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Dec 6, 2025
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0:00
(Paula laughing)
0:02
(Joseph laughing)
0:04
- I was hoping Eddie would start
0:05
the camera while you were trying to.
0:06
- Trying to figure it out.
0:08
(Joseph laughing) - Yes.
0:09
- Welcome. - So what is this?
0:10
What is this?
0:11
- This is day six of the 12 Days of Christmas Cookies.
0:16
- Now how come I can't say it that good?
0:18
(Joseph laughing)
0:19
- Well, it's six geese, six.
0:22
- And I don't even know that.
0:23
- Chickens laying, hens.
0:25
Hens laying.
0:26
- What's the first one?
0:27
♪ The first day of Christmas my true love gave to me ♪
0:31
- A partridge in a pear tree.
0:33
That's right. - There we go.
0:34
(Paula laughing)
0:35
I don't think they're here to hear us sing, do you?
0:38
- I don't think so.
0:39
- So anyway, this is the sixth.
0:42
- That's right. - Day of cookies.
0:43
- Yes.
0:43
- And you know what?
0:44
Before we do this, I know we got to hurry,
0:47
but before we do this, this man sent me this beautiful book.
0:52
- Oh, that's beautiful.
0:53
- And let me just tell you, he said,
0:55
I'm a single man, age 80, who lives alone
0:59
and never really learned how to cook.
1:01
- Oh wow.
1:03
- So staying in my home for so many months in isolation,
1:06
I realized I needed to do more than salads and eggs.
1:10
I would purchase cooked dishes from the grocery store
1:13
but that grew old quickly.
1:18
And he goes on to say
1:20
that he started watching me during the pandemic.
1:22
- Aw, how sweet.
1:23
- When I did quarantine cooking, yeah.
1:25
So anyway, this, he is, let me see what all he is.
1:30
His name is Dolph Gotelli.
1:35
And he is a holiday decorate,
1:39
he's an antique dealer and collector.
1:41
- Wow.
1:42
- Holiday decorations, Christmas prints, and I.
1:46
What's that word?
1:47
Epha?
1:49
Ephemeras?
1:50
- Oh em, I've never seen that word.
1:53
- Me neither.
1:54
- I have no idea. - Victorian toys.
1:56
Children's books, Spanish Colonial devotional art,
2:00
Latin American folk art.
2:01
- Wow.
2:02
- He's, you just sound, Dolph, you sound so interesting.
2:06
And this book is.
2:08
- Oh my gosh, it's beautiful.
2:09
- It's beautiful. - Wow.
2:12
- So he looks like to me. - [Joseph] Wow.
2:15
- He's really into Victorian Christmases.
2:19
- [Eddie] So you said this is a collection of photos
2:21
from houses he's designed?
2:24
- [Paula] Yes.
2:25
- [Joseph] That's so cool.
2:27
- [Paula] Things, so he must go in
2:28
and decorate people's homes for Christmas.
2:32
- Wow, look at that tree.
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- I mean, it's a beautiful book.
2:35
- It is.
2:36
- And so you could get some great ideas, you know,
2:40
in your own decoration.
2:42
- Yeah.
2:42
- So thank you, Dolph.
2:44
- So sweet. - Thank you so much.
2:45
That's so sweet of you. - Yeah.
2:48
- And I'm gonna put this on my table for Christmas.
2:52
- Yeah, that's a good sized book to want to display out.
2:55
- Yes, that's a nice coffee table book.
2:58
- Coffee table book, yeah.
2:59
- Yes, yes, yes. - I love it.
3:00
- So y'all, we are gonna make Danish.
3:06
- Cookie Rings.
3:07
- Yeah, exactly.
3:09
That's what we're gonna do.
3:10
And we're gonna start by grinding, pulsing those,
3:15
here, let's see.
3:16
- Thank you. - I think, yeah.
3:18
I think we can do it.
3:19
- Just do it like that.
3:20
- Yeah. - Yes ma'am.
3:21
(nuts dropping)
3:23
Perfect.
3:24
- You know, I can't judge distance, so,
3:27
I might have lost some of your nuts, but that's all right.
3:30
- It's all good.
3:31
- We don't wanna pulse those until they're pasty.
3:34
We just wanna.
3:34
- So just break 'em up a little.
3:36
- Yeah, until they're.
3:37
(processor whirring)
3:40
You know, this thing, if you don't put it on just right.
3:44
- Uh oh. - Uh huh.
3:45
- We lost our nuts.
3:46
- Yeah, they come out the back.
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You've got to, you know, this.
3:52
- There we go, all right.
3:57
- All right, now I like to.
4:03
- Uh oh.
4:04
- Yeah, I'm gonna have to stand right in front of it.
4:04
- Yes ma'am.
4:06
- Okay. - Here.
4:07
We'll throw these too.
4:07
(processor whirring) Oh.
4:08
(Joseph laughing)
4:11
- You know what?
4:12
I'd have been better off just losing those few, Joseph.
4:15
(both laughing)
4:17
- I knew this was gonna be fun.
4:19
(both laughing)
4:22
- Nuts everywhere.
4:23
(Joseph laughing)
4:24
All right, here we go.
4:25
- There we go.
4:27
- We gonna try again.
4:28
(processor whirring)
4:29
- [Joseph] There we go.
4:30
- And I hold it down back here
4:32
because they'll sure come out.
4:33
- [Joseph] Shoot out everywhere.
4:35
- All right, so not pasty, but more like flour, y'all.
4:38
- Oh.
4:41
(processor whirring)
4:47
It's perfect.
4:48
(processor whirring)
4:51
- Like I said, I don't wanna get it pasty.
4:53
(Joseph laughing)
4:54
What nuts we got left.
4:56
- It's true.
4:57
(Paula laughing)
4:58
I'm wondering if you could just use,
4:59
could you use almond flour?
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Because that's just ground almonds.
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- [Theresa] I follow the directions, Joseph.
5:04
- I love it.
5:06
- All right.
5:07
- That's my cook brain.
5:09
- And it has been forever since I made these, so.
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- [Theresa] And almond flour probably wasn't available.
5:15
- Available then, okay.
5:17
(Paula laughing)
5:18
- All right, so we're gonna mix this Joseph.
5:20
- Okay.
5:21
- With our flour and our sugar.
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- [Joseph] Yes ma'am.
5:23
- And our baking powder.
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- [Joseph] Okay.
5:25
And. - [Paula] You got your whisk?
5:27
- [Joseph] Yes.
5:28
- [Paula] Your handy dandy whisk.
5:29
- Yes ma'am.
5:31
I'll do it right here.
5:32
- Okay, I'm gonna get this out of our way.
5:34
- Okay.
5:35
- So we got room to work.
5:36
- And it's the sugar, the flour mixing in with this, okay.
5:39
- Sugar, flour, baking powder.
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- Oh, okay, baking powder too.
5:42
- Yes, oh gosh, this is so heavy.
5:44
- Uh oh.
5:45
There we go.
5:47
- Heavy, heavy, heavy.
5:49
- Okay.
5:50
All right.
5:53
Mm. - Okie doke.
5:55
Now we're gonna cut our butter.
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- Okay, into this?
5:58
- Into this flour, yes. - Okay.
6:03
Easy.
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(dishes clattering)
6:07
Okay.
6:11
And this is just cold butter.
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- Just cold butter.
6:14
- Okay, so this is almost like a short bread cookie.
6:16
- All right.
6:16
- Oh.
6:18
- Yeah. - That too.
6:19
- That's gonna make us fat.
6:20
(Joseph laughing)
6:23
All righty.
6:26
- Okay, and how would you like this?
6:28
Like, is it supposed to be a certain size for the butter or?
6:33
- Oh.
6:34
Yeah, just a, I do mine like corn meal, you know?
6:37
- Oh, okay, so very thin like that.
6:41
- [Paula] Yeah, I'm gonna put.
6:41
- [Joseph] Broken down.
6:42
- [Paula] I'm gonna put our vanilla flavoring
6:44
in with our egg.
6:45
- [Joseph] Okay.
6:46
- [Paula] And our milk.
6:51
Is that bowl big enough for you to work with?
6:53
- [Joseph] It might need to be a little bit bigger.
6:56
- [Paula] Okay, I can fix that.
6:59
- [Joseph] And if not, that's okay.
7:00
- [Paula] No, I can fix it.
7:02
- [Joseph] We can make it work.
7:03
- Okay, how's that bowl?
7:04
- [Joseph] Much better, there we go.
7:06
- I think so.
7:07
- [Joseph] Now I can move freely.
7:09
- [Paula] Yes.
7:11
You can get 'er done.
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- Yes ma'am.
7:14
Okay, all chopped up.
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- Yep, nice and crumbly.
7:18
Now I have your egg with about a tablespoon of milk
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and a tablespoon of vanilla.
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- Wonderful.
7:25
- Now all you have to do is mix that together.
7:27
- Okay.
7:29
- And then. - Okay.
7:32
- We're gonna put it into our piping bag.
7:34
- Oh.
7:36
Fun.
7:37
- And then we are supposed to refrigerate this
7:41
for about 15 minutes.
7:43
- Okay.
7:43
- To make it a little firm.
7:45
- Wonderful.
7:46
And this is just supposed to be well-mixed, correct?
7:48
- Yes. - Okay.
7:52
- Until you have a batter.
7:54
Kinda like a batter.
7:55
- [Joseph] Okay.
7:56
(batter mixing)
8:01
- Now see, I think, I think,
8:03
I don't know when I did this recipe.
8:06
I don't know, but I would say it was like 100 years ago.
8:10
(Joseph laughing)
8:11
But I almost think we need to use the mixer at this point.
8:15
- I would think so too.
8:17
- Let's do it.
8:18
- [Joseph] That's the way to do it.
8:19
- [Paula] Ain't that better?
8:20
- [Joseph] Mm hmm. (Paula laughing)
8:22
Much better.
8:24
- [Paula] Yes.
8:25
- [Joseph] Now it looks like a cookie dough.
8:26
- Yes it does.
8:28
(mixer whirring)
8:30
That's a cookie dough, honey.
8:32
- [Joseph] Mm hmm.
8:33
(mixer whirring)
8:39
- Come on.
8:40
(mixer whirring)
8:42
- And this just goes, you said into the refrigerator
8:44
for 15 minutes?
8:45
- In the piping bag. - Okay.
8:47
Perfect, so that'll set it up.
8:49
- Well, I can't get it.
8:51
I couldn't get it to sling out unless I slung it everywhere.
8:54
- Yep. - Yep.
8:55
Now that's a nice feeling dough.
8:57
Doesn't that feel good?
8:58
- It does, it feels really good.
9:00
- Okay.
9:03
(whisk banging) Perfect.
9:06
All right, here we go. - Mm.
9:07
- Is it good?
9:08
- It tastes delicious.
9:09
- Good. - Mm hmm.
9:10
- It's gonna have that almond flavor.
9:12
- Mm hmm.
9:13
- You know, when I make my pound cakes?
9:15
- You put a little almond extract in it.
9:17
- Oh, always, always.
9:19
- That's a good secret.
9:21
- Uh huh, almonds.
9:23
Almond extract is just.
9:25
- I love it. - Delicious.
9:26
- It's very powerful but just that nice little bit of.
9:30
- Yes.
9:30
- Extraness is so good.
9:32
- Yes.
9:32
- And when you add it into a dish.
9:33
- Yes.
9:34
Michael, would you hold this please?
9:36
- Yes. - While I pack it.
9:37
Thank you.
9:38
Yeah, just keep it rolled down.
9:41
- Sure, there we go.
9:42
- And I'll push.
9:44
Because this is a nice thick dough.
9:48
- There you go. - Yeah.
9:49
- What were you gonna say, Michael?
9:51
- Michael loves when I make him sugar cookies.
9:55
- Oh really? - Yeah.
9:56
He wants almond flavored sugar cookies.
9:58
- Mm.
9:59
Oh, I've never tried that.
10:01
Almond flavored sugar cookie.
10:03
- Yes, it's wonderful.
10:04
- Huh, that might have to be my Christmas cookie addition.
10:08
- [Paula] Yes, and you can color 'em, you can decorate.
10:11
- I love that.
10:12
Okay, so now we're just gonna put this in the refrigerator
10:15
for 15 minutes.
10:16
- [Paula] Yes. - And then we'll be back.
10:17
- Let's decorate this one.
10:18
- That one, okay.
10:19
- And then I'll get outta your way.
10:21
All right, now we got our kerry chandies.
10:25
(Joseph laughing)
10:27
Candied cherries.
10:28
(Joseph laughing)
10:30
- [Joseph] I love it.
10:31
- [Paula] Look at our wreath.
10:32
- [Joseph] That's perfect.
10:33
Ooh, it's pretty.
10:35
- [Paula] And we've sliced our green cherries
10:39
to look like leaves.
10:41
- [Joseph] I love it.
10:44
Aw, it's so Christmasy.
10:45
- [Paula] Isn't that pretty?
10:47
Yes. - [Joseph] I like it.
10:49
- [Paula] And you see we did that on the seam.
10:53
- [Joseph] Yeah.
10:54
- Because listen,
10:56
if you girls are out there making these cookies by yourself,
10:59
go find you a strong man.
11:01
Because I tried to do that and I couldn't.
11:04
Joseph's having to do it.
11:06
And you, listen, when you leave here today,
11:08
you gonna say, that heifer,
11:10
I don't know if I wanna go back.
11:11
- Oh, never, never, never, never, never.
11:14
- Okay honey, show 'em how you do it.
11:16
- Okay, so.
11:18
- It said to refrigerate this dough for 15 minutes.
11:20
- I don't think. - We did not.
11:21
- Yeah.
11:28
- [Paula] You know what Joseph?
11:30
If you'll just do a straight line.
11:32
- [Joseph] Okay and then just.
11:33
- [Paula] And then I can, how about if I mold it for you?
11:36
- [Joseph] There we go.
11:37
- [Paula] Put it in a circle for you.
11:38
- [Joseph] That could work.
11:38
- [Paula] Perfect. - [Joseph] There we go.
11:39
- [Paula] Perfect.
11:41
- [Joseph] Okay. - [Paula It's so nice.
11:42
- [Joseph] That looks like churros.
11:43
- [Paula] To have a man around the house, y'all.
11:45
(Joseph laughing)
11:47
So nice.
11:48
- [Joseph] Michael for sure could.
11:49
He's strong enough to do this.
11:49
- Oh my gosh, he, yeah.
11:52
- There we go.
11:53
- His upper body strength is crazy.
11:57
- That looks good.
12:00
Little green, like holly.
12:03
- Yes.
12:04
All right, do we need more green do you think?
12:07
- Whatever you think.
12:08
- Do we need three? - Let's see.
12:10
Three greens. - Yeah.
12:12
- May make it a little prettier.
12:14
- That works.
12:17
- What does the artist think?
12:20
The one filming. - Filming, Eddie.
12:23
- [Eddie] Yeah, let's do the whole wreath.
12:25
- Oh, do the whole wreath?
12:26
(Paula laughing)
12:27
- [Joseph] That's what I'd say.
12:30
- [Paula] I wouldn't say that.
12:31
- [Joseph] No? (Paula laughing)
12:33
Men versus women.
12:34
- [Paula] Eddie, give the camera to Theresa.
12:38
- [Joseph] Yeah, come on Eddie.
12:39
- [Paula] Come on. - [Joseph] Come on.
12:41
Everybody would love that.
12:42
- [Paula] Come on. - [Eddie] Just?
12:44
- Come on.
12:44
Come on, I wanna see what you would do
12:46
'cause I love seeing what other people do.
12:49
- And Eddie is a true artist.
12:51
- Uh huh.
12:55
- [Joseph] It's coming out a little bit easier now.
12:58
Do these spread a lot?
13:00
- [Paula] Not a lot. - [Joseph] Okay.
13:02
- [Paula] Because they didn't have but
13:03
about a half a teaspoon of baking powder.
13:04
- [Joseph] Baking powder, okay.
13:07
Yeah, it's actually coming out a lot smoother now.
13:09
- [Paula] Good.
13:10
- [Joseph] Maybe 'cause my hands are warming it.
13:13
- [Paula] Yes, that would be.
13:15
You might need to spread 'em across.
13:17
- [Joseph] Spread 'em out a little bit more, yes, ma'am.
13:18
- [Theresa] Okay, Joseph, let Eddie come in and decorate.
13:20
- [Paula] Now let Eddie come in.
13:21
- [Joseph] Okay.
13:22
- [Paula] And tell us what he would do.
13:25
- [Joseph] Yay Eddie.
13:27
- [Paula] Eddie. - [Joseph] Eddie.
13:29
Eddie. - [Paula] Eddie.
13:30
Eddie.
13:31
- [Eddie] I would eat them.
13:33
- [Paula] You would eat them?
13:34
(Paula laughing)
13:41
You know, we should have probably dyed the cookie dough.
13:47
You know, maybe green.
13:48
- [Joseph] Yes, green, that would've been beautiful.
13:50
- [Paula] Yes.
13:53
- [Joseph] We know for next time.
13:55
- [Paula] Yes.
13:59
- [Joseph] Oh, Eddie, it's already better.
14:01
(all laughing)
14:04
Look at that.
14:09
We needed a true artist to do it.
14:12
- [Eddie] Now how do these cook up with,
14:15
do these kind of get?
14:18
- [Paula] Those are candied, so they're fine.
14:20
They'll just get a little bit more candied.
14:22
We need to probably separate.
14:26
- [Eddie] Space them out.
14:27
- [Paula] Yeah, space them out a little bit more.
14:28
- [Joseph] Yes ma'am.
14:30
- [Paula] Ooh, look.
14:32
- [Joseph] That's so pretty.
14:33
- [Paula] That is beautiful.
14:35
But you know what?
14:36
- [Eddie] I like the simple.
14:37
- [Paula] I like some that way.
14:38
- [Eddie] I kind of like that, just simple.
14:40
- [Paula] I do too.
14:41
And this one, this first one was perfect.
14:44
This one got a little.
14:46
- [Joseph] Crazy.
14:47
- [Paula] Well it was a little oblong.
14:47
- [Joseph] Oblong.
14:49
- [Paula] But that one was like perfect.
14:50
- [Eddie] Yeah.
14:54
- [Joseph] Good job.
14:55
- So y'all get the hang of it, right?
14:56
(Joseph laughing)
14:57
All right, we got our Danish Circle Cookies, y'all.
15:00
- [Joseph] Mm.
15:01
- [Paula] 375, Joseph.
15:04
- Yes ma'am.
15:07
- For 12 to 14 minutes.
15:10
I've already forgotten.
15:11
- Eight. - [Theresa] Eight to 10.
15:12
- Eight to 10.
15:13
- Oh, eight to 10, that sounds good too.
15:15
- Close, yeah.
15:16
(both laughing)
15:18
- Okie doke.
15:21
I'm gonna put nine minutes on it.
15:23
- Perfect.
15:24
- Only a half a cookie.
15:26
- I wonder who ate that?
15:28
- I don't know, stick out your tongue.
15:29
(all laughing)
15:34
- Oh, God.
15:35
- I see three of y'all chewing.
15:36
(Paula laughing)
15:38
- Hey, I'm not mentioning any names.
15:39
- [Theresa] I ate a whole cookie, I didn't eat half.
15:41
- [Paula] They're delicious.
15:42
- [Joseph] I love it with the nuts.
15:44
It's so good, oops.
15:45
- Oh yeah, so let me show y'all.
15:54
I decided I wanted to give them some texture.
15:57
So I put, just kind of stuck slivered almonds in the dough
16:03
and it just gives them texture
16:05
and it looks like stems on a wreath.
16:07
- They're very good.
16:08
- But, so, you know, just play with your stuff.
16:11
- That's right.
16:12
- Play with your stuff.
16:15
And you could dye the.
16:16
- Batter, yeah. - Food coloring.
16:18
- Green, that'd be be beautiful.
16:20
- A nice, good green.
16:20
- Yep, yep.
16:22
But I love the nuts on it.
16:23
It really adds contrast to flavor.
16:25
- Thank you, I think so too.
16:26
- It's delicious.
16:28
Yeah.
16:29
- I'm grabbing the nuts that have fell off.
16:30
- [Joseph] Me too, that's how it started.
16:34
- [Paula] Why day was this?
16:35
- [Theresa] Day six was this?
16:36
- [Joseph] Say it again, this is number six.
16:39
Sixth.
16:40
- On the sixth day of Christmas.
16:41
- Day of Christmas.
16:42
Six geese laying.
16:43
(Paula laughing)
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We got it. (Joseph laughing)
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- You got it 'cause I don't have a clue.
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(Joseph laughing)
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- Wow, so good.
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- I love you. - Love you so much.
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(Joseph smooching)
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My dear, dear friend.
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- Delicious.
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Merry Christmas y'all with much love from us.
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- Absolutely.
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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Love and Best Dishes Y'all.
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