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I have a special guest in my kitchen today this is my mom hello what is your
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favorite cookie Theon balls beon balls you've made these for how long about 50
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years she makes them every year and she makes them in batches huge batches and
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then gives them out to everyone the first step is we're going to cream together two sticks of butter
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which equals one cup now you want to make sure that it's very soft brought to
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room temperature that way it'll cream together with the other ingredients there we go right right to that we're
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going to add a quar cup of white granulated sugar there I'll let you add
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that okay while I get the flour all right we're going to be using two cups
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of allpurpose flour so I'm just like I tell yall just dive deep into your flour shake it
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off then I just use a knife Pat it down and scrape it off there we go that's
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one you're going to cream this together right using an electric hand mixer until
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it's all combined until it's all combined all right start off slow because you don't want a
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snowstorm well we're in Southeast Texas and we would love a snowstorm okay so
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let's move it up just a little bit there all right so we're going to ramp up the speed just a little bit right and
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combine the rest do I need need to go in with the spatula and kind of help uh a little bit poke
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down go ahead the next step is we're going to
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take pecans and you want to make two cups of finely chopped pecans all right
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so we're going to add enough in here to where we feel like we're going to get two cups okay this is uh 10 oz so that's
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not quite two cups all right and then we'll need y'all let us know down below
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what you cannot do without on Christmas M what do you have to make that
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everybody wants so this is another 10 oz so we're going to use what about half half okay
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about half should give us our two cups all right if not then we can always you
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can always add more more we're going to pulse these until we get to the desired
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texture all right let's take a look I think that's what we got very
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fine a good thing I had my hand there I think Christmas is
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always little bits of everything all over your kitchen all the time yes it is yes so what we're going to do is bring
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our batter back over M we're going to add it to the batter and then we're going to mix it all up we've got two
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sheet pans lined with some parchment paper you want to take a one in cookie
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scoop scoop through the batter here and then just kind of scrape along the edge
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of the bowl then put it in your impeccably clean hand and then you have to kind of Squish
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it together to form a ball to form a ball you can roll it you know it'll it'll
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roll yeah push it together and then roll it very gently don't squish but form
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about a walnut size ball yep and then just put it on your on your paper now
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you don't need to leave a lot of room in between them okay you just want the air from the oven to be able to go through them so you don't have to spread them
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out put them all together he's empty we got to fill them again we're going to finish rolling these out all right how
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many did we make 39 we're going to place these in the oven that's been preheating
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at 300 why 300 because you need to do them very low and slow so the butter
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doesn't go all over the place all right so they're going to go in for 45 minutes
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then we still got to do something special to these yes so stay tuned what
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we're going to do 10 minutes before the cookies come out of the oven we need to go ahead and have that sugar mixture put
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together that we're going to roll the Cookie Balls into you're going to start off with one cup of powdered sugar now
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my mom says it's very important that you sift your powdered sugar definitely she's going to beet on
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it usually as I add in all the powder sugar
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okay there we go okay we're going to sift all that out
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and then we're going to add half a cup of white granulated sugar to the
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powdered sugar and then we're just going to whisk that all together that's the good stuff right
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here all right our pecan balls have come out of the oven now we have an extra pan
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right here just lined with some parchment paper so that once we get them all powdered up we can place them on the pan we have our Bowl ready to go just
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need two spoons or you can use some tongs you can Place several of the pecan
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balls into your powdered sugar mixture and then as they go in you're just going to turn them around and completely coat
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them and then just take them and just kind of dust them off a little bit right mhm and then place them on your sheet
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pan we're going to get these all done and then we're going to come back to you okay I'm loading you
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powder I'm going put mine into a Christmas tin make them look nice and pretty who wouldn't love to get these
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for Christmas 38 cookies made a batch thumb print cookies we need something to
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fill our cookie jar this recipe comes out of my first
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cookbook making home cooking simple easy and delicious we're going to be using
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allpurpose flour white granulated sugar we're going to be using an egg yolk that we're going
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to pull out of this egg here some salt I'm using unsalted and salted
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butter we'll show you that here in just a minute some vanilla extract and your
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favorite jams or jellies in a large mixing bowl we're
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going to add two sticks or one cup of very soft butter Now the recipe calls
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for un salted I tend to use one stick unsalted and one stick salted we're
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going to add in 2/3 cup white granulated sugar we're going to take an electric
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hand mixer and we're going to beat the butter and the sugar together until it's nice and creamy this should take about a
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minute or two the color of the butter should turn pale and lighter than it was
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we're going to beat in one egg yolk so I'm just going to take my egg I'm going to crack it on into a small
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bowl going to let all the whites fall out so we have that egg yolk there just
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go back and forth after you crack your egg we're going to add that to our mixture we're going to add one teaspoon
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of vanilla extract little extra never hurt we're going to beat that in until it's well combined we're going to sift
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in 2 and 1/4 cups this is allpurpose flour I'm just going to use my sifter
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two cups half of that I'm going to add in
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half a teaspoon of salt and sift that all in there we're just going to mix that we're going to
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start on the low setting just going to go in with a wooden spoon just get the rest combined this
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should be a solid dough just going down to the bottom making sure there's no excess flour down
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there we want it all Incorporated you're going to need a large sheet pan I've lined it with some parchment paper or
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you can use a silicone mat or just lightly spray your pan I'm going to be using a 1in cookie scoop so you're going
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to go in kind of drag it through and then flatten it out at the
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top place it into the palm of your hand we're going to roll it and form
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balls like that and then place it on your cookie sheet now as we do these we
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want to leave room in between so that way we can flatten the cookies and they can bake in the oven we're going to start getting the jellies going here in
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just a minute you want to use for your cookies what we're going to do now is create that thumb print in the cookies
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now you can use your thumbs for this or you can use a small spoon and press in
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you can use your thumb just go in and form the cookie it's like that you're
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going to take your favorite jellies or jams and then we're going to take a spoon of it and place it right into the
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center of each cookie I'm doing all three well they're going to be in separate cookies but that way it just
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looks pretty nice jewel tones just need about a teaspoon Worth to fill the cookie I'm going to go every third one
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that way I can get all three flavors in here should tell you the flavors I've got strawberry here apricot and then I
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have grape back here also I'm ready to place these in the oven that's been preheated at
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375° they're going to bake for 8 to 10 minutes we want them to be nice and
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golden brown on the bottom all right once your cookies cool on the pan you
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can remove them and place them in an airtight container or your cookie jar or lay them out for everyone to eat look at
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how delicious those look oh yeah you know it's Christmas time and I'm getting
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my family involved in cookie time so I've got my husband he's going to tell
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you what his favorite Christmas cookie is well it's oatmeal chocolate chip now
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y'all know that he has tons of favor we're going to start with 1 cup and A3
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of allpurpose flour so just dig deep into your flour
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we got a one cup here take your knife and just kind of scrape it off and even that out we're going to add that to the
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bowl and then we're going to do that with a third cup to that we're going to add a pinch of salt we're going to add
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3/4 teaspoon of baking soda half a
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teaspoon of ground cinnamon you can go up to a teaspoon with this recipe we're
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going to take a whisk and then you're just going to blend this all together till it's well incorporated then we're
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going to set this aside all right we're ready for the next step we're going to place 34 cup of melted butter into a
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large mixing bowl now you want to make sure that you kind of cool the butter down first before you add it to your
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bowl yep it's nice and cool all right we're going to add in 3/4 cup cup of
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brown sugar now you want to make sure it's packed you can use light or you can
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use the dark brown sugar and then we're going to add half a cup of white granulated sugar power
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tool we've got an electric hand mixer we're going to go ahead and blend together the butter and the sugars until
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nice and creamy all right I had to go find my honey it was lost it was right here he's
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found hopefully you can find yours all right now that that's nice and
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creamy we're going to go ahead and add one tablespoon of honey oh yeah he said
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add more but we don't want to mess up that texture to the cookie so no but Honey's
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good I'm sure he'll want to lick the spoon afterwards you know it then we're going to add one
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tablespoon vanilla extract where's your extra extra yeah we're not going to do
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that ah all right we're going to crack one egg into
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it we're going to blend this all together spatula pull down the sides
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take the flour and we're going to slowly add it into our butter mixture and blend
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that on low so in other words don't cause a smoke cloud yeah don't do that
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this is a kitchen aid it is the quietest one we've ever had all right we go ahead and add the rest mhm all right that's
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good y'all knew this what happened look what happened my gnome cookie jar is empty must have been the
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kids the big one over here hey hey we need to fill it up y'all remember I had
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Thum print cookies in there yeah they they didn't last very long at all two and 1/4 cups of oldfashioned Oats so
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we're going to add that are you still going to use the mixture yes oh okay go ahead and just dump them all
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in at once shake them e in we're going to beat that in there this will be
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interesting we need some cookies come here gnome oh yeah get down there in the
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bottom yeah dig deep we're done with our hand mixer so you're going to put that
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up so what we're going to do now is take one cup and 1/4 cup of semi chocolate
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chips we're going to add that oh you want me to do I thought you were going to do just add them and then we're going
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to mix that using a spatula that way we don't beat up our hand mixer no just beat me
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up I'm glad you find it amusing and here you go we're back yeah all right I have
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a sheet pan lined with some parchment paper we've got a big scoop yeah we
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ain't doing no wimpy stuff no it holds about three tablespoons so we're going to go into the batter pull it up to the
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side of the dish and scrape like that yep and then we're going to place it right on our sheet pan and now what you
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want to do is leave 2 in between the sides and your next cookie I'm going to
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go ahead and just flatten these down there we go we're going to place these in the oven I have preheated at
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350° y'all watching him what for 12 to 14 minutes and then when we pull them
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out I'm going to show you what we're going to do next okay we pulled the cookies out now they were in the oven for 14 minutes they're nice and golden
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along the edges and nice and set on the top we're going to take some semisweet
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chocolate chips or I believe these are dark chocolate chips we're just going to place them on the top and kind of push
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them in place them where you want them these are your cookies you want to let these sit on the tray for 10 minutes
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before you start pulling them off that way they'll set up and be nice and kind of crispy along the edges and soft and
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chewy on the inside we have set 17 cookies all right there's the cookie
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look at the backside nice and crispy golden brown oh there's your soft and chewy on
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the inside with those chocolate chips I've got Joseph my son in the kitchen
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today yep hello his favorite cookie is oh &m cookies by far right here oh yeah
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the first thing we're going to do is cream together our butter and sugars until they're nice and smooth so in a
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large bowl Joseph's going to add one stick of melted
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butter now it's kind of half melted and half softened so that's a really good mix we're going to add in 1/3 cup of
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brown sugar all right half a cup of white granulated
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sugar okay we're going to take our electric hand mixer we're going to beat this together for 2 minutes until it's
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nice and creamy take a spatula then just pull down the
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sides we're going to add one egg we're going to let Joseph one hand crack the
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egg I told you I learned that from
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him all right and then we're going to add two teaspoons of vanilla
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extract we're going to mix that in until it's well combined all righty there you
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go than okay we got it all mixed up we're going to turn it off what we're
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going to do now is set this aside and then we're going to bring over another bowl and we're going to start mixing up
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our dry ingredients let's do it let's do it in a large bowl we're going to add 1
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and 1/2 cups of allpurpose flour oh yeah while he's adding that
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in we're going to add in one teaspoon of baking powder that's good and then I'm
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going to add in half a teaspoon of baking soda all right and that's the other half cup of allpurpose flour boom
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sh and then we're going to add a pinch of salt then I'm going to have Joseph whisk that all together it's going to
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irate the flour and then it's going to incorporate all of the dry ingredients together all right we're going to bring
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back over our butter sugar mixture butter sugar and your hand mixer
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I kept it all together yep okay we're done whisking the flour mixture let's go
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ahead and get the flour out of the way all righty all right you want to hold that
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sure thing okay I'd rather be holding that one might sneak a little bit Yeah you
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got to wonder every time I turn my back I think something's happening right I got to
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keep yall on the eye there yeah all right you're going to start putting some of the flour mixture into the butter
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mixture and then we're just going to take our hand mixer and blend it together until it's all Incorporated all
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right just a little at a time that's good all
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righty he's really good in the kitchen y'all I'll try all right we're going to finish off the flour mixture we're going
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to ramp up the speed on the hand mixer here so we can get through all of [Music]
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thato make sure you ramp it up there we
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go it's time for the M&M's we are using holiday style the red and green this is
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a 10 oz package so yeah we're going to add these in there you go Let It Rain
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M&M's oh I'll let it rain believe me the whole package oh
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yeah all right Joseph is going to take our ho ho ho Christmas
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spatula and get to working our cookie making spatula for Santa her green truck
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all right mix those all in with your spatula do not do this with your hand mixer yeah it you'll clog it up here
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I'll hold it all right go to town just don't fling it out of the bowl
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yeah all right we had to go to a heavier wooden spoon here to get through to the bottom there yeah okay it looks really
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good what we're going to do is take a one one and 1/2 in cookie scoop yeah
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we're going to make these small what you want to do is take your cookie scoop go into your cookie dough pull out we're
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going to let Joseph do this mhm get a nice mound of dough there just going to
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put it in my hand roll them into a ball place them onto the cookie sheet now you
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want to leave space in between each Cookie Ball oh yeah you're going to scrap it
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along the side of the bowl into that and then you're going to plop it into your hand and then you're going to just kind
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of roll it out and then once rolled out we're going to go ahead and take it and plop it you can go back and fill in some
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M&M's on the tops of the cookies okay here's batch number one
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I've got my oven preheating at 350° we're going to place the cookies in there for 8 to 10 minutes until they're
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nice and golden along the edges and kind of set on on the top and then we're going to pull those out you want to rest
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them for 10 minutes before you pull them off of the cookie sheet we'll be back if
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you want a flatter crispier edged cookie and you can take some parchment paper
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and just flatten down the cookie the first batch of cookies came out of the oven we're going to let these
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rest for 10 minutes on the sheet pan this is the soft and chewy batch okay we
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have our crispy crunch cookies oh look at
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these still buttery soft on the inside all right y'all let us know down below which one would you like to
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try soft and chewy crispy and crunchy with a little softness on the inside
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merry Merry Christmas we're going to take a classic peanut butter cookie
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we're going to add some cocoa to it we're going to make chocolate peanut butter cookies so in a large bowl we're
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going to Place one stick of softened butter we're going to put 3/4 cup of
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peanut butter into the bowl there we go
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we're going to add 1 and 1/2 cups of brown sugar I've got half a cup here
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we'll go in three times dig deep pack it in there we go we're going to add three
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tbspoon of milk and we're going to go in with 1 t
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spoon of vanilla take your electric hand mixer we're going to blend this all together crack an egg in blend this
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together all right we just want to make sure that that egg is incorporated into our peanut butter mixture we're going to
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set that aside and then we're going to come over here and start sifting the dry
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ingredients I've just got a medium bowl and I got a sifter we'll just put it over
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it we're going to add one and 1/4 cups of all allpurpose
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flour add it to the sifter then I'm going to go in for 1/4
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cup since you do want a total of 1 and 1/4 cups all right we're going to take some cocoa powder this is unsweetened
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and you want half a cup so I'm going to go in with a/4 cup here it'll fit better now watch out for cocoa powder cuz it'll
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go everywhere there we go just get a nice measurement going there all right we're going to need one teaspoon of
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baking soda now I'm using half half a teaspoon so I'm going to go in twice and
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then salt we're going to need one half teaspoon let's just sip
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that into our Bowl all right you're not baking if you're not getting flour somewhere Oho that chocolate smells good
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there we go we're going to go ahead now and add in our dry ingredients into our
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peanut butter butter mixture all right just take a wooden spoon and we're going to blend this all together all right if
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you need more cookie recipes I have a ton of them I will link down
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the videos and recipes for the cookies also can be found on my recipe blog
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Catherine plates.com just type in cookies and go through and find your
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favorites oo it's looking good in there all right looks
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good all right we're going to take some white granulated sugar I'm just going to pour some into a bowl here
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now I'm using a sheet pan and it's lined with some parchment
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paper I'm just going to take a 1 and 1/2 in cookie scoop run it through the
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dough pull it out then I'm just going to place it into the
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sugar roll it around and we're going to place it onto
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our cookie sheet lined with parchment hey y'all let me know down in the comments and let everybody else know if
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you've made a cookie since after the holidays and what you
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made cuz you know cookies are not just for the holidays all right we're going to take a fork and we're going to give
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these chocolate peanut butter balls the classic crissp cross that you see on a
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peanut butter cookie so we're just going to place it and flatten down the
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cookie just kind of come up flatten it down on this side and then
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just of come up remove these and then put more on this pan all right they
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don't need any more room to grow so it's pretty good that you have these close together now I'm going to place these in
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the oven that's been preheated at 375° for about 7 to 8 minutes you want
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them nice and kind of crispy on the edges all right I'll be back all right the cookies have just come out of the
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oven I have a second batch in we're going to let these rest on the pan for about 4 to 5 minutes before we pull them
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off and place them on a cooling rack to finish cooling all right so this batch
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made 36 chocolate peanut butter cookies
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doesn't that look like the classic peanut butter cookie with chocolate in it it's nice soft and chewy on the
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inside I have my daughter in the kitchen Rihanna hello what's your favorite
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cookie hot chocolate cookies all right y'all don't see a lot of her I mean she is one busy person we hardly see her
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either so I dragged her into the kitchen she loves to make hot chocolate for
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everyone first step is we're going to cream together our sugars and butter so in a
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large bowl we're going to place one cup of very soft butter or it equals like
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two sticks got it there we go to this we're going
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to add one cup of white granulated sugar and 2/3 cup of brown sugar now you want
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to make sure that it's packed and then we're going to have Rihanna beat this together until it's
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nice and creamy and Blended well should take about 2 minutes yeah that looks really nice and
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creamy I if yall can see that what we're going to do now as she's still beating
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it I'm going to add in two eggs I do it this way to make sure there's no shells
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and then we're going to add in a little drizzle or one teaspoon of vanilla
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extract here we go we're just going to combine that all right here is where the fun is
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going to start happening we've got a sifter we're just going to lay it over our bowl of mixture there that way it
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all happens in One Bowl we're going to add 3 and 1/4 cups of
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allpurpose flour to the sifter and then while I'm doing this I'm going to have
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her take four packages of hot cocoa mix now these let's see are 85 Oz each
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packet so she'll put those in on top of the flour mixture you know
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you're baking when you get flower [Laughter]
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somewhere I'll let her get some of those in there now these do not have the
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marshmallows in them we're going to add our own but if they do that's totally fine to shake them on
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in all right that's three and then I'm going to add 1/4
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cup which I'm actually using an eighth of a cup right here because we've been making so many cookies I can't find some
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of my tools there we go and then to that I'm going to add 1 and a/4 tpoon of
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baking soda and then we're going to measure out 1 and 1/4 teaspoon of salt
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now I am using regular salted butter so I'm going to go a little light on the
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salt probably 3/4 of a teaspoon so about half of that yep there we
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go if you're using unsalted butter then you can go ahead and do the one and a/4
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teaspoon of salt all right we're just going to pick that up sift it on in I'm going to have her do
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that there you go now you can find this recipe also on my recipe blog
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Catherine's plates.com you can find a whole ton of cookie recipes there woo she's getting
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an arm workor out she may be oh Mano all right going to get this stuff
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out of the way cuz then we have to blend all that together we're going to go back in with our electric hand mixer that's
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already got the beers on it and then we're going to mix this all together start slow and start deep down in your
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bowl and that way you don't have a big Powder Puff coming up on
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you now this is going to be a thick batter so don't worry about that once
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you get the flow pretty much Incorporated you can zoom up your you can ramp up your
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speed all right now we're at the place where we can kind of go up a notch and finish this up so we're going
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to spin it and I'm just going to push into the [Music]
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beers make sure you get all that flour down
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underneath all right all right go ahead and take your beers off of your electric hamic so
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we're not going to be needing it anymore and you're going to want to grab a wooden spoon for the next
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step we're going to add in two cups of chocolate chips now if you want to use milk chocolate semi sweet chocolate
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chips or dark chocolate chips whatever just make sure you have about two
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cups woo put them in there think we'll just finish that
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off my daughter's like what okay now what you're going to do we got
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flour everywhere go at it you just want to mix
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enough until those chocolate chips are Incorporated you don't want to do this with your electric hand mixer cuz it
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might burn the motor out you don't want to do that you can burn these motors out
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bangs we're going to take our cookie Scoops now these are the small ones they're about a one inch we're going to
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go into our batter just remember it's pretty thick and and come up you want to flatten it
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on the edge so you get the right amount then you're just going to place it into your clean
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hand you're going to form a ball kind of roll it and then we're going to place it
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on our cookie sheet now give them Room to Grow cuz
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they're they are going to flatten out and then we're going to finish these
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off with something before they go in the oven yeah you can't wait for these huh m
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i my God I'm so excited for it this is a double
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batch if you want to make just a single batch then you could just cut everything in half it's the last cookie of the year
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now while she's finishing up that last one for this tray we're going to be making several trays of
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these grab you some mini marshmallows Rihanna couldn't wait for
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this part huh no I could not so you're going to take a few of the
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marshmallows about three I would say three and then you're going to put it on
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top of the Cookie Ball and then you're going to flatten it down just like that we're going to take this pan of
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cookies we're going to place them in the oven that's been preheating at
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350° for 10 to 12 minutes you want them nice and kind of crispy on the edges and
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kind of golden brown on the back side of the cookies now when you pull these out of the oven leave them on the pan for
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about 5 minutes or so that way they can finish setting up before you pull them off and put them on a cooling rack to
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cool completely while this one's in the oven we're going to start another batch but we're going to be back all right we
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have several batches done look at those look at the
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marshmallows nice and toasty on the cookie oh nice and golden on the bottom
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m looks delicious doesn't it Rihanna
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mhm ton you make some of these wrap them up put them in a box give these out to friends family
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your neighbors or just leave them at home and eat them for yourself yeah all right Rihanna thanks so much for being
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in the kitchen today thank you for having me all right y'all if you're new to the
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and happy New Year y'all I will see y'all on the next episode