Love & Best Dishes: Almond Sour Cream Pound Cake Recipe | The Best Homemade Pound Cake

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Uploaded: 2026-07-14T15:35:55+00:00
Duration: 23 min 12 s

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- Guess what y'all?
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We are finishing up.
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Don't these last two recipes, don't they finish up?
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- [Crew] Yes, ma'am.
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- Okay, the next two recipes,
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the next two videos we are doing
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is the last of the recipes
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that we served at our wedding reception.
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Because we are coming up
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on our 22nd wedding anniversary, so.
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- With any luck, we'll make it.
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- You reckon?
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We almost too old to move
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to make anything happen, ain't we?
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(Paula laughs)
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Ain't too tired to get mad.
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- I know. (Paula laughs)
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- So we did a video with the groom's cake,
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which his favorite cake is a banana nut cake.
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And it was so incredibly good.
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- Mmhm.
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- Wasn't it delicious?
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- Yes, it was beyond delicious.
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- I know, I know it, I saw your eyes roll back in your head
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when you took your first bite.
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(Paula laughs)
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So, but on this video, we are making the bride's cake,
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which Molly Stone made our cakes
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and Molly does great, great cakes.
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Everybody, when you taste it, that's a Molly Stone cake.
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And you know it.
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So I, you know, I've never asked Molly
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for her recipe, so I'm just gonna get there by extracts.
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Because this is actually my grandmother
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Paula's sour cream poundcake recipe.
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So, all righty, Michael, let's start.
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That's, that's a not real soft,
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but if you'd unwrap those two.
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- Put in there? - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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- And whip 'em up.
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- All right.
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- Whip, whip.
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While he's doing that, I'm cooking this in a tube pan
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and using my scissors,
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you know, I sat my pan down, went around the circle.
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So this is a tube pan.
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So how am I going to get around that circle?
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Well, this is how I'm gonna do it.
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I'm gonna fold it again in half
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and one more time in half.
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And then I'm just gonna guess at
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how big my circle's going to be.
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Because the main thing is, look at that.
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Look at that, is that not perfect?
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Look a there, wow ka bow.
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Pretty perfect, ain't it?
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- Pretty close.
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- All right.
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- You said whip this up?
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- Whip it, whip it, whip it good.
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Whip it good.
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Isn't that a song?
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- Yes.
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(machine whirring) (Paula laughs)
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- Can you sing it?
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- No, neither can you.
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(Paula laughs)
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- You got it right.
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(machine whirring)
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All right.
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All right, now, now I'm gonna add our sugar.
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And if you'll just cream those two things together.
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Now I've got my all purpose flour and I've got baking soda.
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- You know what this reminds me of?
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- What does it remind you of?
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- Sugar and butter sandwiches.
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- Oh my gosh.
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I can't tell you how many of those
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I fixed for my boys when they were kids.
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- Oh my goodness.
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- All right, so that is.
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- That's got to be good for you.
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(both laughing)
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- Well it filled a growl in the belly.
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All right, now I add, oops, that's butter.
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I think we got enough butter.
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I add salt to my cake because I like a sweet
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and that little salty taste.
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So that was almost a two spoonful.
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Okay, come on, you gotta beat it.
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Let it beat, beat, beat.
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Oh, you gotta get it creamy, creamy, creamy.
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- Why didn't you say that?
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- I don't know why I didn't.
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I'm gonna alternate with the eggs.
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That's looking good, isn't it, Michael?
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- Not quite yet.
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- Not quite.
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I'm gonna transfer this into something with a spout.
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So I can get one at the time.
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- Why do you do that?
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- Well, it gives it a chance to cream.
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You see what I'm saying?
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- Not really.
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(Paula laughs)
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- Okie dokie.
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So now I'm gonna add some extracts.
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And this is, I think this is something that Molly did,
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but I don't recall grand mama using this,
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but I think it's gonna be wonderful.
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A half.
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That didn't look like much, did it?
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- Well, you spilled half of it.
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- I was gonna say, I spelt some.
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- Spilled half of that.
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- A half a teaspoon of orange extract.
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- My Aunt Mary used to do almond.
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It was so good.
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- Well guess what we're doing.
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- She always baked pound cakes.
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She would wrap 'em up in saran wrap,
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put 'em in the freezer every time we come over.
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- She would slice it.
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- Slice it, yeah.
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- And put it in saran wrap.
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- All right, in goes a teaspoon of almond extract.
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- Michelle makes a good cake too.
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- Uh huh, yup, she does. - Pound cake.
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- It's why we got married.
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- So let's add our flour
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alternately with our sour cream.
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(machine whirring)
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And we're gonna start with our flour and end with our flour.
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- You know, one of our pet peeves.
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- What?
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- At a wedding?
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- I know exactly.
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- When the bride and the groom swap,
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like cut the cake and they give each other a piece of cake.
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And for some, somebody come with a tradition
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to rub cake in face, which I think is so stupid.
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Because men and women,
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but mostly women spend so much time
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and energy on getting their makeup and their hair done
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and the perfect dress and.
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- Yeah.
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Well some people just think it's funny.
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- I know.
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- I don't think it's funny either.
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- I don't know where that came from, but.
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- I don't know.
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Somebody just did it one time and thought it was funny.
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- I don't think that's funny.
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Especially with a beard.
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Because it gets.
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(Paula laughs)
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- I know.
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- It's not like I will wash it off.
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I have to go take a shower.
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- Yeah, yeah.
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All right, the last what'd we put in last, sour cream?
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- Yes, okay.
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Flour.
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Scrape down pepaw.
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You know how Michael got his, it's funny how
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his children's children call him papa.
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My children's children call him peeps
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because, and I'll tell you how that happened.
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We were at a casino one night
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and Michael was sitting at the card table
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and he was really doing well.
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And this woman came up behind him
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and she was getting so excited watching him.
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She said, you go peepaw, you go pepaw.
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(Paula laughs)
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And from then on I started calling him pepaw
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and the kids narrowed it down to peeps.
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(Paula laughs)
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Oh she was so funny.
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Okay, here we go.
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Might want to cut that down a bit now.
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Hey, we're getting close.
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We're getting close.
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- When, when we first started having grandchildren,
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Paula wanted her to call her grand lady.
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I said, great now every now and then,
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I'm gonna call you grand lady.
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Where'd you, where'd you come up with that one?
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But she had a lady inside so she wanted to be grand lady.
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No, that didn't have anything to do with it.
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It was, I read a book when I was like 21 years old
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and it was called a Woman of Substance.
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And the matriarch in the family called her grand lady.
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And I just love that name.
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But somehow.
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- Anyhow, I tried to get 'em to call her big mama.
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(Michael laughs)
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- I wish now that's what they call me.
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Isn't that funny?
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(Paula laughs)
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- But they tried to say granny
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and they couldn't come up with granny.
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So they say it came out guinea.
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So Paula became guinea.
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- And I'm their guinea pig.
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Will always be their guinea pig.
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- And my son, his name is Anthony.
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And the kids couldn't say Anthony.
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They couldn't pronounce it.
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So it came out Aunt B.
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So believe it or not, he was Aunt B for a little while.
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Now he is an Uncle B.
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- I still call him Aunt B every now and again.
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(both laughing)
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- There he is, Uncle B or just B.
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- Uh huh, B.
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(Micheal laughs)
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Okie dokey, this is the last.
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- Perfect.
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- Perfect.
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I gotta wash my hands, I got stick sticky stuff all over it.
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- I think I'll scrape this down without being told.
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- I know it.
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Make sure you get those sides down good.
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And then beat it.
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- Get the flour off.
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- Yes.
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And while you're doing that,
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I am gonna come down here and get our pan.
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- Uh huh.
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- Cause we have taken care of the bottom of our pan
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not sticking, but now I'm gonna.
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(can sprays) (machine whirring)
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These, these things.
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- Need help?
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- They're so hard for me,
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it keep sliding outta my hand.
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I might, I can't tell if I miss right there.
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Okay, there you go.
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(can spraying)
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That's a pan, thank you.
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- Perfect.
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- [Paula] Well we gonna put this in the oven
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and we going to bake it at 325
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and usually a hour 15 minutes, hour, 20.
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Just depends on y'all's oven.
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- You know my favorite part of pound cake?
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- What?
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- It's the hard crust on the top.
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- I know.
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- And lemme tell you a story.
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Paula made this cake and it was beautiful.
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The crust was just beautiful.
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So before anybody sliced the cake,
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Jamie came and ate every bit of crust.
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I couldn't believe it.
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- Pulled the entire top off that cake.
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- I know it, it still bothers me.
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- I know it because you mention it every
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time I make a pound cake.
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All right, so in the oven this goes.
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Now we're just gonna make.
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- [Crew] Thank you doctor.
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- A buttercream icing.
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All right, I'm just whipping that butter.
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I'm whipping it good.
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And, but I'm gonna stop and I'm gonna put
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about a teaspoon of almond extract in there.
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And then I'm going to follow the cake.
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The cake profile.
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And I'm gonna put a little orange extract in that too.
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Just like in the cake.
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That's the almond, isn't it?
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Now here's the orange.
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Here's the orange.
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So I'll do about a half a teaspoon
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of the orange, oh it smells so good.
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So I'm gonna turn this back on.
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(machine whirring)
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And let it whip some more
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because this is a butter cream.
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We got the butter and now we are beating
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it till it's like a cream state.
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So I've got right at two sticks of butter that I'm whipping.
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I've got three cups of confection sugar,
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a half a teaspoon of orange extract.
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A teaspoon of almond extract.
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And you think I ought to put a little vanilla in it too?
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Why not?
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Because on my pound cakes I usually use
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one teaspoon of vanilla and about a teaspoon
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and a half of almond.
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So, little vanilla extract don't never hurt nothing.
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Oh it smells so good and tastes so bad.
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(machine clicking)
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Whoa.
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What's up?
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Oh my goodness.
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I think Eddie, I think we got a little problem here.
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It done sprung up, sprung a stem.
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So I'm gonna go ahead and do this rather quickly now.
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It's been beating a good while.
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So I'm gonna add our powdered sugar.
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So we're gonna have to order that attachment
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'cause it's hard to make anything without that piece.
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There we go.
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There we go.
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These are so much easier to frost in layers.
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- Well this cake's not as healthy
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as a banana nut cake and the orange cake 'cause.
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- [Paula] That's right.
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- Or the apple fritter.
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- Because we had fruit.
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- Because there's fruits in there.
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- Uh huh, that's right, that's right.
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- It's how I get my fruit.
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(Paula laughs)
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And carrot cake, that's how I get my vegetables.
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- That's right, I'm with you.
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- My favorite way to get vegetables.
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(Paula laughs)
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- I'm gonna make a prune cake one day.
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- That don't sound good.
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- Well it is, it's delicious.
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And that'll be for me 'cause I need the prunes.
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But I don't think they're
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as effective eating them that way, you know?
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Okay.
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Going to bring this over here closer to us.
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What do you think, Michael?
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- Lemme taste it first.
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- You think, just feel the cake.
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It's still pretty warm.
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- Oh yeah, perfect.
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- Perfect for what?
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- Let's ice it.
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(Paula laughs)
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- I have a feeling I'm gonna have melted icing.
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- No.
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- Although it's nice and stiff, look at that.
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'cause we done beat the smithereen out of it.
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so I'm gonna spread it and see how it reacts.
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- All right.
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- I think we've rushed it Michael Groover.
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- [Michael] Well.
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- Oh, I just heard a huge swallow from you.
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(Paula laughs)
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All right.
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- I think it'd be perfect.
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- Well, you really need to let it get completely.
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Completely.
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- I used to love it when my mother's cake would drop.
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(phone pings)
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- Uh huh.
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- We'd get to eating.
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- Gosh, an ugly cake tastes so good.
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- Yeah.
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She didn't wanna serve it to anybody else
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so we ate it all.
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- [Paula] Uh oh.
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I didn't get it on there straight,
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but I don't think that matters.
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Does it?
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Wait, now this is yours.
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- Oh, I thought this was mine.
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(Paula laughs)
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- That's yours.
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Oh, we gonna do a remake of our wedding?
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Our wedding first?
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- Boy, I got the best piece for you.
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- Uh huh.
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- Hey, how about mine?
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- I'll get my own.
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(Michael vocalizes)
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- I don't trust you.
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- I'm not gonna do that, I really don't.
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(both laughing)
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- That was so good.
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- How about mine?
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- Darn, what a tongue you got.
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- Mm, delicious.
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- Does it get any better?
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- Would you do it all over again?
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- Ice this cake, I sure would.
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Is that what you're asking?
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- No. (Paula laughing)
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- I reckon, how about you?
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- I'd probably get 'em prenuptial.
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That way I could retire and not have to go to work.
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(Michael laughs)
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- Mm-mm, there's a reason he's got brown eyes, y'all.
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(Michael laughs)
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Wait till the cake completely cools y'all.
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Well come on, get that,
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that is a wonderful pound cake, isn't it?
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- It is.
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- Mm, and it's still warm.
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- That's why I say go ahead and do it.
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- Yeah.
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Mm.
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Well happy anniversary, this is our last recipe.
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- Happy anniversary.
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- So what was your favorite out of everything that we?
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- Oh gosh, that's a hard question because I love cakes.
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But the shrimp and grits, probably.
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- The shrimp and grits were your favorite?
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- Oh yeah.
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But that's still a tough question.
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- Yeah.
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Oh sure, I think that was the best
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shrimp and grits I've ever tasted.
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It was so good.
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- I did it a Jamie, I ate the top.
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(both laughing)
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- Thank y'all for walking down memory lane with us.
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And you know, our wedding was actually
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my show, Food Network Channel.
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So you can go back if you'd like to come to our wedding.
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It was a one hour special and we had so much fun.
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And you ain't seen nothing till you see my two boys
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and their bridesmaid dresses.
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- I know it.
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- So come in and walk down the memory lane with us.
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- Paula asked me, she said,
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oh, we agreed that we'd have a kind of a small wedding
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'cause it was both our second marriages
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and so just family and close friends.
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And it turned out to be on national tv.
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- But we got married at.
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- Bethesda.
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- Bethesda in the chapel.
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And the chapel doesn't hold but about 75 people.
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So we had 75 family and close friends
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after waiting in 500 for the reception.
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It worked out great.
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- That was a good, good wedding.
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I love that little chapel.
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- Oh, it was beautiful, it was beautiful.
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Perfect, it was perfect.
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So like I said,
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y'all look it up and go on to my YouTube channel.
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Hit Paula Deen and hit subscribe
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and it'll open the door to everything.
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Everything.
22:46
(Paula laughs)
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I want some more cake.
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(Paula laughs)
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