Banana Nut Cake Recipe | Homemade Banana Dessert Ideas - In honor of their upcoming anniversary, Paula & Michael are making the groom's cake from their wedding. Learn how to make banana cake from scratch with cream cheese frosting!
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0:00
- Who's fixing to celebrate 22 years of marriage?
0:06
- Hopefully us.
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(Paula laughs)
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- Think we can make it? - I don't know.
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- I don't either. - I'll give it a shot.
0:15
- I will too.
0:17
Since it's getting near our anniversary time,
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I thought this would be a fun time to walk down memory lane
0:25
and repeat the recipes that I selected
0:28
for our wedding reception.
0:31
- Good idea.
0:32
- Did you get anything to eat that night?
0:35
- No, I really didn't.
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- I didn't either.
0:37
- Matter of fact, we had a hamburger
0:40
at like three o'clock in the morning.
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- And you remember that couple that was sitting next to us?
0:45
- Yeah.
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- What did he say?
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- He said, gosh, I hope I've can be like you,
0:51
when I get as old as you guys,
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I sure hope I can be out at as late as y'all are.
0:56
(Paula laughs)
0:59
I said, if you want to get any older,
1:01
don't call us old anymore.
1:03
(Paula laughs)
1:05
- That was so funny 'cause they were all
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19, 20, 21, 22 years old.
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- And drunk.
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- And drunk.
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(Paula laughs)
1:15
So Michael, for his groom's cake,
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he wanted a banana nut cake.
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So that's what we're gonna make first.
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So if you'll mash those bananas up, Michael,
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we're gonna start with four bananas.
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- Okay, here's the trick.
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You gotta squeeze 'em in the peel first.
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- Yeah, I kind of, I kind of like doing that.
1:35
- And that kind of mashes 'em up a little bit.
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Then you open it from this end.
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And the reason, the reason I found that out is
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saw on TV that they, they watched a gorilla
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or a monkey open it from this end
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and it doesn't leave this strings.
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So it took me like 60 years to figure out
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actually the right way to open a banana,
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I was doing it wrong.
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- Well with us mashing it, you gonna get the string
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so you don't have to mash it.
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- No, see, no strings.
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- Yeah.
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(Paula chuckles)
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You is so smart.
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- Yeah.
2:12
- So we are starting with the banana nut cake.
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I've got three cups of flour here
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and I'm gonna just add all of my dry ingredients,
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you know, for this cake we don't even need the mixer.
2:29
All right, I've got my cinnamon.
2:30
I got my baking powder, I think it was powder.
2:34
Not, no, it was baking soda.
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And then my salt.
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And then we just gonna stir all this together.
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- When I was a little boy, we used to be able
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to pick our cake for a birthday.
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Any kind of cake you wanted.
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- Yeah.
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- And I would always pick banana nut cake.
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And so Paula asked me one day, she says,
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well, what kind of cake would you like for your birthday?
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I said, banana nut cake.
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She said, okay, coconut cake it is.
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So, I'm not really sure why I even got a choice there, but.
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- I think I wanted a coconut cake.
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- I think you did.
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Guess what we ended up with?
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Coconut cake.
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I pretend, I pretend like it was a banana nut cake.
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- All right, I've got my three eggs.
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I've got three fourths a cup of oil.
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And to me the oil is what makes a cake so moist.
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To me, it makes it more moist than, than butter does.
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Don't tell the butter I said that.
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Don't tell 'em.
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- Okay, now once you get the bananas
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like this, you mash it up.
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I'm using a biscuit, this, what is it?
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- Cutter
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- Biscuit cutter to mash it up.
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- No, it's not a biscuit cutter.
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- Biscuit.
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- It's a.
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- Flour.
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- It is.
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- [Crew] Pastry.
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- Yeah, a pastry cutter.
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Where that you use to cut your shortening in with the flour.
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- Yeah.
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- All right. Now I'm just gonna stir this together.
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And we just wanna stir this until
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all the dry ingredients are moist.
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Okay, you wanna come in with your bananas?
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- Yeah, I'm ready.
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- Okay, well get that done.
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Stir those in.
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- Okay, just dump 'em in?
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- Yep.
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There you go.
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- [Michael] Okay.
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- Okay, while you stir that together, Michael,
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I'm gonna talk about our pans.
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- Okay.
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- Now when I'm, well, every cake I bake is important to me.
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- And me
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- And more so you.
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Okay, we got all the ingredients in there, right?
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- The nuts.
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- Yeah, we got to put the nuts,
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but just get, see the,
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see the dry ingredients, just make sure.
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- I thought you were doing the pans.
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- I am.
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So, I take wax paper.
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I lay my wax paper out, set my pan on top,
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take a knife or scissors and go around the pan.
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And then I put three of 'em together and cut it one time.
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So I don't want this cake to stick.
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And lord knows I've had some cakes that stick before.
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All right.
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- You remember when you used tried
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to dump the ice cream on the show the one time?
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- Huh?
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- You were trying to dump the ice cream
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or something out and it wouldn't come out.
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You kept shaking it and shaking it.
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You don't remember that?
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(Paula laughs) My God, that might have been the
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funniest show I've ever seen.
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(Paula laughs)
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- I don't remember.
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What was I going to do with ice cream?
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- I don't know, it was in a mold or something.
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- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Okay, that's good enough stirring.
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Now take your gloves.
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- No, okay, calm down.
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- No, that's enough.
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- Yeah, but I gotta get all the.
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- It's moist. - Dry ingredients.
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- It's moist, it's all moist.
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Now stir in you nuts.
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- I don't know if we gonna make it to 22.
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(Paula laughs)
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- Now I'm gonna use a spray that has flour in it,
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because that will sure keep it from sticking.
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All right, then I'm gonna lay my wax paper down
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and I'm going to the next one.
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(can spraying)
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So when you use the wax paper,
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you know that cake's coming out.
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Let's see that.
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- Okay, put it in this one?
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- No!
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No, all right you can quit stirring now.
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- That is perfect.
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- Okay, now we want our.
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The three layers of our cake, we want it to be.
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- Equal.
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- Equal, yes.
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So I'm gonna put these up here and I.
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Let's see.
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Which one I want.
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I think I want this one.
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So to get it as close as I can, Michael.
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- You level it off.
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- Yeah.
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- Measure.
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- I Measure it, yes.
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What you think?
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- [Michael] Looks good.
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- Well, we'll find out when we take 'em outta the oven.
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(Paula laughs)
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All right, let's see, we going to make these at 350
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and maybe 20, in my oven, maybe 20 minutes.
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That's what I'm gonna put it on.
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So hopefully they all come out the same.
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- This one's gonna be the little one.
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- It is.
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Okay, well come on, let's go.
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Lets see.
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We shall see.
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Go ahead and make the frosting.
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- Good, my favorite part.
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- I, I was gonna say the frosting is your favorite part.
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We can throw away the cake
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and just serve you a bowl of cream cheese icing.
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All right, and we're going to use two sticks
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of room temperature butter.
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Now, your groom's cake was frosted all over.
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- Uh huh.
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- So we can do that or we can just
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put the frosting on the tops of each layer.
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If you decide that you want to frost the whole thing.
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- Uh huh.
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- Got a little butter on me.
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If you want to frost the whole thing,
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you need to one and a half times this recipe.
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- Okay, well.
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- You know, so you can get it on all sides.
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- Alright.
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- What do you want?
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- Whatever you, whatever you want.
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- You want that whole cake don't you?
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- Yeah, I don't know why you even asked me that question.
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- Okay.
9:56
- Got it?
9:56
- Well I just thought I'd ask you.
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Okay, so I'm gonna need a half.
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- Half of this.
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- Uh huh, I'm gonna need half of that.
10:05
And another, it'd be three sticks of butter, wouldn't it?
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- [Crew] Yeah, only three sticks, solid.
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I forgot cause you said one and a half.
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- [Paula] Yeah, yeah.
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- [Crew] So you can never have enough icing.
10:19
- You know this is going to be outrageous good.
10:22
- That's why I like your coconut cake.
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Cause you poke holes in it.
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- Uh huh, alright, now we just going use half of this.
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- Which half?
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- This big half.
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That big, oh, excuse me,
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that was my finger, it wasn't a knife.
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- Yeah, sure.
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Look.
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- Finger licking good.
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All right, so we just gonna beat our cream cheese
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and our butter up.
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If you wanna hold that, Michael.
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I'm going to go ahead and add, oh.
10:58
- This is not a diet cake is it?
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- [Paula] No.
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I may have to swap jobs with you.
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No, I got it.
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- I wanted to learn how to do this
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so I could make my own cake.
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- Tablespoon of vanilla.
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Because y'all, you know what I did?
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I forgot to quit vanilla in our cake batter.
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That's all right.
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I added a little extra here.
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- Oh no.
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- Oh yes I did.
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Gonna need a little bit more powdered sugar.
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Calls for three cups.
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So you might wanna turn it down now
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'cause I'm fixing to your, just on low.
11:55
- What? - Yeah.
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- There you go.
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All right, now do you want me to put the nuts in this
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or just put the nuts on top?
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- I don't know, you tell me.
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- You tell me what you like.
12:07
- Yeah, on top would be good.
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- Okay.
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All right, I just asked Michael if,
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he loves almond flavored stuff.
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All my pound cakes I make, I use almond extract
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and so he said yeah.
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Yeah.
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So I'm gonna put about that much
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and let's just taste it
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and see if that's strong enough for you.
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- That was 95 calories right there probably.
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- All right, stick your finger in it and taste it.
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It could stand a little bit more couldn't it?
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- That's what I think.
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- Okay, because we got a batch and a half.
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Did our cakes look even?
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Ooh hot, this is so hot, it just came outta the oven.
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- Make sure you take your wax paper off.
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- Okay, I'm a step ahead of you.
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- That could be horrible.
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- I done got 'em, but now we're gonna have to let this cool.
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- Why?
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- Because if we try to frost a hot cake.
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- It'll melt it.
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- It'll melt it, that's exactly right.
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You're so smart.
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Okay, so gotta wait a few minutes on that, kitties.
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- Yum.
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- Michael, we did pretty good with our measuring our batter
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to put in our pan 'cause they're all pretty even.
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So I'm proud of us.
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Now I'm gonna take one little drop.
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- To stick it.
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- Yes, so my cake won't be dancing all over the place.
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- Just thinking we should have put
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a whole layer down there, of icing.
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- All right, I just gotta to make sure it's centered.
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Does that look centered to you?
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- Yes.
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- Okay.
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- So.
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I asked Michael if he wanted the sides done also.
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And he said, well yes.
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- [Michael] That was a stupid question, you know.
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- [Paula] I know that was a stupid question.
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- who wants some naked sides on your cake?
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- Look, I put that icing down there
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and it's still not wanting to.
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- Especially if it's taken me 22 years
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to get one of these damn things.
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- Oh, good grief, you better shut up.
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You better shut up.
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- Well I don't how to make 'em now.
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There's no more coconut cakes for me.
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(Paula laughs)
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- I'm going to do pretty good bit of icing
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since we got so much.
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(Paula laughs)
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You're salivating.
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- I know.
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- I hear you.
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Wait now.
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Wait, now you better be careful.
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All right.
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And.
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- That's not just right.
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- Okay, well you make it just right.
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- [Michael] See it's overhanging over here.
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- [Paula] Okay, well you fix it.
15:38
- [Michael] Still overhanging.
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- [Paula] It is.
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- [Michael] Little bit, here I turn around, you look at it.
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- [Paula] Yeah, uh huh, it looks like it doesn't it?
15:47
I got me some toothpicks.
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Cause those toothpicks will help anchor it.
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There we go.
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Yes.
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- Go ahead, go ahead, I'm not finished.
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(Paula laughs)
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- You make me nervous.
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You make me nervous from the service.
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You know I've told people this story before,
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but I was on the Martha Stewart show one day
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and you know, I know I make her nervous.
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I make everybody nervous
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because what comes up comes out.
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And I said, Martha, I wanna ask you a question.
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And she looked like a deer in headlights.
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I was making a cake on her show.
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And she said, okay.
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And it was like she was holding her breath.
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And I said, do you, do you frost
17:05
the sides of your cake first?
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And she looked quite relieved.
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I can't even remember what she said to be honest.
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Whoa, now see Michael.
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Okay, you get it just right, Michael.
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But it would be beautiful still if we didn't
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frost the the sides right?
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- [Michael] Well, not really, but.
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- [Paula] Okay, you're going to do it.
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- [Micheal] I was going to.
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- [Paula] Alright, now this is the way
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I kind of like to do it.
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I'm gonna put that on the side,
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- [Michael] Then do the side.
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- [Paula] Uh huh, and then bring it down.
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- [Michael] That's the same way I do it.
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- Oh, it is.
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(Paula laughs)
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Now for the best part.
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- Cake's not in the center.
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- What?
17:58
- Look, the cake's not in the center, it moved.
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- Okay.
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Now it's in the center.
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- Okay, perfect.
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Yum.
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- To me, the nuts just make this cake, you know?
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- Well it wouldn't be the same
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without icing or bananas either.
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Would it?
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- [Paula] There you go, Kokomo.
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- [Michael] Perfect.
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- Happy anniversary, happy anniversary.
18:44
Toot, toot.
18:45
You want a piece?
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- I guess I'll try it.
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(Paula laughs)
18:50
- Oh, I didn't clean up the plate.
18:55
Oh well, you'll clean it up.
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Now you know this is gonna be better after it sits,
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but this is a very dense cake.
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Listen to the crunch.
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Did you hear the crunch?
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- [Michael] Mmhm.
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- On that cake.
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That's what I like to hear.
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(cutlery clatters)
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There you go.
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Look at the icing on that cake, would you.
19:42
(Paula laughs)
19:46
Look at my bite next to your bite?
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(Michael laughs)
19:56
- You know, you got icing on your glasses.
19:59
- I do?
20:05
Oh Michael.
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If I were you, I'd marry me all over again.
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- I think I will.
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- We're having the best dishes to all of y'all like this
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celebrating anniversaries or not.
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What, you like it?
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- Delicious.
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- I'm so glad.
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Happy anniversary to y'all out there
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that's getting ready to celebrate another one.
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- Yum.
20:39
- Gimme that cake.
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Hey, y'all, it's Paula Deen.
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