Hi everyone, I'm Susan Rodger and today we are going to make Java cookies. So we're going to start by putting in two sticks of butter, and that is a cup of butter. Next up, we're going to add in a cup and a half of sugar. Now we're going to cream the butter and the sugar together. So I just kind of use the back of the spoon and press it down a lot. All right, we've got the butter and the sugar creamed together really well now. Next, we're going to add two large eggs. I'm just going to crack them, and I like to crack them into a cup first. We'll just pour them in there. And you stir it a lot until it's consistency like this. One teaspoon of vanilla extract. So you stir that up a lot. You could use a mixer if you want, but I just like using the spoon. Next, we're going to add three cups of all-purpose flour. There's one, there's two, and there's the third cup of flour and 1/2 a teaspoon of salt and 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder. At some point you just have to get your fingers into it and squeeze it together with your hand, and then when it's forming big chunks of dough you can make three dough balls like this. Here's the second one and here's the third one. Then I get some plastic wrap. And then I wrap the three balls and I'm going to freeze them for about an hour. You can also freeze them overnight. I need the dough to be a little bit harder in order to roll the cookies out. Now we're going to bake the cookies. So I have printed out the Java logo and then I cut it out. We have the dough here and I'm going to put down some flour. And then I'm going to also put a little bit of flour on my rolling pin. You might want to cut the dough in half. It might be easier to work with. I'm going to pick up the dough and I'm going to put it on the tray. All right, and then I take my cut out Java logo and I put it there and I get a knife and I'm just going to cut it out, here we go. A 3D cookie cutter would be a lot easier, but I used to make all my cookies this way before we had 3D cookie cutters. And then I just pick up the dough. Now I'm going to roll out more dough and make another cookie. That's two cookies, and that's five cookies. So we've got five Java cookies and we're going to put them in the oven at 350 degrees and we're going to bake the cookies for about 15 minutes. [SOUND] The cookies are ready. Let's get them out of the oven. They smell really good. Mm, there's one and there are five Java cookies. We'll let them cool and then we're going to decorate them. Now we're going to decorate the cookies. We want the cookies that look like this. I'm going to use white icing. Just get a knife and I'm going to stir it up. I'm going to put a little bit of the white in here and I'll use that to make red icing, and then I'm going to also put a little bit in this bowl to make blue icing. So now I'm going to make some red icing, and I use the Wilton icing colors, their gels. I'm going to add a lot more red, you have to use a lot of red. Now that's a good red color. And make blue, so we'll use royal blue. And that's a pretty color blue. Now with the red and the blue icing we're going to put them in a bag so that we can squeeze them out. Now if you don't have one of these, what you can do is you can get a plastic baggie, put your icing in there, and then just cut off the corner when you're ready to squeeze it out. And then I use a cup here, and then here's our blue icing. And the blue icing is ready to go, and now we'll do the red icing. And the red icing is ready to go. Now we're ready to ice the cookies, and we'll just get some white icing on it and we'll just spread it out. And we've got one cookie ready to go, and that's six cookies. Now I'm going to add the blue icing, and I put the picture in front of me so I can kind of see what I'm doing and we'll just put it on there. There's one, All right, we're done with the blue now. So let's add the red. And we are now done with decorating the cookies. And I hope you have fun making your own Java cookies. And if you do, please send me a picture. It's been a couple of hours. There's our Java cookie and the best part is getting to eat the cookie. Mm, mm, these cookies are really good. I hope you enjoyed the video. The end, the cookies are all gone.