Claire and Gaby Make Apple Empanadas | Dessert Person

Claire and Gaby Make Apple Empanadas | Dessert Person
What’s more fun than making fried empanadas? Making fried dessert empanadas with a friend! (That is, socially distanced). In this special episode of Dessert Person, Claire Saffitz and her special guest go off-script and decide to make a recipe together just for fun. Check it, and learn from the one and only Gaby Melian how to make empanadas with the prettiest twisted edge. (Link Below for Gaby's Kitchen YouTube)

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Gaby's Empanadas
Special Equipment:
A 4½"-diameter cookie cutter
Deep-fry thermometer

Ingredients:
2 cups lukewarm water
1/2 cups (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted, slightly cooled
1 Tbsp. lemon juice
2 tsp. kosher salt
1 tsp. sugar
6 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for surface

Video Breakdown:
0:00​​​ Start
0:01 Intro to Apple Empanadas
00:44 Dessert Person Intro Animation
1:03 About Claire's Apple Filling
1:48 Ingredients & Special Equipment
2:30 Making The Apple Filling
7:03 Making The Dough & Crimping
7:17 Claire & Gaby Reunite
17:00 How To Fold Empanadas
18:24 Free Zoom Link Expires
18:26 Frying!
23:57 Taste & Outro
24:49 Pucho Cameo

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Photographer: Alex Lau
Food Stylist: Sue Li
Prop Stylist: Astrid Chastka

Video Series:
Producer/Director: Vincent Cross
Camera Operator: Calvin Robertson
Sound Engineer/Music: Michael Guggino
Editor: Brooke Shuman

Animation Credits:
Character Designer/Animator: Jack Sherry
Character Rigger: Johara Dutton
Background/Prop Designer: M. Cody Wiley
Background Illustrator: Jagriti Khirwar

[CSaffitz]

What’s more fun than making fried empanadas? Making fried empanadas with a friend!

[justinchoe]

The reunion we all needed during these hard times.

[dianacortes]

At the end, during the Pucho cam, Gaby's talking to her dog in Spanish, she's saying "Pucho you have to stay still. Get ready for the picture, COMB YOUR HAIR, you're gonna be starring in a video and you're going to become very famous" love her 🥺💕

[thisiskates]

So I love how supportive Gaby is being and also can we take a moment to appreciate Claire's listening skills and respect for Gaby's knowledge? Love it. Need more of this content.

[nataliamaliga]

The moment when Gaby said the crimping is very personal to every person made me realize that any kind of dumpling shape in any cuisine truly has the same thing. My mom and my grandma both crimp pierogi closed in different ways, and watching Claire and Gaby do them is so nostalgic.

[cynonowo]

"hi vinny!"
"hi gaby!"
🥺🥺 that was such a cute moment oh my god

[catherinedagostino]

Gabby saying "hi Vinny!" and him replying "hiii Gabyyy" was the sweetest thing ever :)

[maxrona]

Ordering delivery because you're busy recording your cooking show is a power move.

[jordylyons]

It’s like the avengers are getting back together👏

[istalrivaldr]

The was Gaby is giving instructions but "skipping" all the small things is SO FUCKING REAL. My grandmother does the same stuff

[chanson]

Gaby saying everyone crimps differently. Claire: "Well, that's nice of you to say." I felt that in my soul.

[elizabethsaltmarsh]

Hearing Gaby say "oh my God Claire, I love it" once again was what I needed today. Love these two!
Can you freeze the dough for later once you've made enough for one meal.

[krschn]

I feel like someone will eventually make a compilation of claire trying to find a place to put her food in the fridge.

[shadebug]

“Get your filling out”
“I feel like I’m not nailing this”
No, Claire, fillings, not feelings

[lizzelliott]

This is the chaotic cooking that I've been missing from Claire! I want more of this content I laughed so much during this video! Also, I missed seeing the collaborations with the BA chefs. This is so pure and so good.

[joanfrancesc]

i would die for gabby from the gabby’s home kitchen

[jackmcarthur]

Gabby getting kicked off the zoom because claire doesn’t have a business account was really funny omg

[afergie]

The look that Claire gave when Gaby said “see thru” was priceless!
I love how you can always tell you’re in or looking in a chef’s kitchen with all their gadgets. That being said, I hate seeing what my cooking arsenal is lacking.

[kelzbelz]

I love that gabby has a pair of bananas hanging up with her pots and utensils

[JudithOpdebeeck]

I love how she’s trying to keep it a surprise who this special guest is, while it’s already super obvious that it’s Gaby