Chocolate Obsession

My name is Paula, and I'm a chocoholic

Today on Paula's Party, it's chocolate, chocolate, and more chocolate. I hope it was as good for you as it was for me

We're making peanut butter balls, and we're dipping them in chocolate. Is that good or what

And chocolate-filled magnolia-laced trumpet cookies. And my two favorite foods collide, chocolate and chicken with chicken mole

We're getting in our daily supply of chocolate. It's an hour full of chocolate surprises, y'all

So come on in and let's party. Do what I say

Come here, let me kiss your head. Let me kiss your head. Y'all today is all about an addiction to chocolate

They say that chocolate actually produces a hormone in you that makes you feel like you're in love

I'm ready to eat some chocolate with y'all. Y'all ready to party? Come on

Come on! Did y'all notice my chocolate fountains

Do y'all love chocolate fountains or what? Well, I want y'all to know that this chocolate fountain is y'all's

So anytime, anytime you want to run up here during the break

run up and get you a chip, a cookie, a pretzel, a banana, a strawberry, a marshmallow

Y'all just help yourself because it's all yours. And over here on this side, it's kind of like my private fountain

Just in case. Have you ever enjoyed... What's your name

My name's Charles. Have you ever eaten from a chocolate fountain, Charles

Never. Well, I think it's time. Now, come around here. Come around right here, and I'll come around over here

Let's come up here, and we're going to do this. Look at good

Well, let's do it one more time. Did you like it

I loved it, Paul. Well, I hope it was as good for you as it was for me

I got to get over here and get to cooking, because I've got one of my favorites from my childhood

I went to a little elementary school. It was a little country school located in Baconton, Georgia

Well, on Friday, we had peanut butter balls. Honey, you did not want to get in front of me when they called us to lunch

Thirty years later, I met this woman, and we got into talking, and I said I went to school at Baconton Elementary

She said, oh, my goodness, my mother was a cook. And I said, well, can I tell you something

Every Friday they made these peanut butter balls that I adored. But over 30 years I've craved them

She said, oh, my goodness, Mama's got the recipe. Well, she brought me that recipe

So when I was like 35 or 36, I was reunited with this peanut butter ball

And I want to share this recipe with y'all. We're going to put some powdered milk in there

We're going to put some peanut butter. Now, you can use creamy or crunchy

It really doesn't matter. And then we're going to put honey. So all this stuff is good for us, isn't it

It's what I was thinking. Makes you want to put your tongue under it, don't it, Charles

Alright. So all we're going to do is just mix this up just like this

and it's so easy to do. Now, at the school, they didn't coat these peanut butter balls in anything

They were just a plain old butter ball. and my favorite way to eat them still is just plain

Well, almost plain. Alright. Now I'm going to dig in here with my hands, y'all

I love to touch my food. You know, and really get to know it

Do y'all? Yes. Alright, so just that quickly, we've got these peanut butter balls done

All right, now I'm going to show you. In grammar school, they made them about this big

Yeah, because see, that was our dessert. Now I'm rolling them in confectioner's sugar

All right, now I want you to take this peanut butter ball

put it on one of those sticks. Oh, you want to come to my personal fountain

Come on around here. What's your name, darling

Phil. Hey, Phil. Look at here. Whoa, it's getting heavy

Get in there and get it, Phil. Very good

Is that good or what? Do I have chocolate on my face

Only a little. Right there. So you do like them

Yes, ma'am. Okay, well, I'm going to see that all of y'all have peanut butter balls

And when we come back, it's more chocolate. Up next frozen hot chocolate y from the Big Apple

Welcome back, y'all. In case you've just tuned in out there, we're talking about an addiction

An addiction that many of us share. It's a chocolate addiction. Has anybody here ever been to New York City and been to serendipity

You have been! Lord have mercy, girl. It's where you go to pray for chocolate

Well, this precious man, his name is Stephen. He has been in business in this one place for 50 years

He came to New York to break into show business, and that didn't go so well

Broadway didn't go so well. But he came up with this fabulous chocolate drink

called frozen hot chocolate. And we're not going to have to go to New York to have this

because he was brilliant enough to come up with this packet. it. So we're gonna make this famous drink right now, and guess what? At the end of the show

I don't have this for y'all to drink, but everybody's gonna get one, and you can take

it home and make your own. Now, you're not gonna believe how easy Stephen has made this for us

I've got like three ounces of chocolate that I've melted over a double boiler

I'm going to add like one and a half tablespoons of sugar, just granulated sugar

I'm going to add two teaspoons of the mix that I just showed y'all

I'm going to kind of just stir that until it's dissolved. All right, now I'm going to turn this off, take it off the heat, and I'm going to slowly stir in a half a cup of milk

How many calories are in this drink? Look on the back of that bag. Zero! Oh, I'm hearing zero! Uh-oh

Somebody just looked and she turned that package over. Must have had some dirty words written on the back of it

All right. Now, at this point, we would put this in the refrigerator and let it cool

or put it to the side and let it cool. And I have one that's already done right here

You can see it looks like kind of a thin, thin fudge

Now we're going to take three cups of ice in our blender. Now I'm going to just pour off that water because it's melted just a wee little bit

So we're just going to pour this over the ice. A little more can't hurt it

All right, y'all bear with me because it's going to be loud. Well, maybe it ain't going to be loud

All right. That scared me. All right, now I'm going to add a cup of milk

Y'all, I could stand here and I could do that all day long, but I got a better way

All done. And they serve it, y'all, in these big old glasses with a little

I want y'all to see this. With a little whipped cream

and a little shaved chocolate, and a little bitty cherry, and a little bitty spoon

and a little bitty straw. I can't wait for y'all to go home

and make this one. We'll see you back in just a few minutes. It's more chocolate

Up next, a taste of home with chicken mole. It's fabulous. It's almost like being back home in Mexico

No! And later, chocolate gets somebody in the mood for romance. Wow

You'll never forget this. I will never forget. Y'all having a good time

This next dish, y'all, is so interesting. It's like two of my favorite foods colliding

Anybody familiar with Latino cooking? Well, hey, darling, what's your name? Where's the microphone

Vanessa. Vanessa. Well, guess what I'm fixing to make. This was sent in to me from one of my friends

and when I read it, it looked like it said chicken mole. It's called mole

Mole. Well, there wasn't any one of those little things up there on that mole word

It looked like chicken mole to me, but it's called chicken mole. Do you know how to make this dish

Yes, I do. You do? Well, would you help me? Okay. I'll show you how she told me to do it

but I'm going to check with you. Okay. I've taken one five-pound chicken

and just sautéed that off in some butter. You don't have to cook it all the way

Yay for butter! So I've got a pot of white rice here cooked

because we gonna serve this chicken mole on that white rice But now we got to make the sauce And I going to start by putting a couple of tablespoons of olive oil

And then I'm going to add one medium onion that's been diced

And we're going to let that just saute until it's kind of like transparent

Are we all right so far? Yep, sounds good. All right, so our onions have cooked down a bit

So I'm going to add our three cloves of garlic. I'm going to add two tablespoons of chili powder

one teaspoon of cumin, one teaspoon of cinnamon powder. All right, I've got a couple of roasted chip... Pally... Chip... Chip..

Chipotle peppers. Sometimes my southern tongue gets all twisted around those letters

Oh, gosh. Y'all smell it? Whoo. All right, now I'm going to add

looks like a couple of tablespoons of peanut butter. Is that right

Well, there's always nuts. People do use peanut butter or any kind of nuts

So there's always a nut in this dish, you see. All right, now I'm going to add like a couple of ounces of just some chocolate

Alright, and we're going to add one can of diced tomatoes with bell pepper

Now I'm going to add one can of chicken broth or chicken stock

You can use a homemade. Alright, now you would want this to cook for about 10 minutes

and then you'd want to puree it and strain it. You can see it almost kind of looks chili-like right now

I've got some that's already been pureed and ready for our chicken

All right. Now I'm just going to ladle this over our chicken

and this is going to be spicy, y'all, So if you don't like a hot kind of spicy dish, this one might not be for you

But what the heck, we're getting in our daily supply of chocolate, which is very important

So I'm going to put this in the oven, and I'm going to let it bake probably for 45 minutes to an hour

Wow, ow! Wow, ow, ow! Look, now that chicken has almost crusted over with that sauce

Do you see it? All right, so let's plate this up. We're going to take our white rice

And I love it with butter. All right, and I'm going to take our chicken

And I love dark meat. Just gonna nestle that on top. Oh, here, I'm gonna use this

That looks good, doesn't it? And let me tell y'all, What you told me to put on it

I'm gonna take pumpkin seeds and sprinkle all over it. So come up here, darling

I want you to taste. See what you think. Chicken and chocolate concoction

It's fabulous. Is it? It's fabulous. It's almost like being back home in Mexico

No! You cannot say anything that means more to me than that

Anything that gets your feet back under your mother's table is all good

We'll be back with more chocolate! Coming up, chocolate-filled magnolia-laced trumpet cookies

I'm over here! Kill! Kill! Kill! I'm right here! I'm right here

Hi, my name is Paula, and I'm a chocoholic

Especially in my family, Michael and I share a bad addiction. How about y'all

Do y'all have a chocolate addiction? Yeah. Well, I think we need to go feed it

Y'all come on back here. Come on back here with me. Let me tell you one of the things that Michael and I love to eat

We love cannolis. Do y'all love cannolis? Well, when I was writing Just Desserts

One of the recipes that I formulated for that cookbook was a cookie named that I named Magnolia Lace Trumpets

Well, I got to thinking one day, the cone is very much like a cannoli shell

So, why don't we do that shell and come up with a chocolate, a chocolate filling for it

So that's what I'm going to do next. And so let's start by making our wafer

It kind of reminds me of a wafer. And these are going to be a little tedious when you make them

because you can only cook, you know, you might only want to bake two at the time until you get the hang of it

because in order to roll these, you have to do it quickly while they're still warm

If they harden up just a couple of minutes, you know, they're just like a flat, hard shell

So now we're gonna start in our saucepan with a stick of butter

Every good cookie should start with a stick of butter All right now I gonna add that looks like about a half a cup of sugar And I going to add a third of a cup of dark corn syrup

Look, don't you love syrup? Down south, we love cane syrup

Do y'all know about cane syrup? Oh, great. Granny's is cane syrup out of this world with a biscuit

Cane syrup is a thick, dark syrup made from pure sugar cane

All right, so we're going to let this heat up. Can you see it down in there, Dan

What you up to? I'm going to add a tablespoon of Irish cream liqueur

Now we're going to add three-fourths of a cup of all-purpose flour to our batter

Oh, I'm getting it all over me. I make the biggest mess when I cook, y'all

Okay, that looks great. All right. I'm using a Silpat liner. The Silpat liners work so good for this type of cookie

It's going to just slip right off of that material. All right, so here we go with our teaspoons

And we're going to put this in the oven at 350 degrees

And we're going to bake them for probably about 10 minutes. While they're baking, do any of y'all out there have a question

What, Charles? Remember earlier when we were tasting the chocolate? I do remember

And you said that it does something to you? Yeah. Well, it's making me want to do something a little special right now, you know

I can't right now. We're on film. We'll have to wait until after the show, Charles

After the show? Okay, well, I still want to do something special

Oh, not with me? Not with you. Okay. What do you want to do

Y'all, I totally don't know what's going on here. You're scaring me, Charles

I'm a little nervous myself. Are you? What y'all may. But what I would like to say

I know we've been together for three years, three and a half years

And you've been the love of my life, and I want the whole world to know

and I'd like to know if you would be my wife. I'm nervous

You're making me cry. What is her name? Celissa

Celissa. Oh, I don't know what to say. Your ring is beautiful

Oh, thank you. Congratulations, Charles. Thank you, Paula. You did so good

Oh, thank you. Oh, thank you. All right, guys

Y'all come on up. I got to find something to dry your tears with

Charles, you the man, baby. Come on up here. Oh. Oh, wow

You'll never forget this. I will never forget this. You know what

I won't either. Come here. Come here. Come here. Come here. We got..

Oh, wow. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Yo, I can't top this

We'll be back in a few minutes. Oh, thank you. Up next, finishing up my chocolate-filled magnolia lace trumpets

welcome back y'all before our big surprise proposal with Charles and Celissa I was making my magnolia lace chocolate trumpets and I had just put the

cookies into the oven. Now you see how thin they are? Don't they kind of remind

you of a cannoli shell? Only they're more delicate. Whoa, whoa, whoa! Now I'm gonna

have to work very, very quickly. I'm gonna use a stainless steel cone and I'm

just gonna take that and you're gonna have to kind of hold it in there because

because all that butter makes it real slippery. So you can see why you only can do just a couple of these at the time

Uh-oh, that one collapsed. Let me stick a cylinder up him before he gets too hard

You know what I mean? All right. Now this one's already starting to really get hard just that quickly

In fact, that's crumbling on me right there. So this is why I recommend, until you get this down pat, do maybe two

All right. There we go. Now we're going to let those cool for a minute

And I've got some more down here already done that have cooled

And you'll want to be careful. You'll want to make that hole a little bit tighter right there

so he won't come out of the end. Let's see if he's..

He's about molded. All right, so we're going to take... A plastic baggie. We've snipped the corner of it and we have filled this with just a chocolate cream cheese filling. Now you can put whatever you want to in it as long as it's got cream cheese, a little butter, powdered sugar, cocoa

You could even use an almond flavoring in it. I love chocolate and almond

And you just beat these ingredients together using a mixer. So who wants to come up here and..

Oh, my goodness. I can't pick. The quickest one up here gets it

You are fast, sister. All right, have you ever used a piping bag

I have. Okay. Well, you want to show them how to do it

Sure. All right, here. Let me hold your microphone. Okay. Now, what's your name

Michelle. I fell a little short, didn't I? That looks pretty good, Michelle

That looks pretty good. All right, now let me see over here

You hold your microphone now, and I'm going to pipe one in

Oh. He ain't wanting to come out. You want me to help you a little bit

No, I got to. Oh, that looks so good. I got to get a grip

Oh, I like that. And that's why you have your own show

Well, yours looks just as good. Mine's a seashell. It looks like a beautiful seashell

So, you know, you can use the tips, the fancy tips, you know

You know, and maybe make your cream a little bit thicker so it'll hold its shape better

Or you can just do anything you want to do to get that chocolate into this

All right, now let's put this down. Okay. And I'm going to get you to hold this. Okay

The only ribbon I have is like that little paper ribbon. but one day I made these

and do you know that teeny, tiny, real thin satin ribbon that ties so pretty

We tied these with one of those satin ribbons, and we stuffed them into a box with tissue paper with a beautiful all different color tissue paper and pile these up in there Now this doesn tie into bows so good but it kind

of give you the idea. And we nestled all these in that tissue paper, that box stuffed with

tissue paper and they make the most beautiful gift. I'll take it

You may have it. Thank you. Cheers. Uh-oh, yours picks a fall

I got yours too full. Mmm. Oh, that is so good. Whoa

Mmm, that's good. Let's see if we can suck it out the bottom. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay

Let's see if we can suck it out the bottom. I can't suck that hard

That girl could suck the chrome off a trailer head. Listen, while Michelle and I are tasting this

y'all come on up. Come on up to the chocolate fountain. Come on, y'all, come on

Come on up and get you something. Ooh, I love banana, too

I think I might do this. You want that? You can have that

I don't take the banana. When we come back, y'all, it's more chocolate

I'm here. I'm here with my chocolate-holic friends. Coming up, one of my boys gives me an unforgettable chocolate surprise

I want you to know this is in the Guinness World Book of Records for the most expensive dessert ever prepared

Welcome back, y'all. I tell you what, this little thing right here, this is the greatest invention

But I want to show y'all what I've been thinking about. Now y'all look at that monitor

I think we may have some chocolate porn going on. All right

Well, have y'all noticed that y'all got some condiments on your table? Well how good would it be to have a bowl of ice cream and eat the bowl too Well I going to show y how to do that

It's just an ordinary balloon. Over boiling water, I've melted just some chocolate, plain old chocolate

I'm going to take our balloon. Oh, if it busts, y'all, I'm going to pee in my pants

You should let the chocolate cool a little bit so the balloon doesn't pop on you

We're going to dip it down in there, roll it this away, this away, this away, and this

Y'all, I hate balloons. I absolutely hate them. I ain't doing that

I've got some already done. Well, we've got to get our bowl now

We've got to get it to pull away from that balloon. Now, in order to do that, I'm going to take something sharp

I'm going to prick it. And I'm going to slowly let the air out

Because we don't want to just come up. Well, you may want to. You want to pop one. Yeah, here, pop one and see what happens

Just pop that and see what happens. See what happens to your bowl

See if it'll. Yeah, pop it. Perfect. Now, y'all, in order to get these little bowls to stand up

you have to put them on a base. So after you get your chocolate bowl

you take it over to a round of chocolate that you've dropped on wax paper

and then you set that onto that base, and that gives you your bottom

I'm going to show you some that's already been done. The air was slowly released from the balloon

leaving the shell intact. Now, there's not a better way to eat ice cream

than out of a chocolate bowl, y'all. Ain't that right, Charles? All right, so y'all are fixing to make your own ice cream

Hey, girls, can y'all bring out the bowls? The chocolate bowls. We've put y'all all kinds of condiments out

Special delivery. Special delivery. Special delivery. Yes. Yes

I hope it's a surprise. Y I don believe it Do you know who this is First of all let me introduce myself How y doing folks Son I missed you so bad

My name is Jamie Dean. I'm Paula's oldest son. I'm here with a special delivery today. I have Mr. Stephen Bruce from the world-renowned Serendipity in New York City

Hi. How are you? Did y'all get a look at this? Look at this beautiful

Well, this, I want you to know, this is in the Guinness World Book of Records for the most expensive dessert ever prepared

This is the $1,000 sundae. $1,000. Okay, Mom, give me some sugar

Hey, honey. Oh, son. Stephen, come tell us. Now, if you order this off of Stephen's menu, it is $1,000

Exactly. Now, how many of these do you prepare a week, you think, Stephen

Probably one or two a week. Can you imagine? Now, what makes it so expensive

Well, all the best ingredients in the world. Tahitian vanilla ice cream, 23-carat gold leaf

chocolates and candies from Fauchan, and a wonderful marzipan-candied orchid, all made by hand

That's edible orchid. I can eat that! Yes, you can. Show me how I eat this. Just..

I put a little caviar? Caviar, right. Like that? Exactly. And just dig in

Wow. What do you think? I think I like it

Oh, good. Great. Good. The caviar. It's golden caviar. It's fabulous with the ice cream

It's that sweet and salty thing again, y'all. Right, exactly. It's sweetened with passion

How old? Candied from Paris. No. Yes. All the best ingredients. The most expensive chocolate in the world

Which is... Which you've just devoured. Stephen, will I ruin it

I don't think so. You're going to make it better. Y'all have blown me away again

Everybody's blowing me away today. Jamie, thank you and Stephen so much

Jamie, thank you for being part of this. It was great. It's wonderful today

Thank you. Until next party, y'all. Happy eating