When to start baking christmas cookies
Bake With Me (Christmas Cookies)
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hey guys welcome back to my channel
today I'm gonna be making three really
easy Christmas cookie recipes these are
great for just baking if you want to
bake on your own for your family but
also if you're gonna do Christmas cookie
exchange or gift ideas I'll be honest
I'm not the world's best baker but I do
love to bake around Christmastime and
these are really easy recipes to make
and delicious I want to say a huge thank
you to the sponsor of this video Aldi
all the ingredients that I use for these
cookies are from Aldi a great spot to
find all your holiday necessities but I
also love to go there year-round for my
kids lunch snacks they have really
affordable and quality ingredients so
I'm gonna go ahead and just jump right
in first with gingerbread cookies I
definitely wanted to find a really good
gingerbread cookie recipe because I love
gingerbread cookies so I scoured
Pinterest and I usually experiment with
small batches first just to make sure
they have the right taste and flavor and
then I make larger batches so I'm
starting with a smaller batch now and I
tested them out and they turned out
amazing I just have brown sugar and
butter now if you want you can use an
alternative butter or a vegan butter if
you prefer but I'm just gonna go ahead
and turn this on in my mixer on medium
until it is nicely combined
in my local Aldi store they have all of
the cooking and baking items all in one
area so they're really really easy to
access like the powdered sugar the brown
sugar the molasses all of the spices
everything's in one area so it's really
quick and easy to grab and go you can
also make a flax egg if you are
interested in making vegan cookies I'm
actually just using eggs from my own
chickens but you can also find caged
free eggs at Aldi and then I'm going to
slowly incorporate the dry ingredients
now for the dry ingredients we have
flour we have baking soda a little bit
of salt and then we have our spices we
got nutmeg allspice we have a lot of
ginger and a good amount of cinnamon and
the ginger and cinnamon are equal parts
and the ginger really gives it that the
ginger and the molasses it really gives
that that gingerbread cookie taste that
we love in our gingerbread cookies I
used to bake cookies for Christmas time
at church and give them to like my
friends and family and again I've never
been the best Baker but Christmas
cookies are always a really fun and easy
way to gift and you can go as simple or
as crazy with them as you want right now
I'm just taking the dry ingredients and
I'm slowly adding them into the wet
ingredients and then creating my dough
and then I'm gonna bring that out and
then I'm gonna wrap it up and I'm gonna
put it in the refrigerator for an hour
and you can refrigerate it up to 24
hours so if you want to make this ahead
of time you want to make larger batches
you can do that as well so I'm like I
said I started with a little bit of a
smaller batch just to really test out
the recipe and make sure it worked
there's nothing I hate more than wasting
ingredients and then the recipe doesn't
turn out right but this one turned out
pretty good so then I can do larger
batches in the future and then you can
be creative with giving them as gifts
once the dough is chilled I'm gonna go
ahead and roll it out so my flour was a
little off I needed to add a little bit
more flour so as you can see here I'm
adding flour just so that I can get a
nice firm dough to roll out and then cut
so I adjusted the recipe in the
description but and also I cut this
recipe in half so I had to kind of
adjust the flour recipe so I'll have the
right ratios in the description but
these actually turned out really really
great and I got a nice firm dough that I
could cut into and I'm going very simple
just doing round circle cuts but if you
have a gingerbread cookie cutter or a
snowflake cookie cutter I mean there's
so many ways to do it and you can also
ice them if you want if you have the
time I like just plain gingerbread
cookies so I'm gonna make them really
really simple but of course go as crazy
with them as you prefer the recipe is
super solid so you can desk them with a
little powdered sugar or you could use
frosting on them it's totally your call
and then I'm just stacking them and then
I'm gonna wrap them with some cellophane
and also this really pretty ribbon that
I got from Aldi they also have wrapping
goodies so you think it's a one-stop
shop for all your Christmas goodies when
you're gonna be doing Christmas cookie
gift exchange or if you're gonna be
bringing cookies as a gift to a party or
an event there's just so many ways to be
creative with baking for the holidays
up next we have candy cane cookies which
have a really nice peppermint taste to
them in my mixer I'm adding butter and
powdered sugar and then I'm adding
powdered sugar I'm going to mix that
until it creates an icing consistency in
my mixer
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I'm adding a portion of egg and then
vanilla extract and peppermint extract
and that's gonna give these cookies a
little bit of a peppermint flavor so if
you'd prefer you can omit peppermint but
I personally really like them in these
cookies I'm gonna slowly add in the
flour and salt and then once that's done
fully mixing I'm gonna pull the dough
out and divide it into two I'm gonna
have one side remain the same color and
then I'm gonna add some food coloring
some red food coloring to the other
portion of the dough
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the dough then also needs to be chilled
for an hour - up to 24 hours so I'm
going to go ahead and chill wrap and
chill that and then when I bring it out
I'm going to start making the candy
canes so after an hour of this chilling
I'm gonna pull it out and then I'm going
to basically start rolling like long
almost like I'm rolling a snake I'm
gonna roll it into my hands and start
slowly creating the candy cane and then
I'm gonna take the red dough do the same
and then wrap it around the white dough
and you'll see what I'm doing here and
then just kind of form it into a candy
cane I preheated the oven to 375 degrees
once I'm done again I started with a
smaller batch to make sure these turned
out really well before I make a lot of
them you can also do them larger like
really large cookies or smaller versions
of these
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I took one of the large cookies and I
wrapped it in cellophane and then I'm
gonna add a gift card and this is a nice
quick and simple and easy gift that you
can give to a friend or a teacher and if
they like peppermint cookies they'll
love it now if you like peanut butter
you're gonna love this next recipe this
is peanut butter truffles these are no
bake they're really easy to make all you
need is peanut butter and then I'm gonna
add some butter into the peanut butter
yes butter and peanut butter I'm gonna
mix that together and then I'm gonna add
powdered sugar I've been making these
for years they're a favorite I think a
babysitter I had like a teenage
babysitter who taught me this recipe
years of years ago I must have been like
nine or ten and I'm a huge peanut butter
fan I've loved it ever since I'm adding
powdered sugar of course it has a good
deal of sugar in this recipe but that's
baking and during the holidays so
there's lots of fun treats to be enjoyed
but these are really really yummy so I
have this peanut butter dough if you
will I'm again gonna wrap it refrigerate
it for about an hour and then I'm gonna
bring it out and I'm going to make
individual little balls or truffles with
the peanut butter dough and then I'm
gonna start to heat on a double boiler
or I just kind of do a makeshift double
boiler with dark chocolate chocolate
chips and also some coconut oil these
are really great because you can make
these completely vegan if you choose and
you want to do it that way and they're
just really delicious and easy because
you don't have to bake them so I'm
taking these dark chocolate morsels I
used all the Baker's Corners goodies
from Aldi again they're all like in one
spot so when you go to pick out all the
baking goodies everything's right there
to make it really easy I'm melting that
I'm adding a little bit of coconut oil
that's really gonna help the chocolate
to harden
once you're done dipping the balls into
the chocolate so once the chocolate is
completely melted I'm gonna go ahead and
start dipping each one and covering them
in chocolate and then I'm gonna stick
them in the refrigerator for a few hours
just so that they have a chance to
harden these are bests of course if
they're kept out of heat because they
are chocolate so they can melt so try to
keep them in a cool dark place
I'm gonna wrap them in cellophane and
gift them as well because they are just
magnificent
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I hope you enjoyed this video and I hope
you try at one of these recipes they're
really easy there's ways to customize
them to have you prefer and they make
great gifts so I want to say a huge
thank you to the sponsor of this video
Aldi go and check out their stores for
amazing quality ingredients and
unbeatable prices and yeah thanks again
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time bye
