Making Cookies With Mom

guys and welcome back to crazy cancerstoday we’ll be doing a special videoon baking and my special guest today ismy mom we will be makingmolasses spice cookies stay tuned tofind out how we makedelicious spicy cookies for mother’s dayand for my nanaall right so again we are makingmolasses spice cookiesand i’m here with my momso she’ll be helping me make thisdeliciouscookie-ness come true okay so let’sstartlet’s read i have the book in front ofme right hereso first we did the oven partthen it says to place oh we did thatokaywhisk the flourbaking soda cinnamon ginger clovesallspice pepperand salt together in a medium bowlhere’s your flour there’s our flour andthose in hereall of our spices mixed together so imix them togetherpour them in pour it in there shall weand then whisk it around gently again ohit’s very strongso we’re mixing it spicy it’s funthis is very fun ginger cloves allspicepepper salt and baking soda in thereright yesokay great then what’s next the nextstep is touse a standard mixer fitted with thepaddle to beat the butteryou all natives to beat thethe butter brown sugar andremaining 1 3 cup of garlic granulatedgranulated i can’t i have troublegrasping that word okay so the brownsugarhere is our oh brown sugar wait waitwait show themshow them bring it in here’s the brownsugarand our half a cup hereum uh yup can i pour it yep you can putit ineveryone loves to see a good sugarpouring don’t theyall rightlock that lock itput it in your pocket okay it’s mixingsmells deliciousscraping down the bowl and mixingit says to mix for about three minutesuntil white and fluffywhich will be soon[Music]so it has been mixing and now we’readding the yeeljust the yolk and i got it i’m gonnapour that yolk inhere make sure you put it straightall right turn itright herewe got our vanilla how much vanilla[Music]one teaspoon that’s a half a teaspoonthat is a tablespoon where’s theteaspoonthat is one teaspoona little bit[Applause]every time i have vanilla it smells sogood and it’s sotempting to taste it and it alwaystastes better than it i mean it alwaysalwayssmells better than taste i always justtempted to just taste it vanilla usuallycomes with something sugary so youassume it’s gonna be sweetit’s not okay then what’s nextall right next step is toum reduce b to medium low beat untilfullycooperated for about 20 seconds thenthen um reduce b to low andadd the flour be sure yepreduce b to low and add the flour mixerreduce speed to medium low and add themolasses firstoh i didn’t see that i need a half a cupof dark molasses now here’s our trickfor dark molasses you ready my mom has atrickeveryone listen up the molasses is verystickyso what you do is you take a little bitof spray on your half cup measureand you spray the inside of it justlightlythen you take the molassessuper sticky is it goodyeah can i try it not yet becauselet’s get it in there first oh it’s sodark this is dark black strap molassesi would not want to be in the molassesflood that is sothick you can taste it it’s sweetif you want to you can run your fingerunder the spray a little bit it’s sweetand a little bitter at the same timeyou wonder why people didn’t just eataway the floodokay i like that that tastes good oohokay now we have a half a cup ofmolasses now what’s interesting aboutthis is that if youpour it in without umoiling this thing first it would juststick to the inside of the cuplike this wait wait that’s itwhoa that really did work see it all itjustcame out see it all comes out oh lookhow nice that lookssee how clean the inside of the wall itworks even better if you see it on aglass cupbut yeah it works better on glass butokaymolasses in and now we’re just going toincorporate itwhoa it’s like a light brownit’s like brownie batter if you make[Music]browniesall right now we have to add inthe flour mixtureall right we’re going to scrape down thebowl first and this recipeis for my nana’s birthdayshe loves molasses cookies yeah so thisis for her and for mother’s daybecause she is my mom’s mom and my nanaand it’s her birthday soextra special for her okay let’s give ita little quick little mix before i geteverything mixed inall right now we’re gonna slowly add theflour in rightslowly adding in the flour mixturea little bit at a time and then we’llmix it in just give it a little tapthat’s enough for now a little bit at atimeokay we’ll get back to you guys we haveadded it allin so we mixed it all togetherand here’s what it looks like it’s darkbrown kind of looks like umbrownie batter yes it’s thickand we will be your next stepis to rollit out we’re going to use this ice creamand cookie super super duperroll it in this bowl of sugar that wehave down here okay so let me show youwhat we dowe take a scoop of this as if it’s icecreamokay like that then wepull it out i got it it’swe roll it up and then we put it in thesugarcover it in sugar whoaand then we put it on the sheet ohi want to try go ahead all righttaking thatwe roll it in our hands put it in yourhand roll it around gently so that itforms a balla little bit more fineall right roll it around make a balljelly all right gentlycover it and sugarthere we go place it down so we haveour molasses cookies covered in sugarand rolled out and now i will be puttingthem in the ovenguys make sure you only do this withparent supervisionand you’re going to put them in the ovengentlyclose it and let it sit for 11 minutesuntil it’sstill fluffy and lightly brownedall right so you’re taking them outmake sure again you have parentsupervision and that you have protectorsfor your hands so you do not burn themwhoa oh look at thesebeauties beautiful now we’re gonna addin a secondtray and let those fakeall right so we have our molassescookies covered in sugar and rolled outand now i will be putting them in theoven guys make sure you only do thiswith parent supervisionand you’re going to put them in the ovengentlyclose it and let it sit for 11 minutesuntil it’sstill fluffy and lightly browned allright the moment we’ve all been waitingfori’m trying the cookies one half fell butit’s okaycheers oh my godcookies i didn’t know you were makingcookies oscar could smell them all awayfrom upstairsdon’t forget to like and subscribe thisvideo and if you want to make thesecookiesgo to cook’s illustrated cookbooks andsearch up the recipethanks for watching