Binging with Babish: Sumbitches from How I Met Your Mother

I don't care if these are poison chocolate and peanut butter and caramel we'll need some I call them some here have another song hey what's up guys welcome back to binging with babish where this week I'm recording my video in an airport with my head under a micro fleece blankets so we'll see how this goes as we attempt to make something tasty out of chocolate peanut butter and caramel don't even know how that's going to be possible but we're gonna try first up we have a whole bunch of these molds Schools squared caramels that we have to unwrap first of course before cutting them into fours once cut into fours I'm going to sort of try to roll them into little rounds I don't think this is gonna matter because they're probably just gonna melt in the cookie but that is my plan and I am blindly stubborn after rolling them all up into nice little balls we can get started working on our cookie dough and the cookies on the show looked to me like those thin crispy little guys you get from Tate's which starts out like a normal enough cookie dough we're gonna measure out 8 and 1/2 ounces of all-purpose flour to which we're going to add 1 teaspoon each baking soda and kosher salt and tiny whisk to combine then in the bowl the stand mixer goes 2 sticks of unsalted butter and 3 quarters of a cup each of granulated sugar and firmly packed light brown sugar place that into your stand mixer affixed paddle attachment and then we're going to cream these guys together during which time we're also going to add a teaspoon of vanilla extract I should mention that the butter is room temperature which is gonna help it cream very quickly and easily about 1 minute once those are good and creamed we're adding 2 large eggs once those eggs have been added we're going to scrape down the sides the bowl and cream again for maybe 1 to 2 minutes until creamy lift up the paddle scrape down the sides of the bowl one last time and then it's time to add our dry ingredients all at once no need to be fancy here we're just gonna mix this in until homogeneous no more than 30 to 45 seconds be sure not to over mix unless you want tough cookies now at long last it's time to add our mix-ins chocolate chips peanut butter chips and our chopped up caramel caramels let me know how you say it in the comments below scrape all the delicious cookie dough out the paddle attachment and then it's time to use a tiny ice cream scoop or melon baller to scoop out uniform little nubbins of cookie dough maybe 1 to 2 tablespoons worth spaced out evenly on a parchment lined baking sheet and then into a 375-degree fahrenheit oven it goes for 10 to 12 minutes make sure not to try and scrape these off until they are cool as the molten caramel will adhere them to the parchment paper like glue also that batch looked a little bit too large to be Tate's so I'm downgrading the nubbins to an even tablespoon which as you might imagine made them come out just about right and if you can manage to just wait for once in your life for cookies to cool completely they will pop off just like that so they look both like Tate's and the cookies from the show but what do they taste a little they're a little bit tricky to stack but no matter because they've got that signature tape snap and they taste exactly how you'd imagined thin buttery crispy caramely chocolatey peanut buttery but they have a fatal flaw the caramel you see turns chewier than bazooka bubblegum once it's allowed to cool so we're gonna take a page or two out of cookie demigod Christina Tosi book and prefer to her justifiably famous peanut butter cookies plus all her recipes are measured out in grams you all know how much I like that once we've measured out all of our wet ingredients including 50 grams of glucose which you can find on Amazon it's time to start combining the dry 225 grams of bread flour 2 grams of baking powder 1 gram of baking soda and a whopping 9 grams of kosher salt it would seem as though Christina likes her cookies salty we're gonna tiny whisk those together and then it's time to contend with the butter this time only a stick and a half likewise room temperature placed into the bowl of a stand mixer with 300 grams of granulated sugar and our 50 grams of glucose syrup if you can't find glucose you can use light corn syrup but it's not gonna have the same consistency in the end and now begins the first of three beatings we are beating this first mixture together on medium-high speed for 2 to 3 minutes until light and fluffy scraping down the sides the bowl adding 260 grams of creamy peanut butter and beating on medium-high speed for 30 seconds or until just combined then at this point with the mixer running on slow we're going to add the eggs slowly one at a time until just combined about 30 seconds along with half a gram of vanilla extract before beating mercilessly on high speed for 3 minutes until light creamy and doubled in volume last but not least we need to add our pre combined dry ingredients after scraping down the bowl one more time of course adding the dry stuff and then mixing minimally about 30 seconds on medium-low speed until just combined and now it's time to address the caramel portion of our Christina uses chopped up peanut brittle in her cookie so we're just gonna emulate that without the peanuts simply caramelize some granulated sugar over medium-low heat until amber in color pour out on some parchment and allowed to cool completely before peeling away from the parchment and smashing into teeny tiny bits according to her recipe we don't want any pieces larger than grain of rice presumably because once these things really hardened they could probably take it to theft so we're gonna smash them up nice and good before dumping them into our cookie dough and then it's time to talk chocolate you can use chocolate chips if you like but I like chopped chocolate as it makes a bunch of different sized little pieces and streaks throughout the cookie so coarsely chopped up about 4 to 6 ounces of high-quality dark chocolate and dump it on in yet then once again going to slowly and gently mix together just to evenly incorporate our mix-ins and there you have it some very serious indeed cookie dough which is unfortunately not yet ready to bake we must first portion out the cookie dough about two to three tablespoons worth each onto a parchment lined baking sheet give them plenty of space as they are bound to expand and then we're gonna Pat down the tops a little bit to make them into evenly proportioned chubby little disks which we are then going to stack and wrap prodigiously in plastic wrap because these guys are headed into the fridge for as little as three hours and as much as three days first I got to clean out my fridge here got some real science projects going on to the back the longer you age your cookie dough for the better it's going to look and taste so try to be patient once those are done chilling we're just gonna unwrap them these are an experimental giant batch and pop them in a 375-degree fahrenheit oven for 15 to 18 minutes after which time they will emerge beautifully golden brown and crisp and there you have it two different versions of sumbitches I'm sorry some victus wait seriously I can't say some because they set it on network television let's try this one more time some there we go big thank you to whoever's editing this oh wait it's me ain't IA stinker anyway now that we've got the horseplay out of the way how do these look feel and taste and the answer to all three of those questions is amazing the outsides are crisp but the glucose gives the interiors a distinct chewiness and you should stop whatever you're doing and make them right now [Music] [Music]

Channel: Babish Culinary Universe

Views: 5,508,649

Rating: 4.9700885 out of 5

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Id: i9MMCCd-MSI

Length: 6min 57sec (417 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 03 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/questingthebeast]

Is there peanut butter in the Babish batch? Or just caramel brittle and chopped chocolate?

[u/sfwandcooking1]

Would using liquid cane sugar be as good as the glucose?

[u/Jonnyboy1189]

That was a better ending than HIMYM had. Cookies look great.

[u/drinkwineandscrew]

Quick question, I assume this is an American thing I've not heard of - what the fuck is a Tate's?

[u/aixelsydevaheW]

He should make "sandwiches" from HIMYM.

[u/selloboy]

God damn those look fucking amazing

[u/Do_it_in_a_Datsun]

I havent had cookies in a long time. I was salivating over this video. I need to make them.

[u/941026]

lmao his absolutely deadpan delivery of "ain't I a stinker" fucking killed me

[u/fernandotakai]

i was wondering why babish didn't add little blobs of dulce de leche -- it's basically creamy, super tasty, caramel.