Hey guys it’s Ro! It’s the holiday season, I love this time of year!
And I thought it would be a perfect time to make some themed treats!
The first treat that we’re gonna be making are some Cookies for Santa!
It’s the chocolate chip cookie recipe from my cookbook, but with a Holiday Twist!
The things you will need, will be: 2-1/2 cup of all purpose flour, 3/4 cup of
granulated sugar, 3/4 cup of firmly packed brown sugar, 2 teaspoons of baking soda,
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract, 1 teaspoon of salt, 2 large eggs, 2 sticks
of room temperature salted butter.
And for the holiday twist, instead of using 12 ounces of semi-sweet chocolate
chips, we are gonna be using 6 ounces of white chocolate chips,
and red and green holiday M&M’s!
The first thing that we’re gonna do, in a medium sized bowl, we’re gonna
whisk together our flour, salt and baking soda.
Whisk together until evenly combined and then we’re gonna set it off to the side.
Now we’re gonna use a large bowl and we’re gonna cream together our butter,
granulated sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla extract.
Then take an electric mixer and cream together until light and fluffy!
After you’ve creamed the butter and sugar, now we’re gonna add our 2 large eggs,
mixing one at a time. So add one, and then mix!
And then add another, and then mix!
We’ve got our 2 mixtures, and now I’m going to slowly add our dry flour mixture
into our large bowl and mix together on a low speed until evenly combined.
And you can use a spatula to scrape down in between mixing.
I have this little holiday one, I think I found this one at Target, I’m not sure.
But it’s so cute, it has this little tree in the middle, and it looks like
it’s snowing! Oh look at that! Now he looks like he’s been in a blizzard!
Our dough is smelling so good! It is all mixed up and now we are gonna fold in
our white chocolate chips. And you want to fold them in, you don’t want to use
the mixer, so I like to use the spatula.
This one’s a little dirty, I’ve been using him on the sides of the bowl, but you
just sprinkle them in like that, and then gently fold!
Go up and over!
Once we’ve folded in all of our white chocolate chips, we are gonna take a
tablespoon scoop, and you’re gonna take 2 tablespoons a cookie.
And we’re gonna fill up our whole tray, you want to leave 2 inches
in between each cookie, so that when they bake and expand, they won’t run
into each other.
Once you’ve got all of your cookies on the baking sheet, you are gonna heat
your oven to 375 degrees and bake until golden brown, which is about 7-9 minutes.
Once the cookies have baked, I just pulled these out of the oven, so be very
careful, the pan is hot, the cookies are hot!
We are gonna add the final decorations to these holiday cookies.
We are gonna take the red and green M&M’s and just place them on top of the
cookie, and this way, our M&M’s will melt into the cookie, but they won’t
over-melt like they would in the oven.
And this part is totally optional, but for a little bit of extra decoration,
I’m gonna add a few more white chocolate chips on the top.
Once your cookies have completely cooled, you can fill up your cookie jar!
Yes please!
Or transfer them to serving plates to share with friends, or just one plate to
leave them out for Santa!
The second recipe that we’re gonna be making is something very near and dear
to my heart! Growing up, we always used to make pancakes every Christmas morning.
So today we are going to continue the tradition and we are going to be
making Santa Themed Pancakes!
The things you will need, will be: 1-1/4 cup of milk, 1-1/2 cups of flour,
1 egg, 1 teaspoon of salt, 1 tablespoon of sugar, 3-1/2 teaspoons of baking powder,
3 tablespoons of melted butter, some whipped cream, fresh strawberries, and
melting chocolates.
The first thing that we’re gonna do, in a medium sized bowl, we are gonna whisk
together our dry ingredients, so we’re gonna add the flour, salt, baking powder
and sugar. And we’re gonna whisk together until evenly combined.
Now we’re gonna add our wet ingredients, we’re gonna pour in the milk,
melted butter and our egg.
Then using an electric beater I’m gonna mix this together until everything is
nice and schmooth!
Once your pancake batter is all mixed up we’re gonna take it over to the stove!
Place a medium sized frying pan on the stove and then grease your pan.
I’m using butter but you can also use cooking spray.
Then turn your heat to medium low, and wait for the pan to heat up.
Once the pan is hot, scoop 4 tablespoons of batter into the center of the pan, there’s many different ways to pour
pancake batter, but I like the scoop method!
When a bunch of bubbles begin to form, it’s time to flip your pancake.
Flip that pancake over, bake for about another minute, then using a spatula,
transfer your pancake to a plate, and, make as many pancakes as you’d like.
To decorate these cute little pancakes, the first thing that we’re gonna do is, take a
bunch of strawberries, and we’re gonna cut off the butt, and then
cut ‘em in half.
We’re also gonna cut a few circular slices, for a little rosy nose!
Just cut up all the fresh strawberries, and now we are gonna assemble our
Santa Pancake!
So you’re gonna take one of your fresh pancakes, place him on a serving plate,
and then you’re gonna take these strawberries, that we’ve cut in half,
and position them on the top half of the pancake to look like a Santa hat!
We’re gonna take this whipped cream, and we’re gonna decorate his hat and beard!
So we’re gonna do a line right across, where the strawberries are lined up.
Boom! Oh my gosh it’s so cute!
And then for the top of the hat we gotta put a little here.
And then to make his beard look textured, we’re just gonna do bloop-bloop-bloop!
For a little bit of texture!
I’m gonna take this little strawberry right here, for his little rosy nose,
I’m gonna place it right in the center. And then take your melted chocolate
and I am just gonna make a little smiley face!
So I’m gonna put 2 eyes right in the middle and then a little happy face!
Here are the Santa themed pancakes that we made today! These are so cute!
I love making themed pancakes!
Next we’re gonna be making a savory recipe!
We’re gonna be making some Reindeer Corndogs!
The things you will need to make these Reindeer Corndogs, are:
Corndogs, ketchup, mayonnaise, jumbo pretzels, 3 squeezie bottles and
a little bit of black food coloring.
First step is to make your corndogs, I found these ones at the store,
and so what you’re gonna do is place them onto a baking sheet, and we’re gonna
pop then in the oven at 350 degrees and bake for about 18 minutes.
While the corndogs are baking, we are gonna prep our decorations.
So we got a bunch of pretzels over here, what you’re gonna do is you’re gonna
take a pretzel, and I’ve got a cutting board here with a little serrated knife,
and you’re gonna cut right down the middle, of the pretzel, I like to do
1 motion, so just go down, and again.
The last thing that you’ll want to do is make 1 diagonal cut at the top of
the pretzel, so the pretzel will look like antlers!
Once you’ve cut all your pretzel antlers, now we are gonna fill up our 3
squeezie bottles.
I’m gonna fill 1 with ketchup, 1 with mayo, and then 1 with mayo dyed black.
So you’re gonna take a couple drops of black food coloring, mix it into
your mayonnaise, and it will be black.
It will be for the pupil of the eyeballs of the little Reindeer!
Now that our corndogs are done baking, I’ve given them just a minute to cool
down, they are still warm but they are not super hot anymore.
So it’s the perfect time to eat them!
And we’re gonna decorate them really quickly.
So you’re just gonna take a corndog, and take 2 pretzels and just stick them into
the top of the corndog, to be their little antlers.
Alright, we got their little antlers in and now we’re gonna draw a little face!
I’m gonna use ketchup to draw a red nose, and then mayonnaise for 2 eyeballs
and a little bit of black mayo just for the pupil.
Look at him! He’s so cute!
Here are the Reindeer Corndogs that we made today, I really love these because
they’re super easy to make, they’re a fun, savory snack to eat when you’re
in a hurry!
Next we’re gonna be making a holiday themed drink, Gingerbread Smoothies!
The things you’ll need to make these Gingerbread Smoothies will be:
A blender, 2 tabelespoons of molasses, 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract,
1 teaspoon of ground ginger, 1-1/2 teaspoons of cinnamon, 1/4 teaspoon of
ground cloves, 1/2 a teaspoon of stevia, 1/2 a teaspoon of nutmeg, some whipped
cream, 3 cups of coconut milk, small gingerbread men cookies, I found these ones
at Whole Foods, 2 cups of ice, 2 frozen bananas, red and white decorative
straws, I found these ones at Target, and 4 glasses.
The first thing that we’re gonna do to make these smoothies, is we’re gonna blend
together our frozen bananas and coconut milk.
Now we’re gonna add in the rest of our ingredients.
Stevia, cloves, ginger, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, and molasses!
Then for the ice, I’m gonna add 1/2 now, mix it up, and then add the other 1/2.
Because I don’t know how powerful my blender is!
Make sure he can handle it!
Alright! Now it’s time to assemble everything. You’re gonna take off the lid,
fill up a cup, shake up some whipped cream!
Yes!
Add a little straw, dewp! And a little gingerbread man!
And there you go! A delicious Gingerbread Smoothie!
Side note, this recipe is completely vegan, without the whipped cream or
the little cookie!
Now you can make as many drinks as you’d like! Cheers!
Ta-da! Here are the DIY Holiday treats that we made this year!
We made, Holiday Cookies for Santa, Santa Pancakes, cute little Reindeer Corndogs,
and yummy Gingerbread Smoothies!
You may notice that one of them is missing! Someone might have had one…
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I’ll be taking lots of pictures of these treats and posting them on
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Tumblr!
And if you guys make any of these treats, please take a picture and send it to me!
I just love seeing your baking creations, it just makes my day!
Alright, thanks again you guys, bye-bye! And Happy Holidays!
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