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Christmas Baking and Decorations

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In a series of bonus clips, the homeowner showcases her holiday baking efforts. She presents a variety of homemade pies, including apple, chocolate bourbon pecan, and pumpkin, alongside a cookies and cream cheesecake and brown butter chocolate chip cookies. She meticulously cuts out snowflake shapes for the pie crusts and carefully brushes them with an egg wash. Later, she is seen decorating a Christmas tree with a handmade snowman ornament, which holds sentimental value as it was made by her grandmother. During the cooking process, some corn spills on the kitchen floor, which the dog enthusiastically cleans up. The clips culminate with the homeowner in Christmas pajamas, preparing whipped cream in a KitchenAid mixer and finally, enjoying the completed festive meal.

Goal: Share holiday preparations including baking and decorating.

Tools and materials

  • KitchenAid Mixer KitchenAid — Preparing whipped cream
  • Pastry Brush — Applying egg wash to pie crusts
  • Rolling Pin — Rolling out pie crust dough
  • Snowflake Cookie Cutters — Decorating pie crusts
  • Apple Pie Filling — Filling for apple pie
  • Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough — Making cookies
  • Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Pie Filling — Filling for chocolate bourbon pecan pie
  • Cookies and Cream Cheesecake Ingredients — Making cookies and cream cheesecake
  • Corn — Part of the Christmas meal, spilled on the floor
  • Egg — Creating an egg wash for pie crusts
  • Pie Crust Dough — Making pie crusts
  • Pumpkin Pie Filling — Filling for pumpkin pie
  • Whipped Cream Ingredients — Making whipped cream

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everything. Looks like pie. >> It's beautiful, though. Those are snowflakes. And there's like sugar sprinkle on it so it looks like snowy and glisteny. >> Are you having fun cooking in your kitchen? >> Yes. >> First time you've you've ever had your own kitchen? >> Mhm. >> With nobody to tell you what to do. >> Yeah. >> Not even me. >> There's a big mess. >> Where's the big mess at? This? >> Mhm. >> That's not a big mess. >> These people have never seen one of your big messes. That is not a big mess. [laughter] >> We have to film these pies before we eat them. >> Yeah. >> Can you explain what your pies are? >> This is an apple pie. I have never made an apple pie before. >> And it's homemade crust. The bottom is like really flaky, buttery crust, but it's all like a butter crust. And then that's my chocolate bourbon pecan pie. Has Jameson in it. It's really good. Right now I'm doing the crust on my chocolate bourbon pecan pie. Just cut out these little snowflakes and use this egg wash to make sure that it will stay. And that's a pumpkin pie. This one is a storebought crust, but the decoration is homemade crust. And that's a cookies and cream cheesecake tart. And those are homemade brown butter chocolate chip oatmeal cookies cuz you like oats in your cookies. >> So that's the Hydrox thing. >> Hydrox. So I have to make Mitchell a cookies and cream tart. And I'm going to use Hydrox, which I'm sure most of you have not seen in a very long time or you've never even heard of them. I believe they came out before Oreos and they were the original cookies and cream cookie. Like there's no hydrogenated oils or anything like that and you can buy them online. Hello. >> Hi. >> What's up? I have the camera on. >> I'm back with all of your stuff. >> Could call something else if camera wasn't on. I don't know if it's just my kitchen a but this seems like it's built off or they're all like that. Like they're they shouldn't be hitting the back. It's Christmas Eve and I'm going to be cooking some chicken breast for dinner along with many other things that I've already made and will be cooking. I'm putting it on this parchment [snorts] paper so I can season it really good. How's it going? >> It's going. >> Making green beans. >> Oh, yeah. >> That is what you call good prime rib. And no, it's not raw. Somebody's…

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