Christmas. My kids are so excited, I am so excited I love Christmas. And to celebrate

I am participating in the biggest collaboration I have ever been part of with KIN community

which that is like a network of cool channels that are on youtube. So what we are going

to do is we are going to make for you 27, yes 27 different Christmas cookies. So I am

going to show you how to make these cool spiral cookies with sprinkles on the outside and

a few variations on that and then there are 26 other cooking channels on youtube that

are all part of KIN community that are going to show you how to make something as well

and they are all going to be on one big playlist and I'll link to that at the end of this video.

But at the beginning I just wanted to show you a few of them so you know what everyone

else is baking. We've got this one here by Gemma Stafford and this one by Cook with April

and this one by cake style TV and as I said there are many many more in the playlist I'll

link to that at the end and in the description below. But now let's get started making these

spiral cookies. with sprinkles on. To make these you will need

butter or margarine, plain all-purpose flour, eggs, sugar, vanilla, and red food colouring.

Add the sugar to the butter and then the vanilla extract in there as well.

Then mix that together until it is combined, you can use an electric mixer if you prefer

here but you don't need to you can just use your muscles and do it by hand.

Add the eggs and stir those through until your mixture is smooth. Then tip all of that

into the flour, you can tip the flour into it. I just had the flour in a bigger bowl so

I did it that way, either way it doesn't matter . And then start to stir those together and

at first it will seem like there is too much flour but it is OK just keep on mixing it

and it will come together. Keep going until it's nearly all combined . Then tip it out

onto the bench and use your hands to gently knead and squeeze it until it forms a ball.

Cut that in half, flatten out one side and add some red colour to it. I am using gel

colour because it is a bit thicker and not as watery as your liquid colour. Then I like

to spread it out using a knife and cut it and mix it in a bit first, it kind of looks

like I am killing it. But it helps not get so much red colouring on you hands if you

do this first. Now knead that colour through until you have an even colour all the way

through and no streaks of white. Cut the white dough in half. Place it on some

non-stick baking paper on the bench and put two things of the same height either side,

you could use chopsticks here or two rulers. Put some more baking paper over the top and

then just use a rolling pin to flatten it and spread it out into an even layer that

is all the same height.

We want to make it into a rectangle so if it is rounded at the ends like mine is just

cut it off and add those extra bits to the corners and then re-roll it.

Now do the same thing with half of the red dough. Check the size of the rectangle and

try and get it very similar to the size of the white one. It doesn't have to be exact

but the closer the better. Slide the baking paper onto something flat. I am using a chopping

board. And then pull the paper under the board position the red so it is nearly at the edge

of the white, leaving a line of white dough visible there. And then carefully pull the

baking paper under the board, so pulling it up and under the board, moving the board back

as you go so that red dough is just sliding off and sitting on top of the white.

Trim the edges to make it neat on those three sides and then starting at the other end lift

it to pull up and roll the dough over. Gently pressing down as you go so that you don't

have lots of gaps in the roll. Then place that on a tray in the freezer for about 30

minutes to firm up. With the rest of your dough that you've got

left you can do the same thing or if you want something different, roll them both into the

same sized cylinders and place those two cylinders in the freezer as well.

Now that you dough is chilled spread out some hundreds and thousands next to it and roll

it through pressing lightly until you get a good coating all over. Now slice off pieces

about 1cm thick to reveal the beautiful spiral pattern on the inside.

Use your fingers to round them up a bit if they have got a bit squashed while you were

cutting them and place onto a lined baking tray.

Bake them in the oven for around 10-12 minutes and then that smell of baked cookies will

waft through the kitchen. Pull them out of the oven and let them cool.

With the other dough cut one of the cylinders in half

then into quarters then cut each quarter in half again.

Repeat that with your red dough. Then put together a new cylinder alternating

the red and the white pieces all the way around until you've joined 8 pieces together. Then

just give it a gentle squeeze and roll to join it to each other. And repeat with the

rest of the bits that you've got left so you make two cylinders. You can roll this in sprinkles

too if you like or just slice it as is. And you end up with this neat little pattern inside

your cookies. Place them onto a baking tray and bake them for 10 -12 minutes just like

we did with the others and serve with some milk.

Remember to check out the 26 other cookie recipes in the playlist and merry christmas

to you and your family. I hope you have a great day and I'll see you all on Friday.

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