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Best Christmas Cookies | Cranberry Cookie & Shortbread Cookie
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Aug 23, 2023
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Hey, Christmas cookies! We got you and Santa covered we do. A homemade cranberry coconut cookie and an old-fashioned Scottish shortbread cookie
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Hurry up because I hear Santa's reindeer on the roof. Let's beat him to the cookies
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It is a great day to be above the grass and we have a special star with us today, my little sweet wife Shannon
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So we're doing two of our all-time favorite. It's a cranberry coconut cookie. Really great flavor
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It's got a little orange zest in it. It's soft and then also a old-fashioned traditional Scottish
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cookie that came from old granny across the oceans. Just like all of our recipes
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we're going to link below the printable recipe and all of our recipes are converted for indoor
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cooking as well. So let's start with the cranberry coconut cookie because I mean it's it's pretty
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excellent. It's one and third fourth cup. One and third fourth? One and three fourths cup. There we go
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All-purpose flour. Half a teaspoon of baking powder. All right. Now we're going to go over to your portion
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because I know you like the power tools. So Kent why don't you go ahead and get that
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stick of softened butter. Cream together the softened butter and sugar. So take it away
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So does that suit your approval? I like that. That's almost professional. Well it is with my
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Dewalt Power Kitchen tool. Add that egg in there. One large egg. I gotta tell you guys you're actually
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getting a little sneak preview because this recipe is in our new book that's coming out
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faith family in the feast and you can pre-order it now so um it doesn't come out to march but this
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would be a great christmas present so keep that in mind you'll have us a link down there yeah
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let me beat that yeah go ahead we're gonna add a tablespoon of orange zest so it gives it kind
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of a nice citrus orange zest for me i might not know grated orange peel there we go yeah i like
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it now and then give me a half a teaspoon of almond orange uh almond extract all right so now we're
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gonna add our chopped cranberries and now I don't get too technical technical technical
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technical on chopping the cranberries so just get them kind of roughly chopped sometimes I like a
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little bigger chunk in there so this was three quarters of three-fourths of a cup of chopped
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cranberries now for me I'm not a big coconut fan but I've southern folks love coconut and
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Southwestern Oklahoma puts them in everything. Seriously. But I don't mind it in this
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It's it's kind of mellows everything out. It's not overpowering. So if you're not a big coconut fan, just stick with me because I think you'll like it
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All right. We're going to put our flour mixture, which was just the flour and baking powder into our wet mixture
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Let's do a spoon for this portion and I'll add it and you can kind of just start stirring it in. Yeah
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And so let's just put it on the cutting board. Wait a minute. Flowery hands
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We're breezy today. And then I just pinch off the dough. About like golf ball size maybe, you know
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But I will tell you, okay, so once you get it into a ball and you put it on the cookie sheet
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give it just a little mash So it just a little flattened a bit So you need probably flatten mine right Yeah Yeah I flatten these ones And then we going to go to the next cookie which is the shortbread
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and then we're going to bake them all together. Now this is special because it actually came
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from old granny across the pond in Scotland. We have some friends of ours came over and we met
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them in Branson. She gave us and lent us her granny's Scottish cookie. So if you're watching
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Wendy oh we thank you so much and they have graced our cookie bowl many times. Yes they are good eating
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So break it out again we've got to cream together one stick of softened butter plus two tablespoons
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All right got it in there. Fourth of a cup of sugar and then give it a good creaming
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so the ingredient that kind of throws people sometimes is cornstarch whoa wait a minute and
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you're going to use a half a cup and i've had people say i think you gave me the wrong amount
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no it is it's a half a cup of cornstarch the cornstarch is what's going to give it that
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texture that's very unique for shortbread go ahead and put it in there
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de walt if you're watching if you could make a multiple head here to where it's got
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I can attach two mixers. I'd appreciate it. What does cornstarch also help with, Kent
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Here's a fun fact. Okay, let's talk about July hot. Out there on the wagon, on the ranch
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and them boys been in the saddle like six, seven, eight hours. And you begin to sweat in places that you might not know you sweated in
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When you get off, you allow that when you're walking back to camp, you're a little more bow-legged than you was when you started
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and it is a thing known as Galdi. And cornstarch will cure this
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It is one of the greatest things. Diaper rash. I've had people come up to us at events
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and ask if we've had any cornstarch for diaper rash. Remember that? So, hey, it's a miracle
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And that was free. You just keep beating and I'm going to slowly add in a cup of flour
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Oops, sorry. When it starts to feel like you've got most of that incorporated
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but it's still a little crumbly, let's switch to our hands. because we want to like again mash that around like and start picking up all that like loose
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flour but every time you kind of mash and start working this there's a like bug issues you've got
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flour right here so you just want to keep working it and then as you mash it and kind of keep working
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it it's going to bring a little more of that moisture out and help pick up all this extra like when you start this you're going to feel like this is way too dry but just keep mashing it
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we have our 12 inch touch oven we are going to lightly spray this one or your uh baking sheet
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it is soft but it's slightly crumbly a little bit that's what we want you just want to work it enough
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to where it all sticks together and it's really like malleable kind of ball and then i'm going to
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mash this out you could roll it too but um and you want it about half inch thick yeah i think this
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would be a good time too if uh if you're just watching us for the first time maybe welcome
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jar this episode is brought to you by a tomato paste can let me get it a tomato paste can never This I found is the perfect size for cutting these out
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And never throw away a green chili can or a tomato paste can. They are great cutters
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So, they just come out so easily. They just come out. And I'll spoil the surprise right now
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We're going to add a little melted chocolate to them. Whoa, whoa, whoa
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Now we're talking my language. Back during the Depression times in the United States, they think this come about in the 20s and the 30s
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and the family was teaching the kids about how thankful you need to be and share whatever you have
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even though you might not have much. So they would leave maybe one cookie or a little bit of crumbs here and there
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But over there in Norway and all that country far across the pond, go back many, many, many, many hundreds of years
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And the little kids were known to put hay or carrots in their shoes and set out for the reindeer
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Oh, really? Yes. Again, indoor cooking, preheated oven, 350. On both of these recipes, make sure you put your cookies in on the center rack of the oven
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But we're going to give you some quick tips on Dutch oven cooking and cookies if you happen to be doing this outdoors
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We're pretty well protected from the wind, so it's not a big factor today
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I did pull all the fodder away from the ground so we're not going to catch nothing on fire
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Tall trivet, five inches tall it is, light ring of coals around the outside edge of both of them, very light on top
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Now you can move your coals back and forth to rearrange them if you have to, if you have to scoot them up or take them back
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depending on how fast they're cooking. But guess what else you can do? You can cheat here because you can take a spatula when there ain't nobody watching and pick up the bottoms and look at them just a tad
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you know as these cookies were cooking I had to go ahead and pull my heat in a little shan to get
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it to where I could get them done a little more on the bottom I did have to add just a little
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heat on top to both of them to get them to brown just a little. But it takes less heat than what
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you think it will. Especially with good hardwood coals. Yeah. And we did rotate once or twice just
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even at our heat source all the way around. Yeah. So rotate meaning take the bottom of the oven
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rotate it quarter of turn one way, the lid the other way. That way if you have a big chunk of
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coal one side or the other it kind of evens that out as it's baking. So that helps. On the shortbread
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cookie you're not really going to see much browning on the top. But where you're looking for it is on
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and you just want a light, like very light golden brown, not a full on golden brown
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because you do not want to overcook these. On the cranberry cookies, you'll see as they start to cook
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they kind of crack a little bit. And same thing, they'll brown a little bit on top
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but again you want to look for that underside and you want a little more of a golden brown a little more than the shortbread what we did is we did the double boiler method take a saucepan
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fill about halfway with water bring that water to a boil put a heat safe bowl on top of that and then
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crumble some chocolate in there whisk it until it gets melted that way this double boiler prevents
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it from burning? Yes. Oh it's flaming. Oh can't there's a snake. Holy crap. Holy crap. Hang on
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No I don't want to hear the dog. Ready? That's a big boy
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Oh wow. I'm glad you see him. Well I heard him. I'm surprised the dogs didn't smell him first
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I've had a lot of y'all comment down here that looks like snaky country and yeah I was raised
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down here in this country and let me tell you folks it is some snaky country and these old
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bluffs are full of dens and holes and you know we've been down to 13 14 degrees but it's a warm
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day that old sun is shining and he probably had him a hole here close somewhere and he felt more
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heat out of that box and it was coming over and i'm glad i didn't step on him and glad he didn't
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bite a dog okay now when you say oh my god and i'm thinking what did i do yeah i was like oh snake
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okay you can eat these shortbread cookies as is uh-huh if you want to like jazz it up a little
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bit take that melted chocolate and i like to just dip it in about halfway then you just want to let
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these set and let that uh chocolate cool and then you can eat them although we may have to set mine
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right here we may have to cheat it it's like buttery heaven wendy thank your great great
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grandmother honey this is probably one of the best shortbread cookies ever eaten in my life
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and so easy this one i love because it's you know it's set up on the outside but you can feel that
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like just that little bounce of a good cookie this is probably my favorite cookie of all the
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holiday cookies i've ever had and shan started making these and we request them all the time
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You get the tartness of the cranberry, but then that sugar of a cookie
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Come on. Doodle. Uh-huh. There you go. Snake stomp. Yeah, we're doing the snake dance
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Just make sure I don't see no more snakes. Now you done got me gun shy
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Yeah. He was coming right in the camp. And as always, I tip my hat to all our servicemen and women and our veterans and all the spouses
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who have either stationed abroad or they're here alone. We tip our hat to you, too, and we'll remember you throughout this holiday season
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And thank you all for keeping it safe that we might have it. And remember, everything that we used in this video, the printable recipe, everything you need to know will be listed down there
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And you can do this inside. The indoor conversion will be there as well. Shan, again, thank you so much, darling
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We appreciate it. Like, share, subscribe. And folks, God bless you one and all
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And I'll see you down the cranberry shortbread cookie trail. Cheers. Cheers. There's a little leftover cookie dough and Santa, he ain't gonna come this route
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So, you just let's have it. Let me try a bite too. Dookie
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Hey, Dookie. It's shortbread cooking time, come on. Santa says y'all been good enough to have a bite of cookie
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There you go. Good job, y'all did good
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