What's up everybody?
I'm Tre and I'm eight years old.
>> Hi, my name is Willa, and I'm ten years old.
>> Hi, my name is Zoe Gandolfo.
I'm nine years old, and I have a pet sister.
Her name is Rosita, she's my cat.
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>> [LAUGH] Look at the table.
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>> Today, I'm making chocolate chip cookies with a chocolate chip cookie dough
and I'm gonna do the woah, okay.
>> Today, I'm going to be making chocolate-edged chocolate chip cookies.
>> Today, we're gonna make chocolate chip cookies, but there's a twist.
They're vegan.
>> Okay, Zoe's making vegan cookies.
>> That means no eggs and basically no dairy.
>> No eggs and no dairy, I don't know about that.
>> You're gonna need half a cup of coconut oil.
One cup of sugar, brown sugar.
And some vanilla extract.
And a quarter cup of almond milk.
Two cups of flour.
One teaspoon of baking soda.
>> Zoe's really excited about flour.
>> [CROSSTALK] of salt.
>> [LAUGH] And salt.
>> Here are all the ingredients.
Two and one fourth cup of flour, one teaspoon of salt, one teaspoon of baking
powder, two sticks of butter, three-fourth cups of packed brown sugar.
>> Willa's very exact.
>> One- >> Got a feeling these cookies are gonna
be really good.
>> Two eggs, two cups of chocolate chips.
>> We have chocolate chip pieces.
>> Okay.
>> And we got [CROSSTALK].
>> Tre has got a lot of candy in bowls.
>> Good looking circles.
And we got red icing.
>> [LAUGH] And icing.
>> We got sugar.
And we got chocolate chip cookie dough.
>> Okay, so Tre has cookie dough.
>> [CROSSTALK] start putting the chocolate cookie dough.
No, I'm gonna mix first, I'm gonna mix it first.
>> And he's just dumping a whole bunch of sugar in there.
Most of it's getting in the bowl.
>> [LAUGH].
>> Okay, flat, that was so satisfying.
>> [LAUGH] A lot of things in baking are very satisfying.
Okay, this is all right, all right.
>> Little bit more.
>> Yeah, Willa's really just exact.
[SOUND] >> Tre, that's a lot of sugar.
>> This is how it looks.
>> Does that look right?
>> Opened it.
>> I don't know if that looks right.
>> Pouring in the milk, almond milk.
>> I sing when I bake.
Tre's still pouring sugar.
>> This is a bad idea.
>> That is a bad idea, that's not how you do that.
>> Now that we're done with that, let's mix it again [LAUGH].
[SOUND] >> Don't turn the mixer on when it's not
in the bowl, cuz then stuff goes flying everywhere.
I bet there's cookie dough on the ceiling now.
>> [SOUND] >> I'm gonna take this out.
>> Is that all the cookie dough just- >> Use my trusty spatula.
>> Stuck to the thing.
>> Dump the rest in.
Here is the chocolate chips.
>> Okay, there's chocolate chips.
>> Pour them in.
>> So two cups.
Go in.
>> That doesn't fit.
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>> Okay.
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>> Zoe, that's not how you do that.
>> Okay, now this is looking like cookie dough.
>> Look at the table.
>> Let me do this.
>> [LAUGH] >> Yeah, no.
>> Tre, I don't know man [LAUGH].
>> Okay, so I'm just gonna make the balls or whatever these things are called.
>> I feel like there's more flour on Zoe than there is in the bowl.
>> One by one.
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>> Yeah, that looks good.
>> I think flour is baking snow.
>> Baking- >> Eatible baking snow.
>> Baking snow.
I think Tre thinks sugar is baking snow.
>> I thought that was gonna work.
>> That is so much sugar.
>> Okay.
>> That's like more than 50% sugar.
He's basically taken cookie dough and made marzipan out of it.
>> And this is how it looks.
>> Now I'm gonna be putting the chocolate chip cookie dough into the oven.
>> What about all the candy?
What are you gonna do with all that candy?
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Okay, all right, >> And you're done!
>> You're not done.
And now you're holding a cat.
>> Aah, they're done!
My mom's taking them out because it's hot.
And look how delicious and mouth watering those are.
>> I think we made these cookie balls a little too big,
because they all melted together and they look like two.
>> Well they're not too big, they need to be spread out on the-
>> Design time.
Design.
>> Okay.
>> Time, so- >> What?
>> Just add the icing.
>> All right, so Tre now is dumping frosting all over it.
Those are gonna be so sweet.
>> I'm gonna sprinkle them all over.
>> Those are Jujube's and candy, all right,
just get it on there, just dump it on there.
There are some on the bottom of the bowl, you've gotta get them all.
>> These are basically dry.
>> Those look good.
>> Okay, you can't tell me this doesn't look good.
I mean, look at that.
>> That does look good.
>> It's crunchy on the outside, but in the inside, it's so smooth and
the chocolate chips.
They're melted and it's just delicious, it's perfect.
>> I gotta take lessons from Zoey on how to, my god,
look at the chocolate on your face.
>> It tastes like a normal chocolate chip with another burst of chocolate.
>> It's literally all over your face.
All right, now Tre's just eating.
>> Mm, yeah, that's good.
>> It's not good, don't lie.
>> I hope I made you roar!
>> You didn't [LAUGH].
Okay, well, that was fun.
It looked like there was a lot of really good cookies there and some room for
improvement.
I think we all have room to improve.
So let's start with Tre.
Tre, awesome job, my man.
I think dumping all that sugar into
the cookie probably didn't really help it at all.
Because it probably had the right amount of sugar in it to begin with.
Look, I love candy, I love candy.
There's a whole section about how much I love candy in my new book.
But I think that if you're gonna use the candy in a cookie,
I'd be a little more strategic about it.
One thing you could do is maybe chop up some of that candy and
put it on the cookies before you put it in the oven.
And then you'll see them all like, it'll all sort of melt down on to the cookie.
That might be really interesting.
All right, Willa, look, I think that you started off real strong, right,
you had all your mise en place, you had everything measured out ready to go.
That looked really good.
And I will agree when you dump flour out of a cup measure,
it's very satisfying, I like it.
I would say that generally with cookies, you want to use the paddle.
The whisk tends to, all of the ingredients just sort of stick to the whisk.
And that's more for when you want to incorporate air into something like for
whipped cream or cream cheese frosting or something like that.
So yeah, next time you're baking cookies, try using the paddle attachment.
It's gonna be a lot easier.
Now your cookies, I think they were actually the right size.
But you gotta make sure that when you bake them,
you spread them apart enough on the cookie sheet.
So they don't bake into each other.
But all in all, those cookies look really good.
Okay, Zoe, listen, I've had some really delicious vegan cookies.
I have a feeling those cookies are probably really delicious.
When a recipe calls for some flour, or any ingredient,
you want to make sure that you use that amount of that ingredient.
For example, if you're measuring the flour, and
half of the flour ends up on yourself or on the table.
That means that, there's not gonna be enough flour in the cookies.
Try next time you do it, if you measure out two cups of flour,
make sure the two cups of flour end up in the cookies and not on your face.
All three you guys, fantastic job.
I loved seeing your cookies.
I bet they were all really delicious.
What would be a good recipe to try next?
Ooh, you guys should try muffins.
Make some blueberry muffins and see how that goes.
Just remember, don't put the blueberries in until the end or
you're gonna beat them up and then all your muffins will turn blue.
[LAUGH] All right, good luck, kids.
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