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   >> exhausted! yes.

   >>> it's time to take you into "today's" kitchen. roll up your sleeves. we are baking cookies.

   >> everybody loves baking them and eating them. especially we do. in honor of eating and giving them, hoda and i are going to share, my mom's -- she's gonzo. iams, my mother --

   >> she's goneio.

   >> she officially lost it this year.

   >> wait until the christmas show.

   >> wait until the christmas eve show!

   >> wait until you see christmas eve .

   >> and mine is a favorite of nest nestles.

   >> and i will just do any sugar cookie .

   >> this is what my mom did last year. these are called tasty morsels but as my mother called them last year, tasty mortals because she's a kacarnivore.

   >> what do you do with all of those things?

   >> you basically mix all of that up?

   >> in here, the nuts. put them on a ritz cracker .

   >> on a ritz?

   >> yes, it's delicious.

   >> and then bake it first?

   >> no.

   >> yes, you do!

   >> have you to bake it.

   >> if you want to bake it, who cares.

   >> he looked at this and other way, it's delicious.

   >> there you bake it a while. who cares?

   >> what are you making?

   >> the big family recipe.

   >> that was it?

   >> that's it! it's simple. you want simple at the holidays.

   >> no, you want -- move.

   >> move.

   >> mine is much more complicated. can i have my recipe. mine are the peanut butter cookies where you pop in the hershey kiss .

   >> yes, you like them.

   >> yes, let's pretend we made the cookies already.

   >> you don't know how to make them.

   >> bianca, they're hot!

   >> you did such a good job with those, hoda.

   >> you whim them p them up, what they do on the box. and you take a kiss and plop it.

   >> martha stewart must be nervous! you're so good, i'm telling you.

   >> you can even put more --

   >> the ideas you come up with.

   >> and then it melts?

   >> it melts on its own.

   >> what do you do next?

   >> watch and learn, sarah. you take the cookie -- sorry.

   >> it's okay.

   >> careful, the i'ds are wet.

   >> they're hot.

   >> lift them up.

   >> that didn't work. i'll eat it.

   >> thank you.

   >> i wish you could have one!

   >> it's a shame.

   >> me, too.

   >> oh, my gosh.

   >> really good.

   >> what are you making?

   >> it's the gooey kind.

   >> i'm making sugar cookies because i whipped this dough up this morning.

   >> uh-huh. i like.

   >> and we're going to cut one out.

   >> this is so bad. this is so bad but we're doing it.

   >> dy it over thanksgiving and i have no pans so this was really difficult. i smooshed it with my fingers.

   >> wait. what happens now?

   >> you lift it up with a tool i don't have either but we have this.

   >> we have three minutes. i'm trying to stretch it, all right?

   >> look how pretty that is. you too can have one of those.

   >> and then you bake it for how long?

   >> how long?

   >> 315?

   >> until they look golden.

   >> and then what?

   >> and then you take them. this is the fun part. everyone can get involved. look how pretty this is.

   >> oh, no.

   >> if you do it just right, it's going to look just like my cookies from earlier.

   >> and then you sprinkle them with everything.

   >> you can do whatever you want . a little of this.

   >> a little of that.

   >> you know what's upsetting, we have been given the notice we have two minutes to fill.

   >> why don't we taste the cookies.

   >> i can't eat them. i'm on a diet.

   >> that's just mean.

   >> taste that.

   >> all of these recipes over here, we will give more time to the next segment.

   >> we have two minutes. i'll hang here. you guys eat the cookies. it's fine. i want to know how they are.

   >> the recipes are on rlgandhoda.com. we will be right back

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