Making the Base for a Holiday Cookie Tree

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is Josiah Owen with Expert Village, and today we're going to be talking about making a cookie tree. Now we're going to discuss getting our dry ingredients together for our sugar cookie. We're going to need 2 1/2 cup of all-purpose flour. Half a cup, one cup, 1 1/2, 2, and 2 1/2. Put that to the side. We're going to need half a teaspoon of salt. Just dump that in there. Then we're going to need one teaspoon baking powder. Make sure you don't use baking soda. Use baking powder. Now we're going to talk about mixing the dry and wet ingredients. We have our butter and sugar mixed. We added our vanilla and egg. Then we're going to go ahead and add our baking powder, salt, and our flour. Go ahead and turn this on low and slowly stir this in. Go ahead and turn this up some. Not too much because we don't want the flour to pop out. We don't want to go ahead and pour this all in at once because it'll be really hard to mix itself. Turn this down. Drop it and go ahead and pour the rest in. Bring it back up. Start off on slow again and stir it back up. We're going to stir for about 30 more seconds until everything is done. Now that all of our sugar cookie mix has been mixed together, we have this nice dough. You want to go ahead and put this in another container and you want to cover it up. After this point, we're going to have to put in the refrigerator and let it sit for at least one hour. A good idea is to actually cook this ahead of time the day before so it can be sitting over night so it will have time to sit and rest. We don't want the mix to go straight from the mixer to the cookie tray. It just won't turn out good cookies. They won't stick together. At this point, it's letting all the flavors mix in and set. Like any other meal you do, the longer it sets the better it is. Think of this as slow roasting for a cookie."