 Welcome. Welcome everyone. I'm just gonna make sure that all this is working. It just takes a minute. So I came on a bit early just to make sure. Just washed my hands and getting ready to go. So I'm just finishing setting up. I think we're good. I'm gonna make mistakes I can feel it. It's one of those days. So I'll just wait till people get on and then we'll get started. Episode three. Episode three. Actually I need to read this. Alright. I'm also gonna wait till exactly 11.30. It's not quite there. Hello from Argentina. Awesome. Tell me where you guys are joining me from. Argentina. That's so exciting. I love. Is it? Okay. So would it be warm there? Cold there would be warm there. Hello. Ray is that your name? Ray am I saying it? Okay. So is it? Hold on I got one minute. One minute and we'll get started. I'm like ready to go. This is an easy recipe that I've picked out. So I think that that's what's helping. It was pretty easy to set up minus all of the cleaning up which just it's so funny because like I can set you up to like you know look at me like right here but like don't look at the rest of the kitchen. It's like the secrets to the cooking shows. So happy Valentine's Day if you are in the US. It was Valentine's Day here yesterday in New Zealand. So let me know what you guys are doing to celebrate if anything. I know it's just a much bigger holiday. I don't know. Is it a holiday? Is it a Hallmark holiday? Is it a made-up holiday in the US? Probably. It's not really a thing here like it's mentioned but there's it like thousands of flowers you could buy or tons of pink and red things knickknacks whatever that you can buy in every store in the US. Oh gosh someone's a cleanup day from the cyclone that's hit. So where are you? You probably have said oh okay Rocky Plains. Okay so yeah tell me how you've been hit. So if you don't know Cyclone Gabriel is hitting New Zealand and specifically Auckland is struggling the Corps of Mandel. I haven't read. I read some articles early early this morning. I'm an early riser but I haven't recently. I'm okay. I'm in Wellington. It's been horrible winds and rains but nothing like catastrophic. The Hut River is quite high but that's about it and the sun is out right now so that's good for the show. I'm like oh because it has just been blowing and pouring and just really yucky rain but it looks like it's clearing up. We're getting some sun still rainy and whatever but oh your husband took you out for lunch and you had cinnamon rolls. Okay does this Edmunds Cook Cook have cinnamon rolls? I'm sure it does but they call them like scrolls. Cinnamon scrolls or is the cinnamon scrolls different than the cinnamon rolls? I'm sorry to hear that you had it bad by the cyclone. I'm glad that you're okay. That's what you got to focus on. It gets so overwhelming. If it really hurts your house or you have flooding, my house has been flooded before. I don't wish that upon anybody. Mine was flooded from the basement which then backed up the sewer so it was lovely water in my basement. In the US they don't really have basements here in New Zealand but in the US that you store everything in the basement and it's all your memories everything gets ruined. It was great but yeah so so sorry to hear that you're going through that. So yeah so Valentine's Day but today is my husband's birthday actually he's turning 50. Oh yeah there's a cake in the back so we had a big party this weekend so we haven't I'm not like doing a lot today but let me show you this cake. This is not something that I could make. Look at this. This is not something she made me like three separate cakes. This is a local lady. Look at this. Look at this. Yeah I should probably take it out of the box then you can see it because it has like macarons that are like perfect on there. Look at this. Okay so just so you know this was sitting out of the picnic all day so it was perfect and then I messed it up but yeah it's her name is embellished food art. Her name is Lorraine. She's amazing. I have I went to her house and like she had these like flowers. Okay see I'm already messed up. Okay she had these flowers that look like real flowers by her table but they're actually sugar like I was like wait what like perfection. So embellished food art if you're in the area and you need a cake. Oh my gosh so this was chocolate she made and also if you go on my Instagram you can see all the pictures a American size carrot cake it was actually like a dark black forest carrot it was and then she made a huge cookie do I have any more of that yeah but it's quite of the work the number 50 and then it was just stunning anyway go look at the pictures or it's probably on her Instagram as well so hello from Tucson happy Valentine's Day watching from Levin watching from the Valley upper hot high Rob. Oh yes the cinnamon rolls in the US are you talking about Cinnabon? Cinnabon is like so sweet anyway I got to stop talking we got to cook today we're going to make yo-yos because I saw this in here and I'm like yeah that's what we're making we're making something that's called yo-yos so a lot of people requested that I made milk make melting moments which I could have but this is like melting moments but it has a sweet custard flavor so you're gonna want to watch this episode because it's gonna go I've never made these I mean how yo-yos do we like oh I brought you some yo-yos okay sorry was my lighting it's kind of going in that it's just like it's so bad I have all the windows uncovered but okay so it's actually pretty easy so we have to make the cookies and while they bake we're gonna make the filling of the yo-yos and they're gonna have the sweet custard flavor which I don't understand and I'm excited to try that so please as per usual this is a collaborative effort so as I'm doing things please let me know you should do this okay sorry I'm just reading okay I'll have to read the comments later so I'm gonna put I put this down because this is a so professional and show you what I'm making so I have the butter so it's actually a lot of butter 175 grams of butter softened and then a fourth a cup of icing sugar so not that much sugar and if you like my apron today it's like it's like the country and then we'll look at it there anyway I'm getting very distracted and then I'm supposed to mix this cream it and then add some vanilla about okay is this gonna reach okay so this wasn't tested let me just move you guys with me here we go vanilla is gonna help this do you guys measure your vanilla I don't oh that was maybe too much I think it only cod for a fourth of tea so yeah I put too much vanilla in but hey who you know vanilla is the best okay so then what I have is a one and a half cups of flour and then we're gonna add custard powder now I didn't put this in yet because I have never seen this before I've seen it before but I've never used it I've seen it in the store wait until the butter goes whitish oh okay so I'm gonna have to cream that a little more okay so custard powder is it and it looks just like a powder I've never used this does this like just make custard like really easy oh it's like combined with sugar and some milk hmm okay so we are gonna do a fourth of a cup here we go in that and then this is supposed to be sifted together into this and then do you think that I should cream it or should I just mix it with a like a wooden spoon what do you think so I'm gonna cream the sugar and butter a little bit longer and then I will sift this in and you guys make comments on whether I think I should use the electric mixer or just use my hand because I've never made I don't really know here we go okay actually don't think it's gonna go white because there's very little sugar in there compared to butter so I think that's what we got so let's do this baby so tell me if I should use the electric mixer on this or if you think I should just mix it I think I'll try to mix it by hand but if it's like taking forever then maybe something different is this how you guys sift would you have one of those I used to have one but they like break down like when you're trying to wash them and then they get a little rusty somewhere and you're like okay all right so let's just mix by hand to start and see where we're at let's see what people are saying I use it wooden wooden spoon okay cool this is my spoon that I use I think I've literally had the spoon for 20 years it's from William Sonoma and it's literally the best like it doesn't go bad it lasts forever you know you shouldn't really put wood in the dish washer but I do because I got four kids and that's what happens and it still it doesn't break it doesn't break down you know how many wooden spoons of New Zealand I've gone through so many okay this do I have too much do I have too much flour in here look at this is this right okay we're just gonna keep mixing this is right it seems quite crumbly I'm gonna actually put my hands in it I have thoroughly washed my hands just so everybody knows because I just feel like I can get a sense of like is there enough liquid in here oh yeah there is I just need to mix it a little bit because it's like supposed to come out like a dough right because it says it into a soft dough it says sift flour and custard powder together and combined with the cream mixture to form a soft okay yeah so there I'm getting the dough feeling I'm just gonna knead it a bit so that it combines okay I keep grabbing it so that doesn't help okay so then after this it says you roll a teaspoon full of mixture into a ball and place on a prepared tray and press down with a fork okay so let's see this is okay mixing much better love this looking much better okay so then I have my hands are already messing with this over look at this movement okay okay here we go so we have this and like teaspoon size it says so I'm just gonna roll it and tell me is that the right size I'll make them look kind of different sizes and then we'll see cuz I'm sure I'm gonna have to make more than one batch but I do want to get these in the oven because they have to sit for cook for 15 and then we can make the icing the cream the stuff okay see that one's a little bit bigger I think these are the right size what do you think yeah these are the right size because it says teaspoon full so it's telling me quite small and then yeah you bake for 15 to 20 minutes in a 180 oven which I have mine already preheated so we are all set look at how prepared I am it's like this is my third episode and I'm getting hang of it getting the hang of how long prep takes and everything so definitely put in the chat what you like to see in episode four because there's a lot to pick from in this but try to think of recipes that I can do in a reasonable amount of time life like something that has to bake for an hour not gonna work so we may have to do those kind of episodes differently okay cool let me wash my hands okay so here we go here are the yoyos and it says to take a fork and press down so I'm gonna do that I have seen like melting moments and they look like this like they were pressed with a fork so I think this is right how flat that I don't know maybe I should be reading the comments oh making one of the slices bake a path like how do I do a path like that has to sit forever like I guess I would have to make it ahead of time that's really a lot for me I got all these kids everything is crazy okay look at this I think this looks so good look look look look I think it looks really good so let's put it in the oven here we go all right so like you know if you've been watching my oven's hot so I'm gonna start with nine minutes it's better to do that than to overcook it so now that we are those are baking we can make what is it called butter filling who doesn't love the sound of that butter filling ginger slices ginger slice jelly ginger slice I've ever made that I should make that sorry I'm just reading this okay oh you grew up in an orchard that's so cool okay so here we go let's make the butter mixture so what I have in here I just started it's 50 grams of softened butter I have a half a cup of icing sugar and two tablespoons have I put the custard powder in there yes I have okay oh my gosh okay and then one tablespoon of hot water which turn my water on which I haven't added and then I think I'm just gonna stir it bring it over here we go here we go I think I'm gonna get a little bit just to make yeah don't look in there okay nuke it for like five seconds just to soften cuz right so here we go yeah that works good that works good this is right this looks right and then this is where you get your arm work out that's enough that enough did I miss something okay so what's your cold stamp with the butter filling okay cool this looks great it's probably enough it's funny how this has way more sugar than the cookie does make a sense frosting trying to get out all of the lumps so I will continue to mix that as we chat okay I need to get like professional things okay cool alright so the yo-yos are baking and the cream is ready I'm just gonna keep mixing it I may have made the butter a little bit too soft but it looks so pretty with the custard powder in it I love it do you guys use custard powder do we have this in the US I have no idea okay okay I missed something you pressing one down on the tray okay you're giving me mother flashbacks okay well I guess that's okay I am a mother okay so it is windy in Wellington but the Sun has popped out and it's just glorious because it has just been so dreary where are you oh yeah I think I we've already chatted ginger slices bacon pat what kind of orchard did you grow up in that school so yeah so we're waiting on those so yeah oh so I'm tired today do you feel tired my car okay so it's been a week my car broke down like broke down like not just break down like died like engine done need a new car oh I hate cars I hate buying cars I hate thinking about cars do you guys like it everybody seems to like it but me I'm gonna actually put this in refrigerator I probably made the quad or two soft so yeah I had to get a new car this weekend I got a Mazda Premisee which actually really like I was gonna go smaller because I'm getting rid of kids but then those small cars just really feel really small like literally must be a go-to dance time while waiting oh yeah thinking about teaching some dance classes dance for fitness in lower hut if you're in the area because I miss it and I love it and let's do it I think it would be fun it would just be like a huge party and it would be fun because I need to be doing that more yeah so what was I just talking about oh yeah so my car broke down my daughter went back to university on Sunday we had this huge 50th party for my husband so I'm like which means I'm doing everything and I'm like oh my gosh I'm tired so today I'm feeling a bit tired so sorry if my energy is not but we're not faking it here we're not faking it but it's been good I've got a lot of work done working on some videos for you guys and dancing isn't yes sorry okay sorry I'm just catching up on the chat but yeah so let's check the cookies oh my gosh that's what you're saying I missed pressing down one of them see I told you I'm tired that's my reason oh my gosh see look at how great this is what would I do without you I have one that look you know so thank you for that oh you got an electric car I totally considered electric car but I can't afford like a new one so then you look at used ones and you got to worry about the battery and once the battery goes bad it's like $8,000 and I haven't saved any money on gas so it was just in my head too much and I have too much going on tonight have a car so it was a little bit like that so but yeah I would really like an electric car how easy it means especially with petrol prices I don't know it's so pretty let's sit about today I'm so excited to eat that those macarons so like if you don't know when I first moved here and was looking for a job and in the meantime I cook macarons for anybody who wanted to buy they tasted really good but they were far from perfect so I didn't charge a lot for them but it was fun people loved it I mean people would be like are you making macarons I need some and I'm like okay so it looks like I am oh so you walk that's nice I love walking I live on top of a hill so that's not happening I walk down okay so like would it be bad if I just tried the dough I love that custard flavor yeah you watch my op shop video oh my gosh yeah she is tall she's only five eight she's five eight so five eight yeah yeah oh that's good I can taste that custard I'm very excited about these and what they're gonna look like but yeah so let's see real time one minute one minute for the nine minutes so we'll have to see so it might be more so if you guys don't know you need to go and join my community so on my website just go on my website kiwiamericans.com and join my community it's free I'm trying to bring everybody from all my different social medias in one place and party there it will be a great way to connect and kind of dive deeper and talk about a lot of things and do some cool things I have a cool challenge up there right now so go check it out oh there we go yep two more for sure so that's 11 minutes so go check that out like if you go on my website just a pop-up will come up and that's it so you just sign up for that it's free and it's fun I'm trying to just kind of put everybody in there and doing some fun things because it's just starting to get to be like I have a big community on YouTube big really big community on tiktok I have a big really fast growing on Instagram and they seem to be all different things and then there's all the other ones and it's just like oh my gosh so let's all meet in one place and make it easier and there's some really cool features of that anyway I won't talk about that still yes I watch the Super Bowl did you watch the Super Bowl and who are you rooting for don't say rooting in New Zealand say cheering rooting means yeah sex I think is what it means anyway okay let's look at this look at this look at this so it's like we have the South Island the North Island and then all of kind of the famous things of New Zealand so this is a nice gift I got it as a gift actually and I didn't use it forever because people wrote nice things and I just want to keep it but then I thought well this is what it's supposed to be used for okay so we have yeah jandals pow ones so you can learn a lot of the the slang and what they call things I don't know it's kind of cute I'm sure you can get any of those like souvenir shops do I think that New Zealand ingredients like butter are better than the US oh my gosh the New Zealand butter and then New Zealand like just the fruit the produce so good like oh I'm so frustrated when I went back to the States and like I made guacamole and it was what is this those avocados don't taste good you know but then some of the fruit was really good in the States but like everything's smaller here and it's just delicious it's very expensive but okay maybe two more maybe two more very delicious but yeah it's it could be you just need to buy in season and you'll be okay but like even some of the in season as like but yeah the the produce here like yeah like my kids just eat a lot more fruits and veggies just I think because it tastes so good comparatively and like the apples are so good I remember coming like oh is this really the size of a chicken is this really the size of an apple is so small because it's not like puffed up with hormones or whatever I do not miss the US coffee are you being serious Joe no no I went to Starbucks recently okay funny story I went to Starbucks last week was because my daughter won some and I went in there with some guys like oh how is your channel going and I was like oh you know good and he's like I'm not actually from here I'm just here for work and it's funny that you're at Starbucks because I'm always talking about like how good the coffee is in New Zealand and how Starbucks is not good and not good here specifically and there I was at Starbucks doing exactly what I said I did so that was funny and he called me out I loved it so funny I'm like yeah okay but it's actually for my daughter but here I am I had something I had something new that they had there it was okay it's too expensive 10 eggs that count on is $10 really like 10 I doubt that's a dollar an egg everyone I haven't used to make used to make cakes and you can do those flowers oh my gosh so yeah so the ingredients here are really good I'm not a cake decorator and this is why I have to have Lorraine do it for me but okay here we are say by the bell what am I even talking about okay oh they look good I think they're done I think they're done have a look have a look they look great they're a little bit brown on the bottom let's see I'm just gonna lift one up so that you can see it let's just use this one look at this look what I found an option just kind of pushes out look at that that's cool okay ouch okay not gonna do that okay I'm just gonna flip it over and you can see like look at how nice and perfect it's on the bottom so you're supposed to let these cool I'm just gonna take I'm gonna take two really nice looking ones they all look nice but you know some are more like sized correctly and let it cool for a minute and then we'll put the cream on and then you can see what it's supposed to look like so actually maybe I will just put this in the fridge so cool sticker don't drop it don't drop it but okay I'm letting it cool in the fridge oh these look so nice and so then I'm going to well I'm just gonna take these off of here and let this cool and put the rest of them on here and then looks like oh yeah well I got that cake too man there's just a lot of sugar in this house so if you live close I'd give them to you because what am I gonna do with all this I'm not gonna eat it okay oh I love that somebody just said forget about making it look like perfection just make it look like it's made with love yes although this one this might be a good recipe to do with so I'm just gonna be rolling these balls with Christy although do they have custard powder in the U.S. hello U.S. people do they have this I'm sure they do I'm sure you can get it somewhere if not at like a baking place boom so I really like working with this dough it feels really nice and easy and soft and yeah so you definitely want to make it small because one cookie is going to be two of them together right so that makes sense that's why you'd want to make it small so if you've missed the other two episodes I've made afghans they're chocolate biscuits with like like corn flakes in it just so everybody understands what I'm saying and then a lot of people commented that watched it I had a lot of people watch it say that I should make it with wheat picks have you ever made it with wheat picks because I was like oh that sounds I love wheat picks you don't know what wheat picks are hold on let me see if I have some I should in the pantry let me show you in the pantry do I have any because I did just get from my kids oh we're out of cereal so it looks like we're out so I'm just making the rest of these and popping them in looks good it's so funny like how did I miss pushing down that one cookie that's weird is it weird that I'm calling it cookie and that biscuit is that bothering you oh well I can only do me I can only do me I can't people please all day long sorry sorry about it as my daughter would say yeah so this isn't really making that much so that's good because I already have a huge cake okay so we're going to put this in I'm just going to go with probably 11 minutes because this pan is hold on this pan is a bit hot it's already quite hot and so it will cook you know oh these are so pretty okay cool I think that they're ready let's put it together here we come here I just I don't know why I got that let's do that on like like a nice plate all right here we go let's put it together we have the cookies and we have the cream here we go here we go here we go my makeshift everything oh yeah it's quite cold it's a little it's a tad warm but we'll just do this so how much would you put in like you kind of want to make it a little bit puffy put it in put it together oh that looks amazing I'm not going to eat it because you know oh that looks really nice okay so maybe it's still a bit warm okay it's too warm anyway you get the idea that's what you're supposed to do at the cookie just put it in the middle yeah so this cream has um is a lot better so I just need to make sure that these completely cool and I'm not going to make you sit around for that so thank you for joining me on episode three of cooking with Edmonds the first collaborative baking show of all time and I will see you guys next week and let me know what you'd like me to make have a great day have a really good day