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- 12 days of Christmas cookies and I wanna thank today,
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Am I pronouncing that right Eddie?
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- [Theresa] Herr ra ra.
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- Herr ra ra? (laughs)
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I don't know but anyway I can pronounce Carla.
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So Carla's white chocolate cherry Christmas cookie.
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You know, every Christmas,
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my cousin, Don and his wife Darlene,
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come up and usually spend Christmas with us.
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everything's kinda gotten off kilter though but.
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And as soon as he walks in the, the door,
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I say "okay let's start making our cherry cookies"
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I mean every year, for years.
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And this sounds a lot like Don's cookies
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but he actually frost his.
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These are not frosted.
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And his doesn't have white chocolate chips in it
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So I'm excited to try this Carla.
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So we're gonna start out.
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We started out by draining our Maraschino cherries,
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and cuttin em in half.
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By cutting em in half,
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it allows the moisture to drain out of em,
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and we've reserved some of the cherry grews,
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sherry juice, not grews but juice (laughs)
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and roll on a paper towel to make sure the moist is out.
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Did you do that Theresa May?
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- [Theresa] I sure did
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- Thank you, so efficient.
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All right, so I'm gonna start by creaming our butter
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and our sugar together
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and we have dark brown sugar and we have white sugar.
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So I'm gonna butter whipped up a little bit.
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It's at room temperature
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but with the weather cooling off,
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and your kitchen not getting as hot,
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it doesn't, my butter's not so soft.
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(sounds of the mixer whirring)
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All right, in goes our brown sugar
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and in goes our white sugar.
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In go the eggs, one at a time.
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So now we're gonna add the cherry juice.
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Let's see how much we need of that.
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- [Theresa] Three table spoons
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- Yes three table spoons on the very end.
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So - [Theresa] Oh I already
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- Oh that is three table spoons?
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Thank you Theresa. I just forget how efficient you are.
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All right so that's gonna make these cookie's kinda pink.
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Which pink to me cherries and pink
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is all the colors of Christmas, you know?
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It's always just red. The pinks are beautiful too.
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All right, so add the Maraschino juice and mix.
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See it's turn em pink!
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now Carla tells us now to add the dry ingredients.
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When does she call for the, for the extracts? Okay.
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So I was supposed to put the extracts in
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back when I did the eggs but we're, we're all right.
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So she calls for two table spoons of vanilla
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and one table spoon of almond.
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Another cookie recipe after my heart.
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- [Theresa] Does it say table spoons?
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- And baking soda she has tsp
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which means teaspoon - [Theresa] teaspoon
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yeah oh I was thinking...
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I mean you can look behind me
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coz I don't trust my eye.. old eyes anymore.
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- [Theresa] I like it fat - Two teaspoons
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- [Theresa] but it seems
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like a lot - [Paula] I, It does.
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Seems like a awful lot.
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That's a pretty good bit a dough too.
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a little shy - [Theresa] yes she's got tbs.
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Yeah I mean I'm reading it right aren't I?
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- [Theresa] Yes ma'am.
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- All right, so that was a little shy of a tablespoon,
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just in case she meant teaspoon.
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And that's just a little bit shy
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of two tablespoons of vanilla.
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you can let me know if that is supposed to be,
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you know, tablespoons.
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To me you can't get too much extract though.
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You'd have to put a lot.
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All right now she tells us to slowly add our flour.
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Into our flour and gonna be adding baking soda,
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and, let see, that's one and a half teaspoons.
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So the reason I think it's right
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is because she did teaspoons.
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- [Theresa] Yep and it was two in a row.
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It was, so - Yeah, yep
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So I'm gonna stir that together,
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and I'm gonna add it slowly,
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and again, the instructions are, you know, don't over beat.
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Oh this is mixing up pretty good,
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because of the cherry juice.
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Got some moisture in it.
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The last of the flour.
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I scrape down the sides of our bowl
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to get all our ingredients mixed in.
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And now we're going back in,
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and what we have left,
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is the halves of Maraschino cherries
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and the one. How many ounces is this?
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12 ounces of white chocolate chips, yum!
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all right, now we got to the stirring part
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of Carla's cookies, and it's a real pretty dough y'all.
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So I'm gonna fold in our cherries, and I'm gon...
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You know what this recipe reminds me of?
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The macadamia nut cookie, only this has no nuts,
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but kinda reminds me of that,
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which if you wanted to,
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I guess you could add some nuts also couldn't you Carla.
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So you know a recipe is just something
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that you kinda follow and then you take it from there.
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All right, so thank you Carla, these smell and look divine.
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All right, so let me see what she tells us now
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- [Theresa] (in audible)
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reach around me - [Theresa] Mm Hm
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- which is a beautiful thing.
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- [Theresa] (inaudible)
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little thing please - [Theresa] I know
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- Okay so Carla tells us to
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use cookie scoop or roll into balls.
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I think this might be a little sticky to roll into balls,
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so I think am just gon use a regular spoon.
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I think am gon make these a little bigger,
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since they don't have icing or anything on em.
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Do those look bout the same size Eddie,
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- [Eddie] They.. looks good.
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- You know the first one's always just a little shy.
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All right, here we go, we got one cookie sheet loaded.
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Theresa! And Carla says 350 for bout ten minutes.
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You no that's.. usually
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that's about the standard time for a cookie.
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All right, so let's load up another cookie sheet.
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This really makes a lot a cookies y'all.
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So I got two full pans
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and then what I call a half pan right here.
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Once again y'all, I find my cookie jar empty.
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And this is the most beautiful little cookie jar.
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It's old and I found that at an antique shop.
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And I use the word antique so loosely.
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But in he precious, so cute.
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So he's waiting there for me to wash him,
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dry him and fill him back up
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with these incredible white chocolate, cherry cookies.
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So, so, so good Carla.
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- [Eddie] These were good.
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- [Eddie] These were good.
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- [Theresa] Eddie broke into those already.
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- [Paula] I know it (laughs)
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Eddie looked over at em
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when we had em on the wire sheet cooling,
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he said "those are really good"
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I said "oh you had some?" (laughs)
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He looked real sheepish and said well yeah.
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They are good, they remind my of macadamia nut cookies.
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So you sent us a big hit Carla.
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Eddie is giving his number one recommendation.
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Very, very good (dog growling)
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and it looks so Christmassy
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with the cherry in it
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Thank you Carla, Thank you so much.
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I so appreciate all of y'all's love and support
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and I hope everybody has a wonderful
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fulfilling holiday season.
