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4 Weeknight Dinner Recipes - These easy family meal recipes are perfect for busy schoolnights. Paula’s Best Dishes, Season 4, Episode 7.
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00:00 Intro
0:56 Smokey Apple Cinnamon Meatloaf Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/smokey-apple-cinnamon-meatloaf/
4:25 Vidalia Onion Pie Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/vidalia-onion-pie/
7:59 Carrot Bundles Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/carrot-bundles/
12:38 Chocolate Cupcakes with Coffee Cream Filling Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/chocolate-cupcakes-with-coffee-cream-filling/
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do y'all know what y'all tell me all the
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time when i'm out on the road
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we love it when michael grover is on
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your show well guess what y'all
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michael's in the kitchen and we're
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fixing a smoky apple cinnamon meatloaf
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that's good
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served up with a sweet vidalia onion pie
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oh look how pretty it is look at that
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and yummy carrot bundles what a
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beautiful plate this is
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we all know how michael loves his coffee
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that coffee is magical yeah
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so i'll treat him to some chocolate
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cupcakes with a coffee cream filling
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this is so good you're gonna love it
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[Music]
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y'all we got a great menu today you know
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what man doesn't love meatloaf i have
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not met a man that doesn't love meatloaf
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that she or me though especially mommy
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love you're so sweet
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this is called a smoky apple cinnamon
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meatloaf i've got bacon in here in the
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pan cooking y'all and i'm gonna pull
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these three out because i need three
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strips of bacon it's just kind of par
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cooked
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and then we're making one of michael's
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favorites of vadaya onion pie
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and uh listen to him
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when michael makes that noise i know
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i've got a home run
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so michael i need about three-fourths of
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a cup of the diced onions for our
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meatloaf okay and if you'll just put it
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in that bowl for me and then i'm gonna
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need for you to thinly slice those two
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whole onions
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and then we're going to put them in the
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pan and kind of caramelize them because
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that's going to go in our pie
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and for our meatloaf y'all i've got one
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and a half pounds of a lean ground beef
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i've got a half a pound of ground pork
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that pork is really gonna release its
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fat and and and
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season this up
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all right so in goes my meat
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and you know i'm gonna do this with my
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hands y'all because that's the way i can
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get it good
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just go in there and mix that onion up
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in that meat
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next i'll add one egg
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now i'm gonna add a cup
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of
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breadcrumbs
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i'm gonna add some pepper
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and i'm gonna add a teaspoon of salt
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and if you would measure me out
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three-fourths of a cup of the applesauce
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we're gonna toss that in
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all right and what makes this y'all
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that's perfect michael i know
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[Laughter]
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you've never lacked for self-confidence
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what makes this
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the smoky apple cinnamon meatloaf
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is a smoky apple cinnamon sauce and i'm
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going to use about three tablespoons of
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this in the meatloaf
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[Music]
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this michael
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that's good
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look he had like a surprise look on his
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face oh it's delicious
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thank you and michael could you put
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about three tablespoons of butter in
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that pan
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oh look he measures like me
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i love it all right now i'm gonna put
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the crispy bacon right there and i'm
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gonna move this
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all right
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i'm just gonna mix all that up
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now i'm gonna put that in my little loaf
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pan
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and just pack it down in there all right
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so i've got my meatloaf in my pan
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now i'm just gonna brush this
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with the cinnamon
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applesauce
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and i love it
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kind of thick on there
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and it's gonna kind of like caramelize
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on top it's gonna be so good
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all right now i'm just gonna lay our par
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cooked bacon
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on top of that
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michael if you would get that in the
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oven for me baby just put it in the
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small oven we're gonna bake that at 350
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for about an hour
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and then i'm gonna pull it out and i'm
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gonna lather it with more of our apple
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cinnamon sauce
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to put our vidalia onion pie together
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it's so simple y'all now we have just
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used a refrigerator crust and you can
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see i'm using a real deep pie dish
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all right so i'm gonna measure out a
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half cup of milk i'm gonna add three
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tablespoons of flour
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to my bowl
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because that's gonna make our pie
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like custardy
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all right now i've got my two eggs
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why
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the the baby dogs have just come in here
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hunting dog hunting dogs
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that's what michael said when we first
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met he would walk my dogs and courses
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friends would see
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with these two little dogs
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with their rhinestone collars and
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michael and say
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hey guys i'm i'm walking my hunting dogs
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all right so there we go i wanted to
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beat my flour up first with those eggs
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before i added my liquid so i could
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control the lumping
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i'm gonna go ahead and add the milk
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[Music]
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i'm gonna add about a teaspoon of salt
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[Music]
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we're gonna need one and a half cups of
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sour cream and i recommend using a full
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strength sour cream not a light
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and that's it we've got our custard
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now for our vidalia onion pie
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look how smooth that is isn't that
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pretty
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how you coming baby i think they're
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about ready
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all right so i'm gonna take our bacon
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and i'm gonna just crumble it up because
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we're gonna put this
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on top of our pie
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okay mikey
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you wanna dump your onions baby
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yeah just dump them into the bottom of
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our pie crust
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we're just gonna pour our custard on top
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of our onions
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all right so look at this michael how
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yummy is that now i'm just going to take
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our bacon we're just going to pile that
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on top
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and we're going to bake that in the oven
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a
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325 degree preheated oven for about 30
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minutes
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just long enough for those eggs and the
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milk to set
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it's gonna be delicious
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coming up y'all i've got a perfectly
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sweet side dish to complete our savory
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meal
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and later i'm fixing coffee and dessert
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all in one delicious bite yum
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break
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[Music]
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we're back y'all michael's taking our
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onion pie out he's taking our meatloaf
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out
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oh look how pretty it is look at that
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onion pie
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just sit it right down the trivet oh
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gosh
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that is turned out pretty beautiful
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beautiful beautiful beautiful
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y'all we're gonna finish off our meal by
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making our vegetable to go with that
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wonderful onion pie and meatloaf and
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we're gonna make carrot bundles i'm
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gonna start by blanching us off some
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chives in that gorgeous
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these need to be softened up a little
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bit so uh they'll be pliable so i can
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tie up our carrots
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and it's not gonna take long michael if
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you would start peeling the carrots and
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cut them in like bigger than a
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matchstick okay
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for me and like i said you can see these
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already starting to get soft
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all right so i'm just gonna
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swish that around in an ice bath so that
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they'll quit cooking
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and to make the sauce that i'm gonna
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bathe our carrot bundles in is so simple
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i'm gonna use three tablespoons of brown
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sugar y'all
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and about three tablespoons of butter
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so
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we're gonna get that going the next
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ingredient is a fourth of a cup of white
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wine
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and when we get our carrots tied up in
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bundles
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oh i'm gonna
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let them go swimming in our sauce
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[Music]
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so this is a good way for me to get
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michael to eat his vegetables cause he
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really is like a little boy your mother
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had a heck of a time oh
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getting you to eat your vegetables
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didn't she yeah she was a fabulous cook
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too and we had a garden and
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would um
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have fresh vegetables all the time
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i would actually hold my breath and
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chew them up and swallow them i remember
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you telling me the story about you and
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hank coming on uh coming home from
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football practice we would stop on the
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way to home from football practice
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and eat five hamburgers each then we
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stopped by the donut place he did i eat
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a half dozen hank heat in a dozen on the
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way home and then we we just eat like it
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was normal y'all were chubby guys
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weren't you well
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i don't know why you
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use that in the past down
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so the carrots go in the boiling water
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and it doesn't take but like two or
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three minutes you want them to still
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have a lot of body on them
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i'm gonna take a couple of chives
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and just tie them up and you don't want
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to pull it too tight
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because
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your chives could break
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and then i'm going to put it down in
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that wonderful sauce
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you may have time up
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yeah you can come help ty
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aren't those pretty mm-hmm
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this is a good way to get your kids to
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eat this is a great way
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to get your kids to eat and they can
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even come in and tie em up all right
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michael i'm gonna get over here cause i
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just wanna make sure they get all in
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that sauce uh-huh
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doesn't that look good
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you know these almost take on the taste
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of sweet potatoes when you start adding
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that butter
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and brown sugar
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and i'm ready to go eat
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me too
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oh my goodness
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look at all that onion in there y'all
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mmm smells so good perfect
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what a beautiful plate this is
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mm-hmm
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look at those onions
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is it good mm-hmm
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i'm so glad you like it
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mmm
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i'm going in for a carrot now
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okay
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don't you just love that sauce on top of
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it
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how are the carrots they're good they
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don't even taste like carrots i told ya
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there's something just comforting about
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me love fitness yeah that bacon makes it
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delicious mm-hmm
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you're my favorite
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i think it's the onion pie
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it is delicious mm-hmm
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coming up we're gonna make something
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good and sweet a little cake gets a big
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captain kick
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and later a special frosting
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for my special man it's looking good
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isn't it
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i hope y'all are enjoying the show and i
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now let's get back to the show
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y'all michael and in the last segment we
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just had the most wonderful meal we're
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gonna take michael's wonderful coffee
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and guess what we're gonna make with it
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i can't wait
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one of your favorite things in the whole
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world we're gonna make cupcakes oh come
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on i can promise you this they're gonna
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be
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delicious
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so michael if you'd start measuring up
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the wet ingredients i need one cup of
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strong black coffee that's cooled off i
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need a cup of vegetable oil measured out
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okay and over here i'm gonna start my
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dry ingredients
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and i'm gonna need two cups of sugar
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all right so there's our sugar
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and then i'm gonna add
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two and a quarter cup of all-purpose
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flour
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and these cupcakes are so easy to make
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i'm gonna add a half a teaspoon of salt
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it's one and a half teaspoons of baking
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soda
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a teaspoon of baking powder
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and i'm going to need three-fourths a
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cup of cocoa and this is an unsweetened
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cocoa i'm using y'all and i'm just gonna
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whisk those dry ingredients together
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before we start adding our wet
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so you can just dump it right in there
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michael
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all right
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so i'm gonna
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start my little electric mixer
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and michael if you would start by adding
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the coffee okay
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oh
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and add the all and y'all this all
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is gonna make these cupcakes so
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delicious
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and moist the coffees was doing it
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that coffee is magical yeah
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all right now i'm gonna need for you to
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break
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three eggs into here and we'll just add
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them one at the time
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okey-doke now you can put in the other
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one
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so see how easy those cupcakes were to
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mix up
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but now we got two more ingredients
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to add to it that's really gonna richen
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this up
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we're gonna use one eight ounce carton
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of sour cream
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sour cream is wonderful
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intake batter y'all
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oh my goodness and then about a teaspoon
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of vanilla flavoring
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well maybe that was a little bit more
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but that's all right
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all right so i'm just gonna
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incorporate that sour cream into our
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batter and michael if you'd reach back
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there and get our muffin tins
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we'll start scooping this up
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we're gonna fill up
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our liners
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about two-thirds full
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this makes 30 cupcakes
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now we're gonna put this in the oven
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michael you can go ahead and do that and
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we're putting those in a 350 degree oven
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y'all and we're gonna bake them for
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about 16 to 18 minutes
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michael i'm gonna put you a surprise
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in the center of these cupcakes after
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they come out of the oven
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i'm gonna use a three ounce package
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of cream cheese that's softened to room
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temperature if you would measure me out
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a fourth of a cup
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a coffee liqueur
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i'm gonna beat this real real good y'all
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cause i don't want any lumps and it's
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gonna be very important
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that your cream cheese is at room
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temperature
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that's a pretty cool
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that's a pretty white i said it was a
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pretty color
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pretty cool
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like color
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did y'all get that corny joke
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you're so cute and see i just think all
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your
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corny jokes are so funny
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you're probably the only one
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listen that's why you liked me
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cause i laughed at your funny jokes it
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took me a long time to spend somebody
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that appreciated them
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so i'll just add this liqueur just a
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little at a time and now i'm gonna fold
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in
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a chocolate flavored frozen topping like
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whipped cream yeah we're gonna use an
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eight-ounce container so we're just
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gonna take that
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and i'm not gonna beat it
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because i'm afraid that if we do too
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much beating it could deflate it
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so i'm just going to fold and then kind
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of mash
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until all that cream cheese
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is in there
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it's looking good isn't it
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stick your finger in there and tell me
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how you like it
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[Music]
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i think that's gonna be fabulous inside
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those cupcakes
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and you know what
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we're still not gonna be through with
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these cupcakes
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and we're not done with your coffee yet
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don't you go anywhere now for the fun
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part michael and i have one last step to
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make our cupcakes complete you want me
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to taste one no not yet
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i so hope y'all are enjoying the show
18:04
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[Music]
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all right we're ready to finish up those
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cupcakes that we started
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and michael i need you to measure me out
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three cups
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of confectioner's sugar please i've
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dumped a stick of softened butter
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into our bowl
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one
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two
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three three all right now i need for you
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to measure up about a fourth of a cup
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of that strong cold coffee of yours
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you know it doesn't take much liquid for
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confectionary sugar so you want to add
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just a little bit at the time
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all right a little bit more
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there we go
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we don't want this too thin
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because it won't stay on our cupcake
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right
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so i think we've about got enough coffee
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in there michael
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so that was a little less than a fourth
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of a cup of coffee that we poured in
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here
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look at there
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wasn't that fast and easy yes all right
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we've got our cupcakes down here
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and i filled a pastry bag with our
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coffee flavored filling now for the fun
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part we're gonna take our piping bag
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and we're just gonna put our little
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needle
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down into that cupcake and we're gonna
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squeeze about
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a tablespoon in there and i tell you
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what i'm going to let you do that uh-huh
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and you don't want to put your needle
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too deep
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because you don't want to break through
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the paper
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so we're just going to frost our
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cupcakes now with that wonderful
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coffee-flavored icing
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oh these look so good don't they
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you only taste one no not yet
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[Music]
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in just a second
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so i've got some chocolate covered
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coffee beans
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and i'm just gonna garnish
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our cupcakes with a few of those
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michael
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it's time for you to taste
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let's see what we got inside of there
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oh my goodness
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doesn't that look good
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[Music]
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do you like it or do you love it
20:52
those are delicious aren't they yummy
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i've got my own baby
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they are wonderful
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there's nothing
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more gratifying
21:06
than having somebody in the kitchen with
21:08
you that you just love
21:10
what's your fun cooking with you because
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i get to test your food yes you do
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