How to make delicious sugar cookies

[Music]or not today we’re making a basic sugarcookie we’re going to cream this upuntil it’s creamy like mayonnaiseokay we’re going to add pepper sugarthis is a shortcutwe’ll take four days[Laughter]we’re gonna put in a half a teaspoon ofsodawe’re going to put in two eggswe’re going to put in a tablespoon ofvanilla extractnow we’re going to add our flour whichis three cups before you add your flourwhether you’re making a cookie or a cakeyou need to scrape the sides of the bowland the bottomevery time that batter almost looks likepre potatoes and that’s how it shouldlook kind of fluffy doughokay we’re gonna add three cups of flourso I have a cup[Music]one cup[Music]I’m just gonna mix it for a minute on amedium spoon and get all that in theregood I’m going to show you how I putthese different ways today I’m justgoing to scoop them right out of thething since we just finished some it’s alot easier to use a cookie scoop whenyour dough is coldso I’ll do what you want to you can justdrop these in the spoon if you must takeI just want to check this thing outbecause I got itthrift oil is a really cheap[Music][Music]okay here’s our cookies coming out theoven they’re real prettyso I think I’m going to mix up somedifferent ones so we’ll have more thanone kind today I like for my sugarcookies to get brown just make some cutshere and gives them a better flavory’all so we’ll take these off put themon the rack after they cool for just oneminuteokay guys this is our regular sugarcookies that we made with our dough nowwe’re about to do something differentthis time I’m going to do snickerdoodlesand then for the last batch I’m gonnaput in some pecans and now all I do istake my hand and Pat it in some flourand just flatten them a little bit sothat I’m gonna sprinkle these withcinnamon sugar I have some pansiescinnamon sugar so I’m just going toshake this cinnamon sugar on themput them in the oven 375 12 minutes allall right I’m gonna scrape the sides ofthe bowl good so that I can make sureand get all this the pecans mixed in theentire amount of dough that we have leftbridge arrangements tonight and thenshow you how to do a drop cookietomorrowchocolate drop cookies what I’ll do allright we only bet our snickerdoodles tenminutes we vote they they’re sugarcookies twelve minutes at 375 so becauseshe wants her snickerdoodles to be justa little bit chewy and you want your Ilike sugar cookies hard and crunchy okayy’all we’re gonna do our chocolate dropcookies right quick this is out of ourbasic cookie dough and we’verefrigerated it and put pecans in it soI’m going to drop them out I’m afraid asheet I’ve got the oven on 350 degreeswe’re just gonna drop these outall right now what we’re going to dothese are thumbprint cookies so we’rejust going to take our finger I put ahole in the middle yes we’ll use ourthumb I just got big thumbs I’ll use mypointer compared to most peoplekind of hold it so that it keeps itsshape that’s a good thing about keepingthese in the refrigerator first okaywe’re going to bake these in the ovenall right we are ready to put ourchocolate on our thumbprint cookies Igot this little kiss the other day andI’ll show you a link to it it’s onlyabout 12 or 13 29 something like thatit’s got a few disposable bags and thenit’s got some that you can wash as wellif you decide to use it you decide toget one you just put your coupling downin the bag and this has some really nicetips in it up oops I’m very happy aboutthe purchase perfect now this chocolateis the chocolate we made today for ourdoughnutsit’s kind of pudding me so it’s notgonna get stiff and hard on your cookiesso this is the kind of chocolate youwould use if you were entertaining andthey’re coming to eat you wouldn’t wantto stack these cookies on top of eachother[Music]but you’ll put your little chocolatedrop right in the middle of your cookiesor you put your thumb right now when Igot these out of the oven the thumbprintwas kind of spread out so I took mythumb and press down the center whileirie-kun thing[Music]I’ll have a wonderful day thanks forwatching comment valley cooks love y’all