Hey everyone, Dana here! - And Stefan.
And today we're making German Christmas cookies. - At least we're trying.
What are they called again? - Uh, Spritzgebäck mit Mürbeteig.
We're making that. - We're making that.
So Stefan, what are Spritzgebäck? - Spritzgebäck is Christmas cookies.
I don't know if they're traditional but at least they were traditional in my family.
And we use a, the dough is called Mürbeteig. - I can't say that word. - I hope I get that right.
Mürbeteig. And it's a recipe that my grandma always used.
We don't use the exact recipe because it was never written down. She had it in her memory.
What you do with it...so you make the dough.
You use this funny little thing. - Yeah. - What is it called?
Uh, it reminds me of those things I did with Play-Doh when I was little.
So what you do is you put the dough up in here when it's, when you made the dough.
And then you... - crank it. - crank it.
And then it comes like a little sausage out. - But there are different shapes.
We have a round flat thing.
We have a round star thing.
We have a round flower thing.
And we have a round, no flat... - I don't know, it looks like a comb.
Like a hair comb. That last one. - A hair comb thing.
So the ingredients that we need for this...are or is?
The ingredients we need are. The ingredients we need is. The ingredients we need are.
The ingredients that we are using for this are: flour.
Speisestarke. - Speisestärke. - Stärke. Sorry. Speisestärke. - Everyone's complaining
that I'm not teaching her English. - German. - English. - German. - English. - German.
Cornstarch. - Sugar. - Little bit of salt and baking powder. - Butter. - Two eggs.
What do we need to do first?
Put it all in the... - That's it? We just put it all in the bowl. - And. - Mix it.
Ta-da! Ta-da! And. - You mix. - Watch out. Watch out for my face.
I hold, you mix. - Okay.
So in the U.S. you said they only have this kind.
You only have used these kinds. - Yeah.
I mean, I'm sure they also have this kind of beater thing, but
that's what came with my machine.
You wanna take a turn? - I will take a turn. - And he's gonna stand up to do it?
I'm standing up to do it. - Okay.
Can you say the name of this dough again? - Mürbeteig.
I don't think I can say it. Mürbeteig.
Alright, so we have to put it in the refrigerator now, but the instructions did not say if we
should put some sort of plastic wrap on it or whatever so...
I think, I think we do a joker.
What does that mean?
What does that mean, do a joker?
We have a joker. - What is that, like flip a coin? - Flip a coin, like, um, you phone a friend.
You phone a friend! We're gonna phone a friend. - We're phoning a friend. - Okay.
Hello, Mama. Tag. Eine kurze Frage.
Den Teig, den Mürbeteig...um in Plastik...uh in Cellophan in Kühlschrank, oder einfach
nur so in Kühlschrank?
In Folie komplett packen.
OK, wunderbar.
Dann machen wir das jetzt.
Which one do we start with? - Let's start with the star.
Because that seems pretty standard. - Okay, the star. - Okay.
And we have to, I think with this. - Okay.
Now we have to find... - Find the right way, okay. - direction.
This is the right direction.
It's not the right direction. - There is the direction. - There it goes. There it goes.
You should be with your hand in front of there. - Okay, okay. I'm ready.
And then with a knife, you cut off the length of the cookie.
So we could have a really long cookie if we wanted.
I think you're going the wrong way. - Wrong direction going. - No. Now I'm confused.
No, I was going the right direction. - Okay, you're going the right way. I'm sorry, I'm sorry!
Ooooh! So... - Does it come? - Yeah, it's coming.
So you go nice and smooth. And you try not to destroy the... - Yeah, the thing. - shape.
So I think there you cut it off. - There, good? - Uh-huh. So you cut it off. Yeah?
And then. - Like a worm! - Yeah, you put the worn on it. - It's a worm!
You leave it straight or what I did because... - You can curve it. - it's Stefan.
I make a little S. So there.
Cute! - That's the first cookie. - Can they see it? Yeah. - I think you guys can see it.
Oh, I'm, I'm pushing already. - Oh my gosh! - Oh my God!
Hold on, hold on. No, we don't want this one, it's messed up, no put it back in. - Okay. - Okay.
You get some more dough in there. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. - It's not good.
Not a good one. - Okay. - Ready? - I'm ready. I'm ready. - Okay.
There we're going. - I wanna make a D. D for Dana.
Oh no, I don't think I can make a D with that.
You can make an O. - I can make an O, but what do I want with an O?
Okay. Oh, I think I'm going to need help here. It's gonna flop! It's gonna flop!
Okay. - You can do it.
Let's just make a bigger O. I'm so creative.
Ooooh! That's cool! - There you don't want it that long. - Okay, stop.
We won't make you watch all of this in real time.
Oh! Oh! I have an idea. What if I twist it. And then... Oh, that's beautiful.
He goes much quicker than me. - We are more efficient here. - Oh, but yours are boring.
Mine are efficient. - But mine are so interesting.
Like, did you see this one? - Keep cranking! - Keep cranking!
That will not work. - That won't work? My ring? - Keep cranking.
You come here? - I'm coming. - Come on. I want to say something. - Oh, he has something to say.
He has something to say. Okay. What do you have to say?
So now that we are done...took you a while.
No, she was really great.
Um, my grandma would be proud of you.
Yeah, really efficient. Some nice shapes here.
I'm really excited about this ring.
Yeah, let's see if it holds together.
So they now go in the oven for around 8 to 10 minutes with 190° Celsius.
Um, really important, don't burn them.
Um, I think they burn quite easily. - Oh, okay, okay.
We'll watch them so that hopefully ours don't burn. - Exactly.
In they go!
So. - We're done. - We're done! And look! This long one came out intact.
I'm very excited about that. - I'm impressed. - However my ring, it fell in on itself.
But still kind of cool. - It's still pretty cool. - Yeah.
And we put some chocolate on them.
Do these, just by looking at them, remind you of what it's supposed to look like?
Yeah, they look like what they're supposed to look like. - Okay.
Cheers!
They taste the same. Yeah. - They taste like they should?
They taste like they should. - Yes. - Wooo!
Imagine showing up somewhere and being like: this is our Christmas cookie!
I made you a cookie.
We could do it like this.
That didn't work.
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So Stefan...okay, ready.
So...okay.
I'm professional here.
She's not professional.
No, I've never done this before.
I still can't say the name of the dough.
Mürbeteig. - Mürbeteig. - Yeah, it's okay.