How to Make an Edible Christmas Wreath

hey kids nice to see you again got a special guest with me today my sister mary's in town um so i thought i'd take advantage of having her here to be able to show you how to make a christmas wreath that you can actually eat so that should be pretty fun today's video is actually sponsored by lubriderm um they've been a great sponsor of mine they they keep reaching out to me wanting to support what we're doing and so i just want to recognize them and this is uh lubroderm's advanced therapy moisturizing cream fragrance free it's a new product for them so anyway pretty cool um and but first before we get started i have a dad joke for you and my sister hasn't heard this and it is a dad joke so we'll see what the reaction looks like all right so what hold on so what did homer simpson say when he first tried to make pizza crust i don't know what he said oh anyway let's get started okay okay so i'm kind of kind of let mary take the lead on this since this isn't something i've ever done but i thought it'd be a yeah a good opportunity to have her show us how this is done this is a fun party uh wreath we're gonna make i just learned about it we're making it together we're just figuring it out but easy and um so what we're gonna do is we're taking pizza pans pizza dough which we're gonna pull out of these bags and we're gonna put our little pieces of pizza dough we're gonna put um let's roll cheese in it like a stuffed crust pizza and then we're gonna do it in our little balls and put it around in the shape of a wreath and then we'll bake it so we're just going to talk about that as we do this first thing we're going to do is spray your hands though this is the best way to handle i'm sorry i've never done that okay best way to work with dough i do that at home when i make cinnamon rolls or anything because it's sticking everywhere so we're gonna remove our instant pizza dough from these bags yeah you've seen the pizza dough that i've used from trader joe's i'm not getting compensated by trader joe's but it's so uh reasonably priced and so easy to work with and i feel like a few years ago it was hard to find you'd show up and it was all gone um but now i think they understand that people use it a lot and so you can usually find it there when you go there and they have a regular one and then this has got herbs in it so that'll make green like christmas and my voice is scratchy this morning because we went to a big party and i was screaming all night so it was a whoo and so now i got this okay so very good nice and soft easy to use okay great should we put some flour now so we could yeah we sure could okay just put a little bit okay i wouldn't put much just easy and put it on that board yeah what i think i'm going to do is um i think let's do a light spray on the pizza pinch pens okay pizza pan yeah i'm going to do it here like this just so that they have a little bit of they won't stick for us and you might give yours to them okay okay and then we're just gonna start figuring this out just a nice little ball like this okay we need to chop some of the cheese rob okay so i'm gonna do this let's move our pretty pepper over there okay okay so what we're gonna do is get enough of our cheese just for a nice little like a one-inch piece of cheese and then another one so you could actually get several out of out of several sticks of this mozzarella and all we did was buy that big you know huge pack of mozzarella cheese sticks that your kids are all eating and we all eat and just peel them open and um we had santa's helper help us unwrap these others so we're just going to start having a few that we can grab as we take off some some of our pizza dough so grab one little piece and let's see that's too giant so what we want to do is get about just a nice little tip there you go all right stretch it out just like you do when you make a pizza so you can do this i'm going to take your piece of cheese and just wrap it around that's all you're going to do so just like stuffed crust make a nice little ball you're going to have that little seam at the bottom okay okay and what we do our secret to this is to make it a wreath rather than all bunched together is we're going to turn a bowl the bowl that we'll put the marinara sauce in and put that in the middle and we're going to come around just start building your wreath okay and you're just kind of working our way that's right okay so this will take a little while so we may fast forward through this very nice yeah this is going to be good and you can't you can you don't have to press them tight because you know they're gonna raise so we want them all to kind of bake together and then it's such a fun thing for your party as you pull it off everybody comes and just starts grabbing the pizza balls and that's our coffee maker beeping in the background okay beautiful seattle day today after all the rain yesterday yeah well we've been dealing with a lot of rain but we get our nice days occasionally too i am from uh wyoming so water like this that comes from the skies in seattle is a rarity out there so we live on high plains at 7 200 feet and um boy we love any drink of water we can get now do you get the hard rain though when you get rain is it like that sometimes it's like a storm that passes through but i always say that wyoming gets its drinks of water with snow when we get those nice heavy snows the land just sucks it up yeah so how are you doing over there okay you got the pretty one you got all the little green herbs in it but that's gonna be great i think okay so we're just about finished here um this is what mine looks like and again like i've said in other videos you know this is kind of fun it doesn't have to be perfect right it you kind of add your own little signature to it by making it uh however you have uh however it works out right it just works out that way so i've even added um so i ended up using two of those uh pizza crusts that i had and then i also have been filling in with a few so these these are all herbs and then i got a few that aren't and that's okay right it has your own little flare to it so that's what mine looks like and then mary's finishing up there too so she ended up using uh two pizza crusts as well because we kind of wanted it to be a little bit bigger it was a little thin when we only had one one crust wasn't able to quite get around a couple times and we have some that are different sizes it didn't matter because again when it bakes everything's kind of blending together kind of just in a nice puffy ring and so we had an elf helper that made baby ones and so we stuck those in there too and we're out of the crust huh we are pretty much pretty much so mary uh what temperature are we cooking i'd say since you're trying to get that cheese in the middle don't go quite as high for a big flat pizza i would say 400 put this in and watch it and um check it and see what it does maybe 20 minutes huh 420 minutes can we cook them both at the same time do you think or can i might watch them yeah yeah do we need to switch them let's um no i don't think so i think we're okay but i think let's use our spray kind of give it a golden crust okay i always do that sometimes when i'm baking i said always sometimes but um i do that sometimes when i'm baking breads i just love that crusty yeah top so i do this and then yeah so there you go great and then are we going to add so one of the things for decoration we could um add some herbs right we're going to get the green for the wreath and then also we had talked i saw this online i thought it was kind of fun we could um slice this up and make it into a bow like you would on a on a wreath you know it's not going to look exactly like above but you you know from an existence from a distance there's no evidence exactly yeah all right yeah these herbs are great but we're not going to do any of that now okay at the very end same thing with this we don't want that we don't want anything um we could let this sit you could make this ahead and you could let it rise a little bit that would make it that much lighter as you do with any of full cut crust pizza but we're going to try it maybe we'll just bake it right away and see how it goes okay are we gonna we're gonna remove this we will remove this you see remember how we did this to get our shape and then when we're ready with our marinara after it's all baked we'll put it back here in the middle beautiful all right all right so we're gonna go bake it for 20 minutes at 400 and we've already got the oven preheated that's right look at this okay so we just took them out of the oven and so originally we said 400 for 20 minutes and then we found what that we needed to increase it a little bit when it went to 425 for another five minutes right because we had two in yeah so the heat was dissipating between the two and we wanted the browning to happen so we had to actually switch the pans but here's the inside scoop we used a holy pizza pan and we're dripping cheese on the one on the bottom so it's even gooer and one more wonderful so nice we don't recommend a holy pan but you can you can survive so what we're going to do now is we have some wonderful melted butter we're each going to butter our our wreaths okay with this melted butter that was just a little over a stick of butter and he zapped in the microwave and see then you get this all this nice rich color for pastry it's always beautiful if you get a little butter on it and who doesn't like butter that's right who doesn't like better so we don't put this back in the oven no we do not and see we're even buttering the cheese so it's really decadent look at that because the cheese oozed out so this is going to be so pretty what we're going to do is put this butter on and then we're going to divide the marinara sauce and maybe rob can do that while i cut up the um some of the pepper yeah that is going to decorate her so here we go and then did we talk about the herbs so you do that just kind of for decoration so we have what rosemary basil right and parsley firstly it's just a decoration yeah that's right some green and actually the pants are still pretty hot but we'll do it just for you now but um i would wait till the pan cooled that all those pretty herbs on there so they don't get too wilty when you take it to your party so they're kind of an added attraction at the end okay there you go so i'm going to cut and you can spread the marinara for our bowls so what we're doing is this beautiful pepper here and it was so pretty that we're going to make this as a secondary wreath at the bottom of our cheeks and we've only got one pepper so who gets to read well i figured we could can we make two oh we're going to make them with other things yeah we lost the center anyway yeah actually we did it there you go a little behind so you can do that and this marinara sauce we just picked up we didn't make it homemade or anything just picked it up in the jar put it in this star and then now we're actually transferring it so didn't need to do that look at how pretty that is that is a pepper it's just looking gorgeous one of our over helpful [Music] but elves i'm just going to cut more so there's a little bit of a of some bows for the bottom of the flower nice so um why don't we start putting some pinching some of this off some of the basil you can just see that you just paint it you can just pinch it with a fingernail there and kind of put it all the way around and maybe a spot that didn't look quite perfect for you okay i think mine looked perfect okay let me yours look oh that basil smell that basil oh so good so good okay that looks great let's do this and then we know how we have to do it you can actually put it up close to the bowl and i will come behind you and tell me where you want the look of your wreath because it could be right here and there's the bottom look at that beautiful look at that it looks like a wreath and so we just keep decorating now cover all anything that looks like an error to you because but none of it is in there because you made it because you made it it's whatever you do so what we can do is take another ring of this pepper and we can cut it again and we can make like um little strings of the dough okay good isn't that great [Music] okay here you go oh my gosh that's looking so good so you have some of this i do yeah a little bit okay okay and i need some i'm gonna use the scissors so that i don't gnarl it up looks pretty amazing isn't that nice yeah it really does look like a wreath pretty christmas will help with yours sir because mine's looking pretty good yeah no yours looks good it looks great see now most people will eat all this stuff but it looks great and it a beautiful thing to take to a party beautiful okay we will show the finished product let's move this out of the way i think i'll just use this beautiful towel okay okay turn it around so we can see that lovely bow there that little flower at the bottom we have it up a little bit look at how pretty how about that enjoy yep so that's how you do it we you were learning right alongside us so you could could you tell that we were kind of winging it yeah we do this all the time so thanks for watching and god bless you