Transcripts
1. 01 Introduction: Welcome to this class. In this class, I will
teach you how to make these peppermint
sprints cookies. First, I will teach you how
to make the cookie dough. Next, I will teach
you how to use the cookie press to
form the cookies. Then I will teach you how
to sprinkle on the sugars. Finally, I will teach you how to bake and
cool the cookies. I am a self taught baker. Many years ago, I decided I wanted to open up
my own home bakery. Part of this business was
going to farmers' markets and festivals and making treats
for special occasions. These cookies are
excellent things to sell at those farmers'
markets and festivals. I had this business
for several years until my husband got a job
offer in a different city. We felt like this
was a good move, so I closed my business, and we moved to the new city. Now here in the new city, I do not want to go through the steps to open up
another home bakery, but I still love baking as a retired
teacher, I enjoy teaching. So I have decided to share my skills with you
on skill share. This class is aimed at
the baker that would like to learn how to make
a spritz cookie, which is a little bit different than the traditional
spritz cookie. I look forward to teaching
you the skills in this class. Let's move on to
lesson number one, making the cookie dough.
2. 02 Making the Dough: We are ready to make our
peppermint sprits cookies. Let me show you how we do this. To this bowl, I'm going to add my three fourths cup of unsalted butter and
my half cup of sugar. And we want to beat this
until light and fluffy. I'm going to start it on low till the butter breaks
up a little bit, and the sugar gets integrated. Then I'm going to speed
it up to medium high. And this is gonna heat for about 3 minutes
until it's light and fussy. So we'll be back
about As you can see, that's very light and fluffy. I now want to scrape
my bowl down, and I'm going to add my egg, my two cups flour, my half teaspoon of salt, my one teaspoon of
peppermint oil, and my one tablespoon of milk. We're going to start
this on a lope. Once the flour gets
pretty much mixed in, so it won't fly out, we'll
turn the bed up to a median. Now I'm going to stop it
right there so that I can put in just a couple of drops
of red food coating. And then we also
want to mix that in. So we want our dough to become
a light red or dark pink. You got up. Put in better. And there we have
our cookie dough. In our next lesson, I will show you how to
use the cookie press and form the doughs so
that we're ready to bake.
3. 03 Using the Cookie Press: We are ready to start putting the cookie dough onto
the cookie sheet. Now, my dough was a
little bit loose, so I chose to put it
in the fridge for about half an hour or more so that it could
become more firm. Here is our cookie press. And I'm going to start by
doing a candy cane cookie. So I put the stencil
in the bottom there, and I'm just going to rest that on top of
that piece of plastic. And I'm going to
take my cookie dough and push it down in
to the cookie press, se my spoon to push
it down in further. And once I have that full, I'm going to oops. I need to get this
all the way open. And then I just
screw the top on. Now I just put this on
the cookie sheet and I click I have a cookie there. Sometimes you have to click more than once it to come off, and then you end up getting a little bit bigger cookie
than you anticipated. I'm going to try
a different one. I'm going to switch
and try the bell. It's got bigger opening and hopefully it'll come out better. That did come out a
little bit better. For some reason, this does
not want to come off, so I'm scooping it off that way. Let's try another one. For some reason, this is
sticking in the press. It may because I made another
batch earlier today and the press just did not get
clean enough. I don't know. If it gets stuck in the
press like mine is, you can use a little spatula and let me show you
what I'm doing. You'll see that's
there. I came out, but it didn't come off. I'm just using a spatula
starting at the bottom and just carefully scraping
up and bringing it down. That's not the
best way to do it. But for some reason, this one is sticking and so that's
the way I need to do it. Now I'm going to try one other. I also wanted to
do some flowers. Let's see how the
flower one works. Oh, there we go. That one worked with two clicks. I need to fill my press up. Maybe now that I've
worked some through, it'll work better
with the next one. Let's try this
again. Here we go. Here we go. Now we
have it working. So the point sea is definitely working better than
the candy cane did. I'm finding it's taking about
1.5 clicks with this one. The other thing that I
found with this one, I've sprayed this down
occasionally with cooking spray, and it's made it so that
that gets released. We have a few bells and we have some poinsetas and this
particular cookie sheet is full. Before I put this in the oven, I want to sprinkle this peppermint sugar
on top of my cookies. This is now ready to
go into the oven.
4. 04 Baking and Cooling: We are ready to
bake our cookies. The oven has preheated
to 350 degrees, and we're just going to
put those cookies in. And we're going to bake
them for 8 minutes. We'll be back in 8
minutes to check them. Our timer is about
ready to go off. So let's check our cookies
and see what they look like. There's our timer. When I pull these out, you can see how
lovely they look. We're going to let
them cool on the pan for a minute or two and then
move them to a cooling rack. These have been setting on here for just a
couple of minutes so they can start to set. Now we're just going to use
our spatula and bring them over to the cooling tray so that they can
completely cool. And there is our peppermint
sprits cookies. H
5. 05 Final Thoughts: Thank you for taking this class. We had fun making our
peppermint sprits cookies. We first learn how to
make the cookie dough. We then used the cookie press
and formed our cookies. Then we sprinkled
the sugar on them. We finished by baking
and cooling our cookies. I hope your cookies turned out the way you wanted them to. Your project for this class
is to make these cookies. The recipe is in the
project section. Please make sure to post a picture of your cookies
when you're done, and let us know how it went. I look forward to
hearing from you from my kitchen to your
kitchen, have the baking.
Nadine Thomas
