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We are in the kitchen with kids today.
We've got 3 very special helpers.
We've got Emily, Lilly and Katie.
We've got 14, 7 and 4 this summer, huh?
1234 Yeah, 1234.
Today we are going to be making all kinds of stuff, but we know one thing.
Lily, what do we have to do before we start to cook, do you remember the word?
No? Katie? Mise en place
Very good! Emily, what does mise en place mean?
Gather everything together, prepared, get prepared.
That's right, exactly. So when you're getting ready to cook.. Katie when you're getting
ready to cook, don't we have to have everything together?
Yeah. What do you think, Lilly? [all laugh]
Lilly says if you take your socks off, it's more effective when you're cooking.
Okay, true bearfoot child. Okay, yeah.
That's going to work for me. Okay, alright. So we're going to start.
We're going to make our very favorite, what's the best cookie in the whole entire universe?
Chocolate Chip!! Yes. Should we make them? Do you think we should make them?
Oh yes. That's right that's my favorite too. So we're going to make some chocolate chip cookies.
Homemade chocolate chip cookies. Are we going to slice them
from a tube you get from the grocery store? No!
Are we going to use a tub that we have to scoop them out of? No!
What are we going to do? Make them homemade? Homemade.
Alright, who likes homemade chocolate chip cookies? Me!! I do!! Me too!!
Okay, have to follow suit. Alright, we're going to get our socks taken care of
and we're going to start our mise en place. Give us a second we'll be right back.
Alright we've been making chocolate chip cookies. As you know, when you make
chocolate chip cookies, the kind from scratch,
you have to do the dry ingredients first. We did some very
basic dry measurements. We showed
the girls how to measure those ingredients by spooning in the flour
and using a knife to scrape off the top and make a nice even measurement.
If you just pour the flour in and then just push it down,
you get too much flour in there. It's very important to spoon it in and be very light
handed with your flour. We also did sugar
and brown sugar. You have to pack that and everybody had a turn packing it into the cup,
so much so it hardly would come out.
So that's what we basically set up with. So we had one bowl with all of our dry
ingredients, including the flour and baking soda and the salt.
Then in the other bowl, we had the sugar
and the butter. Then we eventually added the eggs.
We got everything mixed together and before you knew it,
we had a nice cookie dough and of course we added
a lot of chocolate chips. We are in the middle
of cooking, making rather, chocolate chip cookies. One of the hardest things
about making a chocolate chip cookie
is making sure that you get the egg into the mix
and none of the shell. So when you're working with children, one of the
best things to do is make sure
that you do it into a bowl first and not into your main mix.
Lily who's 3, almost 4, you're going to cut. Let's see you do it.
Crack that egg, girl!
That was a good job. Open it up. Open it up.
Oh! Okay, okay, that's good.
This is a good trick, let me show you something with this shell.
No,no, no. Before you do that, did you get it? Yeah.
You wrecked my trick!
I'm just kidding. My trick is this. Okay, my trick is this. Let me show you.
Give me that little piece of shell. Give me that shell.
Okay, so here's what little shell and its in here.
You can use a piece of shell like this to just pull it right out. Did you see how it just took it?
It's like a magnet. It just took it right out of there. Okay, so we've got now we've
creamed our eggs
or rather we've creamed our butter
and we creamed our sugar all together. Now we're going to do the eggs in there.
Can you put that over to lock it? Lock it in place, Lilly. Thanks. Good job.
Now we're going to go slow,
because we don't want the eggs to go flying everywhere.
Not yet anyway. We're going to go fast to the moon.
Then we're going to do it again. Should we do it fast? Should we go to the moon? Yeah! You ready?
Ahhh!! Hold on!! [girls giggle]
All right, we're done with the moon. Pretty good though, huh? That looks like peanut butter.
Okay, so what is one of the other things that we need to do?
I want to do that. Emily is going to do that for us.
Emily, why don't you show us how to scrape the side? Because that's one of the important
things that you do, is scrape the sides,
so that you make sure that everything is going down into the bottom and getting
all equally mixed. So scrape the side for us,
if you would. There you go, push it all down. It looks good. It looks pretty good.
It's that dark brown sugar, which I happen to like better, because it makes them just a little chewier.
I like chewy. I like chewy chocolate chip cookies too.
There you go, good job.
Hold on, Katie. There we go. So we're gonna do one..
Lily can you fix that for me, please? Thank you. Good job.
Here it goes, one more time.
Up to the moon. the crazy. Up to the moon! Alright there it is, whoo!
Do you see how it's changing color. Do you know why? Why?
It's getting more and more blended, that's why. So now we're going to add just a little bit..
We've got a little of our flour. See what we've got to do,
just mix it together with the baking soda. We're going to add 1 cup at a time. Whoa.
That's about a cup, maybe just a little bit more. Alright, you ready? Don't put it on my head.
Watch your head. Watch your head.
Wait, there you go.
Slow. I want to do it. Do you want to do it? Thank you.
Go fast! We've got to wait. Wait til it all gets in there and then we'll go fast.
Emily's going to have to scrape it down in a minute too.
Watch, wait where are we going? To the moon! Alright, there we go!
Okay. Now that looks like peanut butter. Can you move that back for me, Lilly?
There we go. We need another scraping down.
I'm going to need Katie to put this flour in for me. Careful with that cup.
Then after Katie, I want to do it. Do ya? Ok.
We can do that. Can you give that one little scrape down?
I think what I'm going do is
get this last little bit. That was going to be me! That's going to be you, alright?
But we've got to do this one cup first, okay? Then we're going
have a massive cleanup on aisle four. Oh yes.
Are we scraped? Oh yes.
Okay. Alright. So let's go ahead
and put this one in.
Lilly fix it. Uh uh, not yet. Oh yeah now.
Then when that's done, you get to do this one, okay?
We need to do this one first, okay? Let's go slow.
I don't like it when the flour goes everywhere, do you?
No, we don't want to get it in our faces.
I know it's no fun in your face. See how it's making a nice dough.
It doesn't look all gooey anymore.
and sometimes it goes to the moon! Wow!
Wow! Alright. So.
That means we need one more cup to go in there. Let's see, Lily.
Be careful, let's get that in right into that. You've got that?
All right, let's make sure it goes all into the bowl. There you go.
Did you do it? Yeah, good job.
Push it down. Ok, now lock it, very good.
You're really a professional. Let's go to the moon. You think so?
Right now? Right now? Yeah! How about now?
How about almost? Yeah, right now! Are we getting close?
Alright.
Is that the moon? Yeah!! That's pretty good, huh?
What do you think?
It smells good already!!
It doesn't smell that good without the chocolate chips. Well, the chocolate chips are about there.
Why don't we knock all of that dough in. Oh wow.
And we will get those chocolate chips.
I want to put the chocolate chips in! Can you read the package and tell me how many chocolate chips go in? Where do I start?
Let's see, does it say how many cups of the chocolate chips go in?
Right there? I don't know. I can't see
those little tiny letters. Emily, where's the chocolate chips?
How many is it? Like 2 cups?
Right there, yes 2 cups.
Mercy, that's a lot of chocolate chips. We can do it though.
Where's my mommy? She's in the Mommy Department. [girls laugh]
Can I put this cup in? Do you think so? You want to? Alright. Wow.
2 cups, roll 'em!
Okay, what do you think? One more time?
One more time guys. Fix it, off to the moon.
Wheeee.
Where did all the chocolate chips go?
Yeah, where are they? Do you see them? I see them. I see them.
OK, we need to open it up. Can you fix that? Is it fixed? Yeah, it's fixed.
Wow! Yummy! Is that good? Yummy!
OK, but we don't eat dough because... Why? Egg.
Yes. Okay, but what we do as we get them on the cookie sheets and we bake the
cookies. Then we'll have a glass of milk and some cookies. What do you think?
Is that a great idea? Sounds good to me!
Chocolate chip cookies. [all laugh] We had lots of help from Lilly, Katie and Emily. Thanks, you guys.
(Lilly makes noise) [all laugh]
So that's basically it on how to make great homemade chocolate chip cookies. It's very simple, very basic,
but it's something that everybody should have in the repertoire, at least one time
in their life, homemade chocolate chip cookies.