Episode
Good Eats: The Cookie Clause
Overview
Santa Claus is coming to town, and unless Alton Brown can bake up the perfect holiday cookie he's going to find himself on the wrong end of the big guy's list. Join AB for an evening of cookie baking basics, frosting food science, and maybe a little reindeer wrangling. Recipes: Sugar Cookies Royal Icing Chocolate Peppermint Pinwheel Cookies
Details
- Series
- Good Eats
- Season
- Season 7
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 2003-12-04
- Runtime
- 21 min
Episode context
The Cookie Clause is Episode 12 in Season 7 of Good Eats. It aired on 2003-12-04. The runtime is 21 min.
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