Brits Make & Try GINGERBREAD MEN ! (Christmas Recipes)

[@Mrhandfriends]

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[@richardd.2988]

Elana's dexterity with pouring and stirring is getting so much better. She's going to be the most Americanized cook in Great Britain.

[@Siouxsi-Sioux]

Put a slice of bread in your cookie container overnight, and in the morning the slice of bread will be hard but the cookies will be soft!! Try it!

[@osmadchlo]

1/2 of an apple will work nicely, too!

[@scottroberts3705]

You can also do that for brown sugar that is hard as a rock!

[@lisatiptoes]

My Mom taught me that.

[@pacmon5285]

This works with anything dry & wet. Easy way to rehydrate something.

[@rhondag8128]

I have always done this, slice of bread or a piece of apple to soften or rehydrate things. Plus is you have stale crackers, chips or cereal put it on a cookie sheet and stick it in the oven on 300 for about 3 to 5 minutes and they will be crispy again.

[@havok6280]

"It's got wine!" "It's Nana!" Shots fired by Baby H...😂

[@pennysilvey8868]

We love you too Little Miss Elana! ❤ That was so sweet! She really enjoys cooking with mom. So fun to see.

[@pinky2245]

"Mommy, stop making the table wobble"! What an adorable child! So smart too!

[@penneysnyder4696]

Love watching Elana! She’s growing before our eyes. Great job on the gingerbread men Mrs H! ❤

[@gabrielguaciaro3235]

If Elana keeps this up, she'll be opening up her own bakery soon!! Great job Elana and Mrs. H! I especially liked the Mr. H cookie dragging the Little H away....lol

[@tammycenter8757]

OMG I am dying, little H put her hand on her hip like she is absolutely the boss of that kitchen. Then I almost fell out of my chair when sher said this one has wine, it's Nana. I am a grandmother and things like that just tickle me to death. Out of the mouths of babes. Too cute. Mrs. H you are rocking the recipes and being a great Mom.

[@toddhadley9002]

Yes! Elana's back in the kitchen! An overload of cuteness is just what I needed today.

[@lauraellen189]

What cute video!! Some Americans like gingerbread cookies crisp. We call them Ginger Snaps. You can dunk them in milk or hot tea!

[@mikeh8416]

She's going to be an internet sensation when she gets old enough to do these by herself. So confident, and smart. You guys are doing a GREAT job raising her!

[@gailkoelling2033]

😂😂 just about fell off my chair seeing Nana and the wine. Nana had one too many.

[@debrawhite751]

Is there anything more adorable than a precious little child helping mommy? Yes, a child with an English accent helping mummy. Every time she says "Buttah", my heart melts.

[@elsk8tefan]

Just a tip for the treacle; spray the cup with cooking spray ahead and the treacle will all come out.

[@Mrhandfriends]

I remembered that one and did it but I think I left it sitting there for too long whilst I was getting ready

[@Laura-f2s9w]

I love gingerbread…Elana is becoming a very good baker ❤

[@DUEYZ4U]

Good for you guys. 👍👍

[@katrinagreely5399]

Miss Elana is the BEST helper!! I love how she says "butter", and the fact that she knows butter is needed next. And how she instructed you to use both hands when cutting them out. :) She is going to be quite the baker when she is older. :) Those looked really good. I haven't made gingerbread men in a long time. Such a fun Christmas activity.

[@Mrhandfriends]

I also get told “two hands “ when driving as well LOL

[@freddooley1692]

Way to go Elana !!!

[@gdhaney136]

It's crazy to me that Mrs. H was pregnant when I was watching Mr. H, then Alana H was born, and there were reviews and travels and now, BABY H is a little human who talks and bakes. TIME is short, enjoy every moment. It's been a pleasure to watch your family live and grow.

[@tonyterryjohnson8603]

This was a great video. Your family has certainly been blessed by God. You use America's test kitchen. That's because you're smart. They are absolutely the best. They are the best. Glad that you found them.

[@bigtex741]

Good job girls. They look good.

[@intallpines]

Sweet as sugar plums dancing in your head. BLYA! TCGB! xoxox

[@rickflores2171]

It looks like everyone is feeling better. Love to see Mom and daughter in the kitchen. Elana makes me smile, she is doing so well pouring and rolling. Mrs H, the Mommy and baby cookie is funny! Again the editing is excellent. BLY from Texas! ❤❤❤

[@CCoburn3]

We love you too, Elana.

[@CyndiDeimler]

I grew up near Lancaster, Pa and never knew gingerbread houses originated there! Thank you for teaching me something new! Elana is as cute as ever!

[@2010mtaylor1]

I saw Elana's eye's glaze over as soon as you put that bowl of flour on the counter, all she was thinking about from that time onward was munching down on gingerbread cookies. 😊😊😊 It's true. 😊 Tell Elana that we all love her too!

[@kaylheecarroll3186]

Cute gingerbread cookies or biscuits ❤😊

[@mightymomentswithkarensnow3961]

The crunchy cookies are perfect for dunking in coffee or tea. Mmmm

[@apt221bbakerst]

Missy H looks like both of you, but in this video, she sounds like her dad and has his mannerisms.

[@stephaniemccarthy1676]

Would be wonderful with tea...the snap is seasonal sensation. Love them... crunchy without the blessing of hot tea.

[@randykillman6475]

Baby H: we all love you too. Great job baking

[@GranpaMike]

Always awesome! 😎🧡🧡/❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@stephaniemccarthy1676]

Adorably delicious video! Much 💕

[@Pinkfong2]

Love watching her bake. I’m impressed she doesn’t put her finger in the bowl to taste.

[@pamrabidoux8862]

Love your Family! Elana is a joy to watch and cute as a button. She is so smart. Try cooking your cookies 8 to 9 mins or Put all your dry ingredients, ( Flour, baking soda, and spices ) in a bowl and set aside. In a larger bowl Cream the butter and sugar together for 2 mins with mixer, then add your egg and blend. Add your treacle and milk mix. Once that is mixed add your dry ingredients into the wet and mix just until blended. Bake as usual but I would still check them after 8 to 9 mins to check for doneness. Hope this helps.. I am craving a gingerbread cookie now.. Yummy

[@joyannwesson]

Darn I missed a great video and chat. That Nana and wine cracked me up. Also, our smarties are tangy sugar candy.

[@James-tz7pe]

They grow up so fast

[@lisapop5219]

Our smarties are very different.

[@RJsCave]

We love you to elana. lol. I expect you'll have your own channel soon enough.

[@FUBAR1986]

Usually a parent hands-down recipes to a child and in your case, you’re learning together🎉😂❤ ☮️❤️🙏🌎🌍🌏🇺🇸❤️☮️

[@joyannwesson]

I will have to watch this later. I will miss chatting with you all. I'm going to dinner with my mom.

[@Mrhandfriends]

Have a nice dinner, say hi to your mom

[@joyannwesson]

​@@Mrhandfriends will do. BLY

[@intallpines]

@@joyannwesson We missed you and discussed sending a posse to find you! See you soon Joyann.

[@badw01f23]

Oh man. I haven't had fresh gingerbread in forever! I need this

[@mgpm17]

Elana is such a sweetheart. ❤

[@FultonBaker]

Very cool

[@scottjones758]

Spray your measure cup with oil spray before the treacle so if flows out much easier. Works with honey and syrup too!

[@maobfh]

My favorite ginger has both fresh grated and dry ground ginger! Yum! Those were lovely! Usually I put a splash of vanilla in the icing BUT I like to switch out the Vanilla for orange extract, instead. FanTAStic! I don’t say that because I thought ANYthing was wrong with yours! They looked great, as did the recipe. I’m always kicking things up a notch.

[@jessicavorhies7703]

Wonderful cookies!!!! You did a great job 👌☺️

[@chrisjarvis2287]

Smarties in the U.S are small chalky sour candies in a roll. yours are like M&M's

[@intallpines]

Frosty the Snowman is animated you know? She might become interested during a snowy day. Hope you have plenty this winter.

[@tinahairston6383]

Well done, Elana and Mrs. H!! I don't think I've ever seen Smarties like yours. We have some candy called Smarties but yours look more like Skittles. We usually decorate them with gum drops or some Red Hots which are a cinnamon candy that I think Mr. H has tried. If not, just some dabs of icing work as well. To get them softer, add a bit more milk so your dough isn't as crumbly but not too much. Also the more flour you need to roll them out will make a difference

[@Brenda-f9y]

Actually the ones that they call Smarties look more like the ones we call Spree here in the US. Our Smarties are definitely a lot different.

[@tinahairston6383]

@@Brenda-f9y Sprees are a flat disc. Their Smarties are shaped more like a Skittle though have a chocolate filling like M&Ms.

[@luciafeola3069]

Elena ❤

[@lisatiptoes]

Great job, Mom and Elana!

[@SceptiGus]

You go, Elana!

[@vs-ww7cb]

So it was my wifi didn't let me comment. You guys got gingerbread going on. Play with your food. Awesome video 😂

[@annemariewalker6334]

Elana is just the cutest baker ever!! 🇺🇸💖

[@MrPenguinLife]

We have a completely different candy that is also called Smartees

[@DravenGal]

Too much cuteness! Such lovely bakers! The cookies look so yummy! Say, I have a rare cookie recipe from my childhood I've only ever seen in ONE cookbook (and I've been looking for it since I could read, and I even worked in a bookstore). I used to make them every year, but then my oven broke and we can't afford to fix it. Would you be interested? They're an oat shortbread chocolate dipped cookie. I could email it to you. 💙

[@tonirieke7934]

We have every year, gingerbread men and gingerbread bear. I usually make and my nephews and niece decorated growing up. Now the great neices and nephews decorate them and sugar cookies cut into Santa, bells, trees, stars etc a good time

[@h.s.5550]

❤

[@spacehonky6315]

Most in my family didn't really like gingerbread, so we always made sugar cookies instead. With piped icing, sprinkles, and candies of course!

[@HDCalame]

If you have dough left but not enough to cut out more men shapes, just make little round biscuits (cookies) or ginger snaps.

[@philipbutler6608]

Nanna drinking wine….lol

[@CCoburn3]

Oil the measuring utensils before measuring thick fluids like molasses or honey. It will come out of the container easier.

[@Susan-cooks]

Mrs H, a tip...fold your piping bag around a tall glass to hold it open while you fill it. Great job you and Elana did on making the gingerbread men. They make gingerbread woman and girl cookie cutters here in the U.S. They are shaped to appear to be wearing dresses.

[@Mrhandfriends]

Ahhh that would have been so much easier! I wasn’t very good with the piping bag at all

[@Susan-cooks]

@Mrhandfriends You'll be great with a little bit of practice. Elana will be a pro because you are encouraging her to spread her wings in the kitchen.

[@christelgoedecke7017]

Try rolling them out at least twice as thick. Have fun.

[@jamesjones8482]

Great video! I'm glad you are encouraging Elana to learn cooking. I'm afraid my wife wasn't very good at cooking. Her mother discouraged her helping in the kitchen, so it wasn't her forte. I did the cooking for my small family(wife/daughter). 👍❤

[@daricetaylor737]

I was surprised at your gingerbread recipe! I have never seen it made without adding eggs. I have always used an egg in our recipe, not sure if that maybe is one reason the dough you made was acting so dry and cracking. Maybe try next time adding 1 egg to the dough and see if that helps. Also, I put 1/2 tsp baking soda and 1 tsp baking powder. The baking soda creates an initial rise as it combines with the molasses, then the baking powder creates a secondary rise in the baking process creating a softer chewier texture to the gingerbread. Wonderful job! Frosting gingerbread and sugars cookies at Christmas time is a lovely family tradition that Elana will do someday with her own babies!

[@BeastrealDT]

In the States, November 21st is National Gingerbread Cookie Day. ✌️

[@vs-ww7cb]

Definitely try with molasses or sorghum, changes whole profile. But , play with food, make what you like 👍

[@k.ambrosio602]

Poor nana, got thrown under the bus. Never had gingerbread cookies, but they look yummy!

[@buffysheffield1328]

Smarties are different here in Michigan, but we do have them. I prefer the white ones.

[@mongo64071]

You did a great job. I wish we had candies that weren’t covered in toxic chemicals and dyes. We usually do the gingerbread houses after thanksgiving and then throw them away. The stores actually sell premade houses that you can just decorate with the toxic candy.

[@leifcatt]

Gingerbread, Molasses and Krumkake cookies were our christmas treats.

[@summersands8105]

Not a big fan of eating gingerbread, but I love to make the houses.

[@sierrasierrahomepad]

PUMPKIN CAKE ROLL

[@ChumStun]

She’s just so dang adorable. Our Smarties are different than yours.

[@appo9357]

Her ratings seem to go up one every year. A ten will be here before we know it.

[@leannahash4322]

Put shaped cookies in the freezer for 15-20 minutes before baking to keep the shape

[@TBNTX]

Here's our family recipe, Cora Beardmore’s Gingerbread Cookies This is the "chewy" gingerbread cookie recipe that has been passed down in the Beardmore family for six generations. It is said to be the original recipe created by Cora Beardmore (1870-1946). Unlike ginger snaps, these cookies are soft and chewy. These have traditionally been a Christmas favorite over the decades, and my personal favorite cookie of all time. Ingredients 3⁄4 Cup Shortening, Butter or Margarine 2 Cups Sugar
 2 Eggs (Whole) 
3 Cups Sifted All-Purpose Flour 2 tsp Baking Soda 1⁄2 tsp Vanilla 2 tsp Cinnamon
 1 tsp Cloves 
1⁄2 tsp Nutmeg 
1 TBSP Ginge r
1⁄2 Cup Molasses (mild) Directions Cream shortening (or butter/margarine) until light & fluffy, and then add sugar gradually. Add two eggs, one at a time, blending completely after each. Sift all dry ingredients together and blend into mixture. Add vanilla and molasses, mixing in well. For each cookie, drop 1 tsp on an un-greased cookie sheet. Cook at 3500 for approximately seven minutes. Bake longer for crunchier cookies, shorter for chewier.

[@HDCalame]

Do you get Kayro syrup over there in the UK? It's corn syrup. Kayro comes in light and dark. I am thinking that the dark Kayro can be a substitute for molasses as well.

[@Mrhandfriends]

We can get it from Amazon (for a fee LOL)

[@sallyintucson]

If you get some shish kebab sticks and five or six different sized star shaped cookie cutters you can make a X-Mas tree out of cookies. (I use a sugar cookie recipe) Poke the holes in before baking. Then mix runny frosting (powdered sugar, vanilla and water) and drizzle it down the tree. Follow with colored sugar to make it pretty. 😊

[@apt221bbakerst]

When I had these from the bakery growing up, the buttons were raisins and so were the eyes I think. I never see them in the bakeries anymore which is sad.

[@baronvg]

If your daughter hasn’t lost her teeth yet, those cookies will do it 😂

[@sierrasierrahomepad]

AHHHH GREAT, GOT A PIPING BAG

[@davemcbroom695]

If Elana gets any cuter, she'll explode.

[@RomeoBarnes]

Please show Nana this video lol

[@Mrhandfriends]

😂 🍷 👍🏻

[@MadamMaru-gm5ff]

that is one thing to do next time , separate the different size cookies to different pans

[@majordomo9415]

A baker once told me that when first learning to bake, you should always feel as if you have under-mixed and under-baked. It's harder to do than you would think.

[@mgpm17]

If you ever want to come to Lancaster Pennsylvania I'm your girl. I live near the largest smorgasbord in the US, and also the most highly rated. I'd love to take you all there!!!

[@erinbernstein6843]

The Biltmore Estate in Asheville has a lovely gbread house contest every Christmas. I decorated a few houses when I was a kid and of course mum has leftover candies just in case. You DEFINITELY do not eat the houses afterwards as they get hard and break your teeth. We had a contest last year at work and birds snuck in and left a small clusterf&$&k behind after pecking off bits of roof and candy

[@erinbernstein6843]

Surprised KZbin didn’t censor the shot of naked gingerbread men 😮

[@lonnyscott6231]

Did you know that molasses is also an explosive. There is a video that talks about a molasses flood that occurred in Boston which tells about the explosive thing.

[@Mrhandfriends]

No we didn’t 😳

[@troyfolden5717]

try 1/4 inch thick for 6 to 8 minutes

[@leslieguild]

do y'all have spray oil like Pam? if so, spray your measuring cup before you add the molasses and it will slide right out when needed

[@stpaley]

i did make gingerbread men before and one of the legs broke, i just made a cast out of the icing

[@Mrhandfriends]

Lol

[@VorchaKali]

2 5s

[@NancyMoran-r3b]

No vanilla needed in the icing?

[@Mrhandfriends]

Not for the recipe we followed but that would have been good

[@philipbutler6608]

Dip them in coffee

[@davecampbell3455]

:)

[@philipbutler6608]

They are supposed to be hard.