Adding Dry Ingredients to Candy Cane Cookies

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Jennifer Cail and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you how to make these peppermenty candy cane cookies. Now that our butter and sugar and eggs and flavorings have all been added together and we have this great even consistency, you can see it all mixed in together, we're going to add in our flour. We're going to add two and a half cups of flour and we'll do this by scooping lightly from the container into our measuring cups. Now the only real dry ingredient we'll be adding is flour, these cookies don't take any leveling, so you don't have to worry about mixing up the dry ingredients separately. Now because you're adding in a lot of flour I'm going to add it in all at once, but I'm going to mix it in a little bit before starting the beaters up again. This is to prevent the flour from flying out of the bowl which is what you don't want too much of it and you're going to end up with not enough of flour to hold everything together, all of that will take a lot of power to do that. So you want to level that off, put in our second cup of flour and then half cup and just scoop that right in you don't want to pack it in, it wants to be in there very, very gently and lightly. If you're baking something with a lot of flour in it, you may want to consider measuring it and using weight instead of volume because it's really hard sometimes when you got large amounts of flour to make sure that you have the exact amount that the recipe calls for if you're just scooping it. And then we're just going to add a pinch of salt. Not like that at all, just a pinch, a little bit of salt to temper out some of that sugar. (now that is not going to go back in there) Let's not waste too much of this. Anyway, I'm going to take the bowl off here so I can show you what I'm doing which is kind of folding the wet and the dry ingredients together a little bit so that when we start mixing it with a mixer it's not all going to fly out. Now this isn't doing a very good job of mixing and that is not what we want, we're not trying to incorporate it, we're just trying to get it a little bit mixed in. Make sure that we get some of the wet ingredients up from the bottom before we turn on the mixer. And get that back in there, scrape off the spatula and then start it up again for the final mix to get our dough."