Hi and welcome to Steve's Kitchen, you know you're in my kitchen when I've got my
halloween top on
I've just bitten the head off a white chocolate ghost
and it's time for us to make some creepy spider
chocolate chip cookies come on let's get going
Now I'm going to add a little bit of spice but you make sure when you add
your spice you don't go and mix up your
packs because this one is Scotch bonnets and I had little taste just to see what
it was
Really hot now come on down here
we're going to start with a 120 grams of soft butter
now got my scales on now 120 grams is about 4 ounces
just take that off the scales because I've already pre weighed my sugar
there's 200 grams of white sugar here that's about seven ounces
now we want to cream in the soft butter and sugar together
until we've got this wonderful sweet
butter now into that I'm going to add one egg
and I'm going for a spicy cookies as well because
it is Halloween about a quarter of a teaspoon of spice not
scotch bonnet chiles just a little pinch of salt in there as well
and it's Halloween so I'm going with a little bit of
orange food coloring as well just put a drop or two in there
now better to use the gel Now am going to start to
mix this together and that's what we're looking for don't worry if it
curdles just a little bit the flour will bring this together I'm just going
to add into that 240 grams that's about 8 ounces of all purpose flour
and about half a teaspoon of baking powder and then I'm just going to mix this up
to a nice cookie dough
now when the dough is almost together like that
I'm going to add 130 grams that's 4 1/2 ounces of chocolate chips
and then I'm going to have to get my hands in here
and start to pull this dough into a wonderful
buttery cookie dough now the texture you're going to be looking for is fairly soft
remember this is at room temperature that's just about perfect now if you want
you can chill that down a little bit in the fridge
but I'm going to actually start to take little balls of this now
probably about the size of a small ping pong ball or table tennis ball
I'm going to roll them up like that then I'm just going to take one of those little
cookie balls
now they are one and a half ounces 40 grams for those you that care
you could actually use one of these little scoops as well if you have one
and just scoop the
cookie dough out like that and pop it onto the tray I quite like to do it by
hand
get a good feel for it now when all the cookie doughs
are rolled and on your tray like that we need to take some
chocolate melts now I'm using Cadbury's they have cocoa butter in
If you don't use cocoa butter chocolate melts this won't work
some of them don't the nestle ones particlarly and they don't work you
need that cocoa butter
and we don't need to flatten them down leave them little balls like this
and that is really cool I mean they look like something out of monster Inc already
like little eyeballs we're going to pop these in the fridge
for a good 10 to 15 minutes just so they firm up got my oven on at 180 degrees
Celsius
350 Fahrenheit then we're going to pop these in the oven
and we're going to bake them for about 10 to 12 minutes
until they're lightly golden brown
now look at those cookies I just bought them at the oven and they still nice and
hot
now we got to turn those Chocolate Drops into spiders
so you see what we 're going to do is we're just going to
make the top of this chocolate a little more runny by
using the scribe now you could easily use a little toothpick to do this
anything with a point on it will do. So you see how we've got the chocolate nice
and wet
there we're now going to use that rather than pipe
in the past I piped little chocolate legs on we're just going to drag
the chocolate out and then put a little
bend in the leg going to do that
for eight legs of the spider obviously
now once you've got your eight legs on there like that you could actually just
drag a little chocolate off and make
a little web a little string going up from the back of the spider like this
and lastly I'm just gonna pop some little silver balls
for eyes so there are my spooky Halloween
spider chocolate chip cookies that's a mouthful and I'm going to have a mouthful
now
give one of these a try
d-licious actually had almost forgot about the spice I put in there and that's really
nice lucky I didn't put the Chilli in there now if you've enjoyed the video please give
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look out for some more Halloween specials that are coming up and check
out that playlist
be good I'll see you next time
and whilst we're at it I'll leave a link to the Halloween
playlist
and another video here may be of a different kind so I hope you've enjoy it today and
I love to your comments
everybody stay in touch be good see you next time