Butter than Ever Christmas Party

Hey, y'all

Tonight on Paula's Party, it's my butter than ever Christmas party. The one, the only, Patti LaBelle joins me

for a Christmas shepherd's pie, y'all. And who in their right mind wouldn't want to be saved

by rescue chef Danny Boom? Sanna left me in the truck. He's going to help me make a buttered rum

glazed turkey girlfriend. Oh, yeah. And then country singer Mark Wills is singing

for a three-layer Christmas spice cake. So bring your butter and let's party

Thank you, Santa. Santa Claus, everybody

Hello, y'all! Happy holidays! Happy holidays to y'all

Y'all, it's Christmas. Christmas. It's butter than ever Christmas. Let's not waste any time getting this party underway, y'all

because you're going to love it. My very first guest has shared her soulful voice for over four decades

Please welcome the legendary R&B singer, my friend, Patti LaBelle. Come on out

Look at her! Look at her

We matched! We matched! We matched! We matched! Oh, my God

Happy holidays. Happy holidays to you, my gorgeous. Thank you, sweetheart. You're going to make this good stuff later

You've got to step to the stove, honey. I know. I'm going to make you a Christmas shepherd's pie

Let's step on. This girl cooks like I do. Yes. Well, you've got those good fattening things in there like I have

And you do things like I do. And, well, you know, I can't really, like, eat everything that I cook

but I watch her cook, and I just want to just come to the extreme. As we get older, as we get older, y'all, our body starts making changes

Changes. And we do have to learn moderation. Yeah. And with my good life, honey, I'm going to be healthy for the rest of my life

There you go. Hey! Woo! Well, tell everybody, Patty. Yes, baby. I know that you travel a lot

Yes. And I heard that you travel with an appliance. With pots. With an appliance

With pots. An electric skillet, y'all. A skillet in my trunk. She orders room service, brings it to her room, and then she doctors it up

You know what happens? I bring the pots and pans in my trunk. I tried to order room service back in the day

Every time it comes out, it's wrong. So I have to send it back. So I just bring my pots, and we find a nice produce place and a nice fish market

Where do you live? In Philly. Philadelphia. Love Philadelphia. Do you? I love it

It's one of my favorite cities. I was born in Philadelphia, and I'm still there. I have a house in the islands in Eleuthera

I've got our onions, and I've got our ground beef, y'all. I get my cook on when I get there

I relax by the beautiful water and I chill. Oh, that sounds wonderful, Patty

And I cook for the island people, too. I love cooking for them. They came over one day and we were about to leave

And so I had all this food. So I said, I'm going to invite the people that I met. They came over, Paul

I had made everything that I could eat. I had made potato salad. I had made macaroni and cheese

I had made some sautéed chicken. And I made, like, apple pies. And so I didn't want to leave them

And I wanted them to see that I really could cook. People don't believe I can really cook, right? Yeah

You know, it's hard for us to picture you in the stiletto hills in the kitchen fried chicken

But I do. And they came over, and they tasted the food, and they said

we know there are no restaurants around, so she did cook this. And then they said, they gave me the hallelujah, amen, she's a good cook

I said, thank you, Jesus. What a cute story. All right. Now, while I'm putting this pie together for you, I've got our onions, and I've got our ground beef

But look here at this LaBelle hot sauces, y'all. My favorite is called Hot Flash

I'm 63 and I'm flash. I'm flashing. I'm way past the Hot Flash

But you have to be a baby girl. This is number five. This is for you

So is it the bigger the number? No, this is mild. This is for the hot moms. So the littler the number, the hotter it is

Like this is number three. That's in the middle of being hot, but this might hurt you hot

What I want you to do, Patty, is you do the seasonings

because I'm not familiar with your hot sauce. But I don't want to hurt you with this. You won't hurt me, honey

Okay, I can put something in. You won't hurt me, I promise. Okay, baby. Can you handle it

Yes, you take whatever you want to seize. Let me do this side. No, because you've got to mix it all

Yeah, I've got to mix it. Just putting a little in. Okay? Thank you. You just can't eat it

But I can. But you can get some more later. I'll make you something else

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll cook you a pie with this. I mean, I can do it. Okay? But we have to show off my

Yes, I want to. You know what I'm going to do? What, honey

I'm going to take just a little bite to see. And watch, it won't kill you. Uh-huh

That's delicious. Hallelujah. It's not... That's what I'm saying! It's not just like hot

Can I taste? Please taste. I trust you. It's a wonderful flavor, y'all

It's good. You can also make this dish out of leftovers from a pot roast

Works perfect. And when we come back, I want to find out how Patti LaBelle spends Christmas

Don't y'all want to know? I don't think you want to know. Don't go anywhere. We'll be right back

The great Patti LaBelle, y'all. Coming up next, Patti's going to help me finish up our Christmas shepherd's pie

Baby, you're talking about ghetto fabulous. Ghetto fabulous. And later, Food Network's Danny Boon

Boom. Boom. Bada bing bada boom crash bang boom and turkey with buttered rum glaze

Lucky here we're having a patty labelle Christmas! I'm going to tell y'all something else about Patty

The very first time I ever laid eyes on her, we were both at QVC, I had a cookbook and that's

when I was having to do... Did you met me there? No, I didn't meet you, honey, I was in awe

I was a white girl in the corner with her mouth on the floor Oh my gosh Looking at you Oh you were okay So your cookbook had just come out I had a cookbook and I was still doing my own cooking You know in the back

Yes. Had flour all over me. All right. Now who comes out

They introduce Miss Patty LaBelle. She comes out with six inch heels on

Right. A short dress. Mini. And I'm standing there like this. How do I follow that act, y'all

Just by being you. Here was this old with flour all over

I know. I know we're about the same age. But I was totally in awe of you. Yes, we are about the same age

We're about the same age, and we're as old as we feel. That's right. Age ain't on my page

Age ain't on my page. I'm 63. I'm 61. See, I'm older than you

But look at your skin. Black don't cry. Black don't crack. That's what I'm going to tell you

Black don't crack. But look at you. Are you over there? Thank you

I am making Patty a Christmas shepherd's pie. I've got our onions and I've got our ground beef

But it's a wonderful flavor, y'all. It's good. Can I have some more

Yes, please do. I'm fixing to put some tomato sauce in it

Girl, what did you get this beef? This beef is awesome. Isn't it good? It's just a regular ground beef

New York City ground beef, though, I have to say. All right

This is good. All right, now you may want to taste that and see if you need to add some more hot sauce

Can I use this? Because that's going to dilute it. Can I use this? Well, we're actually fixing to make our pies in it, but if you want to use it, take it

Put the sauce, baby, please. Take it, baby, take it. So good. This is going to be my fourth meal. All right, let's see if it needs some more

I'm not kidding, y'all. No. That's probably the best hot sauce I've ever tasted

This sauce makes a difference. No, I don't need any more. All right, slide down, girlfriend. Okay

Work it. All right. I'm going to be putting together our shepherd's pie for us

But I want to find out about your Christmas parties. No, you don't

Tell me what you normally do at Christmas. Baby, you talking about ghetto fabulous

What'd you say? Ghetto fabulous. Ghetto fabulous. Okay. So you use frozen peas and corn

Just a frozen mixed vegetable. Keep it simple, sincere. If you get it fresh, use fresh

But if you don't, don't sweat it. All right. Now, I'm just going to layer our potatoes that I've just whipped up with a little butter and cream

Six years ago, I had this particular party. This was my cousin from New Jersey

Hey. Okay. So he had an attitude with me and said, who do you think you are

You all Patti LaBelle and everything, and you think you big, you think you all that

Was he drinking? Yeah. He done drank up all of my twister

Okay, whatever I might have served So boyfriend had a little too much So he said, yeah, you think you all that

You're Patti LaBelle and everything I said, you darn bet you I am Patti LaBelle and I'm going to act like it

So I'm going to tell you right now to get your Out of here now So he didn't believe me

So I went to the kitchen, I swear to God, and got a knife I said I said, are you going to leave now

He said, oh, you really going to Hollywood on me? I said, no, I'm going to go to jail Because I'm going to cut you

Get out. That's the story. That's it. So, after that, about a week after that, he called me back

And my aunt, Hattie Mae, who I love so dearly, she says, Sugar, I think he had a little too much to drink

And forgive him. I said, You know what? I put him back into my heart. Because I can't beat people

But don't mess up my house. But you forgave him. He's back in your life. He's back in my life

But I've had some other parties since then that I put people out I ain't never talked to again. There we go

Oh, my God. So now what we're going to do is we're going to take this cornbread batter

Girl, is this butter? That is butter, honey. Traditional shepherd's pie is topped with mashed potatoes

but in this southern version, we're going to use a boxed cornbread mix as our crust

Oh, my lord. And when I get this put on top of that, if you'd butter it

This is so good. All right, here we go. You're happy to get it. That butter looks good

Look at your patty. Okay. Well, these ain't really hot because my oven ain't on

This is good. It's television that they don't know. It's television. You don't know

Look out here. Oh, my God. Can I eat it? Yes, eat it

Patty, I sweat too hard. If my oven's on. And you don't need it

So we have to pretend. So do real pretend, okay? Yes. I am not mad at you

Thank you, because, you know, fat girls don't look pretty when they sweat

No. You lost a lot of weight. Thank you. No, honey. I'm 40 pounds overweight. Are you alright? Yes. Oh, it's okay

I just need some more juice in it. I need some more meat. Don't eat that crap. Put it in here

Put some right here Perfect. Sorry about a dry shepherd It's not dry now. It ain't dry now. No, it's good. All right, but reach down in there. Those potatoes are bad to the bone, honey. It's phenomenal

Thank you, girl. Thank you, girl. Thank you. Thank you. How easy was that, Patty

That was so easy. That's what I believe in. Quick, miss. Patty, give me a kiss, girl

Oh, my God. How sweet is this woman? You're so wonderful. If you ever go to her house at a party, you just behave

Just don't put your hands on my wall. Or she'll throw your ass out. I will throw you out

And she might even cut you. Yes, I know. That's right. Patty, thank you, sister

Thank you, partner. Merry Christmas. I love you, too. Thank you, darling

I love you. The great Patty LaBelle. Shake it, sister

Shake it. Shake it. Whoa. Thank you

Next, turkey with buttered rum glaze with rescue chef Danny Boone. I was down at the department store

and they let me off for 20 minutes. And later, country crooner Mark Wills

and a spice cake that's gonna have us all singing. Yo, it's Butter Than Ever Christmas

Yo, my next guest makes a living by showing up at people's houses

ready to fix any kitchen disasters that they may have. please welcome the brand new hottie hottie newest team member here at Food Network

Rescue Chef, Danny Boom. Come on out, Danny. Oh my goodness Santa left me in the truck And I been sitting around like a lemon all night You so cute

Here, can I look under there? Please. Look at him, girls. Do you like my rouge

I love your rouge. It's perfect. Let me put your hat back on

Thank you. I forgot my raccoon hat. Daniel, boom! Boom! Boom. Like, bada-bing, bada-boom, crash, bang, boom

Crash, bada-boom, bang, boom. So how are you liking doing your show

I'm loving it. Are you? America, you know what, guys? You may have a bad rap everywhere else, but I'm here and I'm loving it

I'm absolutely fantastic. It really is. It really is. America's the greatest place in the world, isn't it

Do you know what? I'm having a good time. Where else could you dress up like a damn elf and make a living

Well, actually this is my other job. I was I was down at the department store, and they let me off for 20 minutes

So how are you liking doing your show? I'm loving it, and they've already re-upped your

They're enjoying your show and you're from England that's right. I know I have a funny accent

I'm not from North Brooklyn or in down where you're from yeah You know, everybody's got an accent to me, y'all

Danny, honey, you come over here and you tell everybody what you're going to make, and I'm going to help you get comfortable

OK. We're going to make a butter rum glazed turkey and chestnut apple stuffing

Sounds fabulous. It's all about Christmas, isn't it? Yes. It's all about what's great

It's all about traditions. You know, this is nowhere near my stuffing that I make

So I'm really going to be interested, you know, in tasting this

Let's think about right we're gonna you know what your jingling balls are really distracting me

Well, we're even okay, just let me jingle away and let me get this cooking going all right, okay

Right, so what we're gonna hear is we're gonna have a little mirror part of got some celery

And we've got some carrots who's gonna be cooking away then nicely now the thing is when you're dealing with a turkey

You got a big cavity to fill. You know, I have heard a lot of controversy about to stuff or not to stuff

They say that the stuffing, before it gets done, you know, it can almost sour on you

So I'm hearing more and more that they recommend you to cook your stuffing separately

So what's your take on that, Danny? Well, I've got lots of different takes, okay? I mean, I basically stuff chickens and grouse and things like that with fruit. Right

Because they're very dry. What did you say you stuff? Fruit. Fruit. Apples, pears. In chickens. Yeah, oranges. You stuff oranges. Yeah, I don't generally put in the actual bread. We've got sourdough here, OK? But what we generally do is we do that with the actual fruit because then what happens is it rehydrates the inside instead of drying your actual bird out. But what we're going to do here, because turkey's a big bird, a lot of juice, we want some of that to be soaked out so the actual bird cooks a little bit quicker. Yes. All right? So we've got some sourdough, we've got some cranberries, we've got some apples, we've got some parsley and we've got some sage. All that goes in there

Okay, we've got some mushrooms have been sauteed away if you'd like to take that stuff there and just pop that all in

And this is just carrots and celery. Yeah, no onions No, and that really is all like brings the flavors along. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah

And then we have a little bit of beaten egg Yeah, hold it together

And you've got butter back here that I have I understood you like your butter

I love butter I love it. Yes, guilty. Does this go in here

Yeah, everything. Okay? The thing is, the thing of the rescue chef thing, when we started this, we were trying to basically deconstruct recipes and give people confidence for one

And then the next part we were trying to do was actually say, well, okay, let's not worry about, you know, whatever you have in the house, you can use

You've got apricots, you've got bread. You can use anything. You could even use graham crackers at the end of the day

Okay? It's all going to go in. It's all going to do the same job. Yes. Okey dokey

So put in some chicken stock, uh-huh, and that goes and then it's great beat an egg

And then we mix it all together. Okay, let it soak up the little bit

Uh-huh you mix it over over a few times and then what you do is when it's a nice big lump get ready for your bird

Okay, where's your bird? He's looking for his bird y'all. We'll be back in just a minute. Danny's gonna find his bird

Next, it's more Christmas turkey tips. Preheat the oven. Or that turkey won't be done till next month

With rescue chef Danny Boone. And later, country star Mark Wills and a Christmas spice cake

Sweet. So, what do y'all think about my little elf here

We're having a butter than ever Christmas. Danny is preparing us a stuffing and now a turkey during the break

Thank goodness. He found his bird. So go to it, baby. While you're doing that, I want to take just one second to thank my friends at Radco for

doing my Christmas tree and my wreath. They're beautiful. Christopher Radco. Thank you

Thank y'all. Your decorations are just beautiful Right Cracking on Okay, so I've made my stuffing

We've got the sourdough, we've got the apples We've got the cranberries and all those brilliant, brilliant flavours

All going to go into our bird Okay You want to make sure, y'all, that you really wash that turkey really good Yeah

Take the plastic innards out Yeah, please don't forget that Sometimes they can be tucked into the neck

and between your legs cavity. That's probably the number one Christmas disaster

And you know what? You've got to basically just plan it, relax, and enjoy it

Yeah, you know... Organise yourself. Oh, la, la. Absolutely. By the way, we used sourdough

We used it because it's been toasted out and dried. Because that's why we used it. Because we want basically all the juices to flow in

soften it up, and away you go. It's going to be delicious with all that rich turkey stock in it

Right. I understand you used to be a manny. Yes, I used to look after kids

I was a male nanny. A male nanny is a manny. Danny the manny

Danny the manny. Okay, extraordinaire. That's who I was. Well, you got stuff over here

Am I supposed to be doing anything for you? Yes, right. We've got the, on the heat, we've got one stick of butter

Okay, so I may need a little bit more butter. So I'm just going to take... All right, well, go over there and borrow it from my snowman

Oh, gee. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, yeah. Don't knock him off, Danny

I'm going to just... How does what just know my... How good's that

I could say something but I ain Oh it OK So we going to melt our butter down

OK. All right, Vic, can I add that wrong? No, wait, wait, wait, wait. Just a little bit of patience

Well, we only have 60 seconds. Well, I'd like to get there quickly. Right, so we've got some brown sugar that's going to go in, OK

We're going to make a sort of like a syrup. OK, we've got a little bit of cinnamon. All that goes in

Yes. A couple, just a couple of grates of fresh, Nutmeg. Nutmeg goes a long way, doesn't it

A little nutmeg. It's Christmas to me. Cinnamon, that, fantastic. I love it

So now I'm going to put the rum in. Just, guys, please don't put rum and flame

OK, so be very careful. We put that in. We give it a little bit of a twist, all right

So we want that to basically reduce down for 10 minutes. We want a nice sticky syrup

OK, so our turkey is then basted a little bit with some salt

What is this stuff? Oh, this is the money. This is the money there Paula. That's what that is

Okay, a bit of salt and pepper. Yes season your bird Preheat the oven or that turkey won't be done till next month. All right

Seriously, yeah, I'll just get brown on the outside pink in the middle right okay

Now what I've made here, you know your birdies your centerpiece, isn't it? Yeah

Yeah, it's a centerpiece we're gonna we want the ooh and the art and the wow factor. Yeah, yeah

Now what I do is basically got a bit of soft brown sugar, couple of sticks of butter

So we're going to pop that on our turkey, and this is your rub, OK? This is going to make that skin

So what we're going to do, we're going to put this butter mixture on basically the top and underneath the skin

Oh, OK. So what you do, and this is a really cool little trick

is because you've got to think of your bird, it's only skin and it's like a plastic wrapper itself. Thank you

This was such a good idea at the beginning. You know, it really is

This is a good tip for this. Whoa. But at this point of the show, when you're in the kitchen cooking

especially when you're cooking with gas, you want to be careful, you know, about how you dress

And now I'm the bike elf. I'm the biker elf. So what you do is you take your fingers and you can just rub underneath

There's your flesh, there's your skin. And you get your fingers and you just start pushing that butter up

Of the skin okay now what that does is that helps you get a nice moist but sweet bird isn't be a very very sweet thing

This is a candy apple of a bird. This is oh that sounds delicious

Okay, and you say this is like just butter and brown sugar. That's all is very soft and like yourself

Okay, so basically what that's going to do is towel. Thank you, hon So how do we know how long to cook this bird for Danny right we're gonna go

So, three hours at 375. Three hours at 375. Before we put the turkey in the oven

What are the ladies like? Pre-eared oven. Anyway. OK. All right, so now, does it matter how much our turkey weighs

The best person to ask how you cook your turkey is the guy at the supermarket you buy it from

OK? He's going to know the right thing. I could say, I think it's generally per pound

I think it works about half an hour, 25 minutes. Yeah, about 25 minutes a pound, I think

But, you know, I've got a lot of numbers rolling around in my head. Well, you know what the best bet is, if you don't know

because I don't know and she don't know, go to foodnetwork.com and I'll have all the answers there. Yes, that's exactly right

OK, so we're going to pop this in the oven. And there's also meat thermometers out there that work nicely

That's a heavy bird, honey. Jesus. And look. Look over there. Right here, Danny

I know, there's money playing with you. Oh! Right. OK. So... Look at this bird, y'all

All right, now we've got the hot over here, honey. Okay, we'll use the hot. I don't know if it has reduced enough for you

Well, basically, you could do two quick ways. You could basically go straight on from warm, okay

Or you could just put it on like a syrup as a finisher, okay? So look at this

You're basically going to varnish up your bird. We take our little rum, we take our brown sugar

We take our butter we let it cool down a bit and then we have this beautiful syrup and we just put it over the bird and it gives it a

Really beautiful glow. I mean it right now. I shall carve you carve okay

I shall carve and I'll chew okay, so what we're gonna do is you're gonna just Know the thing is a carving tip. Yeah, okay sticky knife in and then just go against

Beautiful beautiful So we're gonna go in here you're gonna get a plate there, huh

There you go. OK. A little bit of that. Nice thin strips. I think this turkey's that big, it could feed the audience for a month

You know what? I think it could, too. Oh, look at you. You've not eaten enough already

Look how beautiful that turkey turned out. All right, Danny. Are you going to feed me, or am I going to feed myself

You're on your own, honey. No, I'll feed you. Are you happy

You satisfied with it? My mouth's full. I'm happy. Very good, Danny

And it? Very, very good. I love the sweet on it. Y'all don't go anywhere because it's a butter than ever Christmas

Up next, y'all, country star Mark Wills and a Christmas spice cake

Yeah, my diet's gone. Sorry, my publicist. Y'all, it's a butter than ever Christmas

Are y'all having fun? Good. I'm thrilled that I'm getting to spend the holidays with y'all

My next guest, y'all, is a country crooner. He was raised in my home state of Georgia

He's a singing superstar, and he is host of the year on the Great American Country Channel

So, y'all, please welcome this dear young man, Mark Wills. Come on out, Mark

Oh, hello. How are you doing? I'm great

How are you? Very good. Very good. You are so pretty. Well, thank you

And you've got beauty marks all on your face. No, I just painted those on

Oh, you did? Yeah. I've got one over here that I'll paint on when I'm feeling hussy-like

Now tell me what part of Georgia you grew up in I'm originally, well, from a little town called Blue Ridge, Georgia

Blue Ridge, that's got to be in North Georgia It is right on the Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina line

It's got to be Exactly Right up there near the Blue Ridge Exactly, exactly

So you can't trick me, Mark But I now live just outside of Atlanta

Well, I'm going to make you a cake, honey You know what? I actually saved up a few calories just so we could make a cake today

Oh, did you? Absolutely Well, I'm gonna make you a three-layer Christmas spice cake

with a buttercream icing. Wow. Yeah, my diet's gone. Sorry, my publicist

I want to go ahead and just say sorry to, you know, the folks over at GAC who have been like

you know, we need you to trim down a little bit and all that kind of stuff. Oh, no, they have not told you that

Well, no, no, they haven't told me that. But, you know, I get to watch it myself on television

I'm like, damn, the camera adds about 40 pounds. You know, listen, y'all

Not 10 pounds. It adds about 40. They say it adds 10 pounds

if it just adds 10 pounds, honey, I'm screwed. Because, you know, I try not to watch myself

but if I catch myself, I look like two-ton Annie. No, you don't

And when people see me in person, they say, oh, you ain't that fat

Don't you love it when they think they're complimenting you like that? I guess. Yeah

I said, well, thank you, I think. Yeah, I was, when we did the..

Can I look in there? Can you look in where? Your shirt. Honey, no, no

You ain't fat. You're going to have to stop that. You are not fat

You're, like, just right. Well, okay, I'll take your word. See, honey, my wife's watching right now. Honey

What do you mean, honey? No, no, I'm just saying. She's watching right now

She's not jealous, is she? No, no, no. She's good. She's good

Now, the kids are jealous. The kids are jealous. Well, let's get started on this cake

And I'm going to kind of let you make it, okay? Okay. All right. Okay

All right. Now, we have got our butter and our sugar already creamed

So crank up your engine. A little more. Yeah. And we've got four eggs here

I'm going to drop them in one at a time, let you beat them each one. I've got flour here with cinnamon, nutmeg, all your Christmas spices

And then I've got some buttermilk. I'm going to add it alternately, starting with the flour and ending with the flour

Okay. So now that we got that out of the way, I want to fill y'all in on a little something about Mark Wills that you might not know

I wish I had been in the pre-taped session so I knew what you were going to say

Make me a little nervous when you start saying stuff like that. This says so much about you, honey

It says so much. The month of December, y'all, this young man is not home with his wife and family, like most of us are

He goes to Iraq. He spends his time with our troops. Half of the last five years

for the last five years. That me and some of the crew from Now which one are you Mark I the one in the red hat on the very end Oh I see On the left Yes Let see you got in that same picture you got some of the crew that we were flying with

You've got at least a whole mess of us. I didn't actually go..

I didn't go this past year because my oldest daughter was turning five

And it was the first Christmas I had ever spent with my youngest daughter

during the Christmas season, so... Really? But probably by the time this is on television, I will be in Iraq, so

Well, that's so commendable of you. Our guys are stuck over there, away from their family, away from their friends

and I know it must mean so much to them. What a great guy he is

When we come back, y'all, I'm going to have this cake all ready because I want to feed Mark my spice-layered cake

with buttercream icing, y'all. It's a butter-than-ever Christmas. I'll see you right back

Up next, buttercream frosting and a serenade from Mark Wills. I heard this was one of your favorite songs

It's a... Hey, y'all. Welcome back

It's a butter-than-ever Christmas. I'm here with that beautiful country singer, Mark Wills

I have got him a cake cooked up. Now, we've got these layered up into three pans, y'all

We're going to bake them at 350 for 25 minutes. Now, we trimmed the tops off this cake, Mark, because it humped up like, and we didn't want no humps

Don't want no humps in the cake. No, we didn't want a humpback cake. So look at here

Now, I'm going to take just a little bit of icing, and I'm going to put right there just to help give us some glue

Right. Now, all you have to do, I'll do the first one. I know that you probably know how to do this

We're going to take our icing, and we're just going to load that layer up

You're like my wife. She loves the icing. Buttercream icing, honey. I love it

Yes, yes. And listen, the thing about this cake, now you'll want to take your cake

and you'll want to find the fat side and put it on top of the skinny side of the previous layer

Right. So there you go. And you know what? This cake doesn't have to have icing on the sides

It doesn't have to have icing on the sides? No. Okay. Take your word for that. So while you're doing that, tell me about your mother-in-law and her turkey

What is that I heard? Well, no, and I see you're going to get me in trouble here

And I should have never told that story, but it is so true. My mother-in-law loves to bake the turkey every year

Here, honey, I'll get you some more. You'll get me some more? Okay. She likes to bake the turkey every year

And if she would stop about what she thinks is halfway cooked it would be great But it never is So like I was looking at the turkey that y made a little while ago in the back

and it was perfect. And hers comes out about as dry as this board right here

And I want to thank you because now when I go home, I'm in trouble

You're so welcome, honey. Anytime I can help. Well, how about your wife

Does she do a better job? No. No? Like mother, like daughter

Because mom's turkey's so bad, we've never let daughter try. Now, having said that, now I'm really in trouble

So I just may stay here in New York for another couple weeks or something like that

Tell everybody about that show that you host. Well, yeah, we're doing a marathon

of the year. I feel like I'm thinking my tongue in the corner

We're doing a marathon of the year, which is going to be on GAC. We basically run

the whole day of the year on GAC, all the episodes. Wow

Should be a fun time. Well, I'm so going to watch you and listen to you

Now, I'm going to sprinkle some chopped nuts. The grand part about this cake

this particular cake, is we don't ice the sides. So look how simple that is

That is perfect. It's perfect. That is perfect. Isn't that beautiful? A little cinnamon

All right, now I'm going to cut you a piece. I'm going to go ahead and cut you a piece and let you have it

because I've got a big favor to ask. Mm-hmm. And that would be

Would you sing us a song? Absolutely. I would definitely sing you a song

Definitely sing you a song. Well, I can't ask you to sing us a song without sending you off with some nourishment

Okay. So, taste your cake. You come in here. Get in here

Oh, honey, I'm so in there with you. You ain't got to ask mama twice

Well, that's really heavy on the frosting. Yes, I know. It's perfect

It's really heavy on the frosting. Honey, I want to thank you for being here with us

My pleasure. And I want to thank you for making Christmas for our men overseas

Thank you for helping make their holidays. What a wonderful person you are

And before we go, I want to tell all of you out there, I hope you have a blessed, peaceful Christmas

and I hope it's loaded with love. And I want to thank you all for everything that you give to me

Merry Christmas, y'all. Come on honey All right let go Mark Wills everybody

You know, I can't sing and eat cake. I hope it was okay that I drank this water

Let me check tuning on this thing before we do it. Okay. Close enough for country music

You ready? Yes. I heard this was one of your favorite songs

Yes, it is. Silent night Cold

All is cold All is bright

Round yon virgin, mother and child

Holy infant so tender and mild

Sleep in heavenly peace Sleep in heavenly peace

Silent night, holy night

Shepherds quake at the sun

Glory streams from heaven afar Heavenly hosts sing Alleluia

Christ the Savior is all Christ the Savior is born

Happy Holidays, everybody