My 16-Month-Old Made Homemade Animal Crackers!

Today we are making animal crackers and I had a sous chef to help me in the kitchen. It was fun. It was crazy. You're not going to want to miss it. Where are you going? There you go. Hi Bold Bakers. We are mixing things up a little bit here today. George is joining me in the kitchen for his first time baking with mommy. We are going to make some homemade animal crackers. These are absolutely delicious. George loves them and George is going to help make them. George are you ready to bake? Let's just get stuck into it because I know I'm living on borrowed time here. So into our bowl we're going to add in some room temperature butter. See that? The butter, in goes the butter. Do you want, I'll give you a spatula, you take this one, that's your little baby whisk. And then into this we're going to add in a little bit, oh no, we'll add in some sugar, we'll do that. And then you mix those together. Good boy George, are you going to mix? No don't eat that. You'll mix together. I'll take those, oh my god you're so good at mixing. You cream together your butter and your sugar. You want to mix that? Good boy George, good boy. Well I wouldn't eat it yet. Look at that. Is that nice? Is that nice butter and sugar? If you think that's good, wait until you have the finished cookies. Ok, I'm going to be living dangerously here and get you to crack in an egg. We're cracking an egg? We've never done this before so I literally have no idea what's going to happen. In here, like this. You ready? Oh yeah, good boy, you're doing good. Here, you take it. You take that guy. Good boy. And in the bowl. Whoa! Yay! Good job! So this is George's first time ever baking in the kitchen with me. Ever since he was really young I would have him in a little seat in the kitchen with me as I cooked dinner and you know, baked and worked and so he's been here along with me along the… What are you looking for? This? You want that? Georgie, you know as a professional chef, usually I like to go fast and I like to work and make my things really fast but with you it's a little bit different. I have to slow down a little bit. Is that nice? Are those nice spoons? Oh, oh, thank you. Mmm, yummy. No, you don't… We'll taste that in a minute. Look at that. Ok, I'm going to mix this up. So just cream together your butter and your sugar and your egg, like that, good job Georgie. Georgie, you are mommy's bestest big boy helper. I'm pretty sure you got butter in my hair. Oh, did you put the spoons in there? Ok, good job, good job Georgie. Once your egg is in there we're going to add in a little bit of vanilla extract. Smell that. Smell, Georgie, smell. Smell. You want to smell that? Ok, in, in, in. You good boy. And just a splash. Ok, we might have to reset ourselves for that one. Ok, ok, mix that together. So in case you missed it, we are making homemade vanilla animal crackers. Extra vanilla. Is that right? Oh, good boy Georgie, good job. Yeah, and I'm not even mad that you poured away all my good vanilla, I'm not even mad at you. Do you want a spatula? See this? Boop, boop. Om. Oh, that's lovely. In goes our vanilla. Now into this we are going to add in our flour. We measure some flour, Baba. I'm going to get you to add in the flour. Now that's flour. We're going to add that into the bowl. Good boy Georgie, good boy. Yay! We also add in a little bit of whole wheat flour. Because these cookies are kind of whole wheat-y a little bit. Oh, that's good. Do you want to, will you do this? We'll put the, ok, I'll take that and I'll give you the bowl so you can measure. Ok, there we go. Good job. And then you put that in the bowl, Georgie. Good job, good job, yay! That's so good. I'm going to put in the rest. Boop. Put in the rest. And then you want to give, you want to start giving that a mix? While you're doing that, I have literally no idea where you put the measuring spoons. Like no idea. Are they in the bowl? Oh, here we go. Ok, I'll get new measuring spoons. Add in a little bit of cinnamon. Let's add some cinnamon in here, Georgie. Cinnamon. Is that nice? Good job. You don't want to eat too much of that. And then we're going to add in a little bit of baking powder. You ready for this one? Our baking powder. Now, for those of you who are trying to follow along, the written recipe is on, good boy, BiggerBolderBaking.com in case we've missed any steps. But I think we're doing great, aren't we Georgie? Yep, mix that in. Good boy. I didn't even have to tell you. Do you want that? There you go. Where's your owl gone? So we got a little bit ahead of ourselves and we forgot to add in our honey when we were adding in the eggs. But that's ok, Georgie. We can add it in now. So a big squeeze of honey, you ready? And then you add that in with your egg and then you mix it all together. Because these are like whole-wheaty honey cookies. Isn't that nice? Mmm, delicious. We're gonna mix the dough together. Good job Georgie, good job. You are mammy's big boy helper. What do they say, you should never work with animals and children and I've done both. But you're the best, muah. But you're the best. You've got lipstick on your head, sorry. Ok Georgie, let's give this a good mix together. Is it nice? Mmm, is that nice? And you mix the dough together until it forms a ball. Just like this. We are super bakers. Some eggshell, put some eggshell in there as well. And mix that up. Ok, we're just gonna mix this together until it forms a dough. Good job Georgie. And what we're going to do is reset and we are going to, what are you looking for, this? There's no more vanilla in case you're looking for that. It's gone. All gone. Down the sink. Want that? What you can do is chill this dough for a few days, or you can roll it out straight away. Georgie? Will we roll out and make the cookies? Good boy Georgie! Georgie, high five. High five. Yay! Good job! Yay! Clap! So we have reset ourselves, we've got our chopping board here and we are going to roll out our cookie dough. So Georgie is already ahead of the game, good man. Georgie, that's very good rolling. Yeah! So this little stand that Georgie is in is from Sprouts, it is a sous-chef tower. I absolutely love it, Georgie is in it day in, day out. He just loves to get up near the countertops to play, to play in the sink. I'm actually gonna put a link for the sous-chef tower so you can find out more about it, it's really fantastic. You love it, don't you? You're mammy's big boy helper. Okay, I'll do some rolling, good idea Georgie. Now look at that, rolling. And look, we're gonna do your favorite part, which is the cutting. You're an expert, why am I even here? Will you stamp out some cookies Georgie? So here I have these adorable cookie cutters that I got on Amazon, I'm gonna put a link of where you can actually get these. They are fantastic, they stamp, oh, okay, we'll do him later. They stamp out really lovely little animals, Georgie we'll do stamping now. We have zebras, or zedbras as we say in Ireland, and we have, what have you got there, you've got a giraffe, look at that cutter, look at that cookie Georgie, isn't he nice? That's a zedbra, isn't he nice? And we'll do another one, you've got a giraffe there, we'll do a giraffe, do you want this? You don't want that? You want the rolling pin? Is that what you want? Okay, do a bit more rolling just in case. Okay, we're back to rolling, good job Georgie. Good job, you're such a good roller. Will I stamp out some cookies? This is a monkey, oh, monkey, let's see what he looks like. Look at the monkey, look at the monkey Georgie, monkey, oh, okay, that was my bad, that's on me, I should have known you were going to do that, oh, look, look at that little monkey, is that a nice monkey Georgie? What's this one, a hippopotamus, hippos, a hippo, are hippos the funniest little guys? There's a lion for you, here's Georgie's lion, Georgie look, rawr, look at that guy, oh is that nice? Mmm, yummers. What noise does a giraffe make, ee-aww, ee-aww, no he doesn't. I think we probably have enough cookies now, do you think so George? You can just keep on rolling them out until all your cookie dough is done. Will we get these guys into the oven? Okay I think it's time to get the cookies in the oven. Bake your cookies off at 350 degrees Fahrenheit or 180 degrees Celsius for roughly 12-15 minutes. I gave my sous chef a little bit of a break and then we're gonna come back and taste them. Our animal cookies have baked, they have cooled down and just check out how gorgeous they are, I mean seriously, adorable, mmm, yummy, good yummy noises Georgie. George is obviously enjoying these, I think his favorite is the hippo, are they good Georgie? Clap hands, yay, good cookies, thank you Georgie for hosting with me, it was a little bit crazy but a lot of fun and you'll come back soon right, you'll come back soon, you gonna take the whole plate, where you going Georgie, where you going? Okay see you later George, thanks for stopping by.