- [Bobby] Hey everybody,
its Bobby Dean here
And my wife Claudia and we
are filling in for my Mom
While she's recovering from
a little bit of eye surgery
That she had up at Duke University.
Um, but we're still goin.
All of you know about it and shes doing
Really, really great and she's
on the mend and all is well.
But she's not exactly
Uh, ready to
Step in front of the camera.
Um, to do cooking videos,
so, I'm filling in for them
And today I've got the
most special guest that
I could possibly have.
- [Claudia] Me
In fact, I'm saying it
backwards cause I'm the guest
This is Claudia's recipe.
We're here today in our
home and Claudia was
Just holding up a dish
towel, what does it say?
- I love it, my mom gave us this.
- What does it say?
- Silence is golden
unless you have children
Then silence is suspicious.
So true.
- Its awfully quiet in here.
- I know right, suspicious.
- All right, so, Claud, does lots of
great, really simple
Easy, healthy, recipes.
We make a lot of food here at home.
For ourselves, and for our children.
And uh, Claudia, wants
to share with you today
A cookie recipe that she loves to do.
So, with no further ado, take it away
My beautiful bride, Claudia Dean.
- Simple, I think is the key,
like, I like to do things
That don't take much time.
Bobby loves to go like,
through the recipes
And measure everything.
I measured these just for the purposes
So you can make it at home.
But if it were for me, I
would just eyeball everything.
So, I brought this specially for Bobby
Because he hates when my hair is down.
- Yeah, run your fingers
through it a few times.
- I'll wash my hands
- Oh yeah
- Bobby hates hair.
- Hey, I'm a kitchen guy.
- Hates hair
- I'm a restaurant guy
- If he sees hair
- No, I don't mind hair my head
- Its like, his biggest nightmare.
- Ironic that I hate hair and
look at how it paid me back
I don't have, hardly any of it.
Where I don't like hair is on
the countertops, in the food
- Even in like the bathroom
floor, he'll freak.
- All right, so, back to the recipe.
And it is? What kind of cookies are these?
- Hates hair, so I'm going to put my
I'm going to put my nail away, my ring.
- Put your nails away.
- Oh Coco
Um, Coco's our dog, one of them.
Okay, so we are going to do
a five minute cookie recipe.
- Okay
- We can call it
- I'm looking at the clock
- Five minute no, sorry, five ingredients.
- Okay I was going to say
- Its going to take twenty minutes
From the beginning til the end.
- That right?
- And its because it
cooks for fifteen minutes.
So to put it together
is only five minutes.
Um
Its a chocolate
Almond butter cookie.
No
A chocolate, almond cookie.
Or an almond, chocolate chip cookie.
- Mhm
- Which one sounds better?
- I liked the chocolate,
almond butter cookie.
- Its not almond butter, just almond.
- Okay, well chocolate,
almond cookie then.
- Okay chocolate, almond cookie.
- By the way, speaking
of things being great.
I look great.
Am I a lucky duck? Or
what? Cause, everything
That's going on right here
Are you going to wear earrings
today? Oh, you got some on.
I didn't notice them.
- Do you have your target shirt on?
- I certainly do, damn right I do.
- I got it for him.
- You bought this.
- Target
- Don't make fun of it.
- This means we're not going to
- What were you doing at target?
- With my face mask.
Okay, so
Okay, so
We have
We're just going to mix it all in.
- Take it away.
- We preheated our oven at three fifty.
- Damn right.
Then what?
- And again, the recipe
that y'all can find online
I'm doubling it, because its Friday.
Even though you might not
be seeing this on a Friday.
And I want cookies for the weekend.
So, I'm doing double the recipe.
- And there's a lot of
mouths in this house.
- Yes
- So they will get eaten, believe me.
- Yes, so, we are going to have
- What kind of utensils do you need?
- Hands, so, this is very simple.
- I don't like it
- No, no, you use your
hands, hands, your hands.
All right, so, we have
- Your hands?
- Yes
We have, you may get some
nail polish, if its my hands.
- Why was I looking at the
whole nail, oh , it is my nails.
- Ew
- all right, so, we have
- The visual
We have
Two cups
Almond
What's it called?
Flour, thank you Eddie, I know flour.
You can do this with any, like ground oat
- Mhm
- So it would be like oat
flour, but this is almond flour.
- That's a good start
- Mhm, well we may want a spoon.
- How about a rubber spatula?
- All right, then we have
one cup
of almond butter.
Am I as good as your mom?
- No, its just, you asked me what I like
- I'm just trying to remember the amount.
I said, chocolate almond
butter is what I like
And you said its not almond butter.
- Well, there's almond
flour, so you can't just
Call it almond butter,
its like double almond.
I'm sure I remember the amounts.
I poured this in this container
Like five minutes ago and I
already forgot the amounts.
- Two cups of flour,
One cup of almond butter.
- I just eyeball everything.
I just like to eyeball.
- Its good, I like that.
- Then, half a cup of maple syrup.
Lets talk about each ingredient
Lets go back, the almond
flour is just ground almond
So you can do, this is
very natural, very simple
Ground almonds,
then you have the almond butter
And its just ground almonds.
So when you go to the store
you want to get the almond
Butter that the only
ingredients are almonds
And maybe sea salt.
But no sugar or oil, you
don't need any of that.
Like the almond butter
already has a lot of fat.
Which are healthy fats,
any free fats, that's okay.
And then the maple syrup,
we just get like, its not
Like the pancake, its
like real maple syrup.
Like Vermont maple syrup.
Even though it came from Publics
- That's a running joke, a
running joke in our family.
A running joke about a
trip we took to Vermont
That we took a few years back.
- Yeah
- Now as far as the almond butter
And peanut butter is concerned
- Baby I said with your hands.
I do it with my hands.
But Bobby doesn't want
our nail polish in it so
- There are almond butters
and peanut butters out
There that are completely natural.
That the sole ingredients
would be almonds.
- Roasted almonds or peanuts
- Right
- And sometimes it has sea salt
- Right
- But you don't want it to
have sugar or like palm oil
Or any of that, that's
just not sustainable
its added fat and sugar
that you don't need.
- And you know what, I'm here
to tell you that they're good.
The natural ones, they really are good.
- Bobby for lunch every day has
Two bananas with almond butter.
- Yeah usually I do,
cause its quick and easy.
That's on the go food.
These, okay, so,
- So, this is what that looks like.
- Yes and Bobby did it with a spatula.
That's pretty good.
And then we have half a
cup of chocolate chips.
So, I'm using dark
chocolate chips for baking.
You can just like mash a
chocolate bar, whatever works.
But
this is a Vegan
Chocolate chips
So these can be vegan cookies.
- Mm
- Or you can just use milk
chocolate, whatever you like.
There you go
- Probably a
Semi sweet
Probably a real high cacao.
- Yeah that's like fifty five I think.
And then there is a half
Sorry I'm just trying
to remember the amounts.
- Its all right, its all
right, its countable.
Its a full teaspoon.
- Okay
- Of baking powder
- Okay
- Perfect, that's it.
My memory, deceased my brain.
- Well, I think that you're
doing good considering you have
Three young babies
Two dogs
Me
- A husband
And usually, like again
like, the way I cook
I just eyeball everything.
So when I have to put
everything into amounts
That's hard for me
- I'm with you Claud, I always, yeah
- You always like to
measure everything, baby.
- No, well I do, I'm about
to make a comment on it
I think that pinch and
dash cooking is lots of fun
And I don't think that it
has to be exact or precise
But when baking you do have to
be a little bit more precise.
- Well, this is like kind of baking
So what we're going to do
This is probably going
to be sixteen cookies.
Again the recipe that
y'all can find online
Is eight cookies.
So we are going to make little balls.
- Do you want a spoon?
- No, we are going to do
it with our hands, come on.
I took my wedding ring out, so
Oh, should I bring it here?
- Mhm
- So we're going to make
Actually, I think with the spatula
It got mixed better than with the hands.
What would I do without Bobby?
- You'd probably be better off.
But my mom has always said,
The best tools in
The kitchen are the
ones that god gave you.
So you're not wrong.
- Yeah but last time made
But last time I made them I
think they were not as pretty.
You know what? We are going
to need another of this.
So you are just going to make
Little balls with your hands.
And you're going
Not little balls, you're just
going to make your cookies.
And they are going to be so good.
And the fun thing about this recipe
Is that you can make it
whatever you want to make
Whatever you want it to be.
So you can do almond butter.
These, again are almond chocolate cookies.
As Bobby called them.
But you can make them like,
peanut butter, if you wanted.
Or if you like sun flower butter.
Or whatever butter you
like, you can just use that.
And again if you want
something that is not almond
Or maybe you have an almond
allergy, or who knows what.
You can use ground oats as your flower.
So its a very
Do you want to help me do this?
- Uh uh
Did you just drink water
and do (sigh) in my ear?
- I was so thirsty.
So thirsty.
- Okay
um
I think you're doing beautiful,
this is a nice display.
Well we don't have enough room right here.
- Plenty
There we go, much better, thank you.
- So
- I think you were just making an excuse
- I was enjoying my hands staying clean.
- They're going to be clean,
they're going to be moisture.
- I see that, your skin looks so good
Might want to rub this on my face.
- Your face is what I
was going to tell you.
Um, yeah I think its going to make
It should make sixteen
- The consistency of
these cookies is beautiful
Because look how great, I
mean those look like pro.
Are these going to um
- I am pro.
- Yeah, what am I thinking?
They um, are they going to expand out
And become, are these
going to be big cookies?
- No, no, no
They are small cookies.
They may go like a little bit just
Because I have the baking
- The baking powder
- But they are not going to be like
Starbucks sized cookies.
- Okay
Well those just look great.
And they smell really good too.
- Well I mean its not
like when I made buns.
- No, no
I mean it just
- Target shirt
- Yeah
I don't mind
I don't mind
Say whatever you want
- There we go
Look how pretty.
And they're going to taste even better.
Are you going to have one?
- Um, yeah, at least one
- Or a few? How many are there?
Twelve
- So far, this sheets
gonna be really small
you're only going to get
- Like four
- You're going to end
up with about sixteen.
- Yeah that's what I calculated.
I made these last week for the babies
And they love them.
We took some to the beach.
- We are going to have one
or two small cookies here.
- I share another
- This one is loaded with chocolate chips
- Nice, that's fine, I
share another cookie recipe
On my Instagram, the one
with the bananas, remember?
- Yep, I do
- With the banana oats,
that was pretty good too.
I'm goin got take some
- Oh yeah those are good.
So I made these two recipes.
That I made up.
One from. I shared that
one on my Instagram
is pretty good and then this one.
So we got
Actually we got seventeen cookies.
- Okay some couple odd sizes in there.
I might've made one or two, too big.
- No, they look great.
So we are going to cook
that for fifteen minutes.
- Okay, so they're
ready to go in the oven?
- Yes sir
Preheated three fifty, middle rack.
I'll put these, i wish we had room,
You know what? we might have room.
- It doesn't matter, you
can just put it wherever.
- Doesn't matter?
- No
We're casual
- I'm putting it om the top rack
Just watch it close.
- Yup
I will be back
- That was so easy
So, we'll see you in fifteen
minutes for some hot cookies.
All right everybody we're back
And its been about fifteen minutes.
The timer just went off and
the cookies smell so good.
So lets get them out of the oven.
You ready Claud?
- Yes
- All right, step back,
don't let it burn you.
- Step back
- Here comes the small pan.
Gosh they're perfect.
- And then there's the big pan.
- Oh man
- These are the ones that should be
- Careful, its hot, careful
- That's right
- Excuse me, I'm sorry
- I'm just so excited, I want to eat them.
- Yeah, well don't be so
excited that you burn yourself.
- Yes, so you probably
want to let them sit
- They look and smell delicious
- Yeah, you probably want to let them
Sit for like ten minutes.
- If I can handle them we're in trouble.
- You can handle them.
- I'm going to put them in here
- What're you doing?
- I'm just
Are they good?
- Mm
- I want a bite.
- there's seventeen cookies here.
How are you going to take one of mine?
- Sixteen, oh the one that has a lot
Of chocolate in it that Bobby made.
- Mm, mm, good Claud
- Are they good?
- They're beyond good.
- Mm
- Those are excellent.
- Mm mm
- Great recipe, we have
to share some with Mom.
- Some, or one?
- Some
- (Laughs)
- Michaels there too, Eddie
There's people that would want these.
These are excellent
We'll pack some up and
take them home with you.
All right Claud, thanks
very much for helping
Me stand in for mom.
You did a great job.
Your recipes are great.
I'm a lucky duck, cause
this is the kind of
Stuff that happens at
our house all the time.
So
Maybe we'll see you again
While Mom is healing up.
In the mean time, I'm
going to eat cookies.
Thanks for joining us, bye y'all
- Thank you, enjoy!
