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- Seven swans are swimming.
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Hey y'all, I'm Jamie Deen,
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and today, seven swans are swimming.
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This is 12 Days of Cookie Christmas, y'all.
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And so today for number seven,
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we're not doing a traditional cookie, we're doing rumballs.
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It's very, very easy and very delicious and very Christmasy.
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I've started with super clean hands today
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'cause this is a recipe that we're going to get in there.
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You have to bake a chocolate cake ahead of time
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and let it completely cool.
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And in this bowl, we're gonna break it up.
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Now Aunt's recipe says, use a fork.
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And so me and you and a fork
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can stay here for the next eight minutes
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trying to figure this out
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or I could use the two hands
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that God gave me to break it apart.
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We're gonna break up our chocolate cake into this bowl,
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and then we're gonna dress it up even more.
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It's almost kind like, like a trifle
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that we used to make trifles at the restaurants
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where we would bake cakes or gooey butter cakes.
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We would crumble 'em up, we would layer 'em
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in different containers
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and they'd be super beautiful and super delicious.
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But since this is the cookie week,
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these balls we're gonna set out
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with the rest of our Christmas cookies.
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And boy, Heidi, that I make a mistake
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on the size of this ball, this bowl.
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But that's gonna make it more interesting
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once we start to really get into it.
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This is our one sheet cake
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that we've cooked per the instructions
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on the box into this.
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We will add a box of confection or sugar.
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Oh yeah, this is gonna be messy.
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You've got our pecans.
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Now you can use any kind of nuts that you want,
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but y'all know that we're nuts for pecans down here.
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And I also have a quarter cup of cocoa powder.
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It's called a rum ball for a reason, y'all.
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I'm gonna put in a tablespoon of your choice of rum.
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Now, if you want to, you can use a rum extract
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or you can just get this part if you want to.
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Rum is kind of an adult flavor,
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and I think most of your, the company that you're gonna have
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at your party will enjoy these.
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And kids can have 'em too.
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It will not be cooked again though,
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so this is going to have alcohol in.
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So keep that in mind when you're getting ready
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to service to your friends.
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I'm gonna start working all this in here together.
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And just like that, look how clean I am.
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Everything's mixed together.
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So we're gonna form our balls now.
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Now, if you really, really like this recipe
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and you want to, there's one rum ball,
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or if you're gonna share with your family,
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we're gonna go for about a golf ball size here.
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and then we're going to give it a walk around our
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fresh cut pecans right here
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and you just set these out.
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This is the part that you could bring your kids in
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or some friends and have 'em help you.
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Just keep thinking golf balls.
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You could put these on a really pretty piece of
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crystal or something that you have.
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If you want to put a little bit of greenery around this,
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it sure could use a little bit of color.
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You can find some fresh greenery in the yard, I bet.
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Stick it around your rum balls
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and really get into the spirit.
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Really easy to do, really pretty.
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And it's got a lot of good flavors.
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I love all the texture inside and out.
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Rum adds a little bit.
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The chocolate cake by itself of course, is good.
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And I just, I'm not gonna do anymore.
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I'm gonna taste this one.
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It does need a little bit of color.
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So when you get ready for your party,
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if you want to take some pictures, send it in here
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and show mom how you dressed up these balls.
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It's time for this swan to eat.
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Like something you buy at the store.
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It's so moist and delicious.
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All the flavors in there.
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- [Woman] Day seven. - Day seven.
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Wonder what's cooking tomorrow for day eight.
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I'm Jamie Swan. We're out.
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And that's good food.
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Merry Christmas. Thanks y'all.
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Hey y'all. It's a bonus.
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Eddie's an awesome guy.
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He's also so smart about a lot of things.
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He said the rum balls that he's had in the past
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always had a little bit of powdered sugar.
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You can't ever go wrong with powdered sugar.
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dust your balls with a little bit of powdered sugar,
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everybody does it at Christmas.
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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Love and Best Dishes Y'all.
