When the girls are away, the editor will bake.

This is not Lara.

This is her cameraman, editor, and husband ... Matt.

As an early Christmas present I thought I would shoot myself.  With a camera.  Geez, gotta watch the phrasing.

Anyway, as I post this now, she is still completely unaware that this video exists.  She will watch it for the first time along with many of you.

Full recipe to follow:

Gluten-free White Chocolate Egg Nog Cookies

Wet Ingredients:

* 1 cup white sugar

* 1/4 cup brown sugar

* 3/4 cup butter

* 1/2 cup egg nog

* 2 egg yolks (save whites)

Dry ingredients:

* 2 1/4 cup of GF Flour mix

* 1 tsp baking powder

* 1/2 tsp cinnamon

Flavorings:

* 1 tsp rum extract (using vanilla would be fine too)

* 3/4 cup white chocolate chips

Eggwash:

* 2 saved egg whites

* 1 tsp nutmeg

Instructions:

Cream the sugars and the butter.  Then mix in egg nog and egg yolks.  Sift the dry ingredients, then add slowly into the wet ingredients.  Once the dough is well mixed, put in extract and chocolate chips and mix briefly to integrate.

Chill dough for about an hour.  Once chilled, preheat the oven to 300 degrees F and scoop onto your parchment paper covered cookie sheets.  Using a brush do a light coat of the egg wash/nutmeg blend.  Bake around 11 minutes, rotate for even baking, then bake for another 11 minutes.  Allow to cool, if you have the willpower.  Eventually you eat them.  Or at this point, do whatever.  I'm not going to tell you how to live.

-Matt