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Paula whips up some engagement ring finger sandwiches, shrimp butter to go with vegetables and crackers, sweet and tangy lemon bars, glazed honey bars, and finally chocolate strawberry trees. These recipes are perfect for any party! Get the recipes below:
Engagement Ring (Bling) Finger Sandwiches
https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/engagement-ring-bling-finger-sandwiches/
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hey y'all I'm Paula Deen and guess who's
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coming to dinner my son Jaime just got
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engaged whoo and it's time to meet the
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parents and I have to say I really am a
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little bit nervous so I'm like didn't
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bite y'all in to see what I'm cooking
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I'm gonna be whipping up this spread in
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my other son Bobby's kitchen and he said
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it's okay
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but promise not to snoop mama finger
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foods are on the menu today and first
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we're gonna be making engagement ring
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finger sandwiches that are savory
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satisfying and just sure to break the
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ice and then next I'm gonna be fixing my
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shrimp butter that's creamy and
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delicious on crackers and vegetables and
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you know no southern sit-down would be
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complete without my sweet and tangy
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lemon bars and then to finish it off
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it's my nutty glazed honey bars and
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strawberry topiaries that are just bound
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to make an impression so stay with me
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y'all and keep me company because it's
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time to meet the in-laws
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you
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hey y'all I have to confess y'all caught
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me snooping through my son's drawers I
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guess you'll notice that I'm not in my
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kitchen but I'm in my son Bobby's
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kitchen this is this is Bobby's loft and
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Jamie lives directly above Bobby and
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today's show is all about Jamie because
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I've got a very special announcement
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the old man is finally getting married
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and today I get to meet Brookes mother
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and father and we're gonna be meeting in
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between meal time so I just want
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something light but tasty for them and I
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decided that I would make some finger
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sandwiches now I'm gonna mix together
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two containers of softened spreadable
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cream cheese I'm gonna mix this with a
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half a cup of mayonnaise all right so
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I'm just gonna mix this up and my cream
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cheese is very soft and you can see I've
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got different bowls set up so I'm gonna
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start dividing my face for these
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sandwiches and I'm not gonna need a lot
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because it's just gonna be like the six
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of us all right now in this first one I
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think I'm gonna add the pecans to it I
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love pecans and cream cheese so we'll
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mix that up just like that and set that
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one to the side and in this one I love
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the pineapple in the cream cheese in
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fact here in the south we pineapple
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sandwiches all right so there's our
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pineapple sandwich all right and the
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next one is our cucumber so you can see
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I'm gonna have all different choices
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from the sweeter to the savory and down
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south weed a lot of cucumber sandwiches
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alright the last one is going to be an
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olive sandwich and this is just finely
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minced ilyich okay now you'll want to
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start with some good fresh bread so I'm
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gonna just cut my shapes out and I think
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I'm gonna mix my breads up I think I'll
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do one side wheat and one side white
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your ends of your bread will be just
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perfect for toppings for casseroles and
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things like that so don't think you're
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wasting this bread cuz you're really not
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you can use it for so many other things
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alright let's see let's try the heart
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out and you'll want to just set it down
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real hard and then just kind of jiggle
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and look that's a perfect heart I love
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it alright so let's try the square now
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let's see I think I'll come over here
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and use this bread that already have
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trimmed four triangles alright so now
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we're ready to start filling them so I
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think I'll start with a cucumber now you
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can put as much or as little as you like
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in there normally a tea sandwich is not
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stuff full alright now we're gonna go
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with the pecan I know this is boring as
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a mud fence watching me do this I know
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that Jamie will probably be telling
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y'all this story and I hope I don't mess
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anything up by talking about it but he
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had been watching this young lady
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probably for about six months he didn't
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know her name he knew that she had a job
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because every day at 5 o'clock he would
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see her leave work
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what months went by and somebody finally
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arranged a little cocktail hour
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at our restaurant and Brooke came and
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she and Jamie were introduced and when
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he met the five o'clock girl he fell
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head-over-heels in love with her he
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liked her as much close up as he did far
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away and they were inseparable from that
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first date now have several different
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garnishes for these sandwiches so I
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think I'm just gonna dust that one with
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a little black pepper all right so we'll
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put him right there
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now this is a pecan I think I'm gonna
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roll the edges of this one in the
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crushed pecans that I've got here now
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see how pretty that is
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all right I think that I will do the
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cucumber in the parsley because kind of
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green and green look how pretty that
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makes that little sandwich it took a
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boring sandwich and really kind of
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kicked it up all right let's see now for
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the bacon let's find a pineapple I think
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the sweet and salty will be just
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delicious does that look good or what I
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think I'm gonna do this one in the poppy
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seed and I think I'm gonna coat him all
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over look how pretty that he is I gotta
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take a quick break and while y'all are
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gone while I'm gone I'm gonna finish up
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these sandwiches and I'm gonna show
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y'all the most delicious shrimp butter I
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think I'm gonna steal one nobody will
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ever know oh my goodness bacon in cream
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cheese
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you
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hey y'all we're back and I'm getting our
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crackers laid out here ready for our
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next dish that we're doing and it's
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called shrimp butter we're gonna start
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with two sticks of butter and I'm gonna
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take two cartons of room-temperature
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spreadable cream cheese or you can use
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the the block cream cheese it doesn't
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have to be spreadable all right there we
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go now I'm gonna put some house
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seasoning which is a salt pepper and
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garlic I'm gonna put a little cayenne
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just to give it a little kick and I'm
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gonna put about a tablespoon of sherry
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mmm smells good just enough to give it a
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little kick all right pause that until
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it's nice and creamy now I'm gonna put a
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pound of shrimp into our cream cheese
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and butter mixture and I'm using fresh
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shrimp that I've bald and I'm just gonna
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pop the tails off if you don't have
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access to some good fresh shrimp just
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try substituting the canned shrimp
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they're packed with flavor all right
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that gets our shrimp now I'm gonna add
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about a teaspoon of lemon zest cuz I
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don't have to tell y'all how good lemon
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is with shrimp so that looks like about
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a teaspoon so we're just gonna throw
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that in there and I think I'm gonna do
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just about two tablespoons of onion that
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should be a gracious plenty like I said
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cuz I don't want to overpower it with
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the onions all right
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shouldn't take but just a second
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all right I think fat gets it all right
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so I'm gonna transfer this to my piping
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bag now you could roll it up in a long
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shape in some wax paper and refrigerate
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it or freeze it and and make slices out
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of it if you wanted to but I'm just
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gonna pipe this on to our cracker all
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right now I think I'm gonna put a little
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pinch of parsley and I don't know if
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this will work or not but I think I'm
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gonna sprinkle just a little paprika
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just to kick up that color a little bit
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see how pretty and it was no trouble at
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all mmm
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down south every party we have you can
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usually find a lemon bar if the recipe
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has been around for a hundred years and
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they're so delicious so I'm gonna start
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this lemon dish with all-purpose flour
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confectioner sugar and a stick of butter
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and with my fork I'm just gonna blend
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that butter into our dry ingredients and
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then I'm gonna Pat it into our pan and
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we're gonna bake this for about 15 or 20
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minutes all right now I've got all this
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mixed up I'm gonna finish it off with my
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hands just make sure that our butter is
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all mixed in and I'm gonna put mine into
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a pan and I don't I don't think I'm
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gonna spray it because there's so much
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butter in this piece of pastry plus I've
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got a nonstick pan all right so I'm just
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gonna press this down in here and make
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sure I level it off good and I bring it
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up the sides of the pan just a little
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bit
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when I go to put my lemon filling in it
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you know it'll kind of have something to
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wrap its arms around all right so I'm
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gonna throw this in the oven and let it
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bake for fifteen or twenty minutes and
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when we come back I'm going to show you
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that luscious tart filling that goes in
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the center and also honey bars so I'll
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see y'all back in a few minutes
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[Music]
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okay I don't know about y'all but I'm
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ready to finish up these lemon bars cuz
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I can't wait to get in them right now
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it's got my crust here it's baked for
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about 15 or 20 minutes I've pulled it
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out and we're gonna add sugar a little
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flour because this is gonna be kind of a
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loose Center but we want just enough
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flour to bind it and we've got lemon
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juice and two eggs I'm just gonna give
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this a quick beat and then pour them in
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there and mix that together just like
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that I love making these cuz you don't
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have to pull out a mixer so we're just
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gonna pour that on top and we're gonna
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run this back in the oven and while
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these are baking I'm gonna come over
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here and show you a glazed honey bar and
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they're so good so let's throw this only
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in in the oven and we'll let that baking
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we'll move on over here now this is a
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dessert that I used to serve on the bag
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lady and I'm gonna start with a self
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rising flour a teaspoon of cinnamon 2/3
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of a cup of all 1/8 of a cup of honey
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little sugar in fact it's a half a cup
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of sugar and one egg and I'm gonna just
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give these a quick mix and then I'm
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gonna pour in 1/2 a cup of nuts and
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we're gonna run this in the oven bake it
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in a preheated 350 degree oven for about
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25 to 30 minutes and I'm gonna give our
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pan a quick spray whoops was almost
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about to forget my nuts I mean
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such a hurry so that's a half a cup of
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walnuts I love walnuts in this so we're
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just gonna pour this in here pop that in
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the oven so I want to show you how I
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finish him off
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and these are completely cooled this is
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the lemon bars now all I do to these is
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just dust them with powdered sugar all
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right and for my glazed honey bars I'm
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gonna make a very thin glaze using a
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little powdered sugar and one of my
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favorite condiments in the whole world a
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tablespoon of mayonnaise and a
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tablespoon of milk teaspoon of vanilla
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and I'm just gonna give that a quick
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little mix and just pour that over a
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honey bars these are out of this world
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well what'd you say we cut them and I'm
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gonna cut these in fairly small bite
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sized squares so that people don't feel
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like they have room for both you can see
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how they're kind of hard for me to cut
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because of the chewiness of them oh yeah
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and they're just popping right out of my
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pan because it's one of those nonstick
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type pans they're gonna just love them
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all right you can see the way these are
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cutting they have a much softer texture
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to them you can kind of see that lemon
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custard kind of oozing out of them let's
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see how those are gonna do Oh YUM
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see that gooey Center I love the corners
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of a bar type cookie where they're
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really crispy and crunchy I think I'm
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gonna put maybe a little lemon wheel
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just on the plate some fresh mint and
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some grapes just a little bit green for
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color and how pretty do those look I
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think maybe just a clump of grapes right
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there look how pretty that looks
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mmm oh my goodness
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maybe my cooking I'll make up for my
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goofiness that embarrasses Jamie
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sometimes mmm before I meet the parents
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I'm gonna be showing you on how to make
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some beautiful chocolate strawberry
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topiary trees so I'll see y'all in a
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minute in the meantime we're gonna clean
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up
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[Music]
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[Music]
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all right I want to share with y'all I'm
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in a big hurry because you know I've got
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to go meet those parents but I want to
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show you something that we do for a
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party that we're wanting to really make
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a big impression on and it's fresh
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strawberry trees and for this one I'm
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using chocolate dipped strawberries just
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to create a little interest I think you
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can see the chocolate is so pretty on
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them so all we going to do is take a
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start with a good hearty toothpick and
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I'm just gonna kind of flip that in and
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an angle and choose a strawberry of my
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liking and you'll want to try to make
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sure that all of your strawberries are
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about the same size it will just look a
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lot more uniform so you may want to go
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somewhere where you can hand select your
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strawberries for the top row I think I'm
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gonna go with a smaller berry all right
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now I'm just gonna come in here and fill
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in with cement so I hope that when you
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have an occasion to impress somebody
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you'll think back on this little tip
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that I've given you today and I think
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you'll love it
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well y'all it's finally here it's almost
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time to meet the parents and I hadn't
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gone to a great deal of trouble but I
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think the trouble that I went to will
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really impress them and I think they'll
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appreciate it and I think all this will
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get us in a very relaxed state I've got
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the sorted tray of sandwiches and the
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lemon squares and the glazed honey bars
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and the shrimp butter whether they
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choose to eat it on a cracker or a
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vegetable and the topiaries look
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beautiful don't they y'all and if you're
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ever in a situation like me where you
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kind of meet the bride's parents I hope
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that you'll try some of these recipes or
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even if you're just having friends over
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so until next time y'all wish me luck
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and I send y'all best dishes and love
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my table to yours
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