- Hey, guys, how's it going?
It's Justine.
- And Jenna.
- I am so excited, because in this video today, I am
going to be baking you the most fantastic cookie recipe
that you are ever, ever gonna see.
- Has anyone seen your videos?
It's never that good.
Which means that on my channel I'm gonna
be cooking a better cookie.
- So, National Cookie Day is right around the corner,
on December 4th, and to celebrate, we are participating
in the first annual Holiday Cookie Jam bake-off
- I'm gonna win, this is great.
I already know it.
- Whoever wins this competition gets their cookie recipe
that they made in their video in the game.
And I am so excited, because these cookies look
absolutely incredible, they're inspired by the game.
If you guys wanna vote for our cookies you can head
over to Facebook.com/playcookiejam and you can
also download Cookie Jam on the Google Play store
or the App store, it's free, and
you don't even need wifi to play.
But what you do need wifi to do is to watch
this baking video and vote for my cookies.
- My cookies, my cookies.
- And can you guys imagine how incredible this would be
to see my little cookie right here
alongside all these other cookies.
Anyway, let's start baking.
Today we are going to be making Rainbow Sugar Cookies
with chocolate frosting, and I'm going with the
chocolate frosting to kinda play off the Cookie Jam logo.
Much like the rainbow cake that I did before,
the chocolate frosting and the rainbow and I'm hoping
that it'll tie it all together,
and that'll entice you guys to vote for me.
Please, please.
I thought we would use the pink mixer today.
Playing off of the rainbow theme I also have
my wonderful rainbow, would you like me to stop moving
so you can focus? (laughs)
I've got my beautiful rainbow Apple Watch.
It's actually, it's too big for
my current 38 millimeter watch, but that's okay.
I'm still wearing it anyway.
So for the cookies we're gonna need
one cup unsalted butter, one cup granulated white sugar,
one teaspoon vanilla extract,
half a teaspoon almond extract, one egg, no!
Shoot!
Two teaspoons baking powder, three cups all purpose flour.
All right, well, now that we have all of our ingredients,
let's assemble this hot mess and get these cookies started.
This is kind of softened, but I feel like I might need
to make it a little bit more warm, so I'm gonna
pop these in the microwave and then
we're going to cream the sugar and the butter together.
I think that's good enough.
Looks good to me.
Oof, wowee.
And we've got our sugar.
Put that in, just like so.
And let's start mixing this up.
I didn't plug it in.
Make sure you always lock your mixer,
if you guys don't, you should.
'Cause I've made some mistakes before.
Hurry up, hurry up!
Okay, okay, okay, you just turn down.
Gotta make sure this is all mixed in there,
everything's off the bottom.
So next we're gonna beat in the eggs and the extracts.
Now we've got our butter and sugar mixture,
we're going to work on our dry ingredients.
You need two teaspoons of baking powder.
I guess I'll just mix this in with this.
This works, oh, no!
Now we're going to slowly mix in our dry ingredients
into the butter mixture very, very slowly.
Here we go!
Super exciting.
Oh, yeah, this is getting somewhere now.
So now we have our dough ready, we're gonna portion this out
into six different little sections, and then we're
gonna take each of those portions and we're
going to dye them different colors.
So let's get out some saran wrap
and we're gonna portion this out.
I'm concerned that this might not be enough,
but I guess we can just see what happens.
If you need more, you can always make double this recipe.
Come here, little dough.
Go to your home.
Wonder what this tastes like.
Mm, wow, I think I put too much almond extract in.
But I like almonds, so this is good.
(squeals) Wowee, mm, definitely gonna win.
Don't forget to vote for my cookie at
Facebook.com/playcookiejam.
All right, let's portion this sucker out.
A little bit of you, a little more of you.
This looks like a little dinosaur, look at him
Wow!
So first color I'm gonna do is purple because, why?
It's one of my favorite colors.
I'm just gonna jam that in there.
And this dye is, wow, it's powerful.
Just drop some of that in there.
There it goes!
It looks perfect.
Like, look at that, that's all I had to do.
So now we go through, we have to dye the rest of these,
and, you know, what, I just need to lighten the mood
a little bit, I need to feel a little bit better
about what I'm gonna do, because this takes a lot
of time, because every time I do a color,
I then have to freaking reset because I don't want to
mix in the other dough colors, so, gosh, the struggle.
Maybe I should just quit YouTube and just start juggling.
Okay, let's roll.
Get in there.
Go, little guy, go.
So now we have our dough all colored.
I'm marking off some parchment paper so I know the
size of the dough to roll, this'll make sense in a second.
Please hold.
So now we're gonna be rolling the dough on top of
a fresh piece of parchment paper, 'cause you don't want
to be rolling dough directly onto Sharpie,
'cause I'm not sure if you guys realize this or not,
but Sharpie's no edible, surprise.
So, you can see pretty clearly our
little square that we've got marked off,
you can basically make this any size.
But since the dough that I rolled out wasn't very much
I don't want to make it too big or I will run out.
We need to make an egg wash.
Now, I googled this, because I didn't know what it was.
And we're gonna be putting the egg white
between each color, so that'll kinda help it
all stick together when it bakes.
So now we need an egg white.
So we're gonna put all the egg whites
in here with a very touch of water.
Get yourself a baking pan like this.
I'm gonna line it with some parchment paper as well.
So the first color we're gonna do is our red.
So we're basically gonna be rolling it out
to be about the size of this.
Okay, so this looks like it would fit in the square,
and now we're just gonna be cutting along these lines.
So I left the the lines a little bit longer,
so you can just kinda cut along those.
Just like so.
And that'll give you a nice even little triangle.
This isn't a triangle.
So we've got a rectangle here, and now we're gonna
be placing this over here, and then we're basically
gonna be repeating this five other times.
Which is, wow, doesn't that sound like fun.
Flip it over.
Plop it down.
So I'd recommend kind of, like, cleaning this off
between each one because some of the color
may transfer onto the other color,
and that's something that you do not want.
So the next color we're gonna do
is the, I guess, gold orange-ish color.
Get this square all molted up.
(light music)
Now before we put this onto here we're gonna put
that little egg white wash on top of it.
Mmkay, you're just gonna kind of
brush it on real nice, real nice.
Now we just put this,
oh, god, no, no, no, no!
Don't do it, don't you break,
don't break on me, buddy, you can do it!
Gotta be very careful.
Everything looks good, and we're basically
gonna be going through this whole process
and layering all of these colors on top of this little guy.
And I'm gonna just press it down just a little bit.
There you go.
Kay, now we're gonna repeat this process four more times.
So, let's go.
(intense music)
It looks so great, like, I am so excited.
I'm gonna press this down just a little bit
to get 'em all, kinda, sorta, you know, making friends.
Make friends.
You guys are gonna be spending some time together.
Would you take a look at this?
So I put this in the fridge for about 30 minutes to an hour
while I'm making the icing, and then I'm gonna
cut this in half and put this half on top of this half
so that we can make even more cookies
out of this little slab.
Just, can I.
I drank my herbal latte, I'm gonna clean up,
and then we're gonna start the icing,
so one, two, three, clean.
Now it's time to make our icing.
This is a pretty simple recipe, I've never made it before,
it looks simple, so it could potentially be difficult.
I don't know.
First we're gonna start with our unsalted butter,
we need a cup, which is two sticks, if you didn't know.
So we beat the butter on medium speed until creamy.
It says approximately two minutes, but we'll see.
Maybe that'll cut down on the speed,
we can do it for one minute.
Whoa!
I think I'm gonna turn down for, for what.
For the next ingredients.
We've got cocoa, heavy cream, this is a lot of stuff.
I just don't know how this is all gonna work out.
Let's just start dumping.
No, it said slow, I can't mess this up.
I've one job, literally one job.
I'm just staring at it just waiting,
waiting patiently for something to happen.
Let's put in the rest of this cream.
Wow, look at this!
This is great.
Mixing.
I think our icing's done.
Wow there's a lot of stuff in here.
I usually just use store bought icing, but I thought
today I'm gonna really class it up,
'cause I'm really gunning for your votes in this contest.
So I want you guys to be real proud of me
for doing it all by myself.
Okay, we'll set the icing off to the side.
Let's take a look and see how the cookies are doing.
Our slab has been cooling for about,
I'd say, probably an hour or so.
So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna cut this in half
and I'm gonna place this top half onto this half,
so that'll give us a lot more to work with.
Like, take a look at that.
Look how great it is, wow.
So now we're gonna place that on top of here,
I lost my thing, so I'm just gonna do that.
Don't worry, I wash my hands so many times
that, like, my hands are cracking.
Gonna get this as even as possible.
It look beautiful.
So here's the rough part, is that it's not
exactly even, so I'm gonna kinda just
cut this all off to make it nice and even.
Just so sad.
So we're basically gonna be just, like, cutting out
the center of this, so I can probably do a bigger one.
Ooh, yes, look at that.
Now's the magic.
So what we're gonna be doing is we're gonna be cutting
a very small little slice of this, and that's what
we're gonna be using for the template of the cookie.
So, we slice this, it creates a nice little rainbow effect,
we use this and we do this and then voila.
Follow along at home.
This is a very, very simple thing,
I definitely encourage you to try this.
Don't overdo it.
First cut is, is it the deepest, I think?
I think that's how the song goes.
(exclaims) Our first layer!
So here's our first slab, we're basically just gonna
keep repeating this until we don't have any more left.
One single cookie.
(mystical music)
We have four cookies.
Four.
Can't believe this.
This is a lot of effort for very, very little reward.
It's like life.
Ten cookies and this took me, like, like, five hours.
So I think I'm gonna cook these for about,
like, eight to 10 minutes?
Alexa, set a timer for eight minutes.
We're gonna let those bake and then we're gonna
ice them up and hope that everything works out well.
I can't believe how much time that took.
So we've got our icing, we've got our cookies in the oven,
everything is actually going very, very well and very
according to plan, so I'm quite surprised and also nervous.
So what we're gonna do is we're gonna prep for the icing.
I'm gonna put it in an icing bag 'cause I kind of want it
to look as good as possible.
Oh no, it's coming out of the side, huh.
Well, I'll have some of that.
Okay, we're taking 'em out now,
I can't chance this, I can't chance this.
Alexa, stop.
This is my life's legacy.
A cookie jam. (laughs)
These look so great, I'm so happy.
Here are the rainbow cookies.
Now we're gonna fill these things with our homemade
chocolate icing and we're gonna make some cookie sandwiches.
This is it, this is everything, this is,
I think I need to put more icing in it.
But, it's a good start, this is a good start.
I'm into it, I'm real into it.
Okay, next one, we are gonna get five whole cookies.
That's a lot of icing, oh my goodness.
Good, here we go, here we go.
I'm hyped, man, I'm hyped.
This is what the hype train looks like.
Choo choo, baby.
How is anyone ever gonna be able to eat this?
Like, there's no way.
Let's see, which one will I try?
I think I will try this one, he's a little guy.
That is very chocolatey.
Oh my gosh, the only thing that would make me happier
is if I could eat this cookie while playing Cookie Jam
while my cookie is in the game.
I feel like that's some crazy Inception nonsense.
All right, I'm gonna go.
Let me know what you guys think of my cookies,
leave me some comments below and let me know if there's
anything else that you guys would like to see me bake.
Don't forget you can check out Cookie Jam
in the app store or in the Google Play store,
I'll put all of the links in the description.
And of course a link where you can vote for my cookie.
I'm gonna go finish this cookie
in peace while I play my game.
Peace.
Can you just come here and give it a little sniff?
- [Jenna] No, it's the competitor's.
- Come sniff the competitor.
Come sniff the competition, baby.
- Would have looked better with white icing.
- Oh, no!
You gonna try it?
- [Jenna] Yeah.
(upbeat music)