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♪ Here comes Peter Cotton ♪
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♪ Hoppin' down the bunny track ♪
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♪ Hippity-hoppity, Easter's on its way ♪
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I used to sing that to my children in that deep voice,
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and my grandchildren,
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and of course I'm hopping around.
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Oh, here comes Santa Clause.
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Well, how does it start out again?
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- [Theresa] You did it.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail.
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♪ Yeah, here comes Peter Cottontail (laughs) ♪
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Anyway, I am making a dessert for Easter.
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Like there's not gonna be enough candy.
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So, these are carrot cupcakes
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with crystallized ginger in them and lemon juice,
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and they're gonna be so good.
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So I got me a stick of butter in here, and I'm beating it up
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'cause it was a little, little on hard side.
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So I'm gonna add my honey.
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I'm gonna add my honey to my butter and mix that
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and then I'm gonna put it to the side
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Millie told me yesterday Easter is her favorite.
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- [Theresa] She knows she gets a good Easter basket.
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So I'm gonna put that aside.
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Get my (indistinct) over here so I don't have to walk
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so far 'cause it's real far.
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It's about five feet.
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So we're gonna mix together now our salt,
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and our baking powder.
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And I'm gonna whisk that together,
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'cause it's almost like sifting it.
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You know I told you all these whisk work really good
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to get any lumps or anything outta your dry ingredients.
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I think this bowl is big enough
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for me to make it in. (laughs)
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I might better go get a bigger bowl.
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Y'all hold on a minute. (chuckles)
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I don't need one that big,
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but I think our larger one is somewhere.
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All right, so I'm gonna transfer my dry ingredients
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and then I'm gonna add our honey butter to it.
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Yum. This is gonna be so good.
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And everybody knows that Peter Rabbit loves carrots.
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All right, I'm gonna mix this together.
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And then I'm gonna add my eggs one at the time.
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I needed to get some liquid in there.
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One at a time and then beat.
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And then I'm gonna add my lemon juice,
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and that will give us the liquid that we need.
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Fold in our crystallized ginger.
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- And Michael said, "well, I like Mary Ann better."
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Every time I say I like ginger, that's what he says.
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"Well, I like Mary Ann." (chuckles)
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Okay, I just wanna spray that so this'll come out good,
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and we want to feel our cupcakes 3/4 full.
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So I think a leveled off scoop.
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I don't know how many ounces this one is.
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It's supposed to say somewhere, I think,
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but I can't see that good.
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The younger people in the kitchen with me probably can,
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Supposed to make 14, but...
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- [Theresa] I don't see that.
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- I'm thinking it'll make 12.
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I was pretty close to right, y'all.
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The recipe says it makes 14, but it actually makes 13,
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'cause I've got enough for one more.
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- [Theresa] Oh, that's just dough for me to eat.
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- Oh, okay, you're gonna eat this.
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Okay, I think we got 'em as even Steven as we can.
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- You ready for 'em to- - Yeah. Yeah.
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Now we're gonna put this in a 350-degree oven
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and we're gonna bake 'em for about 20 minutes, y'all.
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Now we've got to finish up
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our carrot ginger cupcakes for Easter.
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And I've got an eight-ounce package of cream cheese
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and 1/4 of a cup, maybe of butter, something like that.
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Got more cream cheese than butter.
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So I just wanna make sure that's blended up real good.
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And now I'm gonna add honey.
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Looks like 1/3 of a cup maybe.
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All right, so I'm gonna add my powdered sugar
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and I think we're using just like a cup.
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Isn't that right, Theresa?
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- [Theresa] Yep. A cup.
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- I can't control with my left thumb.
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Sometimes I'll use the piping bag.
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Sometimes I just slather it on,
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but I'm gonna try piping it on.
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Hopefully, maybe I won't get too impatient.
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You know, I like to do things fast, quick,
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but I ain't as quick as I used to be.
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Okay, we got our piping bag
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and you wanna make sure you shake it down real good
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and get it to the edge
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and kind of wrap it, wrap it around a little bit.
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- [Theresa] I have to tell you a funny story.
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I did cupcakes with Bobby,
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and you know Bobby is very chintzy with the icing,
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so I had to go back over all his cupcakes with more icing
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because you know, he's very conscientious
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of how much sweet stuff.
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- Yeah, that's not so pretty.
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I think I like it better when I just do it by hand, Theresa.
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- [Theresa] Yeah, you can make a rose.
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- You can make a rose.
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I don't know that I can. (laughs)
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I've got something to tell y'all. (laughs)
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You know, never been into, you know, cake decorating.
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I like a cake that tastes better than it looks, maybe,
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you know, like homemade cakes.
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And so Theresa said, "Let me try one, please."
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So she put the camera down, she came back here,
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and I started doing mine like my mama.
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Where are the ones I did?
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This one and this one.
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- [Theresa] On that side.
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Yeah, these are the three
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that I just got my butter knife, you know,
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and started doing it.
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And Theresa came over here, she said,
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"I love doing this kind of stuff.
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I wanna learn how to decorate cakes."
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So it would be fun to know how,
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but I'm a little shakier now than I was years ago,
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but Theresa did real good.
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- [Theresa] Some of 'em look better than others, but...
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- I don't want to hear about you opening up
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a cupcake store now and leaving me, (laughs)
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leaving me alone. (laughs)
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So I think I should try one.
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I'm gonna try this one
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'cause it's a little funky right there,
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so I'll try this one.
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Oh my gosh, look at that.
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See the carrots in it?
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It's delicious, and I just feel like it's healthier.
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It's not overly sweet.
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So if you're looking for something for your children
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and your guests to have that's not quite
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as calorically high, I think this is a good one to try.
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And if you like decorating, you can have a ball
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decorating these with grass
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and whatever you want to. (laughs)
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Love and best dishes, and happy Easter.
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