So don't you agree that baking is one
of the best parts of the holidays?
Both the eating and the making.
It's also a fun opportunity to have your kids
join in now, delish.com's editorial
director Joanna Salt is back with a
few great ideas that are zero stress.
One of the things that's the best
about the holidays is all the
fun we can have with baking and
you you always bring the funds.
So what are we making today?
Well, listen, the thing we love
about the holidays at Delish is
that it's low pressure baking.
This is all about having fun.
It's all about getting people into the
kitchen and enjoying time together.
I've got Christmas tree brownies.
Are you ready to see it?
It's so yes, let's do it.
OK, so we've got store bought Brownie
mix that we've made into brownies.
Now you can make it from scratch.
You know me?
We won't judge or we won't.
You know,
we we appreciate over achievers too,
so we're just taking brownies that have been
cooled and we're going to just cut triangles.
I think you can see where
I'm going with this, yes,
so we cut these into triangles.
Super simple.
This is something great that
a kid can even do as well.
And then what we're going
to use is green frosting.
We've actually bought store
bought green frosting,
but you could die white
frosting green if you have it.
You can also buy this pre-made in
squeeze tubes at your supermarket.
I love a hatchling.
Yeah,
it's super great in the baking aisle,
so keep an eye out for it and So
what you want to do is you want
to take frosting and you want to
sort of kind of zigzag it back and
forth across the tree so you end up
with like it's not too much green,
but it's just enough to give you that
kind of like tree feeling that makes
some sprinkles decorate the tree.
Of course,
'cause it every tree needs decorations.
And we even found these cute
cute little star sprinkles that
we're gonna put at the top here.
Then we're going to take a
peppermint stick that we just.
Broke a little piece out and we're
going to give it a trunk and
when I show you how absolutely
adorable this finished product is,
I mean can you even a little
platter of these out?
People are gonna go crazy.
I love that and I think it's so
cute and I like that it's not a
lot of frosting and that it's all.
It's the perfect amount.
As soon as I saw this I went.
Ah, I have to do
it. You've got to try it.
It's so fun and literally you don't
need to be a Baker to make this.
This is the kind of fun,
easy treat that we love.
It's delicious that we really celebrate.
There I've got so many more.
Are you ready to see some more?
Let's see some more.
OK so we've got our adorable
Christmas light cupcakes.
They're just a simple
cupcake with white frosting.
But then we take some black gel icing and
some mini M&M's and we turn them into.
Aren't they bakutis?
So right on the cover of our
new holiday Baking magazine,
I can't get enough of these things.
They really are so delightful
and fun and festive,
and this is another thing that kids
can really get their hands into.
Everything
you always. You is just so clever.
I love it. What else have you got?
Well, we've got melted snowman cookies now.
Again, as I said, love a hack.
We're just taking a regular sugar cookie.
Now listen, you could also
buy a sugar cookie, you know,
in the bakery section of your
supermarket and not even worry
about baking them off yourselves.
But truly easy peasy to make already
made in a car already made in a carton.
And then what we can do is we
decorate the top with frosting
and a cut marshmallow to represent
the melted snowman's head.
And this I love because.
You literally can't mess this up.
This is the kind of thing I don't like.
Precious piping of frosting this semester.
It looks the better frosty looks
when he's melted on the cookie.
So delightful,
OK, that's genius. You may get a
royal icing and just pour it on
you absolutely can.
You could also get cake frosting
and melted in the microwave and once
you melt it for about 30 seconds,
drizzle and it looks fantastic.
It dries solid.
And I mean also really delicious
frosting and so fun. So easy.
So easy and then let me show you
these adorable candy cane cookies.
This is sugar cookie dough that we
separated into two batches died
one batch red added a little bit of
peppermint extract to the batter and
twisted them together and then baked
them into these adorable twists.
Added some sugar on top.
These are really,
really fun and honestly look
fantastic in a holiday spread.
Don't take a lot of time
so easy. Oh my gosh.
What is this pie I'm looking at?
Oh, you're looking at The
Cheesecake Factory, copycat.
Peppermint bark cheesecake.
And I gotta say, OK. To be fair,
a little bit more work than maybe melting
a snowman on top of a sugar cookie,
but the recipe is so killer and
it's available on delish.com
available to our members.
I gotta tell you it is so good and if
you're gonna do it big on any holiday,
Christmas is the time to do it.
You put something like this
out and everybody goes nuts.
Absolutely there is nothing that you've
ever shown me that I don't enjoy.
Joe, I just have to ask before I let you go.
Hey, the philosophy for delicious
that I think makes me feel like baking
and cooking is more accessible.
Well, it's not about judgment,
and I really do feel like even more
particularly around Christmas.
People want to see the love you put in it.
It doesn't have to be perfect.
It doesn't have to be precious.
We've talked about this before.
It just needs to look fun.
It needs to look inviting and it
needs to feel like you gave it at
some time and and energy and love.
And that's really what the
holiday season is all about.
Of being together and gathering around food.
OK, do you love her as much as I do?
I do alright. The recipe for the
brownie trees is on our website and I
can't wait to have my kids make these.
At first I'm gonna try to make him with you
and so we've got the brownies here and we're
actually already pre cut by my dear Susie,
but we've got him here and it's super easy.
These were just store bought
Ghirardelli brownies by the way.
I don't suggest baking with a dress
with big big sleeves but you know what?
If you can do it with this you can do it with
anything and this is just store bought icing.
Literally we dyed it green
and this isn't my best.
But it works really well,
so we got the tiny little stars
which are available anywhere,
usually in any grocery store baking section.
And then we're just gonna sprinkle
a little festivity on it and then
just take a small candy cane.
You know that you would find anywhere
and just break off the top like that and
stick it on in there and bobs your uncle.
There is your Christmas tree brownie.
I made that in what, 30 seconds?
So how much fun is that to make
with the kids?
And now we get to eat it.