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I have, y'all, a wonderful, wonderful recipe for your dessert for Easter Sunday
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To me, this just reminds me of the spring and all the things that we love, smell, and taste
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So it's called the Lady Bird Cake. I named that after my beautiful lady bird, my blue and gold macaw
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she was my companion for 31 years and I noticed in my newest book it said 29 but she actually lived to be
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31 and I miss her. For seven years that bird slept in the bed with me y'all
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You think you're lonely? How lonely must I have been to sleep with a McCall
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But I did love her. I did love her. And she kept me great company
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You know, it's great company. So anyway, this is an honor or in memory of my ladybird
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Now, I'm starting with two sticks of butter. And how much sugar
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I can't remember. Two cups. Two cups. Okay. So we're just going to beat this for about four or five minutes until it's nice and creamy
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And we'll be stopping periodically to scrape down the sides so it all gets its fair share of a beating
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Okay, I beat my sugar and my butter for about four or five minutes and I've scraped the sides
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Now I'm adding my three eggs and I'd already added one. and you want to just make sure they get them
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beat in real well. Alright, I've got my three cups of all-purpose flour
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I've got my salt. And I've got my baking powder. I'm just going to grab my whisk
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and whisk this all together. And by whisking like this, it's almost equal to sifting your flour
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So we are going to add our flour and our buttermilk alternately
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we're going to start with our flour and we're going to end with our flour okay
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so let's get up here i think i need to go ahead and add the bananas right now let me see
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yep add eggs one at a time beating well beat in mashed bananas and the preserves which makes this a ladybird cake because she loved all this stuff
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But her favorite thing in the whole world was a chicken leg, a fried chicken leg
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Well, this fit in there. Yeah. I love pineapple preserves
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and I like the orange preserves you eat those Eddie I love that
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okay we're gonna get this mixed up real well and I'm gonna move this over here
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so I'm gonna be using my right hand to hold the beaters
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And then our buttermilk. Did we not need vanilla flavoring for this
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I can't make a cake without some flavoring. I should have turned that
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I just need a squirt of vanilla. Thank you. To me, it just makes a difference
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Just a little teaspoon. All right. Now, the last thing we have to do is stir in our dates
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Oh, and man, would that ladybird adore those dates. so we have sprayed
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our 13 by 9 pan wow don't forget y'all
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this is for Easter so we would never bake a cake for Easter without some wonderful icing on top
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So how long are we cooking this for, Therese? It says 55 minutes
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I thought we were going to have to put it in this oven, Paula, but we don't. Okay. That sounds..
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I'm dropping it down on the counter. to encourage any air bubbles to come out
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And plus that levels it out in my pan for me. So Teresa said 55 minutes at 350
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325. 325. Okay, good. 325, nice and slow. Okay, y'all, look at our ladybird cake
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It is so pretty. Mmm. And you could do this one in layers, too, if you chose
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In my cookbook, my new cookbook, there's a Lady Bird cake in here
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It varies a little bit from this one, but you see how it's in layers
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So you could do the same thing as that cake calls for in this book
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Lady Bird, Lady Bird. okay on to this cake I've got two sticks of butter
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I've got an 8 ounce package of cream cheese and I'm just going to cream those up
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real good okay that was all a real good temperature so no lumps or clumps
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in that butter pineapple preserves is wonderful if you want to make a banana split
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with your banana and ice cream chocolate syrup on one cherry preserves on one
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or strawberry preserves on one end and then pineapple preserves on the other end
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it's good with homemade whipped cream okay so now let's see what i want to do i want to add the sugar to this one or
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mix the wet there i think i'll do it this way i like that bowl because it's wider it's got a bigger mouth than this bowl
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so that's a pile of icing y'all pile of icing
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I wish we had a few more pineapple preserves because I think it could use just a little bit more
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because it only called for a fourth of a cup. But man alive is it good
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It is so good. So very, very good. I was standing up here just defrosting this cake and Teresa said Paula you supposed to be filming this But you know I so crazy If I got something to do you know I just start doing it
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Sometimes I forget that I'm actually shooting a show, which that's all right by me
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because I want it to feel just like I'm in your house
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or you're here with me in my house. and we just having a good time cooking and talking
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So I was almost cooking without y'all. Look, I told y'all that this was gonna make a bucket
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full of icing. Yum. Now, this is the ladybird cake
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and that icing is so incredibly good. It's just amazing what that little bit of pineapple
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preserve does to it. All right, I'm gonna garnish this with a sprinkle of, excuse me
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I'm gonna sprinkle it with a little nuts. Because Lady Bird did love her some nuts
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And then I've got some dried pineapple. Just drop pieces of that on it
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You know, it's just like sugared pineapple. Doggies, we done fooled around and got us a
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sure enough cake, Eddie. And this is one pretty cake. Who's ready for a bite
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For this case, you have to open your mouth real wide, y'all
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Cause it's so high. Mm. And remember I had y'all on my mind
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for this dessert for your Easter. I don't think you'll be just putting it so easy
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because just one layer. So love and best dishes, y'all. Have a blessed day
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Love and best dishes, y'all. Thank you
