Today we are making animal crackers and I had a sous chef to help me in the kitchen.
It was fun. It was crazy. You're not going to want to miss it. where you going.
There you go.
Hi, bold bakers we are mixing things up a little bit here today
George is joining me in the kitchen for his first time baking with mommy we are going
to make some homemade animal crackers. These are absolutely delicious. George
loves them. And George is going to help make them George and you're ready to bake.
Let's just get stuck into it cuz i know i'm i'm living on borrowed time here. So into our bowl,
we're going to add in some room temperature butter. See that? in the goes the butter you
want here? I'll give you a spatula. You You take you take this on? That's your little baby whisk.
And then into this we're going to add in a little bit odd. No, we're adding some sugar.
We'll do that. And then you mix those together. Good boy Georgie gonna mix. No, don't eat it.
They're mixed together. I'll take those. Oh my God, you're so good at mixing.
You cream together your posture and your sugar.
Want to mix? Good boy Georgie. Good boy. Well, I wouldn't eat it. Yes. Look at that. The nice.
The nice butter and sugar. If you think that's good. Wait until you have to finish cookies. Okay.
I'm going to be Living Dangerously here.
And get you to crack in an egg. We're cracking an egg. We have never done this before. So
I've literally no idea what's gonna happen
in here like this.
You're ready. Oh, cool. Oh, yeah, good boy,
you would do God's here. You take us. You take that guy. Good boy and in the bowl.
So this is George's first time ever baking in the kitchen with me ever since he was really
young. I would have him in a little seat in the kitchen with me as I cooked dinner and
you know, baked and worked and he's been here along with me along the way to confirm this.
Not that Georgia. You know, as a professional chef. Usually I like to go fast and I like to
work and make my things really fast. But with you it's a little bit different.
I have to slow down a little bit the night so it was nice spoons. Oh, thank you. Yummy. No,
you don't. We'll take that in a minute. Look at that. Okay, I'm going to mix this up.
So just cream together your butcher and your sugar and your egg.
Like sounds good job. Georgie. You are a Manny's bestest, Big Boy helper. I'm pretty
sure you got butter in my hair. Oh, you put the spoons in there. Okay, good job. Good job,
Georgie. Once your egg is in there, we're going to add in a little bit of vanilla extract. Smell
that smell dirty smell. smell. smell. Urine smell. Okay, in Good boy. I'm just a splash.
Okay,
we would have to reset ourselves.
Okay, okay. Mix that together. So in case you missed it, we are making homemade vanilla
animal crackers. Extra vanilla. Oh, good boy, Georgie. Good job.
Yeah, and I'm not even mad that you poured away all my good vanilla. I'm not even mad at you.
Jonah spatula. See this? Boop boop.
Oh, that's lovely NGOs are vanilla. Now, into this. We are going to add in our flour.
We measure some flour, Baba, I'm going to get you to add in the flour.
That's flour that add that into the ball. Good boy, Georgie, good boy.
Yay. We also add in a little bit of whole wheat flour. Because these cookies are kind of,
like whole week see a little bit of that's good. You want to we will do this.
We'll put that Okay, I'll take that and I'll give you the ball so you can measure.
Okay, there we go. Good job. And then you put that in the bowl, Georgie. Good job. Good job.
So I'm putting the rest.
Put in the rest. And you want to get that you wanna start giving that a mix. While you are
laughs I have literally no idea where you put the measuring spoons like no idea
or the the end the ball
oh here we go. Okay, I got new measuring spoons,
adding a little bit of cinnamon we've had some cinnamon in here Georgie cinnamon
the nice
good shot you don't want to eat too much of that
and then we're going to add a little bit of baking powder you're ready for this one
our baking powder
Now for those of you who are trying to follow along the written recipe is on bit
good boy Bigger Bolder baking.com in case we we've missed any steps
but I think we're doing great sorry Georgie yeah mix that in good boy didn't even have to tell you
want to attach here you go. Where's your I will gone so we got a little bit of ahead of
ourselves and we forgot to add in our honeymoon we were adding in the eggs.
But that's okay, Georgie. We can add it in now. So a big squeeze the honey you ready.
And then you add that in
with your egg and then you mix it all together.
Because these are like whole Wheezy honey cookies. and nice.
Delicious
even.
We're going to mix it mix the dough together.
Good job, Georgie. Good job. You are mommy's Big Boy helper.
What do they say you should never work with animals and children and I've done both.
But you're the best.
But you're the best. We've got lipstick on your head.
Sorry. Okay, Georgie. Let's get this a good mix together Is it nice? The nice
and you mix the dough together until it forms a ball just like this. We are super Baker's
and some egg shell but some egg shell in there as well. And mix that up.
Okay, we're gonna it's gonna mix this together until it forms a dough Good job Georgie.
What we're going to do is reset and we are going to while you're looking for
this, there's no more vanilla in case you're looking for that it's gone all done during the
think that what you can do is chill this dough for a few days. Or you can roll it out straightaway.
Georgie will be rolling to make the cookies. Good boy Georgie Georgie high five. High five
claps so we have reset ourselves. We've got our chopping board here and we are going to roll out
our cookie dough George is already ahead of the game. Good man. Georgia. That's very good rolling.
Yeah, so this little stands that Georgia is in is from sprouts. It is a sous chef tower. And I
absolutely love it. George is in a J and J I wish he just loves to get up near the counter tops to
play to play in the sink. I'm actually gonna put a link for the sous chef tower so you can find out
more about it. It's really fantastic. You love it, don't you? Your mommy's Big Boy helper. Ah,
okay, I'll do some rolling good idea Georgie. Now look at that rolling
and look at your wonder your favorite part which is the causing
your next firsts? Why am I even here when we started some cookies right?
So here I have these adorable cookie cutters that I got on Amazon I'm going to post a link of where
you can actually get these they are fantastic they stamp up okay well we will do him later
they stamp out like really lovely little animals we do Georgie we do stamping now.
We have zebras or said breads as we say in Ireland's and we have what have you got there
you got giraffe look at that culture look at that cookie Georgie the nice that's a said bruh
nice I would do another one there you got a giraffe there we do a giraffe or you want this?
You don't want that.
What's the rolling pin? Is that what you want? Okay, do a bit more rolling just in case.
Okay, we're back to rolling Good job Georgie.
Good job. Such a good ruler. Why stamp out some cookies? This is a monkey. Oh,
lucky. Let's see what he looks like.
Oh, look at the monkey. The monkey Georgie Oh, monkey. Oh,
okay. That was my bad. That's on me. I should have known you're going to do that. Oh, look.
Look at a little monkey. A knife is a nice monkey Georgie sweats this one a hippopotamus? hippos.
A Hippo
or Hippo is the funniest little guy.
There's a line for you. Here's George's line. Georgie look right there. Look at that guy
with a nice
huh yummers always have the draft make it
No he doesn't. I think we probably have enough cookies now do you think so George,
you can just keep on rolling them out until all your cookie dough is done.
Well we get these guys into the oven.
Okay, I think it's time to get the cookies in the oven. Bake your cookies off for
350 degrees Fahrenheit or 180 degrees Celsius for roughly 12 to 15 minutes.
I gave my sous chef a little bit of a break and then we're going to come back and taste them
our animal cookies have bakes they have cools down and just
check out how gorgeous they are. I mean seriously adorable.
Whoo yummy. Good yummy noises Georgie George is obviously enjoying
these. I think it's a versus the hippo? I think good Georgie happens.
Yeah, good cookie. Thank you Georgie for hosting with me.
was a little bit crazy, but a lot of fun. You'll come back soon, right?
You come back. So you're gonna take the whole page. Where are you going?
Where are you going?
Okay, see you later George. Thanks for stopping by.