- We are Sorted, a group of mates from London,
exploring the newest and best in the world of food
whilst trying to have a few laughs along the way.
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We've got chefs, we've got normals,
and a whole world of stuff for you to explore,
but everything we do starts with you.
Hello, my name's Ben and this is Jamie.
- Now, what's better than one cookie?
- Two cookies.
- What's better than two cookies?
- Three.
- Yeah.
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- In front of us are three very different cookie recipes.
They all vary in ingredients and purpose,
but which one's best?
And which one are we starting with Jay?
- We are starting with my five cookies.
There's three there. - There's three.
- Yeah, but you'll understand in a sec, just watch this.
Five ingredient cookies made in about five steps
and in the oven in under five minutes.
Let's do this.
Thanks, mate, you can leave now 'cause.
- I feel used.
- Yeah, you'll get in the way otherwise.
We're gonna be using eggs, flour, sugar, butter,
chocolate-nut spread,
and to make sure we can get it all done so quickly,
introducing this:
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and you're not gonna believe it,
but the color of this machine is actually called,
Fortune Favors the Bold.
Ben's just gone out and bought some trousers
just like this, actually.
Step one, I'm gonna pre-heat the oven to 175 degrees.
Step two, line a baking tray with baking paper.
Step three, I'm adding my ingredients into the bowl,
starting with the dry, get it mixing,
and then add in the wet, keep it mixing
until it forms a lovely dough.
Note to self, only add in the egg yolks.
Once your mixer's done all of the hard work,
step four is divide the dough into nine balls,
get 'em on your baking tray and then we'll move
on to step five, which is bake 'em.
This is more of an added tip rather than an extra step,
not just so that we can make it five steps,
but if you squidge 'em down with a fork,
they go nice and flat and they'll cook perfectly.
We're doing five on a tray to give them plenty of room.
And step five, bake 'em in your pre-heated oven
for 20 minutes before leaving them for five minutes
to cool.
I'm done.
It was actually that simple.
Next!
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Five, five, five, five, five.
Three.
- You served three, but.
- Yeah, I served three,
but that's 'cause three looks good doesn't it?
- I'm interested to eat them,
but I'm also interested to tell you about
these vegan cookies.
So, recipe two, we subbed Jamie out for me,
and we're subbing dairy out for non-dairy,
'cause these are vegan.
I'll be fascinated to see if the other two
even notice the fact that they're vegan
and can tell the difference.
And here's what I'm gonna use:
toasted hazelnuts, toasted peanuts, a whole load
of dried fruit, self-raising flour, castor sugar,
light brown sugar, vanilla extract, oat milk,
coconut oil, and almond nut butter.
And I shall be assisted in the kitchen
by this purple warrior.
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I'm throwing my fruit and my nuts into the food processor,
sh-ushing it up a few times, so it looks like this.
That all goes into a bowl.
I whack on beater, and then I beat
in all the dry ingredients,
and then all the wet ingredients.
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Now let's talk about oat milk.
You might have noticed I used oat milk.
I'm sure if you're a vegan,
or you like to bake vegany stuff
that you've got loads of oat milk in your cupboard,
or in your, you don't need to refrigerate them do you?
No, probably in your store cupboard.
So feel free to sub out the oat milk for any of those.
These come out, get molded into little balls,
stick 'em on a baking tray that's been lined
with baking paper.
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slightly push them down.
These then go into the oven at 180 degrees C
for 10 minutes.
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Ah. - Mm.
- Fruity, nutty.
- Woo. - Mm.
- But, they're not ultimate, like these.
- Ooh.
- For the ultimate cookies, twice as many ingredients
as Jamie's, and we're using butter and eggs,
they're definitely not vegan.
Does it make them any better?
We'll find out later on.
But, I'm using plain flour plus raising agent,
two types of sugar, caster and soft brown,
butter, cocoa powder, eggs, baking powder,
nuts and chocolate.
Method doesn't really change though.
I'm gonna place the melted butter and whole eggs this time
into the mixing bowl and then add in the sugars
and beat it up.
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The stand-mixer's great for big volumes.
Once it's all combined and there's no lumps of sugar,
then in with the flour, cocoa powder, raising agent
and a generous pinch of salt.
In with the dark chocolate chips.
And then you can stop the mixing.
The cookie dough batter then needs portioning up
onto a lined baking tray.
Then, with a damp thumb, press down in the middle
and in the indent you've just made,
fill it with your chopped toasted hazelnuts.
These will only need eight or nine minutes in an oven
at 180 degrees Celsius.
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There, see?
- Mm.
- There is only one way to test this.
- Do it.
- Let's eat some cookies.
- Start there.
Ooh, they are gooey in the middle and crispy on the outside.
Cheers. - Cheers.
- Cheers.
- For a ridiculously simple cookie, that is great.
- They're soft and very sugary,
and there's a slight crispness to the outside.
Well, hold on to your livestock,
and keep them where they are because you're not gonna be
using them for these.
Try some of these vegans.
- You have not held back on the bits and pieces.
- I have not, they are chock-a-block of bits and pieces.
Cheers.
- Cheers. - Cheers.
- Mm, I've said it earlier, fruity and nutty, they are both
of those things, and delicious.
- They are aren't they?
It's not the old-style vegan cookie which was,
oh that tastes like it's missing something delicious.
It's like a new-school cookie, which is,
oh my goodness, that's vegan, I did not know that.
- Mm-hm.
- [Mike] Billy-big-baker, what have you got for us?
- I went last, so mine is still a little bit warm
in the middle which always helps.
- [Mike] Ooh. - [Jamie] Mm.
- Cheers. - Cheers.
- Now, don't get me wrong.
- Shut up.
- Yours had two different types of sugar in it,
white sugar and brown sugar.
So did these, in the perfect ratio,
and that's what gives you that crispy outside
and chewy middle.
- On the inside of that, there are these little pockets
of melted chocolate, so they're almost chock-chippy.
I don't think the outside does them justice
as to just how perfectly warm and even more gooey
than my ones these are.
- This is reaching into brownie territory for me.
- [Ben] What? Mm.
- And that is a very good thing.
Now, usually when we do these videos,
the chefs special version usually has a lot more effort
attached to it.
- Yeah, it's normally quite out of reach for us isn't it?
- But the problem I'm having here is
there was no more effort.
- Yeah, I've got to know, yours was just more ingredients,
but still, cooking time, what?
- Oh, the same.
- 10 minutes cooking time.
Okay, so I'm sayin', listen, this is for function,
if you're looking for a vegan cookie,
it's absolutely delicious.
If you're not looking for a vegan cookie,
and you don't know it's vegan, still delicious,
you won't be able to tell.
I however, am not sure whether personally, taste wise,
it's better than your ultimate one.
- Ultimate cookie, absolutely without a doubt,
my favorite, but the biggest surprise on the table
are yours, because I don't think,
you said you don't think mine look as good as they taste,
I think yours look like they're a bit vegan,
but they taste incredible.
- Mm.
- If I was gonna go to the effort of making cookies anyway,
which is no effort whatsoever, I'd go for yours every time.
- Same.
- I have to agree.
- Unless I had a vegan friend coming round.
- That's what we think,
but as ever, we wanna know what you think.
So comment down below, which would be
your go-to cookie recipe.
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(egg shell crackling)
Oh no, so good, didn't you see that shell?
You cut before the shell, right?