- It's cookie season.
And today we're making tons of holiday cookies to give away.
Most of them, okay.
Let's get started.
Hi.
- What are we making?
Are they Christmas cookies?
- Yay, Christmas cookies.
- We're making Christmas cookies!
- We are, I'm very excited.
- Yay, we're making Christmas cookies.
- This is this isn't to be one of my favorite things ever.
(Christmas music)
Okay, first of all --
- It's a gingerbread man.
- I've got a couple of jobs for you.
Do you want to smell this?
What does that smell like?
- It's a gingerbread man.
- Oh my gosh, look, and what's this?
So these are peanut butter cookies,
and we're going to make peanut butter blossoms,
but their holiday ones first.
So do you want red or green sanding sugar?
- Red. - I want red.
- Okay, you can both use red, I want to try some green.
Take the ball and roll it up.
What are you doing?
Is that okay?
I guess, it is now. (bell dings)
Look, take the ball and roll it in the sugar.
Roll it in the sugar here.
We've been getting in the holiday spirit,
hanging wreaths, garlands, the tree is up
and it is my favorite time of year.
I love baking and I love bringing people together too.
Yours turned white, oh my gosh.
(bell dings)
Wait, wait, but there's another step.
Do you want to see the step?
Okay, first, ooh, what is this?
- Chocolate, can I try one?
- Yes, (chuckling) you can try one.
This is how it goes, like --
- Flying off the rails pretty quick.
- You take the chocolate (bell dings)
and you press it in like this.
Isn't that so pretty.
That's called a peanut butter blossoms.
- This one, stick it. - Good job, George.
Here, I'm going to put this on the baking sheet.
This one is George's.
Okay, now look, put the sanding sugar,
take it and roll it gently
so it stays a ball like that. - I'm gonna eat this one.
- Papa said yes, so go ahead.
(bell dings)
- Don't get too much, you'll get a tummy ache.
This is one of the things we love doing.
We make cookies together.
And then after they're baked, we have cookie care packages
because there's cookies left to give.
- Can I have this?
- And then, --
- Where are those? (bell dings)
- They're over there in that cabinet.
We're going to get them after these guys bake up
and then these guys, if you want,
you can just press them in like this, press, press, press.
- Okay, but, you. (bell dings)
- Oh, what?
Look at this cookie he did.
George did that himself, isn't this one nice?
- Lachlan's just eating chocolate though.
- So Lachy, there's no more eating
until after they come out of the oven.
- But we're gonna finish this one, roll it up.
- I want more eating.
- Well, we are gonna eat more but we gotta get them later.
Here, showing everybody our cookie.
- Official taste tester.
(Christmas music)
This cookie is called --
- You know what it's called?
- Guess.
- What are we doing?
- Guess.
- Ooh, spritz cookies.
- Spritz cookies.
Okay, I'm going to show you one
and then you're going to do another one, okay.
Do you know what this is called?
It's called the cookie press.
So look, you press it down
and this is a trigger and you press once.
(cookie press clicking)
The first one's always a bitch.
- Can I please have chocolate?
- What's that?
No, no, no.
- A cookie.
- [Dada] A snowflake cookie.
- Do you want to try one?
- This doesn't have much.
That doesn't have much.
(cookie press bangs) Sorry.
- Can I try one of these?
- You can do this one.
What is this?
- So we, wait, what do we do?
- A Christmas tree.
- Can I try it now?
- And now hold, I'll move your stool over.
- Press it.
What do we do?
- [Papa] You press down like that.
So this one's different, so you've pressed down like this.
- Can I eat a cookie, papa, please.
- But they're not cooked yet.
- No, don't touch, it has to bake, they have to bake first.
You want to do one more?
Press again.
- Mine's not working.
You do one, two?
- No, you just do once.
You do twice for the first press of a cookie press.
Here, do one more, George.
Ah, is that so cool?
(cookie press bangs)
Look, the cookie dough's in here.
And you press again, press.
- I don't know what's happening.
- Here, we'll trade.
- But this is different.
- That's a Christmas tree.
- No, but it doesn't have a trigger.
- You press down.
- How do you know how far?
- That works.
- There's only one.
- This is a star.
(both laughing)
- I'm an expert cookie eater,
I never said I was an expert cookie --
- Press, did you press all the way?
- All right, Lach, here, you're gonna help me.
- Ah, is that a snow flake?
- Push down, all the way to the bottom.
Okay let go, let go.
- I made a Christmas -- - You made a Christmas tree.
Do we decorate them now or what?
- Yeah, you can decorate them now.
So here, (laughing) this is what it's like, people.
Spritz cookies are super fun
and if you don't have a cookie press,
you can use a piping tip and pipe out little shapes too.
- I want some too.
- You want some too, here, you can have some.
- Are these going to melt on the pan?
- No, they bake up fine.
So spritz cookies, you bake just --
- No, the million sprinkles that are in the pan.
It's turning into like a feeding frenzie.
- Okay, we'll pour the rest off.
See they just come right off and you can just reuse them
so you don't waste any of those sprinkles --
- Oh, you're so smart, papa.
- All right, these are going to go into the oven soon.
- No, don't do that.
- Do you want to make some sugar cookies?
- Yes.
(Christmas music)
This is a pastry mat, papa makes things on there.
And this is sugar cookie dough.
But don't press down too hard
because you have to choose a shape.
What shape do you want to use?
- I want to use --
- The boot?
- I'm gonna use the gingerbread man.
- Okay, that's cool.
So want me to help you?
Oh my gosh, you almost did it all by yourself.
When you do these, you have to press down all the way.
So press, press, press, press, press.
- Here, Lachy, here's a snowflake.
- Good job.
Dada, can you help him put that on the baking sheet?
- Ah, what's this, papa?
- What is that?
- I did a boot.
- This one is a candy cane.
(cookie sheet rattles)
(cookie mold bangs)
- How do you get it out?
- So you press it out with your fingers.
- I got one other thing.
- You did, want to help you, look.
Here is the bit different, you press, okay
and then press this down a little bit.
Now watch, I'm gonna pop it out.
- Here, you push.
- Ooh, is that's so pretty?
It makes it a little snowflake and it presses the shape in.
Do you wanna see it?
I'll do one more for you.
- Do we decorate these or no?
- Yeah, after they bake up we can decorate them.
So press hard.
- I made a boot. - Good job.
- This apron is like --
- You don't like wearing an apron?
- No, pretty uncomfortable.
- You know what that looks like?
- I made the boot.
- It looks like a Christmas stocking.
- Is that a stocking, is this what we hang up
and Santa puts stuff in it?
- Are you ready for one more cookie that's really cool?
This one, gonna see what happens?
I'm going to take all this away.
- Are those the cookies?
- These are cookies, but they're special cookies.
So I thought it'd be fun to try something
a little advanced with you.
- Is it these?
- Is it too advanced for me?
- No, you're going to be the lead on this one.
You need a little bit of flour.
- We're in trouble.
(Christmas music)
- This is your favorite cookie.
Brian loves candy cane cookies because he likes peppermint.
- I like peppermint, but I love sugar cookies.
And what's great about these is they're thick
because they're twisted so the outside is crispy,
but the inside is soft
and I don't like sugar cookies that are super hard.
- I'm going to show you how to do this
and let's see if you can copy me,
but don't touch it, this is watching first.
So you take the two strands and you twist them together.
Does that look kind of cool?
- I love it. - You love it.
And then, I put too much flour here,
then we're going to roll, roll, roll,
just a little bit like that.
And then, ready?
The last step is,--
- Candy Cane.
- Huh, does that look like a candy cane?
- I don't think they've ever had a candy cane.
- I think they might've had one in school.
Let's see if dada can do it first.
Do you think dada can do it?
- This is a candy cane cookie.
Wait, this is dada's cookie to do.
Twist those cookies together.
- The white one's super soft, though.
- Candy cane.
- It's a little tricky.
- Twist it. - Yep, that's good.
- I want the candy cane.
- You can make it a candy cane shape right now.
- I wonder if Santa will leave it?
- That looks good, good job.
- It's not that good.
- That looks pretty good.
That's the dada's cookie.
- There's not much of an arc.
- Okay, boys, you want to try it?
- That's my cookie.
- That looks so good.
- I really like that candy cane.
- That's nice, George.
Want me to help you?
- Why do we not call it talking?
(Christmas music)
- Who are you waving at, honey?
- He's looking at himself on the monitor.
- I'm waving to myself on the computer.
- Say, hi Lachlan.
- Hi, Lachlan
- Say hi, everybody.
- Hi, everybody.
- Look, George did this one, that's so nice.
- Good job.
- Okay, so we have a good selection of cookies to get in.
I might've made some more cookies behind the scenes
for our cookie boxes for friends.
- Let's see what they look like.
- The case of the mysterious cookie.
Boys, what do you think happens next with the cookies?
- They bake.
- They bake them, that's right.
- Time to go in the oven.
- Okay, these are going to bake up
and we'll be right back to decorate them up.
(Christmas music)
Ooh, I love that, should I make a Christmas worm too?
I'm gonna roll it out.
I'm gonna make a little worm mouth.
Does the worm need eyes, worm eyes?
(high-pitched speaking) Hi, hi, worm.
Hi Lachlan - Can I have it?
- (high-pitched speaking) I am a Christmas worm.
- Can I have it.
- (high-pitched speaking) I have to go into the oven.
- Can I have it?
- Not until it's baked up.
We're going to take a little break.
Let's take a little break, you can go play
and I'll finish the icing so you can decorate your cookies.
We're not eating it.
- Don't forget to bake the Christmas one.
- Bye bye, say bye.
- [George] Bye, Lachlan.
- Lachlan, you're going to get a tummy ache.
(Christmas music)
- Wow, look at all these cookies that were decorated.
Come up here, you can come closer.
- Wait a second, this is called sugar,
So all of our cookies baked
plus a few extra I made last night
and here our sugar cookies are ready to dip.
(bell dings)
Want to see how it works?
So you just take your cookie.
I'm going to show you once, you do the rest.
And you take it like that, you dip it
so your fingers don't get wet.
Shake, shake, shake and it goes like that.
- You say shake, shake, shake.
- I'm to put my cookie in the milk and eat it.
- I bet you do. (bell dings)
Here, take the cookie, hold it like this upside down
and gently dip it in.
Good job, a little bit more.
(whispering) Just a little bit more.
I'm going to dip and I'll have you drizzle, how about that?
Does that sound good?
No, no, no, no, man, Laughlin is so fast.
I don't know if the camera got that,
but he's been, he's a cookie monster.
Okay, take this, now dip it like we showed you.
Yeah, like that, dip, good job.
Oh, you're shaking up the excess and now,
(bell dings)
no, he's not, are you eating too?
My God, these cookies are gifts.
These are gifts cookies.
- I want to eat them.
- I don't work for free.
- We can't eat them.
Now let's show you one thing, this is the fun part.
So you take a little bit and you drizzle it like that.
Ooh, does that look so pretty?
- Can I eat that one?
- Can I do that?
- Squeeze it and drizzle, show me a drizzle.
- I want to eat a cookie.
- Yeah, more like that, good job.
- You see me talking makes me want to eat cookies.
Makes me want to eat cookies, too.
- I'm just glad we have a couple of sugar cookies left.
- Ooh, the Christmas worm.
- The Christmas worm.
Do you see your Christmas worms came out just nice.
Can you make me a Christmas worm?
- I made you one, it's all the way over there
where you can't reach it.
- Can you get it for me?
- That's good, these are going to dry.
- What are these?
- These are a cookies we're putting in the box.
(Christmas music)
Put a candy can in the box.
(bell dings)
(papa laughing)
Okay, that's great.
And then I'm going to put some of these
peanut butter blossoms in and by the way,
I was putting the chocolate on prematurely.
I saw that.
So these go on after they're almost done baking.
- I'm eating some cookies.
- So these are there,
(bell dings) that's there.
- Wait.
(laughing) What's going on?
- We're hungry.
- All right, fine, I'll have a cookie too.
They are good.
It looks like our boxes are all filled up
so we can go make some cookie deliveries.
I'm glad we made a lot extra, huh?
I hope your holiday's full of cookies
and delicious times together.
Thanks so much for watching.
And --
- Bye-bye.
- (speaking together) Merry Christmas.
- If you liked this video, check out my cookie playlist.
Who ate that cookie?
- I ate a hundred cookies.