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You know how much I love hearing from y'all,
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the good and the bad and the ugly.
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I love hearing from you.
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And you know, I'm constantly saying,
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now, send me a recipe that was your favorite in your family.
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And when y'all do that,
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I just love getting 'em and reading over 'em.
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Well, this recipe today
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is from Callie Dycus. D-Y-C-U-S.
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And do we know where she's from?
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- [Theresa] Arkansas.
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"Hey, Paula, I'm from Arkansas.
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And this Doodle Cake was always a summer staple
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that my grandma made.
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I'm not sure where the silly name came from,
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but it is so easy, and I think everybody will love it."
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Callie, how can you not love a "dump cake"?
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Which is what this is.
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So, I've got two cups of all-purpose flour,
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two cups of white sugar.
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And I'm just gonna whisk our dry ingredients together.
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I've got one teaspoon of baking soda
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and a fourth a teaspoon of salt.
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I wouldn't think would make a whole lot of difference.
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it's almost like sifting,
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'cause it breaks it all up
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and just mixes your dry ingredients real good.
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So, the next thing we're gonna do
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and I think 20-ounce...
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A 20-ounce can of crushed pineapple.
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Juice and all, Callie say.
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So I'm not even gonna use the mixer on this.
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I'm just gonna stir, stir.
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And Callie says to mix it well.
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This kind of reminds me
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of one of my "better than sex" cakes.
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Depends on how old you are, Susan.
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- [Susan] I'm turning the big seven-oh this year.
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Well, I did that five years ago.
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You know where I'm at then.
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- I know where you're at.
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- [Susan] I like that.
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- What is 75 the new?
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(Paula and Susan chuckling)
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So, how easy was this cake to put together?
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I mean, it doesn't even call for vanilla icing.
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I mean, vanilla flavoring.
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So I'm gonna put this
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in our prepared 13" by 9" by 2" pan.
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And when I say "prepared,"
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that means it's been sprayed
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and ready to greet the ingredients.
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All right, so, Callie, you tell me to put this
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in a 350-degree oven, preheated,
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for 30 to 35 minutes,
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so that's what I'm gonna do!
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What is this cake called?
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- [Theresa] Doodle Cake!
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And thank you, Callie, for sending us this recipe.
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I'm melting the butter now,
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because Callie says to frost this cake...
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It says it comes outta the oven.
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So, I'm melting my sugar.
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I mean, I'm melting my butter.
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And then I'm gonna add...
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Was this one can, Theresa, or...
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- [Theresa] It's two-thirds cup.
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- [Theresa] So, no. It's not a can.
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- It's not a can. - [Theresa] No.
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We're using two-thirds of a cup
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of sweetened condensed milk.
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So I'm gonna pour that in.
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You know, you could...
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You could put sweetened condensed milk
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on things that birds leave,
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and I swear it'd be good.
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It just makes everything better.
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You see that butter melting into that?
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This is gonna be so good.
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All right, let's see.
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She doesn't tell us to poke holes in it, does she?
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- [Theresa] No, and that's what I was wondering too,
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but it just seems like it must sink into it.
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I may just hit it with a...
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with the end of a spoon,
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I just added one cup of sugar,
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two-thirds a cup of sweetened condensed milk,
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and then I'm gonna add one cup of coconut,
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and one teaspoon of vanilla.
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And it said, "melt butter, then add sugar and milk.
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Boil for three minutes.
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Remove from heat and add vanilla and coconut
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and spread on cake while hot."
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I shoulda had this done a few minutes ago.
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'Cause that cake is cooling as we speak.
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So this is what I'm gonna do.
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We'll have to find the right spoon.
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I'm just gonna poke a few holes
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Oh my gosh, look how moist that is.
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I'm not gonna do many,
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Look, it's got nice and thick.
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So now I'm gonna add our coconut,
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and that was one cup.
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And I know I've told y'all
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about my newest product for the store
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is this wonderful, wonderful vanilla extract.
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I might not even be making my own vanilla flavoring anymore.
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- [Eddie] Well, we just did a giveaway,
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where you gave away- - Yes, we did do a giveaway.
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- [Eddie] Like, peppermint. - Did we hear from peo-
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- [Eddie] Yeah! Oh, yeah, yeah.
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I wish our cake was a little bit hotter.
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I dropped the ball on that one.
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I am glad I put a few holes in it.
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Maybe it'll catch a little bit of that.
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Awesome in the summer.
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This looks wonderful.
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Like a pineapple cake
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with cooked icing on top.
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(spoon knocking against dish)
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Pieces of brown in there
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where the butter was starting to turn brown for us.
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I like that, Callie. I like seeing that.
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That's from the butter.
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- [Theresa] Did you get all of it?
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- [Paula] I got all of it. Best I could.
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- [Theresa] I'm always scared to pull your-
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My little Davis comes into my kitchen,
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(Paula patting her stomach)
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(Paula patting her stomach)
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I could squeeze his little head off.
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By "hot cake" he means a cake
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that's got birthday candles lit in it.
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So to him, that's a "hot cake."
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Should we cut a little piece?
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I went and grabbed me a small paper plate.
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That way, I'm not as tempted to cut a big piece.
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You know what I mean?
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(knife clicking against dish)
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Every bit of that on my plate.
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Oh, it's coming out so good.
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Y'all get y'all a fork.
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The icing is like...
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Not chewy's the word, but...
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It just has substance to it,
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for lack of a better word.
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Theresa, get your fork, honey-
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- [Theresa] Lent, baby.
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- [Theresa] No sweets for me.
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- [Theresa] So make Eddie.
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and that's working out pretty good for me right now.
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Callie, thank you so much, honey,
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for sharing your grandmother's recipe
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with the rest of us,
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because it's out of this world.
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And so easy to make.
