Kiddin' Around

Hey y'all, welcome to Best Dishes Today

Are y'all in for a treat today? No, you're not seeing double

It's actually Melanie Hudson of Saturday Night Live fame. Or is it Paula Deen

No, it's Paula! I'm Paula! And today we're cooking up some of our favorite kid-friendly recipes

Starting off with scrumptious mini burgers wrapped in puff pastry. Delicious peanut butter and banana bread sandwiches

Look at that adorable sandwich. and crispy ranch-flavored chicken nuggets. You are smoking

And for dessert, a Jack-O-D-A-Dirt cupcake. And finally, Melanie makes a treat that's over the top, even for me

Oh, my God! I've got a girl that I have been so excited about coming into my kitchen with me

Her name is Melanie Hudson. She's got two kids, and I'm going to show her some recipes that I think her children would love

And I'm going to start with mini burgers wrapped in puff pastry

So I'm going to go ahead and flour out my sheet of puff pastry

You just want to sit this out on your counter and let it thaw a minute so you can unfold it

Now I'm going to expand it about two inches on the long and the short side

Okay. Now I'm going to need eight little wraps for our burgers

So I'm going to come in here and cut this right down the middle. Then I'm going to cut that in half, and this half in half

And then I'm going to cut it down the center, giving us eight little buns

All right. Now I'm going to come down here and take just eight ounces of hamburger

You know, I don't know when I've used just eight ounces of burger for anything, except maybe that last burger I cooked for myself that I ate by myself

So, I mean, this little bit of burger will go a long way. Now, I'm going to just put a little salt, a little pepper

two teaspoons of ketchup, and two teaspoons of Dijon mustard. And then I'm going to divide this into eight little mini patties

So I'm just gonna press that out. The coffees are so tiny, it probably won't take a minute and a half

And then they're gonna have their 15 to 18 minutes in the oven once we get them in the puff pastry

All right, so I want... Oh my God, she scared me to death

Oh my gracious! How are you? Look at the chill bumps on me

Are you good? Do I sound like that? I'm so excited! Oh, my gosh

Are you excited? Oh, my lands! Who are you? I can't believe it

I'm you. Do you like me? You are so pretty. Thank you

Oh, my gosh. You scared me so bad, didn't you? Are we going to do some cooking

Do I cackle like that? Oh, my God. I'd say that's like, yes

Chill, but... What are we making? What are we going to do today

I'm ready to cook. Are you ready to cook? No, this is Melanie Hudson

from Saturday Night Live, or is it Paula Deen? No, it's Paula. I'm Paula

Let's come on in here, and all we're going to do is we're gonna let those sit and we're gonna flip them over

Yeah! Look at that! Get over there, boy! Yo, is that hot

Y'all, look at how pretty those are. Aren't they pretty? And then all we're gonna do, y'all

is we're just gonna stick these on here. Is that right, Paula

That's exactly right, darling. And you just put them on there? Just put them on there

All hot and greasy. We don't get rid of the grease. We ain't worrying about our children eating that grease, you know

No, they need a little bit. You know, she has played a lot of characters on Saturday Night Live, y'all

But this is the best. Look at you screwing up my burgers, girl

I don't mean to screw up your burgers. And all you're going to do is we're going to add cheese

Well, that just sounds good. All right. And we're just going to grate that on there

Okay. Okay, Paula. Just like so. And you just put that on there, just like that

Gosh, that Paula's a messy cook. Isn't that pretty, y'all? That is so pretty

There we go. Yeah! Get on there, boy! So you're just going to keep that cheese coming, just like that

And you want to get it real real cheesy y because kids love cheese They love cheese They love butter and cheese They do Listen y And we going to roll them up Yes we are

We're going to see them up. And then press it. Uh-huh. And y'all. Down in here. What a talented girl

She's a mama. She's a writer. She's an actress. She's, my gosh, what all are you

I do it all. I do it all. But my favorite thing is to be Paul and me. Y'all

We're gonna throw these in the oven for 12 to 15 minutes at 400 degrees

There you go. And then they'll be ready. Well, first, you got to brush them with eggs so they'll get pretty and shiny

You're getting so excited now, you're forgetting one of your good stats

All right, let's put these in the oven. Oh, okay, dear. There we go

I'm spooked. Coming up, y'all, we're making a kid favorite peanut butter and banana bread sandwiches

Can I help you, help you, help you? And then it's on to ranch-flavored chicken nuggets

You are smoking. And later, chocolatey dirt cupcakes that are so good, y'all

Get your anger out, y'all. There you go. Y'all, I'm still trying to settle down

And I can't believe I'm here in my kitchen on the set of best dishes with one of my favorite girls from Saturday Night Live, Melanie Hudson

We're making recipes that I think Melanie would love to prepare for her children

So the first thing we're going to make is a peanut butter and banana finger sandwich

And you know, except for the five pounds of sugar we're going to put in it, it's really pretty healthy

That's okay. I'm kidding, it's not five pounds of sugar. All right, so Melanie has mashed us up two ripe bananas, y'all

So, Dawn Baby, if you would measure me out the dry ingredients

Okay. That's a cup and a half of all-purpose flour. Okay. And a teaspoon of baking powder, three-fourths of a teaspoon of baking soda

Okay. And while you're doing that, I'm going to take one stick of butter that's been softened to room temperature

I'm going to measure out one and a fourth cups of sugar. Do your children love peanut butter

They love peanut butter. Oh, kids. I mean, you know, I think that must be a birth requirement

They must like macaroni and cheese and peanut butter. And peanut butter. That would be true

You can't survive in my house without liking those two things. No. That's for sure

So you left Saturday Night Live to start your family? I did

Well, I wanted to get married. That was very important at that time

I'd had a great run on Saturday Night Live. You dadgum sure did

You could make me laugh the hardest. Okay, now that is... Show them that look

The di-delta. It just makes me... It's been a little while, Paula

It just makes me scream to see that look on her face. She was a..

Can you do it? I tried. I've been practicing all day. All right, do it for me one time

Oh, you've got it. You've got... You've reached di-delta, delta, delta, delta sorority

Can I help you? Can I help you? Can I help you? Can I help you? Can I help you? All right, now I'm gonna add these two eggs. You've got the dry ingredients ready. If you'd measure me out a teaspoon of vanilla. Okay

And we've got some raisins over here, which is another grapefruit to give your children

Yes. But wait, I'm putting this in here? Yeah, honey. Just put it in there

Okay. All right, so I'm gonna measure out a third of a cup of buttermilk

Okay. Let me do that. Well, I think I got it, honey. I'm used to working like an octopus, you know

I just pull an extra arm from my chest. This looks grand

Now, if you just start adding our dry to this. Okay. So, I want you to tell me about Saturday Night Live. Okay

Let's gossip. Let's do that. We can talk. You know all the characters, don't you

You know, I do. I have been a huge fan. Well, in my house, I think when I was about nine years old, I had to sneak and watch it

Because I wasn't really allowed to. Yeah. Just yet. And I would sneak in there and I would watch that show

I thought that was the best thing I'd ever seen in my life. Did you ever have any idea that you would be one of the stars

Oh, I never could have imagined in a million years. I mean, yeah

Do y'all have as much fun on that set as it looks like y'all do

I think that... Oh, is it stressful? I'm going to say both

I'm going to say both. You know, it's like, and you're on

Be funny. We'll add your banana mixture. Okay. There we go

That's great. Thank you. I've got this mixed up, so if you would

stir us in about a half a cup of raisins Okay And I get out our loaf pan because we going to make this in a loaf

Okay. All right. Spray that in. So I'm just going to spray our pan so this will come out nicely for us

I don't want the children to have crumbled up sandwiches. Yep. All right, so if you would, just pour that into our loaf pan

Okay. And then we're going to throw this in the oven, Melanie. Okay. Okay, so Melanie

Yes. If you would put that in the oven, please, dear, for 50 to 60 minutes at 350, y'all. Okay

While you're doing that, I'm going to be making your children some chicken nuggets

Oh, good. I've got three boneless breasts. If you would cut these into about three strips, and we're just going to make nuggets

If you'd just help me do that. Okay. No fingers, nuggets. Nuggets

Oh, okay. And up here in front of us, I've got some flour

It doesn't matter. A cup or two, whatever you think you'll need. I'm going to break an egg here

Okay. If you would measure us, got a cup of panko. Okay

Right here. All right. Because we're going to do these in steps. As they're set up here

Okay. So a cup of panko right there. Okay. And we're putting a packet of ranch seasoning

You know, just the dry packet that you buy from the grocery store

That's what I like. That you mix with buttermilk or mayonnaise or sour cream

So during our dry packet, I'm going to add about a half a teaspoon of salt

And you throw us in a cup of panko, Melanie. Okay. And then I'm going to start running our nuggets through the flour

Run it through the egg. And then just throw it into the panko

I'm going to just put these in the fryer basket. Okay. And I'm going to just ease them down into our grease

We're going to take a little break. By the time we get cleaned up and come back, the nuggets will be ready

And you don't want to miss a second with this funny lady. Coming up, we're finishing the peanut butter sandwiches

Look at that adorable sandwich. And then we're going to get started on our sinfully sweet chocolate dirt cupcakes

And later, Melanie takes dessert to the extreme, y'all. You're not going to believe how good that is

Whoo! They're ready, honey. I think they are. You are smoking. You can just hang them right there now

Okay. Y'all, look who is in the kitchen with me. one of my favorite people from Saturday Night Live

Melanie Hutzel. I can't believe she's here. I want to pinch myself

Earlier, y'all, Melanie and I made some banana nut bread because we're going to make banana nut bread sandwiches

We've got a little peanut butter and honey, so you can kind of do as much as you want

Okay. Just put it on it and let it goo out the sides a little bit, Melanie

because we want so little peanut butter to peep out. Yeah. Because we're going to just roll the edges in peanuts

See how we've done. Look at that adorable sandwich. I love that

It looks great. Isn't that great? Oh, perfect. Okay. Okay, there's two more

so I'm just going to kind of dunk them over here. Okay. And let's taste this stuff

Mmm. This is so good. that is so good I love it

see now that is creative I couldn't have thought of that oh yes you did

I think my favorite thing though is those chicken nuggets how are those burgers darling

that's delicious that is so good I think we've hit on some winners for you honey absolutely

but we've got one other thing to make these children okay it's not over yet

We've got to make them a dirt cake. Okay. So let me just tell everybody quickly what we're going to do. Okay

I'm going to measure out two and a quarter cups of all-purpose flour

Okay. And over there, Melanie, you have an eight-ounce pack of just a sour cream

Right. Two cups of sugar. A little vanilla. Okay. Three-fourths of a cup of unsweetened cocoa

A half a teaspoon of bacon powder. one and a half teaspoons of baking soda

three eggs, a half a teaspoon of salt, one cup of vegetable oil

and one cup of decaffeinated coffee. All right, then we're just going to beat the heck out of it

Let's beat it. We got our dirt cake batter. All right, what is it like now

You're getting back in the work field, aren't you? Getting back in there. Doing a lot more riding and stuff like that, screenwriting

Riding? I am. I am. That where it at Wow That what you gotta do Wow Really Yeah All right Melanie Our batter is nice and smooth and we ready to get them into our paper muffin tin

So all we're gonna do is just scoop up our batter, and this will make about 36 cupcakes, y'all

So enough for the children and a few friends. And we're gonna do that about, you know, two-thirds of the way, maybe

Okay. You really put your career on hold to have those children, didn't you

I think the hardest thing for me, as far as career and stuff like that

is not living close with my own family. Yes. I think it was like about a year and a half ago, I just got really homesick

I got up at 3 o'clock in the morning, and I turned on the television

And who was there? You were. You don't mean it. I had slipped in your bedroom, girl

You had. You had. You kind of helped get rid of that homesickness

All your recipes, that's just how I grew up. Is that how Mama cooked

That's how Mama cooked. That's the sweetest thing. That's really true. That is the sweetest thing you could say to me

You want to bake those cupcakes? Sure. Sounds good. I tell you what, if you'll slip them in, Melanie

We're going to bake these for 16 to 18 minutes in a 350-degree preheated oven

Coming up, Melanie reveals her over-the-top creation. Oh, my God! And finally, we're topping off our chocolate dirt cupcakes

My talented and funny friend, Melanie Hudson, has just one little thing left to show y'all

Hey, y'all. How are y'all doing? Y'all, I am so excited about this next segment that I'm about to do

I developed this recipe with my boys, Jamie and Bobby, when they were little

It's called a chocolate-covered stick of butter popsicle, y'all. It's a popsicle

It's gonna knock your socks off, y'all. So come on over and let's get started

All right, now, you're gonna take your stick, and you're gonna stick it in the stick of butter

And there we go. And I like to start with the chocolate

and your marshmallow cream. Some milk that has been sweetened and condensed

some powdered sugar that has not been sifted. You don't want to forget your cherry, y'all

Oh, my God! Come here, baby. You're not going to believe how good that is

Y'all, after that, there's only one thing to do. Finish our chocolate dirt cupcakes

We're going to beat these up. Yes, honey. Just like this. Get your anger out, y'all

There you go. Yeah, get those sandwich cookies, girl. There we go

We did it up good, honey. Now, we've got a chocolate icing because we made dirt cupcakes for her children

Yes, we did. Oh, so we've got a chocolate frosting. Careful with that

Hi, Paula. Let's just slap that stuff on there. Slap it on

Slap it on. They can do that themselves. Yes. Can't they? Yeah

Because they like to be a part of it, don't they? They do. What we got over here

We got worms. This looks good to me. Maybe we got to put dirt first. Oh, we got to do the dirt

We got to scoop the dirt. You can't forget the dirt for the dirt cakes, can you

No, look at that dirt. Yeah. And that stick that worm on it. There we go

Look at that. Non, non, non, non. Oh, my gosh. Look at that

Look at that. Look at that dirt cupcake. Isn't that beautiful? Isn't that beautiful

Isn't that gorgeous? Mmm. Yum. I so enjoyed being with you today

I'm not a very neat eater, y'all. It's been an absolute honor being with you today

I love you like a sister. I love you too, girl. You're so funny

Y'all, y'all, we wish you love. We wish you love. And best dishes

And best dishes from our kitchen to yours. From our kitchen to yours

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