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Love & Best Dishes: Grandmother Paul’s Red Velvet Cake Recipe | Old-Fashioned Desserts
Mar 6, 2022
Grandmother Paul’s Red Velvet Cake Recipe - Old-fashioned desserts are the best kind and Paula's grandmother's red velvet cake from scratch is no exception!
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- I have got such a treat for y'all today.
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And I hope that you're gonna appreciate it
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as much as I appreciated it
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when my grandmother Paul shared her recipe
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for red velvet cake with me.
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I've got all my stuff here
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but before we get started y'all,
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I want to just remind you to be sure
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and subscribe to my youtube channel
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and just click that little notification bell
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and that way I will be able to let you know
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that there's an announcement, a video or something.
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So that's easy.
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Okay. This cake recipe calls for two eggs.
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So I've got them in my bowl and I've beaten them.
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And now I'm going add the sugar and beat that.
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And remember what I said a few days ago, I think, you know
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the link to this recipe is in the description.
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So if I don't tell you exact, you can still get 'em.
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Okay.
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I've gotten our sugar and our eggs mixed up real well.
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Now I'm gonna add cocoa.
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And the cocoa is really what sets it apart
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from a vanilla cake or a chocolate cake.
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That's what makes it a red velvet.
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So the recipe calls
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for a two ounce bottle of red food coloring.
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I only have a one ounce bottle.
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So I'm gonna squeeze from everything I've got in my cabinet
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that's red.
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Now. I like this food color right here.
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It's real strong.
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Just that little bit may be enough.
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All right, now I'm going add my two sticks
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of softened butter.
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It's funny how that little bit of cocoa,
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you'll be able to taste it in the end results.
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(blender whirring)
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Whoa, slow down, Paula.
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Okay. In between your beatings, now,
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you need to scrape the sides of your bowl
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because you wanna make sure everything's incorporated
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properly. Okay.
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We're on to the next step of Grandma Paul's red velvet cake
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and I've got all the ingredients mixed up.
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And now I am gonna take my flour
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that I sifted and added salt to.
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And I have my one cup of buttermilk.
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So, I'm gonna alternate these two ingredients.
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Always, always, start with flour and end with flour.
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It just makes for a smoother cake.
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I'm not a scientist.
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I just know that to be a fact.
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Y'all, this is a project
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we've been working on now for a good while.
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I am so proud to announce that we now have
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this pure vanilla extract in our stores.
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And I just love it in the brown bottle.
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You know, being in a brown bottle that helps protect it
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from the sun and any kinda light.
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And that will keep it nice and strong.
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So this is in our stores.
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Where else can they find it?
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- [Woman] PaulaDeenshop.com
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- PaulaDeenshop.com.
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And like I said, it's in any of our, Okay.
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That's our vanilla.
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And the last step
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is I'm gonna add some baking soda to my vinegar.
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And when that quits foaming, I'm gonna throw it in.
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(blender whirring)
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Like I said, I'm not a scientist,
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but I think the vinegar has something to do
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with the buttermilk.
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Okay, come on, get mixed up in there.
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Make sure it all gets in there.
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So if my grandma told me to jump in a fire,
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I'd probably jump in a fire, ya'll.
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(laughing)
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(blender whirring)
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My grandmother said to bake these cake layers
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in a 350 degree oven in an eight inch cake pan.
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So that's what I'm using.
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And you can see that I took a piece of wax paper.
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I laid the wax paper underneath the pan
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and with my scissors, I marked the size of the circle
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because once you have put this much energy
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in making a cake,
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the last thing you want it to do is stick.
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So I'm also going to spray it
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with a non-stick that also has flour.
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And I'm gonna be using to make sure my layers are proper,
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I'm going use a measuring cup and go 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3.
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And then in no time they'll be in the oven.
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I cannot tell a lie. I lick the bowl.
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That red, that red is a dead giveaway, what you're up to.
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Okay. So I got them measured out the best I could.
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And so I wanna ask y'all, you know,
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my grandmother's icing is different
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from most red velvet cakes.
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So I would love to know about y'all, you know,
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what has been the norm in your family
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and just what you do with yours.
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So let me know, you know, I always love hearing from y'all.
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I just love it.
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So all y'all have to do is just answer me in the comments.
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So the cake pans go in the 350 degree preheated oven
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for 20 to 25 minutes.
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Okay. I baked our cakes for 20 minutes and they are perfect.
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If you're unsure whether your cake is done or not,
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you can actually feel in the center.
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And when it starts pulling away from the pan,
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you know it's done and see how easy those came out
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because I took the time to use the wax paper.
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Ooh, I'll chew that off.
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(laughing)
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So you can see, I sprayed more wax paper
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because when I'm ready to put 'em together and frost them,
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I don't want 'em sticking to the wax paper.
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So that's it.
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All right.
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So, this is where I wanna hear from y'all.
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Because this was my grandmother Paul's
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recipe for the frosting.
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And she's the only one that I know of
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that has done it this way.
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But just remember, if you wanna send me your recipe,
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send it to Pauladean.com.
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Questions@pauladean.com
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and to remind y'all again,
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the link to this recipe is gonna be in the description.
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You wanna make sure that your butter and cream cheese
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is at room temperature.
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And I put my marshmallows in the microwave
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for about...
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(laughing)
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I should have greased my fingers first.
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For about 20, 22 seconds.
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Those marshmallows are a sticky business.
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(laughing)
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Yeah, that works a lot better.
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Right, so in the mixer that goes.
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I don't know why Grandma didn't just use marshmallow cream.
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I think that might have been easy-er.
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Or maybe they didn't have marshmallow cream
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when she started making this.
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The next thing to go in,
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now that I've got the marshmallows, the butter,
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and the cream cheese smoothed out,
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I'm going to add one box of confectioner sugar.
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I'm gonna kind of add it slowly.
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(blender whirring)
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Kenzie, would you get my vanilla flavoring please?
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I forgot to.
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I think I put it up.
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Good. Thank you.
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You wanna put me about a teaspoon in there?
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That would be great.
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You don't have to measure.
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You're just do you.
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Perfect. Perfect.
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Perfect. I thought you said you couldn't cook.
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That marshmallow,
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that melted marshmallow, Grandmama, made this extra thick.
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Now I'm just gonna stir in my coconut and my pecans.
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Cause I don't want the mixer to beat those up too badly.
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Now I'm going to add just a little dollop of the icing
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to my pan.
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So my cake layers won't slide around.
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And some people will actually slice
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the little top off of cakes, but not me.
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I'm fine with it having a rounded top.
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I don't wanna lose any of my cake.
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So down goes the first layer
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and I wanna make sure it's centered in my pan
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really, really well
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(laughing)
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- I'm gonna be sticking to everything, ya'll.
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(laughing)
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- Okay, y'all, I put our third and final cake layer up here.
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And to me, this is the easiest way to, to frost the cake,
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when you're doing a whole cake.
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I like to put it around the edge of my top layer
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and then bring it down.
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Because when you have an icing like this,
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that's full of different ingredients,
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it can be hard to frost.
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Oh My Grandmama, after all these years,
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I still miss you.
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But I'm so glad that you filled my mind
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with wonderful, wonderful memories
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that I can keep going back to anytime I want to
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and keep that part of my life alive.
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And I hope y'all are the same way
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about your mothers and grandmothers, grandfathers.
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So if you wanna chat about anything
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if you've got a question or a recipe,
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all you have to do is send it to questions@pauladeen.com.
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The triplets are on their way over.
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So I'm not gonna cut the cake right this minute.
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I'm gonna watch little Olivia lose her mind
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because she walks in my door saying, I want cake.
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I want cake, Ginny.
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(laughing)
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- Want cake.
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- I know you want cake!
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You always want cake when you walk in Ginny's house.
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You always want cake.
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- All I want is cake.
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- You wanted that cake?
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- I wanted that cake. I wanted this one.
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- What do you want, Olivia?
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- I want this.
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- You want this? When you came in,
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you said "Ginny I want cake."
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- I want a cake.
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- Okay. That's what you're gonna get.
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But Ginny has to handle the knife.
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- Yes.
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- Yes. You're not ready to handle a knife yet.
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Do you know what kind of cake this is?
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Or do you even care?
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- Yes.
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- You do care?
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What Milly?
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Oh, she knows where I keep the soda crackers.
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- Soda crackers.
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- Look, that cakes red. It's red baby.
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- That's delicious.
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- No idea what she said.
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- More cake.
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- More cake ?!
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(laughing)
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- We look around here.
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She still got this much and already asking for mo.
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More cake.
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- It's delicious.
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Yeah. You'll think this is a carrot cake.
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When you see from the outside.
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It's like a carrot cake, yeah.
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- [Paula] Now is Claudia's grandmother
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and she is from Venezuela.
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And this is Claudia's double cousin.
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- [Female] Double cousin, very important.
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- [Paula] Elisa.
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- [Female] Elise, the double cousin.
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- [Paula] I wanna call her Elsa
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because that's what I hear every time
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from the kids.
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It's Elsa, Elsa, Elsa.
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So I'm gonna have to call you Elsa.
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- [Elise] I'm dying to try this.
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- Okay. And can I tell you something else?
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Oops. Excuse me.
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Elise.
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(laughing)
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She is a conductor.
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I'd never met a conductor, ya'll.
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She, the family,
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She would never tell me that
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but they say she's famous in Venezuela.
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She is the only female conductor in her country.
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So she's famous and everybody knows her.
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And now I'm so glad I know her.
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- No, I'm glad to be here.
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It's such a great honor.
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- Oh honey.
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It's an honor to have you.
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- Thank you very much.
14:32
- You're welcome.
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