider ❄️
Ingredients 🍎✨ 🥃
- 1 gallon cider
- 1 T. cloves
- 1 T. allspice
- 3 cinnamon sticks
- 1 inch ginger knob
Directions 🧭 🎄
- Fill tea ball with the spices and ginger
- Bring cider to a boil and then let simmer for approximately 3 hours
- Then add your favorite brandy, bourbon, or rum to taste!
🎄 Ellen Rose Hummel’s Christmas Cut-Outs 🎄
⭐️ Note: this is a high yield recipe so feel free to cut in half ⭐️
Dough Ingredients 🥚🧈🥣
- 1 cup salted butter, softened
- 2 cups sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup sour cream (or spin it: Ellen Rose uses plain Greek yogurt)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 cups of flour
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon or few pinches salt
Directions 🧭 🎄
- Mix butter and sugar, then add eggs, sour cream, and vanilla extract
- Add all dry ingredients
- Wrap in saran wrap (helpful to split up into 4-6 balls)
- Refrigerate 2 hours or overnight
- Set oven to 350°🔥
- The dough will be sticky. Cover your counter with flour, and spray your hands and rolling pin with Pam or other kitchen oil
- Roll out to desired thickness with a rolling pin
- Cut out your shapes using cookie cutters
- Bake each batch 8-12 min. Look for light brown edges!
- Wait to cool
Frosting Ingredients ☃️
- 2 sticks of salted butter, softened
- Confectioner’s sugar (Add to taste; approximately a small bag)
- Pinch of salt
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
If it’s too stiff, add milk. If it’s too runny, add flour.
Decorate & Enjoy!
Get creative! Use food coloring, sprinkles, coconut, nuts, or whatever you love!