Ro: Hey guys, it’s Ro! Welcome to another Nerdy Nummies! Today I have a
Ro: very special guest, it’s Jen! Jen: Hi guys!
Ro: She is amazing! I love this gal! I’ll put her links down below, you
Ro: can go check out her channel, and go say hi to her on all of
Ro: her social medias! Jen: Social, yeah! Ro: Yeah!
Ro: If you may have guessed, we are dressed up as witches today because
Ro: it is the season, Halloween season, it is my favorite season!
Ro: And I got so many requests from you guys to make something
Ro: Hocus Pocus themed! Jen: Yes!
Ro: And I love this movie! This is one of my favorite movies, have you seen it?
Jen: I love it! It’s my favorite Halloween movie! Ro: Me too!
Jen: We’re like twins! Ro: We’re like twinsing, right now!
Ro: We’re, we’re like, we have the same shoe size you guys!
Ro: So today, we’re gonna be making Hocus Pocus Spellbook Cookies!
Ro: Are you ready? Both: Let’s get started!
Ro: The things you’ll need will be: 3 cups of flour, 3/4 cup of almond meal,
Ro: 1-1/2 cup of sugar plus 1 tablespoon of sugar, I’m keeping them separate,
Ro: I’ll show you why later. 1/2 a teaspoon of nutmeg, 1 teaspoon of baking
Ro: powder, a pinch of salt, 1/2 a teaspoon of almond extract,
Ro: 1-1/2 teaspoons of vanilla extract, 2 eggs, 2 sh-ticks of butter
Ro: or 1 cup of butter. You will also need…
Jen: A hand mixer, 2 mixing bowls, a rectangle cookie cutter, a rolling pin,
Jen: and baking sheets lined with parchment paper.
Ro: Now let’s put it all together!
Ro: The first thing that we’re gonna do is combine all of our dry ingredients
Ro: to our first mixing bowl. I am gonna be adding our flour, pinch of salt,
Ro: and here is where we add the small amount of sugar that we talked about
Ro: earlier. Boop! And then Jen, I’m gonna have you add the almond meal,
Ro: dump it in there. The baking powder and the nutmeg!
Ro: Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble!
Ro: And let’s mix it together on a low speed until everything is well combined!
Ro: This witch knows what she’s doing!
Ro: Now we’re gonna set this off to the side and we’re going to bring in
Ro: our other ingredients.
Jen: So now we’re gonna cream together our butter and our sugar!
Ro: And I’ve left it out at room temperature, so it’s really soft.
Ro: You don’t want to cream it together while it’s cold.
Ro: Boom! Jen: Boom! Ro: Alright, and now we’re just gonna mix it up a little
Ro: bit and slowly add our sugar.
Ro: Now our butter and sugar is creamed together and now we’re gonna
Ro: add our eggs one at a time while we’re mixing.
Ro: So Jen, will you get on the mixer? Jen: I got it! Ro: OK!
Ro: And I will add the egg while you’re mixing… Boom!
Jen: And now we’re going to add our extracts, and mix ‘em up!
Ro: Yep, and I’m gonna be doing the mixing this time!
Ro: She’s doing the pouring, that’s what you call teamwork on Halloween!
Ro: Boom! I put a spell on you!
Ro: Now we got our wet mixture and our dry mixture, and we’re gonna add it
Ro: together, about 1/3 at a time.
Ro: Oh-yeah, oh-yeah, oh-yeah!
Ro: I’m sorry! I keep bumping you with my hat!
Ro: Now that we’ve made our dough, we’re gonna divide it into 2 sections,
Ro: wrap it up tight in some cling wrap and pop it in the fridge for about
Ro: one hour. Jen: Or 1 watching of Hocus Pocus! Ro: Huh! Yes!
Ro: Now our cookie dough has had plenty of time to chill, and now we’re
Ro: gonna roll it out. So you’re gonna take a little pinch of flour,
Ro: sprinkle it over the surface, so that our cookie dough won't stick, then you’re gonna take your rolling pin
Ro: and just roll it out flat.
Jen: Alright, so now we have our rectangle cookie cutter. Ro: Mmmhmmm.
Jen: And you’re just gonna cut out as many rectangles as you can!
Ro: And then peel off the excess dough.
Ro: We’ve got our cookies cut out, and now we’re gonna bake them in the oven
Ro: at 350 degrees for about 12 minutes, or until they start to turn a little
Ro: lightly golden brown color. And while they’re baking we’re gonna roll
Ro: out the rest of our dough and make some more cookies!
Jen: OK, our cookies are all baked! Ro: Mmmhmm!
Jen: We gave them plenty of time to cool, what are we doing now Ro?
Ro: Mmmmm! Now is my favorite time! It is time to decorate!
Ro: So what I put here is royal icing in two little plastic baggies. Jen: Fancy!
Ro: And I put a little number 2 tip at the end of each of ‘em, just to give
Ro: us a little bit more control. You don’t need to do this, this is totally
Ro: optional, you can just use a ziplock baggie. You said you’ve done that
Ro: before decorating cookies. Jen: That is the only way I have done it before!
Ro: Right on girl, and it works! This is just to give us a little bit more
Ro: control. So, are you ready? Jen: I’m ready!
Ro: OK, so, we’re gonna first outline our cookie, going all the way around
Ro: the rectangle. Now you’re gonna flood your cookie, which basically
Ro: means you just fill it in.
Ro: Once you’ve put a lot of icing on top, you’ll see that it’s kind of sticking
Ro: together and flooding, but to help it you’re gonna take a toothpick
Ro: and just slowly move it around.
Ro: After you flood the cookie and the icing is still wet, now we’re gonna
Ro: take a white M&M, and make sure the M&M is face down so you just see
Ro: the white part. This is gonna be the eyeball of the spellbook.
Ro: Our cookies have sat out and hardened. Now you can pick ‘em up, you can
Ro: actually touch them, look at that! Completely dry and now we are gonna
Ro: add on some more details!
Ro: If you haven’t seen the movie Hocus Pocus, the spellbook in the movie
Ro: that the Sanderson Sisters use for all of their spells and potions,
Ro: his name is Book, and he’s got a bunch of stitching on the front and he’s
Ro: got an eyeball, and he’s got a personality all of his own!
Ro: So we’re gonna be taking the brown icing again and we’re gonna be making
Ro: the patchwork, all the stitches. So I’m gonna be doing some squiggly
Ro: lines, and then he’s got a little tear right here.
Ro: To add some finer details, what we’re gonna do is switch the tip,
Ro: so right now we have a number 2 tip, and we’re gonna switch the tip
Ro: to be a number 1 so it’s even smaller.
Ro: And we’re gonna use the number 1 tip to ice on little eyelids.
Jen: I was just thinking these look like little eyelashes.
Ro: Huuuuh! We could make a girl book!
Ro: And, I’m going to! Jen: We should make a girl book. Ro: I'm gonna make a girl one! You know what, I’m gonna give her
Ro: little eyelashes. No, oh shoot, you know what Jen, could you help me here?
Ro: Just…. Thanks!
Jen: Oh!
Ro: The next color that we’re gonna be decorating with is a gray royal
Ro: icing, we’ve got 2 bags over here. And this one is a little bit more
Ro: liquid-y and this one is a little bit more firm.
Ro: And it’s really easy to firm up your royal icing, all you have to do
Ro: is add a little bit more powdered sugar. And if you’d like your
Ro: royal icing a little bit more wet, flood-y, you will add a little bit of water.
Ro: So in this bag we have a little bit more water. In Jen’s bag, a little
Ro: bit more firm, so a little bit more powdered sugar.
Ro: So the first thing is I’m taking the more liquid-y one,
Ro: and I’m just gonna ice the corners of the book.
Ro: And you’re gonna make a long rectangle down this side of the book.
Ro: This is just a little binding detail, on the spellbook he’s got some cool
Ro: deets. Now, we’re gonna take the thicker gray icing and we're gonna frost on
Ro: some details. The spellbook, in each corner of the book, it has a snake
Ro: design. Put a little dot for the eye and then down the binding, one more snake.
Ro: You guys can skip this step if you want, because it already looks
Ro: like a spellbook, I just wanted to add some fancy details.
Jen: For the final touch we’re going to add just a dab of black royal icing.
Ro: Mmmhmmm. Jen: To the center of the eyeball. Ro: Mmhmm.
Jen: Like a little pupil. Ro: Oh a little pupil!
Both: Ta-da!
Ro: Here are our Hocus Pocus themed Spellbook Cookies!
Ro: A big thank you to you guys for suggesting these! And, a thank you to Jen!
Jen: Aw! Thanks! Ro: My girl over here who helped me bake today.
Ro: You did amazing!
Jen: Oh thank you so much for having me on! This was so much fun.
Ro: Thanks for helping me make these. I think Jen did so well with decorating
Ro: because she’s got a real steady hand, a true artist!
Ro: I’ll be putting her links down below, once again so go check her out, say hi!
Ro: Give her a tweet. Jen: Yeah! Ro: Yeah! Jen: Tweet, tweet!
Ro: And, speaking of tweets, if you guys make these cookies, please take a picture
Ro: and send it to us! We would love to see it!
Ro: I love seeing your baking creations, I just get a big kick out of it!
Jen: I love it so much! Ro: It makes my day!
Ro: And, if you guys have any other ideas for any other Nerdy Nummies,
Ro: please let me know, leave me a comment down below and I will do my
Ro: best to make it happen.
Ro: Alright, thanks again you guys, bye-bye! Jen: Bye!