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Hey guys, this is a special video I made to celebrate reaching 1000 followers on Instagram! President's Choice Concerto cookies are my all-time favourite cookies, and as a personal challenge I wanted to try to bake them myself! I must say this definitely was a challenge, I found the cookie part to be simple to bake but it was getting the square chocolate topping that was the difficult part! I hope this recipe is helpful to you guys, though I certainly have room for improvement and will definitely be making this again to keep practicing :)
For all measurements, the written recipe can be found on the blog here:
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hi guys today is the day that I will be
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making my favourite cookies this the
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concerto with the butter biscuit down
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here and dust chalk it up there and it's
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my favorite and this is on the occasion
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of me getting a thousand followers on
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instagram so let's get started on these
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cookies right now so for this recipe
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since the main goal is to make that the
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concept of the butter biscuit with the
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chocolate so I've gone ahead and already
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made my dough for the butter biscuit
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it's really simple just combine some
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butter sugar and flour some with
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molasses and then you just mix that up
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I use my KitchenAid mixer for that it
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was really simple like 5-10 minutes and
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then you just refrigerate it and over
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here I have a small piece of that which
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I've as you can see
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squared off I'm gonna making square
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cookies let's use a knife a sharp knife
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and made it the shape like how I needed
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it to be we refrigerate it you want to
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refrigerate for at least two or three
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hours and preferably overnight since I
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have my cookie dough right here let's go
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and start cutting our cookies into shape
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we want them so you want the width to be
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about both to an eighth of an inch so
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I'm going to start cutting with a sharp
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knife like that straight cut so here the
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cookies which I've cut and I'm making a
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small batch right now cause I'm still in
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the testing phase and I'm so excited to
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try this new batch now I have my oven
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set up at 350 and before you put this in
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the oven you're going to brush this with
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some egg wash and to make the egg wash
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I took one egg and I put about a half a
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teaspoon of water and whisk it up so now
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I'm going to brush these with my egg
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wash
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appliances egg wash will help give a
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cookies a nice brown color but of course
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if you do not eat eggs this step is
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completely optional
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so now for the most exciting part I have
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over here three ounces of unsweetened
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chocolate and six tablespoons of sugar
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I'm using an artificial sweetener I'm
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using Splenda and you can use this if
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you want or sugar regular sugar if you
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would prefer so now you're going to make
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a double boiler so on the bar at the
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bottom have some water which I'm heating
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up to a boil and I have a pot sitting on
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top of the water this is going to help
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us avoid burning the chocolate as you're
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melting it so we want to wait until it
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comes up to a boil and then we're going
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to lower the heat until the water is
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simmering and it's still hot so my water
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is coming up to a boil now I'm gonna
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lower the COK down to medium-low keep
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the water simmering and now I'm going to
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add in my chocolate so now as you can
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see a chocolate is trying to melt now
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soon I'm going to start stirring and in
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small increments and start adding in my
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sugar so now as you can see a chocolate
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is completely melted I'm going to start
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adding my sugar in and small increments
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and whisk until it's completely
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dissolved and melted if you don't want
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the chocolate to be gritty because of
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the sugar you want the sugar to melt
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completely and help create a really nice
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texture so here you have it guys here
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the cookie that's been about 13 to 14
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minutes you want to keep an eye on them
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like this one became a little bit
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browner than I would like it but it's
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still not burnt that's amazing but here
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that's perfect
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as you can see there's an amazing bottom
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so once the cookies are out you want to
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put these on a rack to help cool down
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and putting them on the rack is really
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gonna help pushing that process up and
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now a chocolate is almost ready I've
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added about 3 tablespoons of my
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sweetener right now and I think that's
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enough and six tablespoons I mean too
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much but if you want it sweeter then go
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ahead a Matic I want to be sort of like
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a 70% dark chocolate so I'm happy with
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that and keep tasting you get a taste to
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know what you are putting on your food
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now I'm going to add about a tablespoon
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of butter just have smoothing out this
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mixture a bit and hot chocolate is ready
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and then we will form it into molds
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using a cookie cutter and place it on
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our cookie so now I'm going to put in my
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melted chocolate it to make cookie
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cutter mold and this is the best way
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that I figured out with without having a
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natural mold to the chocolate of doing
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this if you guys think of a better way
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please leave a comment down below and
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let me know and how I can improve this
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step so here after busting paper in the
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consider I'm going to add just a little
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bit in there
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I'm going to make sure it's completely
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on every corner stucking it a little bit
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and now I'm going to lift this mold move
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on to the next one
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so here are my top lip squares not
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perfect but I'll be getting better soon
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I'll be striving to improve and now we
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don't let this cool down we learn the
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cookies cool down and the chocolate and
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I've reserved some of my molten
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chocolate mixture that I'll be using
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that to put it on the cookie and help
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you the chocolate squares when they've
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cools down if it's taking too long for
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your chocolate to come to a solid space
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you can always put it in the freezer and
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help freeze chocolate
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I just solid but as you can see now my
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chocolates have become solid and I can
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easily take these out and handle them
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I'm going to use some more of my melted
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chocolate with au which are melted using
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a double boiler and add a little bit of
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it onto each cookie it's going to have
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glue a chocolate squares onto our cookie
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so now I'm just going to use the back of
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a knife to gently transfer these squares
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onto my cookie gonna press on it make
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sure it's good so my cookies are all
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ready now and now you want to let this
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come back down to room temperature and
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show that our chocolate is stuck
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completely onto our biscuit hey guys
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forgave you have it my homemade Concetta
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cookies
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butter cookies the dark chocolate top
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and I can't wait to try these and I feel
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like this challenge was a challenge
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because like there was like no waste
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real help on how to I can I can stand
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all this together and about this great
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recipe for the butter biscuits which I
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really love and our Polly's continued
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use that in the future to bake
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kids thank you all applause panting we
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reached a thousand followers and hope
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you're with me till I get 10,000 million
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and as we go on and on and on Tandy's
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