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- Hey I'm Alix,
and today I'm gonna show you how to make
my grandma Bonnie's famous recipe for dream cookies.
I remember these cookies being the absolute perfect cookies
just like my grandma Bonnie.
So when I think about my grandma,
these cookies immediately come to mind.
They were here signature recipe
and one of my favorite treats growing up.
These cookies are similar to a shortbread
but they are a little bit different
because they have a secret ingredient.
That ingredient is baker's ammonia.
So baker's ammonia is great for getting
really crisp cookies and crackers,
which is why it's sometimes used today.
So it's kind of the old school baking powder.
I guess it makes sense that my grandma used it.
The only down side of it is it's horrible smell.
I'm not kidding it smells really bad, don't smell it.
Ugh.
You wanna make sure you're creaming
the butter and sugar together long enough
until it gets more fluffy in texture.
All of the other ingredients in this cookie
are pretty classic and I wanted to find
a special way to honor my grandma Bonnie
and other special women in my life.
If you were to look up like the definition of a grandma
it would be my grandma Bonnie,
she's just the cutest person ever.
Grandma Bonnie exemplifies exactly what it means
to be a strong woman.
She's someone who is hard-working, she loved what she did,
she made time to raise her family,
and she made some bomb cookies too.
What's so special about these cookies
is how delicate and light they are,
but still crispy and buttery and just --
they're the best.
When you're shaping these cookies,
they're actually gonna be pretty small.
My grandma specifies that the dough
should be no bigger than a walnut.
Very specific grandma.
You can pop that dough ball right on a greased baking sheet
and then use the back of a measuring cup
and press lightly into the ball of dough.
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Now it's time for toppings.
My grandma would always put three little chocolate chips
right in the center of the dough.
Now, it seems like there's not a lot of surface
to work with here, but just squeeze them on.
I feel so lucky to have a job that I absolutely love
but I wouldn't be here if it weren't for all
of the amazing women who encouraged me to chase my dreams.
Now these cookies are pretty tiny
but that just means you can eat a lot more of them.
I love celebrating the strong women in my life
and Women's History Month is just an extra excuse
to celebrate all that girl power.
There's nothing like these cookies.
They're rich and buttery, but still light and crisp.
Ugh, brings me right back to grandma's house.
I know my grams is watching this right now
and I just wanna say I love you so much
and I hope I made you proud.
This one's for you grandma.
So legend has it, this was actually used to wake women up
if they had swooned.
Trust me, it smells that bad.
- Hi I'm Rie,
and this is my recipe for aquarium cookies.
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So I was looking on the internet
and found this really cool cookie
called shaka shaka cookies.
Shaka shaka is onomatopoeia for shaking noise in Japanese
so when you shake something and make noise
that it shaka shaka.
The person made two cookies glued together
and put sprinkles inside so when you shake it,
you can see the sprinkles inside moving
and it was very cute.
The recipe though looks very complicated.
They used a special kind of sugar called palatinose,
which is not sold in regular grocery stores.
So I wanted to make it, but make it very simple
so everyone can make at home.
That's something I always wanted to include in my video,
that's something that everyone can make at home.
That's a great thing about Tasty, I think.
And making this cookie was very fun,
I made this video for Tasty Junior initially
and I had the opportunity to work with kids.
It was very fun to cook with little girls,
especially the child actor I worked with.
She was so impressed.
She told me I could be a chef in the future
and I should open a restaurant,
and it was very cute and sweet.
I was thinking, maybe I could use
store-bought candy and melt it.
There is also another cookie called stained glass cookie,
which is very popular.
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So I used the Jolly Rancher instead of the special sugar
and put two cookies together with white chocolate
so it tastes better.
When I was reading comments, I saw some audience said
Jolly Rancher is too hard so if you bite into it,
you might break your teeth.
But when you bake it, Jolly Rancher spread very thinly
so don't worry about breaking your teeth,
you won't break your teeth, I'm looking out for you.
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This video became viral and I saw lot of people make it.
I also saw some people made it for a bake sale
and it's a great feeling when someone actually make it
and have fun with it.
I think also shaka shaka cookies is a cute name
for Japanese cookie, but if you translate it,
it become shake shake cookie which is not so catchy.
It was our general manager Ashley
who was sitting next to me,
and said oh that looks like an aquarium,
so that's what I named it.
So don't be afraid of breaking your teeth
it's actually tasty, kids loved it.
And you can customize it, you can put love letter in it
and make it fancy.
Make it fancy.
- Hey I'm Alix,
and today I'm gonna show you how to make my
cookies and ice cream dome cake.
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So this recipe, I came up with based on two things.
One, I wanted to make some sort of a dome
and two, I wanted to use Oreos on the outside
to make a really cool visual.
So I knew this recipe wouldn't actually be
cookies and cream flavored because I was using the oreos,
but I wasn't quite sure which
middle of the thing I wanted to do.
I could've done a cheesecake,
I could've done an ice cream cake,
but I decided to go with ice cream cake
because it was kind of new and also,
I just really love cookies and cream ice cream cake.
That's my favorite kind of cake.
It's what I have on my birthday usually, fun fact.
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So I melted down the cream center in order to put it back
into the ice cream base that we're gonna make.
Which, I might add, is my favorite part of the Oreo.
Fun fact.
Another fun fact, this video is full of fun facts.
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So the base is made out of more like a whipped cream
and the sweetened condensed milk
and it still freezes up
and holds up like an ice cream would,
but it's just a little lighter, I would say.
Less like creamy than an ice cream would be.
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The crushed up cookies with go in there also.
When you're whipping the cream you want to make sure
you get it to the point where it's thick,
but don't whip it too much because then it'll separate.
So based on the size of your bowl,
it might vary how many cookies you put
in the actual bowl itself, but don't worry,
just put them in until they line the full bowl.
Now some people might wanna line their bowl
with plastic wrap in order to get the dome cake out easier
but you actually don't need it, it will pop out on it's own.
The tricky part of this recipe was, when I was testing it,
sometimes the cookies would float up and not stay in place,
so the batter had to be thick enough
to be able to hold the cookies down.
Then once you make your ice cream base,
you'll dump that right on top of the cookies
and spread it evenly to cover all the cookies.
This isn't like a traditional ice cream,
this is more like a frozen mousse kind of thing,
but it's super delicious.
And then, super easy, just pop it in the freezer
and wait until it's done.
You don't wanna pull this out early
'cause you will have a big mess.
And also you just really wanna make sure it's frozen solid
so you'll be able to pop it out of the bowl easily.
Just flip it over on some sort of a board
and wait until it kind of loosens up
and it should fall right out.
And then you'll have this beautiful
Oreo lined ice cream cake.
The most important part of this was
making sure I nailed that beautiful outside uniform layer
and I have to say it looked pretty cool.
Also, what's nice is that the cookies
kind of soften up because of the ice cream,
so you'll be able to cut into this pretty easily.
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I think this recipe is great for like a kid's birthday party
because what kid doesn't like ice cream cake
and also it's so fun looking.
Make it for your birthday party, whether you are three or 96
I'm sure you'll still love it.
- Hi I'm Rie,
and today I'm going to show you how to make my recipe for
multi-flavored skillet cookie.
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So this recipe was kind of assigned to me by Alvin.
So he made a multi-flavored sheet pan pie video
and we, as a team, wanted to see
what else can we make multi-flavored.
I wanted to make something easy,
like, I didn't want to make each flavor from scratch.
So I wanted to make one cookie dough
and add in different flavors.
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Using brown sugar is very important
in order to give the cookie that chewy texture that I like.
And also, using a little white sugar
helps giving a crispy texture.
It's good to combine both, it's important to use
two type of sugar to make this American-style cookie.
I feel like chocolate chip cookie is very unique to America.
I feel like this chocolate chip cookie
is a little bit rustic shape,
each individual cookie is a different shape and kind of,
I don't know, like I feel like it's imperfect
but this imperfection make it perfect.
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We kind of came up with simple flavor combinations
that everyone likes, like chocolate chip cookie
and peanut butter and white chocolate macadamia nuts,
which is something that's underrated I think.
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I think it's the best multi-flavored skillet
cookie recipe out there, I don't know how many out there.
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I used parchment paper to bake,
so I can take it out and transport it to a plate.
But if you just want to serve in a skillet, you can do so.
You don't need to use the parchment paper.
Each cookie is next to each other,
based on how well their flavor profile combine,
and of course everyone wants to eat the middle part
because you can eat whole flavor.
So each of six different flavors all in one cookie.
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And also, I cut it in pieces
so you can enjoy different flavor combinations
like chocolate chip cookie with peanut butter cookie
and white chocolate macadamia cookie
with double chocolate cookies.
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And I think this cookie does a good job
of capturing a lot of characters.
It's difficult to make imperfect perfect cookies,
like if you have American chocolate chip cookie
it kind of has a crack
and chocolate chip is sometimes not evenly distributed,
it may have a dent somewhere, but it's cute in a way.
A whole imperfection makes a great cookie perfect.
It's not something you can intended to make it that way,
but it happens that way, but it's perfect in that way,
not sure if you get it,
I feel like I'm talking about cookie philosophy.
I don't know, I think you just try,
make it and maybe you understand what I'm talking about.
(laughs) That's what Alix do.
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