Sweet Somethings

Hey, y'all

Today it's about sweet somethings. First, I'm going to be starting with a scrumptious Arnold

Palmer cupcake. And then it's mouthwatering cookie dough truffles. And then next, the owners of my favorite cookie shop here

in Savannah, y'all, stop by to make the greatest oatmeal scotchy cookie you've ever seen

And I just couldn't let them leave, y'all, before showing me how to decorate their signature sugar cookies

Try not to lick it now. Uh-huh. Well, I'm going to kick everything off today by making an Arnold Palmer cupcake

Now, if you came into our restaurant and said, I would like an Arnold Palmer, please

our waitress would bring you a half a glass of lemonade and a half a glass of sweet tea

Apparently, that's his favorite drink. And this recipe is an Arnold Palmer cupcake

So I've got two sticks of unsalted butter that I'm going to start with, and I'm going to add two cups of sugar

Now I'm just going to cream this together. And then I have four eggs up here on the counter that I'm going to add after I cream our butter and our sugar

And I'm going to add them one at a time, giving it a chance to incorporate into our butter and sugar mixture

Look at that beautiful color. All right, now our liquid is going to be our tea

Now, I have taken five regular-sized teabags, and I have steeped it with a cup of milk

You just heat up your milk, drop in your teabags, and let it steep for about 15 or 20 minutes

So, here's the tea part to our Arnold Palmer cupcakes. In that goes

All right, now we've got to come in there with the lemon. Now I'm just gonna grate probably about a half a teaspoon of lemon zest

That looks about right. Now I'm gonna add one teaspoon of lemon juice

And I'm just gonna eyeball that. That's about a teaspoon. All right, now we're just gonna come back in here and mix all those ingredients in

There we go. I just adore cupcakes. My mother used to make them when I was a little girl

To me, you just can't beat a cupcake. All right, now we've got to get together our dry ingredients

that we need to add to our wet ingredients. And I'm going to need 2 1⁄2 cups of all-purpose flour

You have to be precise because bacon is a formula. 3 fourths of a tablespoon of baking powder and that's gonna make our

cupcakes get fat and pretty and now 3 fourths of a teaspoon of salt and then

we're just gonna add them to our wet ingredients in the bowl that goes and

And then I'm going to take our little mixer and mix up those dry ingredients into our wet ingredients

All right, now I'm going to turn that up and just whip that on out

All right, there we go. That was simple enough. All right, I want to load up our muffin tins

I'm lining mine with paper because it works out better for a cupcake

And I'm just going to put one peeping scoop into the muffin tins

And I'm using a medium-sized scooper. My oven has been preheated to 350 degrees

and we're going to bake these for about 20 to 22 minutes. So, in they go

Let's make our frosting that's going to go in our Arnold Palmer cupcakes

Now I've got two sticks of butter that's at room temperature. I've got a half a cup of our milk and tea mixture that I made earlier

I'm going to cream our butter, soften it up, and then I'm going to add two cups of confectionate sugar

There we go. This is gonna be a real rich buttery frosting Now I gonna start adding our liquid That looks like hot

chocolate doesn't it or chocolate milk. Boy would the kids be surprised if they

picked that up and started guzzling it thinking it was chocolate milk. They'd be

real surprised all right I think that's about right all right we've got our tea milk milk tea in

there and now I'm gonna add about a teaspoon of lemon juice there we go I'm

I'm going to keep beating this until it's nice and creamy. And when we come back, we're going to frost those cupcakes

Because today it's about sweet something. Coming up, it's cookie dough truffles

Cookie dough lover in your house is going to be so very happy

And later, those two smart cookies are stopping by to make a giant oatmeal scotchy cookie

Oh, that looks so good. And later, they're letting me help decorate their famous sugar cookies

Oh, look, he just comes to life. I got our cupcakes out of the oven, Arnold Palmer cupcakes

and I was just trying to jump ahead and get some nuts chopped up for our next dish

But since y'all are back, let's come on over here and finish up these cupcakes

Now, I'm just going to put a little thin layer, and then I'm going to fill our pastry bag with our icing and just cover our Arnold Palmers with little stars

Aren't those pretty? And we can stick a straw in it because an Arnold Palmer

you would actually have a straw because you're drinking it. Isn't that cute

And not only is it cute, it's so very tasty. Well, come on down here

because I want to get this next recipe going. And this is a no-cook cookie dough

truffle. And we're going to start with three quarters of a cup of packed brown sugar

Pack that in there good. And another fourth. One stick of butter that's at room

temperature and just cream that together. I know some girls that say by the time they get through tasting the dough

there's none left to bake cookies. Some people just love cookie dough

So that's what these truffles are going to taste like. Okay, now I'm going to measure out two cups of flour

One teaspoon of vanilla extract. All right, we're going to add one can of sweetened condensed milk

Got that mixed together. Now, when y'all popped back in on me, I was chopping nuts

I'm going to need about a cup of chopped pecans. You can use the nut of your choice

So bear with me while I get my nuts cut. There we go

That looks about like a cup. Now I'm going to add a half a cup of little mini semi-sweet chocolate morsels

So we're just going to mix that up. And that looks like some mighty fine cookie dough, doesn't it

And then we're going to start rolling our truffles. Now you'll want to take your hands and dip them down in some flour

because this cookie dough is going to be a little sticky. So you just want to roll them into balls about the size of a walnut

Just like that. You don't want to keep your hands rolled in that flour

Otherwise, you're going to have a sticky mess. So, I'm going to roll these out, stick these in the refrigerator

and let them set for about two hours Now I got some down here that I had in the refrigerator chilling for us So here our cookie dough after it set up Now back here behind me on the stove

I've got some milk chocolate that I melted over hot water. And we're just going to take our balls

And we're just going to run them around in that chocolate and lift them out just like that

Doesn't that look good? Mm-mm-mm. The cookie dough lover in your house is going to be so very happy

and then we're going to let those set up in the refrigerator

and let that chocolate harden on them, and they're going to be so good

But you know what? I got this cupcake sitting over here, and Arnold's saying

Paula, Paula. Mmm, mmm. Mmm

Mmm. That is so good, y'all. You can taste that lemon. Great. Time of day, that's good

Coming up, my girlfriends Amanda and Annette stop by to make the greatest oatmeal scotchy cookie

My approval will be on this like white on rice. And later, they're letting me help decorate

their famous sugar cookies. Well, y'all, I want you to look over here at this tier of cookies

These cookies are the best in Savannah, Georgia. Two smart cookies. Well, I've got those two girls in the kitchen with me, y'all, that I want to introduce y'all to

This is Amanda, and this is Annette. So, why don't you two smart cookies tell everybody what you're going to make today

We're going to be making oatmeal scotchies. That's a big, huge cookie here in Savannah, y'all

Got those pecans in them. Got those pecans, yes. We've got a cup of softened butter in our bowl

We need to add a cup of pack brown sugar. Okay. Well, yeah, I'll measure that for you

Okay. We're going to add it right to that butter. Okay, how's that

Great. And then we're going to need a half a cup of granulated sugar

Okay. I'm going to go ahead and put the dry ingredients together first

I'm going to use a cup and a half of flour. And that's an all-purpose flour, right

It is. All right. And your eggs. Eggs. Okay. A couple of eggs

Two eggs. You going to start framing that? I guess I can

Okie doke. Teaspoon of baking soda. One at a time or just toss

You can just toss them in there. They'll be just fine. Don't y'all feel good, though, about your accomplishments

We do. I mean, a little flour and butter and eggs. That's amazing

Look what y'all have done. Who knew that people wanted cookies so badly, but they apparently do

Oh, honey, listen. America will always buy a cookie. And we're going to need that teaspoon of vanilla

Okay, I'm going to pour that in. And I'm going to put a half teaspoon of salt

Coming together nicely. It smells pretty good, too, that butter, huh? Mmm

I'm telling you what. All right, Amanda, you want to... I love me some butter

Go ahead and dump that in there. This is great. Just on low speed or else you'll have a nice flower storm

You ever done that before? I have done that a few times. We like to make that store real dusty

Who came up with the name? Amanda did? Yeah, I did. Yeah, I spent some sleepless nights

It just popped out one day. I thought the name was ingenious when I saw it

Paula, you want to go ahead and get the rolled oats ready for me

What kind of oats were you using in it? I like the long-looking old-fashioned

It gives a lot more texture, a little bit more crunchiness. Okay. We got the two and a half cups

Two and a half cups. Okay. Three quarters cups of the pecans

Okay. And you can always add a few more. Mmm. And then we need a cup of the butterstarch chips

Okay, good. Amanda, maybe you can get our pan. Oh, we're going to make one big cookie

We're going to make a big old cookie. Okay. This is great

Yep, pretty quick. I hate dipping up cookies, so this is... Okay

I'm going to go ahead and spray the pan, too. Okay. All right, we'll just take our spatula

You want to do one? Or a... Yeah, I'll do one. Okay. Oh, I've got to have a little taste

Oh you mean I supposed to scrape it Scrape it not eat it We do like to taste things Absolutely That good dough

And just jump it in your pan. Now, do y'all make these like this at the store

We sure do. Put a message on it when it's finished. Okay, now we're going to stick it in the oven and bake it at 350 for about 20, 25 minutes

Okay, though. Well, here we go. All right, here we go. Well, come on down here, girls

because I want y'all to taste these truffles that I made earlier

They look pretty good, don't they? They sure do. And cookie dough right up our alley

I was going to say. Yes, y'all can really appreciate this. All right, now let's reach over here and y'all get you one

And tell me what you think. Okay. I can't believe I'm making cookies for the two smart cookies

Mm. Mm-hmm. Yum. Mm-hmm. Tastes like cookie dough, doesn't it? Sure does

But with chocolate on the outside, it wouldn't be any better. Up next, us girls are going to cookie heaven

Try not to lick it now. Uh-huh. Well, y'all, this is what I've been waiting for all day long

This cookie. This cookie right here. These are the most wonderful. Can I stick these right here, girls

Is it a sugar cookie? It's a sugar cookie. It's a nice sugar cookie. Now, out of everything that y'all do, this is my favorite

because you taste them first with your eyes, and they're so beautiful. Look at the cute little frog

All right, now show me everything that you do. Just icing with a little almond flavoring in it

and we have just put it on. Y'all hand-decorate every one of those. Every single cookie

Uh-uh. Yeah. I'm not good at this. Do I do the whole frog

Mm-hmm, the whole frog, and then we have some eyeballs for him right there in the little dish

Oh, I see that. Now is there anything special about this icing? Is it just..

I think it's the almond flavoring that people are so attracted to

We've been accused of putting something in it that will be addictive, but we don't tell people what it is

And this icing has to be fairly thin, doesn't it, you know? It does. So it will spread. It can't be like an icing on a cake

Oh, no. I can't believe you. Try not to lick it now. Does everybody clean y'all's cookies by licking them

We have children who come in and their parents buy them a cookie and they lick all the icing off first

All right, now, just like right there. Oh, look, he just comes to life

Now, where do you get things like this? Any place that sells cooking items

They would carry things like this. Now, what else does this frog get

He can get polka dots if you'd like, whatever you want. You know what

It's up to you. I think some little, maybe some little green polka dots

Look at that. Well, give him any color you want. We'll give him a yellow wart

That's just like the cutest thing, and it's going to taste so good

Speaking of cute, look at the swimsuit. Look at the little belt, and look at what Amanda's done with that palm tree

How many people do y'all have doing this? Most days we have probably five or six people that are icing cookies

Excited. How many of these do y'all produce a day? A hundred

These are just adorable. All right, now what are we going to do to our cookie cake

We're going to put a little message on it. Then I thought you could come back in with the green and just put some little stars around the side

I'll try. All right, so what are you going to put on that? We're going to put a message on here

Is that what y'all normally do? Mm-hmm, we do. Happy birthday, you know, congratulations, whatever

Best. Did you guess? I think I know what this is going to say, girls

Best dishes. So how do you get your colors that vibrant? Just keep adding the gel until we get it the right color

And we like them bright. All right, it's all yours. All right, now what do you want me to do

Just do some stars. Michael Groover will be on this like white on rice

That looks so good. Yeah, and Annette, put some of those little sprinkles on there

You want to spice it up a little bit? Oh, how pretty. Just put a few little sprinkles on there. So, what you say

Shall we? Take a tip of this star. Looks like it could be pretty tasty

Okay. There you go. Cheers. Cheers. To girls in business. We send y'all best dishes and love from our kitchens to yours

Till next time, y'all. Mmm