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Full Episode Fridays: Spring Fever - 3 Spring Dessert Recipes | Texas Tumbleweed Candy
Apr 7, 2023
3 Spring Dessert Recipes - Paula is making pretty and delicious spring desserts, including a Texas tumbleweed recipe (AKA a haystack recipe) and an Easter cake recipe. Paula’s Best Dishes, Season 8, Episode 2.
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00:00 Intro
1:07 Flower Power Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/flower-power-cookies-with-cream-cheese-frosting/
9:41 Meemaw's Texas Tumbleweed Candy Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/meemaws-texas-tumbleweed-candy/
13:05 Sour Cream Yellow Cake Recipe: https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/sour-cream-yellow-cake/
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y'all i am so happy today i can't hardly contain myself because jamie and his beautiful wife brooke
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are here today to help us make our flower power cookies with a cream cheese frosting
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and they're going to be beautiful tasty cookies then brooke's going to be showing us her meemaw's
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irresistible texas tumbleweed candies these things you can't like eat just one y'all
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finally brooke's friend kate's going to be stopping by to show us his fabulous
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sour cream yellow cake with marshmallow fondant this is a real sweet show today [Music]
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oh my goodness i'm like over the moon excited because i am in the kitchen with two of my
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children my beautiful daughter-in-law brooke and my son jamie and i tell you what ain't nothing
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no better than having your kids in the kitchen especially after they get old enough y'all to have
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some sense to them and they can they can really help unlike the stage that jack's at now all
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right well let's get started we're going to make a flower power chocolate cookie and brookie is
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gonna be mixing together uh two sticks of softened butter and she's gonna add a cup of confectioners
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sugar these are sweet cookies and then she's gonna add a half a cup of granulated sugar
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one egg a teaspoon of vanilla and jamie sun you are gonna be mixing up three cups of all-purpose
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flour a half a teaspoon of baking soda and i'm melting chocolate i've got the easy job
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and when jamie and i get done we're just going to add it to brooke's pot look how pretty that
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pink mixer is i know i just love it you are just matching you are just matching today girl
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i've gotten my practice lately with making cookies because jack is on this
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cookie kick every day mama can we make cookies and i kind of have to bribe them and say well
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if you eat your dinner we'll make cookies but he just absolutely loves to cook and bake so
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i'm in the cookie making practice right now that is great all right my chocolate is melted son
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all right so brooke i say just dump jamie just take it all this is gonna be a real
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thick dough oh don't forget the egg brook sorry i was about to let you forget and your vanilla
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flavoring okay so we are gonna add our dough out y'all and it needs to rest in the refrigerator for
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about an hour teamwork teamwork y'all look like the cutest team all right so in the chocolate goes
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and we just look delicious and it smells good too
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and just make sure everything's incorporated
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son would you put that away please and let's get this cleaned off so that we can
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um pat our dough out and i think that's ready brooke yeah uh-huh it looks delicious looks like
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fudge now i'm gonna sprinkle our parchment paper with some powdered sugar we could use cocoa let me
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help you mix in some cocoa you're gonna use your hands you need some help that'd be great [Music]
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half of this mom on this parchment paper yes all right so just pat that out son then another piece
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of parchment paper more sugar and then the other half of our dough i don't like to waste a drop
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although i would like to be eating feeder do you know how mad jack would be if he knew that y'all
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were over at guinea's house making cookies we can bring them one oh here son don't waste a drop um
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that's a whole nother cookie son well i figured i'd leave something in the bowl for y'all to lick
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i'm gonna try to resist
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all right so in the refrigerator that's gonna rest for one hour so this should be really firm
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when we pull it out easy to roll out it's funny how time flies when you're having a good time
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an hour gone just like that brooke i'm going to give you one and then jamie's got one
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brooke you can just dip yours in the confectionary sugar and it won't stick
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and y'all just roll them out just a little bit they don't need to be too too thin it's it's hard
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just give me a little sugar
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[Music] a little bit of sugar sure [Music]
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i'll give you some [Music] thank you bro i'll give you sugar thank you son all kinds of sugar
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in the kitchen today oh this takes all kinds of strength i know all right so y'all just take your
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um your cookie cutters and now remember jamie you want to use every bit of your dough so and you can
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dip yours in the powdered sugar and that will keep it from sticking and of course we're going to use
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the flour cookie cutter oh that's pretty now that's about a quarter of an inch thick y'all
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mine's a little bit thicker it's perfectly all right we've got our cookie sheets lined
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with parchment paper love love love these and we're going to bake them we've got our
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oven preheated y'all to 350 degrees and we're going to bake these for 10 minutes
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perfect let's see we got another cookie sheet over there so i'm gonna go ahead and put these
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in the oven while y'all are taking your leftover dough and rolling it out so 350 for 10 minutes and
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then what are we gonna do brooke when we come back make the cream cheese filling cream cheese filling
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don't go anywhere i told you this is a real sweet show today up next we're finishing up our cookies
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nice and hearty i mean that's like a meal right there then i can't wait for brooke to show me
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her meemo's texas tumbleweed candies wouldn't you have loved to have had a memo like that and later
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brooke's friend kate stops by to make one of her beautiful and delicious cakes
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i so hope you all are enjoying the show and if you do be sure to click like subscribe and
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the notification bell so you'll never miss a video and we'll be right back after the break
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hey y'all welcome back uh we just made the most incredible flowers flower power
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cookies look how nice and hearty i mean that's like a meal right there all right so we're gonna
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make the icing bread so we're going to need a half a stick of cream cheese that softened
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a half a stick of butter and two and a half cups of powdered sugar very simple just a little cream
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cheese icing and this is going to be really thick because we want it to sit on our cookie
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a little vanilla just eyeball it all right this is hair perfect jamie's getting our pastry bag ready
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so who's going to do wine i'll do the sprinkles okay i'll pipe all right and
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look at our cute little tins brook so this makes a neat gift great idea just to give the teachers
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some friends uh-huh they'd be beautiful easter cookies and son just give me a little drop of milk
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yeah liquid goes a long way y'all with powdered sugar
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that looks delicious doesn't that look delicious i love cream cheese icing i'm gonna
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just sling that frosting you like it mm-hmm all right so let's put this in our piping bag [Music]
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there we go and if you wanted to you could even add a little food coloring to this
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but we're gonna add the sprinkles okey-doke now we're just gonna put a dollop in the center
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beautiful perfect
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that one's mine you know we could make a sandwich
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so aren't those beautiful beautiful here let's do this
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that's good for real it almost tastes um kind of like a brownie a little bit because the cookie is
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so good it does it does it's just delicious it's icing let's see how beautiful that is
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what are we going to do next brooke we are going to make my meemaw's texas tumbleweed candy oh
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i love it texas tumbleweed i like the way that rolls off my tongue and i'm ready for it to roll
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down my tongue y'all me mo was brook's grandmother i want to see this texas tumbleweed because you're
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using something a little bit different you're using like a canned potato stick
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which just will give it that salty um crunchy flavor with the sweet and salty so let's get
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going i can't wait to taste them so we're going to start out with one 12-ounce package of almond
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bark okay so just white chocolate almond bark okay and this is this is pretty and to that we're going
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to add a cup of butterscotch chips okay or you can use peanut butter and kind of let it melt
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a little bit and we've just got that over boiling water y'all in our kind of homemade double boiler
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now my meemaw would start these cookies right after thanksgiving she would make about 50
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different kinds between you know thanksgiving and christmas wouldn't you have loved to have had a
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mean mall like that so now brooke's just adding a pound of roasted peanuts and that that was her
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gift to all her friends and family was just a huge tray of cookies and candy now jamie's just going
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to stir that up real good and then we're going to add our three cups of potato sticks all right
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y'all we're putting the salty into the sweet to just kind of not only give it that crunch
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but it'll give it that extra a bit of flavor to kind of offset the sweet and goes with the peanuts
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just oh my gosh perfectly a little sour cream mama what why don't you get a something to put these on
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so i've got my cookie sheet lined with the wax paper [Music] all right so just scoop them up
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and that chocolate in the butterscotch morsels is going to harden again so y'all we have got
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the neatest friend that's going to be joining brooke today paul i'm so excited for you to
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meet my friend kate and she has been making these beautiful beautiful cakes and i just can't wait
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for her to show you how to make them and you're not gonna believe how precious these cakes are
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coming up next we're not leaving this kitchen clean making kate's sour cream yellow cake this is
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messy that we are going to be covered in powdered sugar by the time this is done but it'll be worth
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it because later we got the cutest food critics coming by to help us finish up our decorations
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our taste testers
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i hope you all are enjoying the show and i want to hear from you tell me what recipes or videos
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you'd like to see me make by just leaving a short comment below now let's get back to the show y'all
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brooke told me about kate her friend several months ago we've been friends since high
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school we went to college together she has found this passion of making cakes in her home while
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she stays at home with her girls and the cakes that she's made are just unbelievable so today
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y'all she's showing us her sour cream yellow cake with a marshmallow fondant so i'm going
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to kind of step off and let you do your thing okay just pretend like you're 15 years old again
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and in that kitchen so go for it all right so i guess we'll do the cake first okay this
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is a fabulous cake it's um you put your start off with your box of yellow cake mix and then
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dump the whole thing already just put that in there and then we're gonna add a third a cup of
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sugar also that's the beauty of box cake mixes because you can really take it to another level
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i'm gonna start with this sour cream the sour cream just kind of helps to
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make it keep it moist and also keep the cake sturdy
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all right and then we're going to add a third cup of flour
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just kind of extension just to give it a little bit more body right
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right we're going to add in a third a cup of oil just regular vegetable oil
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this is um butter extract so we're going to do half of a teaspoon of butter
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oh my gosh
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i'm kidding no she's not love and that's for paula and my grandmother used to make a a butternut cake
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and she would use a flavoring very similar to that and i love that that brings back memories
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and i'm going to put in just a pinch of salt and then we're going to add a half a teaspoon
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of vanilla extract okay and we're going to add three eggs so [Music] so paula it's not just
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the decoration to kate's cakes it's the taste it's really honestly i can say the best cake i've ever
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had oh that's wonderful and then we're gonna put in a quarter cup of water i think we should put
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paula to work what do you think yeah how about how about you stop watching this oh and you can
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help me make the icing how about that okay what do you want me to do start off here at the fourth
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cup of water about three tablespoons of coffee creamer and actually what we're using this for
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is you can use milk in your icing but then you'd have to refrigerate that and i just
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yeah this way you don't have to worry about it all right we're back to the butter and we
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are back to the butter so we're going to add a half a teaspoon of butter okay down extract
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and then a half a teaspoon of the vanilla extract so half a teaspoon of vanilla extract hey when in
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the world do you have time to make these cakes with two kids i don't think i never sleep i wake
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up at five o'clock sometimes in the morning it's done before they wake up before the girls wake up
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all right so i'm putting in a cup of solid shortening right start mixing that together
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and then we will start and i'm going to do this with the electric racer
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and that's going to get messy you thought your cookies were messy i'm telling you
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this is messy that we are going to be covered in powdered sugar by the time this is done
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all right and what we're going to do is just going to start adding slowly the powdered sugar
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now i think we're going to need about four cups total all right brooke how you doing over there
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looks pretty good to me i think it's ready good very good this looks like it's coming along
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nicely kate looks perfect all right let's come down here and spray these hands then the girls
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are gonna split the batter evenly between the two pans this is a difficult part y'all
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to make sure that your cakes are perfectly even i use my cup and i actually measure it out [Music]
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just getting it all out here okay i have some too i know this is my daughter's favorite part i tell
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her she's a good girl she can lick the spatula when i'm john just mix it just back to bribe
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and right hands that's right yum like candy butter right that brings back so many memories y'all must
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use that butter extract we're gonna put them in the oven for 30 minutes at 50. okie doke [Music]
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don't go anywhere you know we can learn a lot from these beautiful young girls
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up next even the biggest kids in the kitchen can't wait to taste this cake i won't all right [Music]
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i so hope y'all are enjoying the show and if you do be sure to click like subscribe
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and the notification bell so you'll never miss a video and we'll be right back after the break
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look at us working girls welcome back y'all we are working on now the final uh stages final
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stages of kate's cake our cakes have cooled and kate's putting them together with the icing that
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we made earlier now we she did not show us how to make the fondant but you can go on foodnetwork.com
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and find out how to do it i understand that you make it with marshmallows that's right
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which makes it so good but kate how did you get so good so fast at this
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i mean practice practice practice i think anybody can get good at anything if they practice
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this is wonderful yeah yeah so what i'm going to do now spinning i've just iced it lightly with
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the buttercream just kind of like a crumb coat just to kind of seal it that's right because that
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the fondant will will adhere to that and what i'm going to do before i put the fondant on is
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just kind of press it down a little bit and if you see the sides of the cake
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coming out you see that filling coming out there a little bit that's what we want to get out now
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why do you want to do that if we put the fondant on before we do this there will be a ring around
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because that fun is going to lay over the cake and push this icing out okay so we're going to do that
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well i can't wait to see you work with the fine dot okay and let's cover this cake so
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while kate fits her fondant on the top of her cake brooke and i are going to be using cookie cutters
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to make some fun little decorations using our fondant and look she's taking a pizza wheel y'all
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a pizza cutter yeah my husband is always saying where's my pizza cutter
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[Music]
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i could do this like all afternoon y'all
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and then just put a little dab of water on them okay
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now that's just gonna help it stick together y'all
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perfect look how cute
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oh that sure is pretty our taste testers yeah yeah look you want some cake fun done you have
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some fondant yes ma'am hey darling i hear that you're getting all my boys
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oh look at her grass brook oh so cute
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how cute you're so lucky to have a mommy that makes all these wonderful
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cakes how beautiful is that paula i want you to try me moss candy oh i want to ready yes
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sugar mmm oh my do you love those pizzas or what
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i want cake okay all right [Music]
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look how soft and moist that is [Music] pink hey isn't that awesome
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oh my god i love the fondant it does so go to the website foodnetwork.com get
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the recipe for our fine dine if not call kate she'll make it for you that's right
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i've had a ball with you girls thank you so much
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thank you for having me i love my daughter-in-law and i love her friends thank y'all so much
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