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It's the 12 days of Christmas cookies, y'all
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We're almost there. Eddie is not filming with us today. He's gonna start decorating for Christmas
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And I can't wait to see it. So he's decorating. I'm making cookies and Teresa's filming
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Aunt Peggy is on her way. My sister-in-law, Sandy Neville, has gone to Albany to pick her up
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So we're so excited. Right, Lulu? Are we excited? Yes. She said, yes, we're so excited, y'all
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So I want to share this recipe with y'all. Now, I shared a gooey butter cake cookie with y'all a while back
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But the other day, for Christmas, I just wanted to do something a little different
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So I said, candy canes, what can we do with that? So peppermint cookies
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So I'm using the gooey butter cake cookie recipe to make our peppermint cookies
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And so last week, a week before last, Teresa, we were playing around
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and the recipe that I had concocted last week didn't work so good
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I wanted to make them into candy canes, you know, rolling it out. Mm-mm, mm-mm, mm-mm
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I'll use those store-bought peppermint candy canes. So anyway, the family just flipped over these cookies
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So I want to share it with y'all. We're going to start. What, Lou
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What, Lou Lou? She wants something, Eddie, doesn't she? I'm going to start with an eight-ounce package of cream cheese
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You know, this is the ingredients we use to make our gooey butter cakes
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Yeah, I thought, gosh, I don't remember what I did last week
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You know, I'll just do things on the fly and then forget or get confused
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I know y'all find that hard to believe, don't you? All right, I'm going to add one stick of butter
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So the gooey butter cake cookies. There butter right there The gooey butter cake cookies don have but one stick of butter in them where our gooey butter cakes have two sticks
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So we're going to cream this up real good. Now we're going to add our egg
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One egg. Our gooey butter cakes actually have three eggs in those
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so a little less egg, a little less butter. All right, now I'm going to put in our peppermint extract
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Mmm. Smells so good. And I can't remember what I did the other day, y'all
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Do you remember, Teresa? A teaspoon? No, I'm gonna do a tablespoon. What's a nighting glass? Because I don't know
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But we want these nice and peppermint, you know? And I may just put a dollop
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of vanilla flavoring in. You know, just got to have vanilla in something
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Mmm, mmm, mmm. All right, so now we're gonna add, y'all this is the easiest cookie ever
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Now we're gonna add a cake mix, and I'm using just a white cake mix rather than a yellow
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because being peppermint cookies, you know I want them kind of white, and use any kind you want
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Any brand will work. All right, so we're just gonna mix that up good
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I was over there beating the hell out of these things and they didn't wanna beat
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So I thought, you know, let me bring them over here and just do them in the, got a few stragglers
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that didn't want to beat up, but these, when you bake these cookies
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they somehow get around the edge of that cookie and get so crisp and it's like chewy candy
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you know, when you, hmm, it's good. All right, so here we go
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I don't have any idea how much peppermint that we crushed. We did one bag of the Starlight mint
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Okay, well, let's measure it so we can kind of give people an idea
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Whoa, nice little heaping cup. I'm going to stir that in there
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Okay now I going to stick this in the refrigerator y And um
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Mm. Love that crunch of the candy in there. Look at those, I mean, those are just..
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Those are just pure eggs right there. Those will make it turn a little pink. Okay
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I'm gonna stick this in the refrigerator and chill it because we're gonna wanna roll it in balls
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and then roll it in powdered sugar and bake them for just a few minutes
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So these are the peppermint cookies that I'm getting ready to finish, y'all
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And I'm just rolling them in a ball and rolling them in powdered sugar
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And now I think I'm gonna press them down like that because I found that I do like this on the thin side
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Okay y'all, there's a couple of cookies missing. Jamie Dean said, Mama, I'm getting two cookies
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and you can put them back in the oven. So that's what I did, because I kind of like my crispy
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and I also like to add some confectionate sugar. You know, after I take them out
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please be careful because that peppermint, when it melts, it's like a hot syrup
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And Jamie burnt his hands trying to hurry. So I think I cooked these about 14 minutes y'all
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and I got another pan ready to come out. Okay y'all. So I was, I couldn't remember if I mashed these down
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before I put them in the oven or I just left them in a ball
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These were all left in a ball. Half of these I mashed down
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So it really doesn't too much matter unless you like a thinner cookie
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Once you get them balled, rolled in the powdered sugar, put them on your cookie sheet and you can just mash them
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Just mash them down. And that will give you maybe a little bit thinner cookie
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Michael likes his thin and crispy. You see, that's my favorite part
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when that candy's on the edge and it gets real crisp. All right so I gonna put these on a cookie sheet I meant owner Wire rack to cool Oh gosh it so good
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So, so good. And they're actually very easy, aren't they, Teresa? Very
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Now I just, after they come out of the oven, I sprinkle them with a little bit more powdered sugar
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Cause I just like it. I just like it. It's not necessary if you don't want to
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but to me it makes a more holiday. Now look, see? See right there where that piece of candy was on the edge
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and it melted. And look, it's in the shape of a heart
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And don't even think about making these y'all without parchment paper. You don't have any parchment paper
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Don't think about it. Yum. Okay, Therese
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You want to taste one for them? I want to take a... Oh. Oh, yes
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You want me to taste it for them? Yeah. They want to see you. Honey, I am just happy to
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Let me find a little one. Look, that piece of little candy on the edge. That's so good
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And here's the funny thing. I'm not crazy about peppermint, y'all. But Jamie got a little peppermint on his fingers a while ago
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He said, darn, I think I like melted peppermint. You won't be sorry you made these
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Merry Christmas, number 11
