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happy 4th of July club members Eddie and
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I are going to share with y'all today
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our version of a flag cake and you know
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what I've got I've got a confession to
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make I've never made a flag cake I you
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know what I think I have have you really
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yeah like maybe when I was in high
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school that blue looks so pretty on you
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thank you you got a few strings but
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other than that you're like perfect
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oh well here let me get these scissors
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cuz I will keep looking at that there
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you go now your slap cab perfect that
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blue is so pretty with your coloring
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thank you all right so I've never made
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one Eddie has thank goodness you know
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most people and you see a lot of them
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around the 4th of July but you see them
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making them with blueberries and
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strawberries that's what I've done have
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you yeah that's well you know that fruit
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uh can ripen pretty quick and it can run
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so I thought you know I don't I don't
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think I want to go the fruit
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route so I found some other things that
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I think will work very very well uh I
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got the idea about
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Twizzlers you know that I like that rope
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licorice I think it's going to be a
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little big though but I found these
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candies it's like a rope candy filled
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with some kind of nougat oh it's really
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sweet and tart it is it's sweet and tart
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cuz it was made by Sweet Tart right
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that's right that's right and then I
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found these little blue candies I mean
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it's so everything is going to be
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edible
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okay yeah it's got a chocolate Center
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and they're good so that's going to be
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the blue in our flag all right I'm going
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to show y'all how I doctor up a box cake
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mix um you know for a Fourth of July
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cake I don't want to go to all the
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trouble of you know making a cake from
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scratch I'm going to put my energy in
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trying to recreate that flag so I'm
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using a white cake
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mix and I don't go by the instructions
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on the
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box I use four eggs it calls for three I
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always had an extra egg and we got lucky
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I've got a little chicken that will laid
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some real large eggs and one of our eggs
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was a double yolk so we got twice the
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bang for our buck for that chicken like
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a duck egg on yeah I know so we got five
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yolks in here and Eddie if you want to
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take your mixer and start mixing
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it as I add the ingredients uh now I do
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add uh like a third of a cup cup of O
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that's what it calls for so I do do that
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and for the water I always use
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buttermilk I was out of Buttermilk this
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morning so I'm just going to use a a
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whole a
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[Music]
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whole milk not
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2% not skim but just the regular whole
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whole
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milk
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and I always add vanilla flavoring some
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kind of some kind of
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flavoring
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um sometimes I'll use the coconut
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flavoring sometimes I'll use orange you
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know it's just whatever I'm in the mood
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for so since it's just a white cake you
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can really do um any kind of any kind of
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flavoring you
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want vanilla is always in order now
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we'll want to beat that for a couple of
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minutes now while Eddie's doing that
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I'm going
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to show you the pan that I chose to make
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the cake in uh this
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is one of my cake pans that um I bought
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this I think I was making a wedding cake
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and I needed different layers so you can
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make it in a 13x9 by two or a 15 by 10
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you know you can make it in any shape
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you want but I thought the round cake
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with a rectangle flag would be fun so
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you want to make
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sure that you spray your
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pan very very good because you going to
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have to bring this cake out of here in
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one solid piece so you want to make
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sure it uh does not stick and if you're
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worried about it I I use a wax paper or
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parchment paper and I'll just cut cut
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out my paper the size of my cake pan so
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if you're scared you can do that all
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right on positively Paula one day I made
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like a rainbow cake so I thought well
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that'll be fun for my fourth of July
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cake uh to do it like red white and blue
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so that's good Eddie so what we yeah
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what we want to do
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now is divine up our
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batter into like
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thirds
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so like a third
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there a third
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here and we
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can we could just leave it in this bowl
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but if you want me to transfer it to a
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clear Bowl I will and that way we can
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see if we've got it divided you know
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pretty
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easily this is a fun correctly I mean
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not easy this is a fun cake and it's
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something that my grand boys love
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helping me
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with okay so that looks pretty even I
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might
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have might have shorted that one just a
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little
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bit all right so here comes the fun part
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we're going to leave one
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white but then we're you're going to
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color one
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blue and one
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red sometimes red can look pinky too
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so I want to use a good bit
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of coloring for that it's a deep color
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though
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yeah have you ever made like Greek
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Easter eggs that deep deep red I I never
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never no how do you do that I don't know
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I've never gotten how they made them
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that red what dye they use H well they's
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all kind of dyes out there
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now all right so let me find a
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spoon a good spoon like a big spoon
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oh well let's see yeah a big spoon
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yeah look in that drawer over there
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Eddie how about like an ice cream scoot
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yeah that's good this that's that'll be
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good yeah
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so this is how we going to make our
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rainbow cake y'all I'm going to
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start with a white
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layer and I'm going to just put that
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right in the
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center and then we're going to come in
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oh I don't have another spoon do I
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and then I'm going to come in and I'm
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going to put the
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red right there in the center now I'm
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not going to stir that
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up I'm not going to stir it and now I'm
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going to come in with the
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blue and I'm going to drop it right
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there just like that
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and I'm going to give my pan just a a
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little Shake that'll help get it to
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spreading out all right now I'm going
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back with the
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white the white layer and now I'm going
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back with the
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pink or red supposed to be red
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y'all it's like modern art yes big
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splatter I mean this is this is is so
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much fun I love doing now if you want to
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take a turn let me know cuz like I said
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this is this is the fun
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part your kids will have a
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ball helping you make this
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cake all
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right so we just
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keep alternating the colors just like
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that until we've used up all of our
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batter and then we're going to bake
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this at
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350 I think I baked mine in this pan for
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20 or 25
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minutes so you get the gist of how you
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wind up with a cake all right so I'm
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going to put this to the side because
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it's going to take a few minutes for us
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to uh decorate our cake with the flag so
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I've already baked off a
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cake and I did mine just that exact same
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way and this is what we wound up with so
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when we cut it we'll have all those
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different layers of colors all
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right we're going to ice
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it and I'm going to need those rinsed
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off so I can beat my icing up
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because I've had it ready and it's just
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been sitting in that bowl so may have
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gotten a little hard so I want to just
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cream thank you Eddie and I got go
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everywhere all right so I'm just
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using a buttercream
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icing and here we
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go now now we fix to have a lot of
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fun and you'll see that I put parchment
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paper uh underneath my cake so when I
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get through icing it
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uh I can just slip that paper out and it
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won't be all messy my board will be nice
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and
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clean so I hope this is going to taste
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good you know it probably would have
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been good Eddie if I had used two cake
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mixes you know and done a double layer
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yeah that would be higher that would
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that would be a huge
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cake but I think this will be
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fun you know the most important part
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is you know creating a conversation
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piece and sharing this experience with
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our
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children or a family
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member you made this for Jack's birthday
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right the last time you made it what i'
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I've never made a flag cake oh well no
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the the uh rainbow cake the rainbow cake
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yes yes I I did it for
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um for Jack's birthday
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my cake is is
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um shedding a little
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bit must be moist then must I hope I
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hope you know you can really take a a
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box cake
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mix and really doctor it up in a way
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that you would never know
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you know it's that it's that
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simple and that easy I know I'm
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swallowing hard like I want some
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[Laughter]
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cake and you know I'm not going to worry
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about this being you know perfectly
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slick I'm not opposed to
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the to the little curly cues
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and all that that happens with the
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icing that's where it I'm going to cover
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that right there cuz that
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was that got a
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little got some crumbs in
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it okay so that was very very
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simple this would be like one bite cake
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yes all right so Eddie since you've done
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this let's get
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started all right how big do we want to
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make our flag I think big uh do you want
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to put the flag pole on first no I
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thought we put that last oh we can just
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to judge okay well let's do that I'm
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going to
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go by your expertise how's that perfect
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so that'll put the
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flag about right
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there I think that's a little
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long for the flag how about you yeah you
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mean High PR yes I think we need to cut
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that don't you think
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mhm
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okay I probably should have cut them all
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at one time shouldn't
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I've well that's all
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right what do you think about that it
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looks good
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looks all right when should we start
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coming in with the blue I think there
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this is going to give us enough space to
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do a blue field so
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um uh like up there for the top no no
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red on top no red on top okay so we'll
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take that
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off and we'll come in here with the blue
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yep and thank goodness we've got whoa
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thank goodness we've got white
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icing so that gives us our
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white now what are we going to do about
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stars
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Edie well we've got this white
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icing that we can use good idea to fill
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in the space yes so we'll just pipe some
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stars on to the blue balls
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and we want to keep that completely
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Square o I like those
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candies I like the candies better than
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blueberries because those blueberries
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are going to run oh yeah this is a fun
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cake I think uhhuh and I don't not very
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healthy but
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very
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patriotic this is definitely a kids cake
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yes this is for the kids not the adults
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that's exactly right this is for our
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children we want to teach
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them
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patriotism and to love their
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country and to celebrate their country
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uh-oh I'm fixing to have a
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mess I'm fixing to get can I have a damp
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rag
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please I'm fixing to
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um get
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icing
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everywhere all right so we want to bring
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these in well I still got icing all over
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that
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Eddie have to start fresh May
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okay
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what do you think one more one one more
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yeah that should do one
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more that will be
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perfect well you know what
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Eddie for us to never have done anything
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like this I like
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it don't you I do like it I you know
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what the White shows up the White shows
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through there but I'll try to um now
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this you're going to have to hold on and
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kind of dab
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okay so here we go we're going to try to
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do a
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star and you can see I'm not it might be
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kind of gooey it's different different
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type of frosting yeah
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yeah I I'm not crazy about that
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Eddie
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so I'm going to just do like
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this
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just pretend
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Stars how's
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that great
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you know if if I had
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left a little bit of
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room in between the blue
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balls it would have looked like
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Stars this would be a fun project for
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the grandkids oh my gosh they would have
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so much fun doing this I could just see
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Sullivan and yes having a blast and yes
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putting on this candy on here yes so
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that's right
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cute and uh I'm going to remove a stripe
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to make it official oh okay did I put
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too many
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[Laughter]
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stripes and I just wanted to eat one too
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so oh
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good so how's that that's that is very
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very crude
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stars but
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if you had the right piece of
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equipment um if you know with your white
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you could just easily do it but we had
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the wrong wrong one but how's that I
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think it's adorable I think it looks
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great so happy 4th of July everybody now
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we're just going to pull these
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out and look at our c cake that's what
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our cake looks like in there it looks
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like a rainbow going let you do that
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okay you scared yes I see half the cake
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going with
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it well you know you you're just
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supposed to stick that right up
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underneath the edge and I had them
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pretty deep in there
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so so there we go our 4th of July
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cake I think that we need
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though to cut it you know what um and
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taste it I brought um for the 4th of
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July some sparkler candles oh
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good good good good
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good see if we get it sparkling okay
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how
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fun I hope it Sparkles H I said I hope
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it Sparkles I hope go too it's star you
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could use real spark uhoh dad G
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it oh it is it's going to
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Sparkle it's going to Sparkle
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y'all happy fourth of July to
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everybody uh hope this will inspire you
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you know it doesn't have to be Bakery
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gorgeous um the fact that you got in the
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kitchen with somebody that you really
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care about and just have fun with
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it look at
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them all right so we can cut this just
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like we would cut a pie in all right so
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let's see what we've
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got this cake is supposed to be red
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white and blue
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y'all there it is oh look how pretty
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look how pretty it
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is there you go Eddie you get the first
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bite I'll take it
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