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- Well, hey everybody, it's Bobby here,
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and today I've got a great recipe for you
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that I think everybody's really gonna like.
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Some of you may know that I used to make
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I was the baker, the lead baker, for The Lady and Sons,
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before it was even, "and Sons," it was just The Lady.
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Mom said, "Maybe one day."
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And after she put, "and Sons" on the awning, she said,
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"I can take that down just as quickly as I put it up."
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So anyhow, I started out lead dishwasher and dessert baker.
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So today I'm gonna do a dessert for you all,
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and this comes from our second offering.
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My brother and me did a couple of great cookbooks,
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and one of 'em was called "Y'all Come Eat."
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And I really liked it.
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So this is an offering from that book,
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and it's a macadamia nut dream bar.
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Sounds really good already.
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So you can see I got the food processor out,
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got all purpose flour, brown sugar,
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a pinch of salt, and some butter.
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So we're gonna make our crust.
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And we'll start with just filling up our food processor
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with the first three ingredients.
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And I'm going to get them combined.
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And now we'll add our butter. (coughing)
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- [Camera Operator] I was like, is that smoking
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or is that flour? (laughs)
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- Our mixer been around for a while.
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And now we'll pulse in the butter.
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All right, I've got everything combined in the mixer.
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And now in an ungreased pan, I'm just gonna press that in.
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"Why don't we need any grease in the pan, Bobby?"
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Well, because there's a stick of butter in here,
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and that's gonna keep everything
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from sticking to the bottom of the pan.
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"Y'all Come Eat" was one of my favorite cookbooks
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to make with my brother.
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And I still remember, if you've got a copy of it,
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you'll see on the cover,
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we're outside at Jamie's house with a bunch of friends.
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Outside at Jamie's house with a bunch of friends
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sitting around his pool deck.
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And we brought a big road sign in,
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they brought a big road sign in for the cover and said,
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We'll put this right in the center of the shot
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and we'll put 'Y'all Come Eat' up on the road sign."
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So they did that and they said,
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"Bobby, jump up on there and sit down."
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Man, it was summertime, and they had that sign plugged in,
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and I was sitting on the top of it,
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and I was so on fire hot
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by the time that shoot was over with,
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and I was wearing jeans, and my butt was burnt. (laughs)
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We had so much fun doing that.
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This is a really thick crust that we've made,
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and it's gonna take me a minute
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to get everything even in here.
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So why don't we take a short break
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while I get this perfect, and we'll come right back.
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Okay, well that was a lot of fun.
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I got my base into the baking pan here.
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So let's go ahead and throw it in the oven.
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We're gonna bake it for about 10 minutes
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or until it's golden brown.
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I'll pop it in the oven and we'll come right back.
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Our crust is in the oven for about 10 minutes
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or until it's golden brown, so now we'll do our filling.
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We're gonna whisk together brown sugar,
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flour, bakin' powder,
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not bacon, baking powder.
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Sounded like I said bacon powder.
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Eggs, and a teaspoon of vanilla.
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All right, and we'll whisk, whisk, whisk
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until we get these combined.
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And then we'll add in stars of our dream bars,
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macadamia nuts, chocolate chips, and coconut.
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Whoa, what a great combination that'll be.
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And now we'll fold in our chocolate chips.
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Ooh, I could eat 'em all with a spoon.
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Our macadamia nuts, and our coconut.
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What a trio of wonderful flavors,
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and things that I like so much, all.
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We'll get this combined.
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Check our crust, which is, I'm smelling it.
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And we'll layer these two things together,
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and oh boy, we'll be off to the races then.
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Great, okay, let's get our crust.
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And now we're cooking with gas.
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Take a break and we'll be right back.
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And the aroma coming off of that is so, so great.
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It smells like a really nice graham cracker crust
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or something like that.
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It's a beautiful golden color,
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and it's hot, so we gotta be careful.
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I don't wanna break that up
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as I'm spreading my top layer on,
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so I'm just gonna put it right in the center,
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and that's probably going to make this more pliable anyway,
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landing on top of that hot bed of crust.
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This is gonna become super smooth,
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and probably pretty easy to spread out,
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but I don't want to tear up my crust.
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Gosh, that smells so good.
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I don't eat desserts that often,
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but I really do appreciate a nice, like, bar, you know?
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Like the gooey butter cakes that we do at our restaurant.
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Boy, are those things so good.
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My pan's hot, so I gotta be careful, I don't wanna touch it.
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We'll just spread this out evenly.
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Now, this is a macadamia nut bar,
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but if you wanted to use something different, you could.
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Hazelnuts would be great.
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You could use walnuts.
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Spreading beautifully to perfection.
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And now what we'll do is pop this back in the oven
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for a few more minutes until it is wonderful
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You know, it would be so good with something like this?
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Gosh, I don't drink a lot of milk, but oh boy.
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And here comes my wonderful, beautiful assistant, Theresa.
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Take it away, Teresa. - 'Cause it's hot.
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- Take a break and we'll come right back.
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Wow, y'all, I gotta tell you these macadamia nut dream bars
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look and smell so wonderful.
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I'm gonna try to take myself a little bite
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without messing it up so we can still serve it.
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That is so very good.
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Mm, it'd be great with a glass of milk.
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Macadamia nut dream bars.
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Really simple, really wonderful recipe,
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and I think you'll like it a lot.
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So until next time, enjoy your sweets.
