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Love & Best Dishes: Grandma Pautz' Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake Recipe | Old Fashioned Mayo Cake
Mar 23, 2026
Grandma Pautz' Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake Recipe | Old Fashioned Mayo Cake - Learn how to make mayonnaise cake with this recipe for an easy chocolate cake from scratch. This eggless cake is a must-try!
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- Y'all look at this big old hunk of love
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I've got in my kitchen.
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Lemme tell you something.
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This man has an incredible wife.
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Amazing.
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Not that you're not-
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- She is awesome.
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- But he doesn't have a name, it's just plus one,
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'cause anytime Deborah does something she said, oh,
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and it'll be plus one.
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- That's right when she gets invited to stuff.
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- So that's him.
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And look at these overalls.
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And Deborah was showing me a picture of their son's wedding
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and he said, now you know, I'm wearing my overalls.
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Debbie said, no you're not, and he said, yes I am.
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Well they're black with a red...
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You looked fabulous Gary.
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- That's right.
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And I asked him-
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- He does have a name, it's Gary.
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- I asked the bride's permission if I go with the overalls
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and she said, yes, and that overruled my wife.
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(both laughing)
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- I love it.
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I've never seen anything like it, Gary.
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But that picture was incredible.
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Can you find that picture, Deb, or before it's over?
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- [Deborah] I sure can.
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- So this is his wife and Deborah and I first met
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in person at the George Jones celebration of life...
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- In Huntsville, Alabama.
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- In Huntsville, Alabama.
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- [Deborah] You were MCing
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and did such an incredible job that night.
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- Oh, well thank you.
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I don't remember being an MC, but I'm glad I was.
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(both laughing)
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I've done a lot of fun things, Deborah-
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- That was a fun night-
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- That I can't remember.
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And of course I just love his wife, you know,
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she's just precious.
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So anyway, over the years,
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Deborah and I talked and found out
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that her husband, plus one, Gary, enjoys cooking.
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And he, I, so when Deborah
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and I knew we were gonna get together, I said, well,
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you think Gary would be willing to film a video with me
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and make one of his favorite dishes?
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- Yes, and-
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- And he said, yes.
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So, tell us what you're makin'.
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- This is, my mom found this.
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It was a school project for her when she was in junior high.
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- This was your mama's? - My mama.
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- Your mama did this-
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- My mama gave this recipe to me
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and it's actually saved my marriage.
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- How so?
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- Every time my wife get mad at me, I make the cake
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and all's forgiven.
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(both laughing)
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- And the name of it, Gary, is Grandma...
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- Pautz. - Pautz.
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- Yeah, I thought it's my mom's name,
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but my mama's maiden name is Pautz.
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- Oh, I see, that's a P-A-U-T.
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- T-Z.
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- I thought it was an L. - No.
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- I thought, Pautz. - Pautz.
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- Chocolate mayonnaise cake.
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- Oh yes.
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There's no eggs or oil.
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- You don't need it 'cause you got that-
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- Got the mayonnaise.
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- Yes, and what kind of mayonnaise we gonna use?
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- Well I think you got Duke there, don't you?
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- I do have a little Duke.
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(both laughing)
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That Duke's mayonnaise, it's just got a twang to it.
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So, all we have to do on this, y'all,
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it's a really super, super easy cake.
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So, we just gonna put all of our dry ingredients together,
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which is our all purpose flour.
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- For this size pan here we use four cups of flour.
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- Yes. - And-
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- And you got your sugar.
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- And then we got two cups of sugar
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and 10 tablespoons of Hershey's cocoa.
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- It is 10 tablespoons, yep.
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- And everything- - Nice and chocolatey.
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- And two teaspoons of baking soda and everything.
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And we'll just mix all that together.
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- All right, I'm gonna, it calls with two cups of hot water.
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- Two, it has to be hot. - Okay.
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- Because it actually makes the chocolate melt really well.
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- Yes, and then we've got your vanilla extract.
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We've got your mayonnaise and I'm gonna be getting you up
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two cups of hot water.
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- [Gary] That's right.
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- [Paula] So, I'm gonna go to the machine
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because it's like hot enough for your coffee.
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Hot, hot, hot water.
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- Okay. I'm just gonna-
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- You gonna add your mayonnaise?
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- [Gary] Dump the mayonnaise in there
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and two teaspoons of vanilla.
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- Okie doke.
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And this is our homemade vanilla.
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Gary, do you ever make your vanilla extract?
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- I never have made my vanilla extract.
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- Oh, it is so good.
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It makes a wonderful gift at Christmas time.
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You know, get it, put in a pretty bottle with a ribbon.
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- How do you make that?
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- How do you make it? - Yeah.
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- You get your vanilla beans and you split 'em
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and you scrape all the goody out
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and put it in either bourbon or vodka,
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depending on which.
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- Okay, I've heard doing it with vodka.
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- Don't you wanna use these? - Yeah, I do.
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I don't wanna splatter it, that's why...(laughing)
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- I was gonna say, do I need to stand back?
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I'm gonna spray this pan.
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- [Gary] Okay. - And it has flour in it
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so you don't have to worry about your cake sticking.
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So, tell us that story about what you would...
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- Well, since we've been, the cruise
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and everything like that, we started going to the Caribbean
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and I noticed that you can buy a quart of vanilla
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for a little of nothing.
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Like, five bucks.
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- [Paula] Yes. - You know, and so-
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- [Paula] From Mexico, isn't it?
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- Yeah, so any of the Caribbean places,
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I mean, and they know they got cheap vanilla.
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Like, I mean for what we pay for a little bottle
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of vanilla here in the States.
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- Oh, it's so expensive.
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So, so expensive.
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- We're gonna put that in the oven.
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- 350? - 350 for 35 minutes.
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- Okey doke.
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Well, I'll put it in there for you.
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So, you didn't write the stories did you?
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- [Deborah] I did.
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- You did. - [Deborah] I did.
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- But it's from interviewing them.
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- Yes.
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I did interviews with all the artists
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and they told me about their childhood Christmases
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and shared recipes and pictures.
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- That's wonderful.
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So, you actually had to compose it all for it to make sense.
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And Deborah's a wonderful writer.
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- Wonderful?
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That's kinda saying, I mean, she's won-
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- Now tell me- - She's won the-
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- Wait, wait, wait.
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I want y'all to hear all her awards.
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- Okay, she has won a CMA award for her journalistic,
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you know, prowess.
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She's won a Dove award for everything like that.
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She produced CDs that they sold in Cracker Barrel
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and two years ago they had a CD
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that was the bluegrass thing.
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It won the number one Bluegrass Album of the Year.
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And Dolly actually had the number one
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Bluegrass Song of the Year on that CD.
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And she's, and of course Cracker Barrel, they kind of
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slowed down on selling CDs, but she had CDs
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in Cracker Barrel for 10 years.
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- Wow, wow. - You know,
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and everything like that.
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And she put all it together
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and it's all songs about Lord and love.
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You know, you know all about faith and...
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- And I liked the CD days
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'cause I knew how to put it in my machine in my car.
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- Oh yeah, you know, didn't have
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to worry about losing signal or anything like that.
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- Yeah, so you can see that he's, he is proud of his wife
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and how accomplished she is.
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And what word would you prefer me to use
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more than wonderful?
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- Wonderful pretty catches it, yeah.
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Oh, she also won the Western award.
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(both laughing)
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- Made my sister more money.
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- [Paula] I'm tellin' you what, honey.
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- [Gary] What was the name of that Western award?
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It's the Bob Wills thing?
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- A humanitarian award.
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- Humanitarian award from the westerns community and that-
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- She's a fine Christian woman.
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Where can you find this book?
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- We're at Amazon and Barnes and Noble and everywhere, yeah.
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- Well it's just a wonderful read if you like
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personal stories and it makes it even more interesting
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if you're a fan of their work, you know,
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to get inside their personal head.
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We gonna make the icing-
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- We're gonna make the icing. - Kind of standard.
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- Well, yeah, always heat the butter up
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to put with the chocolate and melt it in there.
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For some reason, when you-
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- [Paula] There's you a thing, if you need it.
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- When you do chocolate, it always,
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to me it always tastes better when it heats up first.
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- Yeah. - And then-
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- Yeah.
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Who wouldn't rather have a hot fudge sundae
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than a cold fudge sundae?
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And one more little drop just for extra you.
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- I'm good.
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I like extra vanilla like you do butter.
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- I love almond- - Oh yeah?
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- Yeah, I used all my icing on the brownies
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that I have over here, I used a little almond flavoring
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and I just, I like it.
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- Now we put the milk in. - Okay.
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- Third a cup of milk.
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- All right, and you want that before you put any of the-
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- Yeah, put it all in there.
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- Okay. - 'Cause I'll make-
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- I'll do it.
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I'll put this outta your way.
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- A lot of times I'll adjust, it's,
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it says three cups of sugar.
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- [Paula] Yeah, well, a-
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- But I never measure it. (laughing)
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- I know it.
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Well a box of powdered sugar should yield
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about three and a half cups.
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So you can, and you know, you always just add a little milk
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or warm water to it, whatever, if it's not the-
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- Or more sugar. - Here.
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Yeah, I'll help you have another hand.
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- You have an extra hand? - Yes.
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I said in that restaurant, when I was in
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that restaurant, I said, in my next life, I'm coming back
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as a octopus because I'd have eight arms
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and I could work four stations with eight arms.
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- Oh wow.
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- All right, so when you put this on a hot cake,
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it's gonna immediately melt.
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- Right- - And it'll get a lot thinner.
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- And then it'll seep down into it some.
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- [Paula] Yes, yes.
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Do you poke holes?
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- [Gary] No, I just- - [Paula] In your cake?
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- I just pour it in there.
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I'm just adding a little more confectionist sugar
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'cause I like it a little thick.
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- [Paula] Okay.
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- Like I say, I never measure.
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Oh, that looks good.
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- Uh-huh, now I took a toothpick and stuck it in there
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and it came out dry.
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- Okay. - So...
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- Yeah, good oven.
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And that looks good on top.
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- Yeah, look, that chocolate's
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gonna go down in those cracks.
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- Oh yeah.
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We gonna dump it on this cake hot.
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- Yes, yes, yes. - And I'ma let this,
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when I say dump it-
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- [Paula] You mean dump it.
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- [Gary] I mean dump it.
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- [Paula] Now, you don't ever add nuts to your cake?
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Oh, that's right, 'cause you got a tree allergy.
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- [Gary] Yeah, I can't, I don't do good with tree nuts.
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So, it's the advantage of me being the cook,
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I cook the way I like things.
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- [Paula] That's right. (laughing)
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That's exactly right.
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- Okay.
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- I'm just kind of helping you.
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I'm gonna take this 'cause I'm gonna get you
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some more goody outta there.
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I'm from the school of...
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- [Gary] And I just slather this all over that
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and let it melt right in there.
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- Yes, yes.
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Well I need for you to tell me how big.
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- It, the pi, it's really rich.
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So, I mean...
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- So how 'bout four pieces?
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- Four pieces there and now-
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- How 'bout that?
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- That'll work there.
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- Oh, and look, who gets to cut the cake gets a lick.
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(Gary laughing)
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Other side.
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- Yeah. - Oh yeah.
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- Oh yeah. - Warm icing.
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- There is nothing like warm icing.
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Oh, the cake is so hot.
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- Yes.
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- All right, you can start serving that.
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Eddie, would you have some with us?
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- [Eddie] I'll wait.
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- Eddie has got more willpower.
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- [Deborah] Boy, he does.
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- He does.
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Oh, okay, we all have a fork. - Yep.
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- Mm, bon appetit.
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- [Deborah] Oh, that's good.
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Oh my goodness.
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- [Paula] Is it as good as he usually makes?
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- [Gary] The Duke, it's good.
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- [Deborah] It is.
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I was curious with it being Duke's,
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not Hellman's, but that is fabulous.
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(Paula and Deb making satisfied sounds)
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- I cut the cake. - I like it.
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- Huh? - When you give somebody food
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and they can't talk, that's a good sign. (laughing)
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- That's a good sign.
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That is a good sign.
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- It is rich.
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I highly recommend milk when you're eating this dish.
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It tastes really good.
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I have a point, like the next day,
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I will actually take a piece
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and put it in the microwave for 15 seconds
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just to get it warm again. (laughing)
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- This is so good.
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- Paula, this has been a honor.
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- Oh my.
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- For me to cook with you.
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My gosh, I followed you for years.
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You are awesome.
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I love you.
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- I love you too, Gary.
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- Watched you and praised you for years.
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You're also a woman of God, woman of faith,
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woman of character.
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I can't believe I had an opportunity
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to spend this time with you.
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It is so great.
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I really do appreciate it.
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- It is so my honor.
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So my honor.
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I'm so happy and proud to call you and Deborah friends.
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- I appreciate it.
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Thank you very much.
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- Thank you, honey.
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But look at that icing that just fell down there.
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I'm trying to-
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(Gary laughing)
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Thank you. - Oh, thank you.
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- And if Deborah ever wants to get rid of you,
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you come fill Paula.
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(Gary and Deborah laughing)
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Okay?
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Pinky promise. - Pinky promise.
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- Pinky promise.
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