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Love & Best Dishes: Homemade Apple Strudel Recipe | Easy Recipes for Dessert with Puff Pastry
Aug 2, 2025
Homemade Apple Strudel Recipe | Easy Recipes for Dessert with Puff Pastry - Paula's making apple desserts, y'all! Give this easy puff pastry apple strudel recipe a try.
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- Y'all,
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this past weekend,
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my cousin George, aunt Peggy's oldest son,
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and his wife Kelly, came in town for a few days to visit
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and see his mama, aunt Peggy.
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And Saturday night, Saturday afternoon,
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I had a book signing.
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So they said, "Please let us cook dinner for all of us."
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And I said, "Fabulous, perfect."
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And they cooked us a wonderful meal, and Kelly
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made an apple strudel for dessert.
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And I'm telling you what, that sucker was so good,
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everybody had a nice slice and put ice cream on it.
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To me, it was so good, I didn't even eat the ice cream
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on it, I didn't put ice cream on mine.
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So this is super simple, which is what Kelly
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and I both like.
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So I had peeled my apples, and now I've cut them up
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into like bite-sized pieces.
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I don't know if Kelly did this,
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I don't think she might've done this part,
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but I decided to cook mine a little bit.
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And so you just kind of eyeball this.
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I'm gonna put a little sugar on them
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'cause some apples can be really tart.
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So that was probably about two tablespoons of sugar.
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And now I'm gonna,
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oh, that's the cinnamon sugar, which will work all right,
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but I need a little bit more sugar than that,
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and I'm gonna sprinkle a little nutmeg.
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And now I'm gonna get my shown off cinnamon,
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'cause I accidentally grabbed the wrong one.
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There we go.
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So I'm gonna cook these, gosh, you know,
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probably for just about five minutes, y'all, and
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just to soften them a little bit,
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I still want them to have bite to them,
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so when I bite into that
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delicious
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strudel, I wanna be able to know I'm biting into an apple.
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So not very long on that,
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just a little bit.
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All right, so I'm gonna add about a teaspoon
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or two of butter just so it won't stick,
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and I'm gonna give it about five minutes.
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All right, now, while those are cooking,
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I'm gonna work on our dough, which, our dough
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is one of my most favorite doughs in the whole world,
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and that's puff pastry.
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You know, the frozen that you buy at the grocery store
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is so good, I just never even have attempted
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on making fresh puff pastry, 'cause why
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when this is so good?
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Now, I've let this fall in its wrapper
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on the,
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just on the counter for a little while.
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I'm gonna make sure it's dusted good
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with the flour so it won't stick.
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If I had to make puff pastry from scratch,
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I would never be making this dessert.
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I just wouldn't.
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I just would not.
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Okay.
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So I'm just gonna roll this out, thin it out a little bit.
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I'm gonna take whipped cream cheese.
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This is how Kelly told me to do it.
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And she said put a thin layer.
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And it takes a minute for that cream cheese
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to wanna stick to that dough.
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You just keep having to kind of play with it.
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And eventually,
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it will stick.
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Okay, that's spent about five minutes on the apples.
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So now I'm just gonna pour them out on that plate
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so they can cool 'cause I don't exactly want them that hot
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when I go to wrap them up in this puff pastry.
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So we'll just let those continue to cool
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while I finish taking care
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of this cream cheese.
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All right, now you're going to bring your cream cheese
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up to about three quarters of the way.
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Okay, those have cooled off enough for me to work with them.
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And, you know, it just depends
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on how much apple you want in yours.
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I could have probably done a few more,
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but I think this is gonna work,
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'cause I do like a lot of that pastry.
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Okay.
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Let me wash my hands, please, 'cause they're sticky.
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Now we're just gonna start rolling.
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Roll.
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Roll.
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Now, you see where I came to three quarters of the way
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with the cream cheese, and I did that for a reason.
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Because
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I'm bringing the other piece of pastry up,
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and I have beaten me an egg, gonna add a drop of
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cream to my egg,
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'cause we definitely wanna
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seal this
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so it will stick.
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Oops (laughs).
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What'd I tell y'all about that distance in my eye?
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(laughs)
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All right, now I'm gonna bring this over,
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and because I put that egg wash on it,
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just gonna kind of tuck the ends under a little bit
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'cause we don't want any of that good stuff to get out.
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So our seam is on the bottom.
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And I think I'm out of parchment paper,
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so I'm just gonna lightly spray that
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'cause I don't want it to stick.
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Perfect, perfect.
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All right.
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Now, because I'm gonna want our
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apple strudel to have a pretty shine to it,
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so I'm taking my
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egg that's got a little bit of heavy cream in it.
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I'm just gonna make sure I cover
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all the pastry.
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I might've wished I'd sliced this
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before I
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cut it.
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All right, now I'm gonna use my cinnamon sugar
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that I got out earlier,
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and I'm just gonna sprinkle the top.
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Now, Kelly added nuts to hers with her apples,
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and I adore nuts in anything, I just love a nut,
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which works out well, look at the people I hang out with.
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(laughs)
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You picking up what I'm putting down, Teresa?
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I don't know (indistinct).
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- [Teresa] So did you not like it with the nuts?
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- I did, but...
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- [Teresa] I feel like nuts are strong
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and they would take over the apples.
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- They're very, very different
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to me with the nuts in it.
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- [Teresa] Yeah, I wouldn't-
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- And to me, this did not need nuts.
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Now, you know that's most unusual for me.
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So we're gonna, I think I'm gonna kind of do it this way
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and I'm just gonna kind of break that puff pastry.
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So you can make the slits
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as big as you want.
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In fact, if you wanted it really big, you can do it.
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Now, we're gonna bake this at 375
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for,
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till it's done,
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and I'm thinking 20 minutes.
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Okay, look, you know what I forgot to do?
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I meant to sprinkle sugar on top of it,
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and I forgot.
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So, you know, this recipe is not written down anywhere,
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it's just in my head.
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So I'll just put a little now, but that would've been nice
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if I had done that so I could crisp up, but see,
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that egg wash made it turn nice and brown.
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Now,
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Kelly took it one step further.
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You know, I knew I liked that girl.
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She made a little glaze
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the dough on it using just a little milk
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and a little powdered sugar.
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All right, I'm just gonna do this
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and see how quick it melts.
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What y'all think?
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(laughs)
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Yeah, see, I made plenty, so I'm gonna
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come back
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and add some more after it cools.
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You know those places where you buy those cinnamon rolls
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and they give you extra of this?
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There's a reason why, 'cause it's so stinking good.
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So I'm gonna let this cool, and then I'll come back
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to this little baby and give it some more attention.
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Okay, y'all, the dish that I wanted to serve this on,
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I had to cut it because it was too long,
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and now I promised you that I was gonna come back
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with a little bit more of this after it has thickened
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and it's cooled off some.
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I'm swallowing hard.
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I'm swallowing hard, y'all (laughs).
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How does that look, Eddie?
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- [Eddie] Looks good.
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- Does it look good or does it look good?
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- [Eddie] Looks really good.
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- Really good, okay.
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Well, let's find out if it's really good, okay?
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Y'all, this is super, super, super, super easy.
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So
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please try it.
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Look at that.
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And you can adapt this any way you want to.
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You can add or take away
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anything you want to.
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I just take a slice,
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you know, where I vented it, and I just eat it like that,
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I don't even put it on my plate.
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So there y'all go.
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Have a bite, please.
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- [Teresa] Did you taste it?
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- Not yet, but I sure am fixing to.
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Eddie.
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- [Eddie] You go on and try it, I'll try later.
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- Okay, I will.
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Teresa.
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- Very good.
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I had a mouthful.
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- It is so good.
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Tell everybody how good it is
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instead of looking at your phone.
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- Oh, it's so good.
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No, I'm not, I'm patient, it's hot, it's hot.
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Got a little kick.
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I mean, like it still got some heat to it.
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- A cream cheese out of, so good.
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Thank you, Kelly girl, for showing me how to make this.
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And I got it a little bit left
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and I'm gonna save it, so when I serve it,
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somebody just happens to want a little bit more,
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like me and Michael, we can get it.
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