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All right y'all, I'm glad to see you came back. (laughing)
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I'm putting on these gloves
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because I love my grandma's red velvet cake,
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but it calls for food coloring.
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So I'm gonna put these gloves on
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just to make sure I don't have red hands when I'm through.
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All right, we're gonna start with two sticks
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and two cups of sugar.
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And we're just gonna beat these up
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until they're smooth.
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And then I'm gonna be adding one egg and a time.
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All right, I'm gonna come over here now.
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I've got two and a half cups of cake flour.
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I'm gonna add two tablespoons of cocoa to our flour.
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And I'm just gonna kind of stir those together.
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And right here I have a half a teaspoon
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of baking soda and a tablespoon of vinegar.
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And you can see how that foamed up,
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the reaction of the two ingredients.
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All right, I'm gonna make sure
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that these are stirred up well together.
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I'm gonna pour that in there.
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And now I'm gonna start adding
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the flour and the cocoa alternately
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So this works very, very well.
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And the last bit of flour and cocoa.
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Now you can see that the color of our batter
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is a light, light chocolate.
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Just two tablespoons of cocoa
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changed the color of it that much.
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Well speaking of color,
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we're really fixing to change that color now.
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I'm gonna do this very, very slowly.
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Okay, now we're ready to divide it up.
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Now I have found that I can do it more consistently
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if I use some type of measuring cup.
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All right now I'm gonna put these
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in a preheated oven at 350 degrees,
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and depending on the size of your cake pan
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will determine how long you're gonna bake 'em.
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But you wanna bake 'em until the center,
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if you touch the center it springs back,
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or till it's ever so slightly
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pulling away from the side of the pan.
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So I've got 'em all ready,
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and I'm gonna put 'em in our oven.
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And you'll make sure that your pans
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don't touch each other.
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You'll wanna give 'em plenty of room
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so that the heat can circulate around your pans.
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All right, well while our cake's baking
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I'm gonna make the icing.
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I've got a one eight ounce package
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of cream cheese that's softened,
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and one stick of softened butter.
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And I'm just gonna cream these two things together.
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And I'm gonna add some marshmallows
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that I just heated and melted in the microwave.
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All right, now I'm gonna add
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one 16-ounce box of powdered sugar.
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All right, now I'm gonna fold in
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a cup of sweetened shredded coconut
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and a cup of chopped pecans.
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All right so we're ready to ice our cake now.
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And you'll wanna make sure when you're making this cake
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and using this frosting
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that your cake is completely cooled
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because if you try to put this on a hot cake
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it will melt the icing
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and you'll have a big mess,
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So our cake is nice and cool.
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I've got my wax paper to keep our edges clean.
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Now I put a little dab of our frosting
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in the center of our cake plate
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because I don't want our cake to move around on us.
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So that will make him stick.
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So I'm just gonna try to divide our frosting
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evenly between these three layers.
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All right and then we're gonna take our next layer.
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And if he gets to leaning,
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don't be afraid to get your fingers in there
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and straighten him back up.
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All right really give this cake
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a festive look at Christmas time,
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a touch of holly and berries
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make it so pretty and so festive.
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Not only is it beautiful,
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My grandma Paul's red velvet cake.
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Look how pretty that looks.
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I was so lucky to have the parents
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and grandparents that I had.
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So I wanna encourage y'all to go to your grandmothers
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and ask them to teach you all that they know
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so that when they have to leave
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the recipes don't have to go with them.
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Until next time America,
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I send you all my love
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from my kitchen to yours.
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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Love and Best Dishes Y'all.
