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- Hey everyone, I'm Chef Joel.
- And me, Cookie Monster.
- Yep. And it is time for a holiday potluck.
We're getting ready to whip one up.
- Yeah.
You know, it looked pretty good here.
Pretty festive.
- It's looking pretty festive.
- Me liking that sweater.
- Oh, you like this sweater?
Check this out, Cookie.
- Whoa.
- [Joel] Isn't that cool?
- That mesmerizing.
- Elmo's ready for the potluck!
- Elmo, you look amazing!
- Well, you know, Elmo wanted to get in the holiday spirit
for the holiday potluck.
So Elmo's a snowflake.
- You look great, Elmo.
Are you able to move in that?
- Yeah, look!
Elmo's a snowflake falling from the sky.
- Perfect.
We're gonna whip up some amazing mini sticky,
cranberry hand pies.
- Oh, okay!
Well come on, let's all cook together.
- I don't think you can cook in that.
- You don't think so?
- Me not think you can cook in this.
- I don't know either.
Elmo, let's get dressed and then come back.
- You know what?
Me gonna take this off too.
- So let's start with our pie crust.
Cookie, do you want to help me?
- Yeah, what me do?
- You've got some whole wheat flour there.
Just dump it right into this bowl.
You got it?
Good job.
Pinch of salt right in there.
All right, so I'm gonna add in some vegetable oil.
Now the second thing that makes this ultra flaky
is cold fat-free milk, and we need 12 tablespoons.
- Joel, that's a lot of fat-free milk.
- A lot of fat-free milk.
Will you guys help me count?
- Okay. - Sure!
- Let's do it all right?
Here we go.
- [All] One.
- Fat-free milk.
- [All] Two.
- Fat-free milk.
- [All] Three.
- [Elmo] Fat-free milk.
- [All] Four.
- Milk. - Where's the Count
when you need him?
- Five. - Five!
- [All] 11 and 12!
- Yeah!
- Yay!
- 12 fat-free milks.
- Yes.
- That me Count imitation.
- That was a good imitation, Cookie.
- Where did the Cookie go?
- Take it together and squeeze it into a ball.
Look at this.
We did it, you guys!
We did it, we made progress!
I'm gonna add all these cranberries into the pan.
It's gonna cook down and get stickier and sweeter
every minute.
And I love the color, Elmo makes me think of you.
- Oh you!
- You know when we grated cheese?
We did the exact same thing with an apple,
and we're gonna stir this in and it's gonna add
even more sweetness and crunch.
Now have you ever zested an orange?
- Excuse you, what'd you say?
(Joel laughs)
- Zested an orange.
It means taking the skin off the orange
and we're gonna cook this down until it's thick,
it is perfectly sticky and thick.
- Now Cookie Monster, hold on.
We're not gonna eat it yet.
We have to bake-- - It smells so yummy.
- No no, be patient.
- Cookie monster, you gotta be patient.
- Me got to calm meself.
- So we're gonna now take all of our cranberry sauce
and we're gonna put it into another bowl,
which is gonna chill in the fridge with our dough.
- Chill.
- Chill. - Chill.
- Yes.
We got to go roll out our pie crust, which means,
Cookie, will you flour the surface please,
so nothing sticks. - You got it.
Flowering up the surface.
Here we go.
- Cookie monster, no!
Not flowers.
Flour for baking.
- Yes, yes.
But these are beautiful.
There we go.
- Oh, wait.
Me got idea.
- Okay.
- Excuse me.
- What are you doing, Cookie?
- That's really nice. - I gotta hand it to you,
Cookie, that's really, really cool.
All right, so now I'm gonna take it out of the plastic wrap.
I'm gonna put it right onto our counter
and I'm gonna start rolling this out and the trick to this
is you start in the middle and you roll out
and then you go back to the middle
and roll the other way.
- Middle.
Out.
Middle, back.
- And done!
- Elmo, that looks so great!
- Thank you, Chef Joel.
- Now we're gonna do the cup trick.
All right, we're gonna cut out little circles,
which are gonna make our pies.
- [Elmo] Look at that, it's like a cookie cutter.
- Yeah! - Cookie!
- Like a little cookie,
- Cookie, cookie!
That cookie!
- [Joel] You said it!
- Okay, ready?
- All right, you two.
So this is my favorite part.
We're gonna brush it with a little egg.
- Oh! Elmo will be real soft
with a little eggy wash. - You guys are doing great!
- Brushy, brushy, brushy.
- Now I'm gonna grab a little bit of filling.
So then what you're gonna do is you're gonna take one side
that is not brushed with the egg
and you're gonna put it on top of the little egg.
I gave you each a fork.
- [Elmo] We're gonna crimp.
- You guys are crimping masters!
Those look so good!
And now we know why they're called hand pies, because look,
they fit right in your hand.
- Oh, that's nice.
- All right, onto the sheet tray they go
and then a little bit more egg wash.
What is this gonna do?
- [Cookie Monster] Make it shiny.
- Make it so shiny.
And then last but not least, some Turbinado sugar.
This has sugar that stays crunchy in the oven.
So when it comes out, you still taste the crystals,
which is awesome.
So I'm gonna pop this in the oven and,
- Eat pie!
- Eat pie, I love it!
- Chef Joel?
- Yeah?
- How come they call them sticky hand pies?
- Elmo.
Me think me know why.
- Oh no!
That's sticky, all right.
- But no worry.
Me know how to solve this problem.
Yeah.
- How?
(Joel and Elmo laughing)
- I'm digging in.
You know, these hand pies are so yummy,
I think it calls for a holiday cheers.
- Yeah, okay!
- Let's do it!
To my two favorite monsters.
Cheers.
- [Elmo And Cookie Monster] Cheers!
- Cheers.
Cheers. - Cheers!
- Happy holidays.
- Happy holidays everybody!
We love you!
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