Ree Drummond is not abashed to use premade doughs and shortcuts to admonition with her anniversary baking. That's what makes her such a abundant best to be accomplice with the Pillsbury Bake-Off this year. The Pioneer Woman has congenital an authority based on actuality a relatable home cook, and there's annihilation we can chronicle to added than alive that sometimes you charge to footfall abroad from the kitchen, stop aggravating to accept a picture-perfect holiday, and absorb time with your admired ones architecture memories.
In the average of the Bake-Off contest, we bent up with Drummond to see how she handles anniversary baking and what the Drummond ancestors does on Christmas. Hint: It sounds wonderful.
The Daily Meal: Can you acquaint me how you got complex with the Pillsbury Bake-Off and what appealed to you about this partnership?
Ree Drummond: I'm alive with Pillsbury to advance the account about the Bake-Off this year. The Bake-Off has been on aperture for three years, and it's back. It's absolutely agitative this year because they're bringing it all aback to the kitchen and the home cooks that accept fabricated the Bake-Off what it is. In added contempo years, it was a absolutely big competition, an in-person accident based on finalists and entries that had been submitted. Now this year, it's activity to be a compound additional adventure and anamnesis abaft it. I capital to assignment with Pillsbury because I've been a fan of the Bake-Off for years and years, actuality a adolescent of the '70s and '80s; I aloof bethink it all of those years and aggravating those acceptable recipes. Also, what Pillsbury is all about is reflected in this year's Bake-Off, which is family, architecture memories in the kitchen about baking. I aloof anticipate it's agitative to bless home cooks. I appear to be one myself, so it absolutely was a fit!
With the anniversary division bound approaching, what are your top tips and tricks for baking for bodies who may be abashed to get into the kitchen?
Baking, apparently added so than cooking, can be a little alarming and daunting. One allotment of admonition I accord is aloof to accumulate in apperception what the holidays are all about. They're all about the anticipation and activity abaft things. It's not about impressing people. Don't put burden on yourself to accomplish a 37-layer torte for your neighbors. One added affair I adulation about Pillsbury and how they abutment home baking and home affable is that their articles are so accessible as a foundation. In the Bake-Off, it's all about application a Pillsbury air-conditioned dough. So the opportunities and possibilities those acquaint are so endless. You can accomplish agreeable things or candied things.
If you appetite to accomplish biscuit rolls, you can focus added on the flavorings of the biscuit rolls themselves and again use the able dough. If you appetite to do some artistic cookie ideas, instead of spending the time architecture the dough, you can use article that's already done and body aloft that. You can let your adroitness be acclimated with flavors and decorations.
On a applied note, my best admonition for baking or affable during a active time like the holidays is to adapt as abundant as you can advanced of time. Don't save it for the big day. Alike if it's aloof chopping basics and accepting a big baggie abounding of chopped nuts, that can save so abundant time back you're authoritative a bulk of broiled goods. I try consistently to anticipate of what I can possibly do advanced of time, a day or two before, to accomplish that day abundant smoother.
What are some of your admired things to get in the kitchen and broil for the anniversary season?
Cinnamon rolls are my admired example. That's what my mother and I broiled calm growing up. Of course, amoroso cookie Christmas cookies. Accepting fun with the shapes and decorating in that class of broiled goods. Our Christmas Day attitude is biscuits and gravy. That's article I attending advanced to all year. Basically, I adulation the accomplished vibe of the abode actuality abounding with the aroma of baking about the holidays. I anticipate so abounding bodies can chronicle to that. It's such a abundant time of year to try new things in the baking realm. Alike accidents are blessed accidents back it comes to baking.
Beyond biscuits and gravy, what are some added Drummond anniversary traditions both in and out of the kitchen?
One funny attitude is that on Christmas Day, the guys don't work. So there's no agronomical assignment activity on, which is a fun attitude because we apperceive the boots are activity to break by the door. Our anniversary traditions are actual casual. Surrounding the holidays, we adulation old Christmas music. I decidedly adulation Bing Crosby and Andy Williams and all of the old music. We consistently accept a Christmas pajama tradition. On Christmas Eve back we get home from our abbey service, alike the dogs get Christmas pajamas. It's the alone time of year I can get my bedmate into checkerboard pants. So afterwards we get home, we bare our Christmas pajamas and dress up the dogs, and it's a memory.
Those consistently accomplish for abundant photos. Do all of the pajamas match?
Pretty much. We consistently go for things that go with one another. I'm cerebration of activity a little crazy this year and accepting in to the awkward realm. I haven't ample out what that looks like.
I anticipate for Christmas you're activity to accept a lot of options.
I anticipate so, too.
