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- We're working down those 12 days
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of Christmas cookies, y'all.
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And a viewer sent me a recipe.
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Her name is Heather Malcus
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She doesn't tell me where she's from or anything
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but she has sent me a thumbprint cookie to share
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And I'm so excited about this
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because I hadn't made a thumbprint cookie
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I think since my boys were little.
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And Teresa is still on her cruise.
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So you won't hear her barking
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at us in background saying lets get it now.
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look at this we've got precious little Casey.
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Casey, how long have you been part of this family?
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And she doesn't look but 19 years old.
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So you're probably thinking, Well
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you hired her while she was still in diapers.
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You were straight outta high school, weren't you?
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So Casey has stepped in to help pull all the
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ingredients together for us.
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So one of your jobs is to talk to me too, Casey.
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Okay. Keep me straight,
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if you see me doing something wrong.
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Okay. Say whoa, Paula, stop right there.
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the thumbprint cookie
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we're gonna make the cookie base first,
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after our cookies come outta the oven and, and Cool.
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Then we are gonna make the thumbprint filling to it
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which is gonna be so good.
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Heather, it sounds like you have made this cookie so simple
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which I know that's what I appreciate.
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And everybody out there
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there are no instructions for putting this together.
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So we just going to do it.
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I'm gonna cream our butter and our sugar
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and then we have our flour
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we have our cocoa powder, we have our salt.
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I'm gonna go ahead and add the salt
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because I'm wanna stir those two ingredients together.
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So like I said, it's been years.
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so we got that mixed up.
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add these two things together.
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That's not much bigger.
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See what I say about underestimating,
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I got so many bowls this size.
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- I need to invest in
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- A few more without size
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- I, I mean, I can check.
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- I've Got, Oh yeah, we may have some
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- You, you sent a lot of stuff out into that garage.
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Our garage looks like from all the years
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of shows and magazine shoots,
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there was so many dishes.
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All right, so I'm gonna just add this
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to our cream next year.
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And we got a little milk to go in it.
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I'm gonna add a little milk.
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And help me get that mixed up.
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- Is this a sandwich type
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When we, we gonna roll them in sugar
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we gonna roll them first in balls, then in sugar.
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and then we're gonna take our thumb
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and make our thumbprint the center of the cookie
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and then that'll hold the filling part.
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Some people make them with like a dollar of preserves
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you know, strawberry jam or something like that.
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It's gonna be a stiff though.
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Heather's a girl after my old heart.
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This whole cookie recipe
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y'all has one pound of butter in it.
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Two sticks in the cookies, and two sticks in the filling.
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Okay, the last of the milk is in there.
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And now I'm gonna add the vanilla flavoring
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and I'm gonna add just a little bit more because a teaspoon.
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Can somebody open it?
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I'll hold it while you try to unscrew it.
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Maybe a table's spoon.
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- It'll balance some at the
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This is some real thick batter.
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Heather has instructed us to roll dough
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That's about a inch, isn't it?
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Okay, I'll take a little ouch, y'all.
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Then we gonna roll it with sugar.
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That's gonna be our thumbprint cookie.
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Casey called it to my attention, y'all
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I gave y'all bad directions the first time around.
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We were supposed to roll these in balls, roll 'them in sugar
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put 'them in the oven, and
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as they come out the oven while they're still warm
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that's the point where we make the indention.
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that we were supposed to make the indention first.
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I told y'all it's been years since I made them.
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So they're going in the oven at three 50
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from 10 to 12 minutes.
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And when they come out
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we'll need to make that indention pretty quickly
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before they start getting hard.
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And while they're baking, I'm gonna go ahead
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and make our filling of
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that marshmallow cream
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filling that's gonna go in those holes.
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But we don't wanna fill them until they're completely cool.
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While our cookies are baking
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I'm gonna make the filling and it's one seven ounce jar
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Two sticks of soften clutter
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half a teaspoon of vanilla right there.
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but I have decided I am gonna add
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almond extract to it.
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One to two tablespoons of milk, two
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and a fourth cup of powdered sugar
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and food coloring in case you want to dye your filling.
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And since we do it for Christmas, that might be kind of fun.
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You know what I love?
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I love marshmallow fluff on top about ice cream.
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If there is another way to think, make things more fattening
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- That's what we grew up with
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fluff and peanut butter sandwiches.
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And I bet it was delicious.
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- Yeah, that's the thing.
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I might have to just make me one
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one night when I'm on my way to bed.
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Just a little hungry.
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fluff and nutter, what you call it?
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- You wanna fold that
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Thank you for keeping me straight Casey
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Was I supposed to put the sugar in before I
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because I have no instructions on my paper.
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- I was supposed to add the sugar first
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- Cream butter and sugar together
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- And then fold in the fluff.
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- Now it looks like it.
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Little hair in the recipe, but yeah.
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And then fold in the marshmallow
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Are we gonna be doing it?
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Yes. 10 different this time,
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since we use the paddles
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it's not like it will beat it to death.
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And I'll make sure I do it on low
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Cause almond is so good
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- I can smell that chocolate cooking right now.
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- They look like crinkles.
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That's pretty the way they crack
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because we put the sugar on them.
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The sugar is what makes 'them have that cracked look.
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So now these have to cool completely.
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So what I'm gonna do
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pull that off like that
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Get 'them off the hot thing
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so they'll cool quicker.
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Don't, that's hot now.
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- Oh that's man overboard.
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Maybe we need to eat that one.
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Eddie. Heather, thank you so much for
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sending us this recipe.
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It just really takes me back
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to when my boys were little boys
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and I think it's gonna be delicious.
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It taste just like your Grammy's inside out cake.
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- Yeah, the chocolate, chocolate cake.
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Yeah. The dough part tastes like fudge
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and the filling tastes
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like marshmallows, fluff with almond and it, Ooh
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a big old half can would be so good.
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And thank you so much, Heather.
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Loving best dishes and Merry Christmas.
