Rachel saying "I can't bake" and then starting on one of the most extra cookie recipes ever is incredibly on brand.

I'm convinced Christine McConnell uses the dark arts to make her crafts. "It doesn't have to be perfect" says the woman who makes photo-realistic spider cookies.

I love this SOOOO MUCH!!! And your cookie turned out fantastic! Getting them to stand on their own is the trickiest and you nailed it!! This just made my whole year :)))

A non-angry baking note: Christine’s recipes are insane. I mean, her haunted house was beyond. So good for you for tackling a master perfectionist’s time-warping 7th dimension cookie job.

Just in case you need to hear it, the time, care and creativity your putting into your video, the content and editing, title cards etc. IS NOT GOING UNNOTICED, it's something that adds such warmth to your videos, something a lot of KZfaqrs have lost. Keep SLAYING AWAY, and thank you!

I was raised in a house with a professional cake decorator. So a lot of baking stuff was ingrained in me from a young age. Baking is relaxing for me -- but only if I'm making something I've made 100 times before. I admire Rachel's willingness to try things she's never done before in front of an audience (even if it is edited for YT). I love that you don't let the naysayers discouraged you from trying new things, Rachel. 🥰🥰🥰

"I'm going to be baking!" *dons the largest sleeves known to humanity* I can already tell this is going to be amazing

"Is baking a relaxing for someone?" Yes. I stress bake and then I feel better. I appreciate baking chaos.

Not even two seconds in and Rachel hits you with: “is my hair triangular enough?”

The French kiss pun caught me so off guard my poor husband had to make sure I was okay because I was in tears. Top-tier. Incredible.

I've been baking for 28 years, I knew exactly what you were doing wrong and what was going to happen. No one should be putting you down. I laughed so much I cried. Not the least bit of hate or shade. You did a great job and I like yours better. This video just shows you don't have to do everything perfectly to end up with a perfect end product. I watched this with my kid, you are silly and made us laugh. We are a silly family so we can relate as well. And your edits make it that much funnier. I'm a crafter as well I'm always making mistakes and learning, then forgetting and relearning. You are doing great.

Rachel: I do not bake. Also Rachel: *owns Kitchen Aid mixer and baking airbrush* 😂

Rachel: I dont have a sifter but I do have this Rachel: *pulls out sifter *

"I have baked maybe 3 things in my life" *makes the most intricate, delicate recipe she can find* 😅

Rachel in 2019: maybe I'll make a patreon! -- rachel in 2022: plugs another creator's patreon instead of making her own 😂 (i sure hope rachel sets up her own soon like she was thinking about on insta!)

Okay but Christine literally has endless patience and perfectionism... the fact that you took on one of her project *and* it turned out pretty damn good is impressive. We need a Christine and Rachel collab ASAP!

“I’m having fun and I’m not stressed at all.” Rachel, speaking to all of our mid-project chaos selves

I'm one hundred percent sure that Rachel started by saying 3 cups of flour and the stress of not being able to find the measuring cup turned it to 4 cups in her brain....which I have totally never done.

Recipe: Take 3 cups of flour... Rachel: *adds 4 cups of flour*

You banishing the plant is my favorite thing today. "Did you hear what I said?!" *Shoves 🌱 once more*

This video has all of the chaos of the fairy godmother trying to make Aurora's birthday cake and I'm here for it 🤣🤣🤣

As a baker, I was appalled and enthralled by this thoroughly entertaining disaster. Love you Darling, keep the great content coming!

Rachel's _skill_ to make chaos look aesthetic... I'm in awe ✨

As a baker, I was both horrified and also cackling. The innocence of being naïve to baking is just way too stinkin' adorable.

the balance of ✨️ chaos and cosy ✨️ is immaculate

When she says "3 cups of flour" and immediately counts out 12 rounded 1/3 cups = 4+ cups. 😂 No wonder you needed more milk, love! 🖤

i love that we are immediately starting with the wrong amount of flour lol

I love that Rachel keeps worrying how realistic it looks… while it’s setting off my arachnophobia and I’m having to just listen to the video.

Rachel: "Next step: We have to make some aqua..." My brain: "...Tofana" Rachel: "...Aquafaba"

I went to culinary school for baking and Christine’s creations intimidate the the shite out of me! You’re a friggin’ champ for tackling that project.

Baking: fun and relaxing Rachel’s videos: fun and relaxing Watching Rachel bake something hideously complicated that I personally wouldn’t attempt: VERY STRESSFUL

I feel like we need a video of just...Rachel Does Relaxing Autumnal things like trying apple ciders and frolicking in the leaves.

I appreciate that you don't bake often so you went with the most difficult and time-consuming food-creator on KZfaq. Every CM tutorial I've ever seen is like 6+ hours, 3-4 weirdly specialized tools and so much specific knowledge that no earthly mortal could possibly repeat them.

Bébé spider dropping in like, "sculpt me, like one of your French girls." 🤣🤣🤣🕷️ This came out really cute and I especially loved your chapter transitions for this! ❤️

Miss Rachel, I have a baking tip for you: freeze your butter and then use a cheese grater to grate it into your flour mixture. It makes it easier to blend. I do this for my scones and pie crusts as well so that your dough doesn't get tough from developing gluten strands.

Rachel: “I can count on one hand how many times I’ve baked.” Also Rachel: *owns an Airbrush specifically for baking* Like girl I bake all the time and I don’t even own a handheld mixer, much less a stand mixer OR a baking airbrush. Bust out the ole fork and giant bowl and my arms are the stand mixer.

Baking is like food chemistry, it rewards precision. A tip for making shortbread, cream together the sugar and the butter & then work the flour into that. Basically to cream is to mix them really well until they look like paste. I think you did great for the first time trying cookies. 😊

yesssss! I've always described you to my friends as the lovechild of Christine McConnell and Jenna Marbles. I'm so excited to see you do this!

I love your fall-themed videos Rachel! I was subscribed to Christine's Patreon for a year or so and watched all the content she had up. I love her style and attention to detail, but LITERALLY NOTHING she does can be replicated by a normal human being. Her 'tutorials' descend into half hour long documentaries on how incredible her creations are, but I never find anything I can personally use in my own life. The project is always done in the most complicated manner possible, and she never takes shortcuts like anyone else would. She must know almost none of the people watching her will actually try and copy her projects. I like to support a talented and hard working woman, but I felt so not-good-enough in comparison, it was actually a little depressing after awhile! Seeing your attempt at making her spider cookies is so meaningful to me because you really did your best and the result was super cute. But your portrayal of the project is ultimately 1000% more honest about how any of us would feel doing the same thing. Even though you are obviously very creative and talented, you are very humble and down to earth. That's why I love to watch your content, and look forward to your videos. You have TONS of content compared to her and it's all stuff I could imagine using and I actually learn from. So, long story short.. love you both but you make me feel OK about being a human and not a goddess! ♥

Rachel should make a ✨whimsy✨cooking book that would only have the names and ingredients of the dishes, pictures of her with the finished product and the instructions for each of the would be "futz around and find out". I'd buy that.

Anyone else had the conflict between a fear of (realistic-looking) spiders and watching a new Rachel Maksy video? lol

I don't know if any of y'all have played the kids game "Cootie" where you had to build a bug based on random dice rolls, but the spider builds gave me an immediate flashback to childhood me trying my best to get a right leg with a boot

Rachel, we like your baking videos not because you are good at it but because you are so relatable! Your mistakes and human tornado-ness are all of us who do not possess the magical qualities of those that refer to themselves as bakers. Seeing you struggle through a cute Halloween tutorial makes us feel like we could also successfully make a shape-shifted alien spider.

You should try a Mrs. Crocombe recipe! They’re a lot of fun. I live for amazingly tacky Victorian food decorating.

me: (watching the amount of flour in each cup going in the bowl) oh no that's going to be so much more than you need rachel: i needed way more milk than it said me: sounds about right

Coming from someone who has a degree in baking and pastry, works in a specialty cake shop, and has been on Food Network: keep baking!! No one should spew negativity towards anyone who bakes at any level! Baking is for everyone, and I'm so glad you're sharing it with us! 💕 You are the ultimate comfort channel!

only rachel who states she is not an experienced baker can choose a complicated recipe and still end with it looking really good?? i love this cookie so much i think she nailed it

It genuinely brings me so much joy to see Frodo running through the fall leaves with his Frisbee

It cracks me up that Rachel chose **those ginormous sleeves** to do messy baking with! But, I got creeped out by the finished spider (arachnaphobia), so I'd say that was a pretty darn good job.

Omg a queen following a queen?!

Christine McConnell's superpower is patience. Yes she's super creative and talented but the amount of patience that woman has to execute her ideas is beyond anything I could ever even hope to achieve. She makes things look easy and yeah, sure, she's not performing brain surgery or anything but omg, the PATIENCE required. I do not have it. I will never have it.

This is how Hagrid actually got Aragog. He baked him up real cute.

The vintage queen, trying to recreate a creation of the spooky queen ?! This is an absolute Halloween perfection !!

I'm a pro baker, and I feel the same way about sewing patterns 😆. Like who do I think I am trying to make clothes? 😂😂😂

Rachel's absolute bamboozlement over the fact that one stick of butter is half a cup was *chefs kiss* (Also, that thredup ad got me good)

This is definitely what I needed in my life. 1st rule of baking….make sure you’re wearing the appropriate amount of sleeves.

Rachel “I am pooped, I felt like I needed a little bit of a break” Also Rachel, in same vid “baking makes me feel so frantic”

I hope Christine sees this!! It'd be so cool if the two of you made a video together, about literally anything.

Rachel: I don't bake often Also Rachel: Makes most difficult cookies ever

Two Halloween queens that go great together!

Rachel: *makes spider cookies* Me: “…I wonder if she realizes that she just bounded as Rick and Evelyn O’Connell.”

Two of the best cozy, spooky content creators influencing each other? Yes. YEEESSSS!!!

NEVER APOLOGIZE for THE CHAOS! Also I 100% relate to baking (and tbh cooking in general) causing one to be absolutely frantic lol 😂

Rachel you make my day, in my house we affectionately call you “ little Debbie”. And as a avid baker I am loving/ cringing at this.

Rachel, I really appreciate how often you take creative chances and bring us along for the ride. Creativity is supposed to be fun and engaging and yes, sometimes messy and flawed! The point isn't about achieving perfection. And yet so many of us get caught up in wanting to make things perfect (I know I certainly do), to the point that we stop trying new things or taking creative chances. So I just really appreciate you showing how fun and messy and fulfilling creativity can be, especially when the end result isn't perfect. ❤

Pretty sure that's now 3 Sir Mix-A-Lot references in a row? I'm wondering how many videos Rachel can keep this up for!

This was a total delight to watch and bravo for tackling one of Christine's tutorials!

I laughed so much at the human-ness of your reactions. This video is an absolute delight. And your spee-i-der: a genuinely horrifying creation. You’re a better baker than you think, Rachel. Remember the first time you worked with modeling foam? Everyone begins at square one. Plus, you’re one of the few people who could pull this off with your sculpting and air brush skills.

How has Rachel not already done a Christine McConnell video? The Collab we all NEED.

"I'm having fun and I'm not stressed _at all_ ." she says, frantically rolling the dough 😆 Rachel, I love your baking videos because they make me feel better about my own failed attempts AND you're way funnier during it than I am 😅

Rachel, you did a fantastic job and made quite the spider spectacle! It wasn’t perfect, but you were able to convey our lovely 8 legged creepy crawly friend pretty accurately, so be proud of yourself☺️💖

Look, you made a cookie that stands on its own! That's a massive accomplishment! (Add to that the fact that the biscuit texture adds some density and I have to tip my hat to you!) Amazing!!!

A Rachel and Christine "collaboration". Fall has now peaked and can't get better!❤️🧡💛❤

Sponsor Rachel's sweater is absolute autumn perfection! 🍂

Adorable French kiss costume! It's nice that thred up is still sponsoring creators like Rachel! I do think it is unfortunate that they continue to offer discounts only on the first purchase...my first purchase was about 5 years ago so that discount is long used. It would be cool for even a small discount for returning customers!

As a super fan of Christine McConnell, a super fan of Rachel Maksy and a professional baker, this is my jam!! I will watch every one of your baking videos!!

She DOESN'T have one of the most common and readily available kitchen tools - a *SIFTER* - but she DOES have a *BAKING AIRBRUSH* ! Gawd, I love this girl! 🤣💖

Thank you for being a delightful tornado of a baker. It's nice to be reminded other people can literally take a full day (or two) to make one batch of cookies, and I'm not the only one thusly cursed! Seriously, this is the first time I've laughed since getting ill with Covid on Monday, so thank you for providing the highlight of quarantine!

This is the most wholesome chaos I have ever encountered. I love it. My OCD hates it. But I love it.

“Underbaked” and “It looks a bit stodgy” are some of my favorite phrases they use on the Great British Bake Off. 😂

That little jumping spider on Rachel’s hand ❤ it was destiny 😊

Rachel "I never bake" Pulls out pricy Kitchen Aide stand mixer Me 'WHAAATTTT"!🤩

Rachel, I just want you to know, that no matter what I'm watching if I see a notification of yours pop up I will immediately go watch that because I know it'll put me in a better mood than whatever it is I'm watching.

As someone who bakes for a living I LOVE watching my favorite KZfaqrs, (who self admit to not being bakers) bake things. It brings so much joy to my heart. Also I’m a tornado in the kitchen but I still find baking generally relaxing. It’s all about finding the particular thing you enjoy baking. 🙂 Thank you for all of your hard work Rachel!

Didn't know we needed this crossover, yet here we are. ❤

Oh my god, it took me 17 years to figure out the pun: *She's a french kiss*

...French Kiss... **wheeze** Hoo-boy, I laughed far harder at that than I should have. Shared a screen grab with my husband to see if he could get it...he let loose a stifled chuckle, then gazed at me with a look of dead-eyed disappointment. I honestly think he's more disappointed in himself for finding it funny. Good gracious, thank you, Rachel. Best way to top-off the evening. :>

The cookie was terrifying, and as I am scared of spiders, I mean that as a compliment! It turned out great, and honestly as someone who is also trying to bake more, I share your feelings of frenzy in the kitchen. I'm not sure it's ever calming, but at least you get a treat at the end :)

That lil jumping spider really said, "whatcha makin fren?" They are the only cute spider imo 🥰 they're so curious, very docile, and you can actually see them looking at you. Much cute.

Not sure whether you or Christine would be interested in that, but I'd LOVE to see a collab between you two. I feel like her composed genius combined with your chaotic genius could result in something amazing ^^

Baking is relaxing for me because I've had a lot of practice. Like how painting/fostering is your favorite, so you can relax and listen to/watch something whilst doing it, and zone out and enjoy it.

Christine is otherworldly. One should never attempt to recreate something that she has created bc in doing so, you are depleting her powers.

Ugh Christine is so underrated. So glad to see these two minds come together ❤

You chaotically trying to follow Christine's directions is hilarious and relatable! Her skill is truly magical.

Thanks for sharing the channel of Christine McConnell. She really is a queen! There is nothing that this woman cannot do. And while doing it she keeps looking like a model. Makes me feel very humble.... 😬😬😬

Don’t feel bad about not being as gentle and perfect like the spook queen… she is an anomaly in this universe aka a perfect human we all fall short in her presence! I loved this video because there is more Frodo, though I think it’s awful how you have taken over his channel like this poor little man hehe love you xx

The Over the Garden Wall vibes that your backyard has in this video -- immaculate!

This was so adorable ❤ your outfit, your hair, your face, you’re just a spectacular being! Quick note, the “biscuity” texture from your cookies, is due to overworking the shortbread dough. As a baker, it is a really TOUGH COOKIE to master so don’t beat yourself up. Xoxo❤

The little suspender snap at 9:04 absolutely SENT me.

1. That sweater is AMAZING. 2. It was strangely comforting to see someone wielding the same uncertain, stressed energy I feel when I'm baking/cooking like anything. So. Thank you for that!! It still turned out amazing!😂