Hi, my name is Evie and this is a video in slow English to help you practice your listening.
Comprehension of soda.
We'll see. because it attaches.
And they were so helpful in my second year.
I have no plan.
I'm just gonna... I thought that we could have a really cozy day where we bake some cookies.
That is the only plan for today.
In this bag next to me, I can stand up.
Hang on.
In this bag, I have the ingredients, the things we need to make cookies.
The only thing in this bag which has nothing to do with cookies are these tulips.
I just bought those for me.
Today we are going to be making pistachio and white chocolate cookies.
When I was in Sweden a few weeks ago, I went to a cafe and had a pistachio and white chocolate cookie and it was It was literally so good and I have been thinking about it.
I have been thinking about it for like a month.
I just want to eat it.
I want to eat it again.
I've bought here the ingredients.
I've bought all of the things I need.
We have flour, brown sugar pistachios, white chocolate chips, an egg.
This is vanilla extract butter, unsalted butter and bicarbonate of soda.
I am following the recipe today by jamespetisseriecom.
I will put it in the description in case you want to make them as well.
I have actually, I've never made this recipe before.
I don't know if they are good or not, but that's the recipe.
Great.
Step one, hair up.
I have with me this claw clip, my claw clip.
I'm going to put up my hair.
Hair is up.
Next step, wash my hands.
Cool.
The counter, the counter, the table is already clean.
So we also need to make these cookies, we need a scale and something to mix with.
So you can mix by hand, like with a.
You know one of these you can mix by hand with like a wooden, like a wooden spoon and a bowl.
Guys, I'm lazy.
Okay.
We're going to be doing it with an electric, with an electric mixer.
Okay.
These are the scales.
It's a plural.
We call it a scales, but plural.
These are scales. and a mixer, an electric mixer.
And this is the mixing bowl.
Step one, preheat the oven to 190 to 170 degrees C.
Great, 100.
I'm going to do 180 because it's halfway.
It's halfway between 170 and 190.
Step two, mix the butter and sugar together until creamy.
One slight problem is my butter is not very warm.
It's been in the fridge.
This is a fridge, hey?
That's a fridge.
It's gonna be quite difficult to make that smooth.
Somebody actually commented on one of my videos like i don't know when, maybe two weeks ago.
Somebody asked me if i can cook.
The answer is yes yes, i can.
I can cook, but i cannot bake.
So cooking is like savory food, so Breakfast like savory food, so rice or pasta or pizza.
I can cook that, I can cook that, no problem.
But baking, honestly, I never bake.
I'm faking it.
Like for this video, I am baking and I never, I do not normally bake.
We need 125 grams of unsalted butter.
So let me grab a knife.
This is 250 grams of butter.
So I'm just gonna halve it.
I'm just gonna cut it in half.
I think that is one half.
This is now 125 grams of butter.
And now we need 175 grams of sugar.
We have this light brown sugar.
I need some scissors to open the packaging.
Great.
And now we need to measure 175 grams of light brown sugar.
We need to mix the sugar with the butter.
Have you heard the expression before of ish?
In english, if we put ish at the end of something, it means like Kinda, more or less like hmm.
So, if I measure 175 grams of sugar, but I eyeball it.
I just kind of guess if I have enough.
It means I have 175 grams-ish of sugar.
So I am going to use This attachment, it's an attachment because it attaches to my mixer.
I'm going to turn it on.
Oh, shit.
Fuck.
I need this.
This is a cover to.
I need this cover.
This cover to make sure that this stays in the bowl and doesn't explode everywhere.
Ready?
Three, two, one.
This is the butter and the sugar mixed together until kind of creamy.
The next step is add the egg, vanilla and mix again.
Oops.
I'm going to crack the egg.
There we go.
I have cracked the egg and now I'm going to wash my hands again.
It then says add the vanilla extract and mix again.
I am going to eyeball it.
To eyeball is just, I'm going to just guess.
I'm going to Oof, that's it, a dash, a dash of vanilla extract.
So now that has all been mixed together, so it's now time to add the flour.
We need 275 grams of flour.
Too much, too much.
And then I need the corn flour.
I'm just not gonna bother.
Half a teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda.
I have this little spoon which looks like a little bird and this is half a teaspoon.
So oh oh no, i'm adding way too much.
Okay, that'll do Whatever.
That'll do.
Salt.
I have a little salt shaker.
I'm going to put it on my hand.
Just a pinch, a pinch of salt.
And we mix again.
It now says add the pistachios and the what?
The fricking, the chocolate chips.
It says to add the chocolate chips and the pistachios.
Okay, two bags of chocolate chips.
I will cut the top again.
Two bags of chocolate chips and then shit.
I need to chop the pistachios.
These nuts are like whole.
Can you see?
They're like whole.
This is my chopping board and knife and I am going to chop these pistachios.
We need 200 grams.
Now I have honestly, I have no plan.
I'm just gonna, I'm just going to chop them.
I'm going to just do this.
Have you guys heard of the like Dubai chocolate trend?
That's going like crazy everywhere.
I've been speaking to some of my students like Well, we've not spoken about it for a while, but I know that in Korea everybody was obsessed with this, like Dubai chewy cookie, which is basically like some kind of pistachio chewy thing.
It's not like a cookie like i'm making today like uh, like a biscuit.
In the uk we call these a cookie is like a biscuit, but a biscuit in the uk is different.
So omg, in america They will call anything that looks like a biscuit a cookie.
But in the UK, a biscuit is basically a bit less sweet.
And a cookie is basically only these biscuits that have like chocolate chips or things like that.
I'm doing a really bad job.
Anyway, in Korea, they've become obsessed with these Dubai chewy cookies.
Or they were obsessed.
People in Korea were obsessed with the Dubai chewy cookie.
And people were spending.
People were spending like they were telling me seven or 8 on a Dubai chewy cookie.
That trend has not taken off here in the UK.
There was a trend for like Dubai chocolate, which is Yeah, it's like pistachio and like a sweet pastry, I think.
Honestly, I've never had Dubai chocolate.
Dubai chocolate.
If you're from Dubai, you're probably thinking, what?
What is Dubai chocolate?
But that's just what we call it.
Have you ever had Dubai chocolate or have you had a Dubai chewy cookie?
Is that a thing where you live?
Is that popular?
That's slang by the way.
Is that a thing?
Is that like popular?
Guys, I've been chopping pistachios now for like too long.
This is how they look now.
Bro, I'm just going for it.
This seems like a lot of pistachio.
There's more pistachio.
There's more pistachio than anything else. which seems extreme.
I'm going to now mix it again.
This seems very, very dense.
Like I have made cookies in the past and I feel like it was not so dense as this.
When I say dense, I mean like It's like thick and I think this is kind of the best I can do.
Portion into cookies and place onto lined trays.
I'm gonna take a small section of dough and make it into like a little disc, like a ball, I guess.
The cookie dough is basically done, you can see.
So I'm gonna put this in the oven.
While we wait for the cookies, I thought that we could have a quick chat.
The time right now is 4pm, so I have until 10 past four to chat.
I have recently been reading the new Hunger Games book by Suzanne Collins.
The Hunger Games is obviously such a famous series.
It's such a famous franchise.
I have recently been listening to the audio book.
I've been listening to the new book in this series, which is called.
It's called Sunrise on the Reaping and it is so good.
I also recently read The Summer I Turned Pretty, but I read that series in Spanish.
It is a show on netflix as well and i literally loved it like.
I watched it for the first time this no, last year.
I watched it last year, in 2025, and i was obsessed.
I've now watched it like three times and i've read the books.
So if you like romance, romance series, the summer i turn pretty is so good.
It's a show on amazon um, and it's a book.
It's also a book as well.
Anyway, that was all.
That was all I wanted to say in this interlude.
An interlude is like a little break, a little break, a little pause in our baking.
So maybe you will read those books, but you should read.
You should read.
If you want to learn English, read books.
I think they're done.
So let's take them out.
Guys, they look so good.
Yum.
Look at them, look pretty good.
So right now they're really hot because they have just been in the oven.
So i'm going to let them, i'm going to let them cool, i'm going to let them get colder and can try one.
It's time.
So i have.
I've got a couple, a couple of the cookies that we made today guys.
They actually look quite good.
They look pretty good.
It looks quite good.
No, let me see, they are really really good, Mmm.
But actually, they are not too sweet.
They are sweet, but it's really nice and you can really taste the pistachio, which I love.
I love pistachio.
Right well, I think it's now probably time to end this video, but yeah really, as always, I just wanted to say Thank you so much for watching my videos.
I read every single comment and yeah, honestly, that is everything from me today.
Thank you so much for watching and I will see you in the next video.
See you.
