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- Are y'all hanging with me?
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Are you ready for day two for Christmas cookies?
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Well, I hope you are 'cause that's where we're at today.
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And today's cookie is a chocolate cranberry pecan
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oat, not oatmeal, but oat cookies.
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So you know, you can change
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about like any of these things right here.
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You know, I've got pecans, and I've got dried cranberries,
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looks like a semi-sweet chocolate chip.
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So if you wanna switch out to a white chocolate,
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if you wanna switch out to walnuts or almonds,
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if you wanna switch out to raisins,
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you know, you can do all that
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and make it really any flavor you want.
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Now I've got my butter, and I've got my sugars,
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and I'm gonna beat this until it's creamy
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for about four minutes.
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And I know y'all don't wanna spend four minutes
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of your life looking at me beat this stuff up,
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so I'll be back in four minutes. (laughs)
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Our next step is to beat in our egg.
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Okay, our next step is to beat in a teaspoon of vanilla.
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Theresa, do you make your own vanilla extract
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and give it as gifts?
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- [Theresa] No, but I need to because I know you
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and Eddie do. - You ought to.
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All right, like I said, you wanna keep your bowl,
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the edges clean on your bowl.
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Okay, now we're gonna come on over to
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and we're gonna take our flour, our baking soda.
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Why does baking soda not wanna come out
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of the little dishes?
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And we're gonna just whisk that
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(utensils clattering)
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And we're gonna add this to our wet ingredients.
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So it's a easy, easy recipe, y'all.
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You know, the hardest part about any recipes,
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but if you'll learn to do your prep first,
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If you'll get all your ingredients measured out,
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get everything right there at your fingertips,
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it doesn't take but a second before you've got cookies.
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Now we're gonna fold in our oat, oatmeals.
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Yeah, it's a bunch of meals, isn't it?
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I'm not crazy. (laughs)
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Our dried cranberries, our pecans.
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And I would love the idea about white chocolate with these,
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but we're gonna go ahead and use the semi-sweet.
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And these are gonna take about 14 minutes to bake, y'all.
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And these are kind of a big cookie.
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I tell you to drop it like two tablespoons at the time,
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so that's gonna be a big, big cookie.
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So there we almost got it.
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Once I put in my nuts and my cranberries,
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anything like that that, you know, has substance to it,
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I don't wanna use a mixer on it
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'cause it would just beat it to smithereens,
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and I really don't want that.
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Theresa, we got a baking sheet ready, baby?
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- [Theresa] We sure do.
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And you can see this is a real stiff batter.
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And if your family likes oatmeal cookies,
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they're gonna like this one.
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- [Paula] That may be two tablespoons.
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- [Theresa] You want a cookie scoop?
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- [Paula] Yeah. Oh, I didn't think about that.
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So we're just gonna roll it in a ball.
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- [Theresa] How big do you want?
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- [Paula] I think the one on the right.
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- [Theresa] This one, the purple one?
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- [Paula] Yeah, I might get a little too big
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And we're gonna get about three to a row.
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- [Theresa] You're welcome.
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All right, so the recipe says you will get 26.
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No, the recipe says you'll get 24.
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So we wanna help these by just smashing 'em down,
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helping them get a good start.
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I'm flattening 'em out.
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And this is what I do with my Paula Deen
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extra crispy thin chocolate chip cookies,
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because by doing this, it helps those cookies get thinner.
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So this is an important little step.
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Don't forget to help give them a head start on getting flat.
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Michael's mother used to say, "Many hands make light work,"
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This is day two of Christmas cookies,
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and look how good these do look.
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Let's see, the name is so long on this one.
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The name is just the ingredients in it,
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like the cranberries, the oatmeal,
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- Nuts, yeah. (laughs)
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- I can't even remember it. (Paula laughs)
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- It just lists the ingredients in it.
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- Chocolate cranberry pecan oat cookie.
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- Say that three times real fast.
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But you know, you may want to make cookies
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that look more Christmasy,
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so we'll have some of that coming up too.
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But if you want one that's just dadgum good,
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Love and best dishes, y'all.
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Number three coming up.
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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