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- I am so thankful for my friends out there,
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for just joining me here in the kitchen.
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And I am especially grateful for the request
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for your favorite Christmas cookie recipes,
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because y'all sent 'em in and it makes us
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so very, very happy to share your favorite cookie recipe
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with the rest of the world.
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I am looking at a recipe that looks so good.
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I've not ever made a cookie like this,
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and it's one from Sandy Davis.
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Not a lot of note or no chit chat or anything.
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But I so appreciate it, Sandy.
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And I don't even know,
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I don't even know where you're from,
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All right, so we are gonna make
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your white chocolate cranberry pistachio cookies.
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So in this bowl I'm gonna beat up a half a cup
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of butter that's at room temperature,
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a half a cup of packed brown sugar,
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and a half a cup of white sugar,
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along with a fourth of teaspoon of salt.
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let me get my little one out
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and we are just gonna beat that.
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And Sandy says to beat it, gosh, three to five minutes.
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She said this is a very, very important step.
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So that's gonna ensure you a soft, chewy cookie.
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So we're gonna start with the butters, the sugars,
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and we're gonna cream 'em all until fluffy
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and pale in color, three to five minutes.
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And in a separate bowl we're gonna combine
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the flour and the bakin' soda.
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And she tells us to use a wooden spoon
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to combine those two ingredients.
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Carefully stir the flour mixture into the butter mixture
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And then we're gonna stir in the white chocolate chips,
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dried cranberries and pistachio nuts.
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And we are gonna drop these by spoonfuls
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onto a greased cookie sheet,
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or I'm using parchment paper,
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but I think I'll probably since she said a sprayed one,
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I'll probably be sprayin' a little bit
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of nonstick on top of our parchment paper.
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And we're gonna be baking them for eight to 10 minutes
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in a 375 degree oven.
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There's no frosting on these,
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so we get to enjoy these very, very quick.
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And I thank you so much, Sandy.
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And I worry about other people's recipes,
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but they all have the full ingredients right, Theresa?
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- [Theresa] Yes, ma'am.
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- To this link. They will- - [Theresa] Oh, yes.
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There'll be a link at the bottom, I mean,
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at the end of the video.
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- [Theresa] At the end of the video.
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- Okay, I just wanna make sure.
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All right, our butter, our brown sugar,
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So here we go. Three to five minutes.
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We beat that for somewhere between three and five minutes.
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Now I'm gonna add my one egg
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and then I'm gonna beat it some more.
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I think two's better than one, don't you, Eddie?
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- [Eddie] Definitely.
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- When it comes to vanilla flavor.
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I forgot to add my fourth of a teaspoon of salt,
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but it's not too late, so there we go.
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So in this bowl I'm gonna add
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my flour and my baking soda.
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It looked like soda, but let me just make sure.
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Yes, it's baking soda.
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So she said use a wooden spoon
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and stir those two things together.
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So, that's good. We don't have to sift.
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Y'all see an arm reachin' in,
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playin' with my dishes up here,
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it's just Theresa. (chuckles)
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the flour into our cream mixture.
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So I'm gonna do just that.
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And to be safe, I guess I'll do a little bit at a time.
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I think I'm gonna use my spatula.
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To our cookie mixture we're gonna add
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dried cranberries, which I adore.
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I love these in sweet and savory dishes.
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- [Theresa] Me, too. - Love 'em in a salad.
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And pistachio nuts that have been lightly chopped.
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the recipe calls for one cup
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of either white chocolate chips or chocolate.
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But so it's strictly whatever you want.
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Have I heard right that white chocolate
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really ain't chocolate? (laughs)
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It's close enough. - [Theresa] Oh.
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When they name it white chocolate,
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I got the impression that she switches to milk chocolate
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because of somebody in her family.
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- [Theresa] And I have white chocolate chips,
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so that's why we used white chocolate.
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- Yeah, Sandy says she uses chocolate chips
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because of Andrew, so. (laughs)
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Either way it's gonna be good.
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So I'm gonna mix these ingredients together
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and then I'm gonna drop them by the spoonfuls
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onto our cookie sheet.
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Now I am gonna spray.
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I'm gonna put a little spray on that parchment paper.
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All the things I love.
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So I'm fixin' to spoon up Miss Sandy's cookies,
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and she said to use a heapin' teaspoonful.
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Heapin', heapin', heapin'.
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On a greased cookie sheet.
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Now I'm using parchment paper,
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but I did put just a light coat of that
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on top of the parchment paper already.
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So I don't wanna see no sticking going on around here.
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And this is a very firm dough.
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And to me that looks like a heapin' teaspoon.
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I love the colors in this cookie, you know?
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- [Theresa] It had me at pistachio.
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- [Paula] Uh-huh. (laughs)
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- [Eddie] Yeah, I think you usually see white chocolate
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with pistachio and cranberries.
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- [Paula] Uh-huh. - [Theresa] Mmm-hmm.
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- And that's the way she suggested doing it.
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Except for Andrew, she has to use the chocolate.
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Okay, we've got 'em all dipped up,
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and this is about, it yields about a pan
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and three quarters of a cookie.
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And I'd have to look and see what Sandy says they yield,
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because it really depends on how everybody scoops
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as to how many cookies you're gonna get.
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So in the oven, 375 for 10 to 12 minutes.
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Sandy, I love your cookie recipe, girl.
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I've never, never made a cookie like this before,
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and it's so very interesting with the pistachio nuts
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And what else was in there?
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- [Theresa] White chocolate.
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- Yeah, the white chocolate.
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- [Eddie] Kind of a healthy cookie.
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(Paula and Theresa laughs)
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- [Theresa] If that's if you can call cookie healthy.
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- Tastes very healthy to me.
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Those cranberries are gettin' it on in my mouth.
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And so I wanna say thanks one more time
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for you sharing your recipe
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on this YouTube channel
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in the 12 day of Christmas cookies.
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Every Christmas we have the 12 days of Christmas,
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and we're in it to win it with you, Sandy.
