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- Hey friends, I've shared a lot of Easter meals with y'all,
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but I have yet to share an Easter sweet;
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something a little bit sweet for dessert.
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And this is one that you can call your children
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into the kitchen and help you.
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It's just a spring time, white chocolate bark.
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So I've got four cups of white chocolate chips,
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and I'm gonna melt these,
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and all we have to do is just follow the directions
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on the bag and we'll see what that says.
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It says, "Microwave two cups of morsels
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"in an uncovered microwave safe bowl on high power
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Okay, our white chocolate chips finally melted.
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I was actually doubling the chocolate chips,
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so it took a little bit longer.
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All right, so we're just gonna stir those in,
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and now we're gonna spread it onto our parchment paper.
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You've been meowing and crying all day.
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(cat meowing) I fed her three times
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and nothing seems to be enough.
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I have that same problem some days (laughing).
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Must be that time of the month.
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That would be a miracle, wouldn't it, Pumpkin?
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Since you're very much like me in some ways.
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All right, now we're just gonna spread this out.
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Now, what are these little things called?
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This recipe is from the magazine.
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and sometimes we actually use the real name of something.
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- [Woman] They're called Meltaways.
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- (laughing) Meltaways?
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- [Woman] Mm-hmm, and they're by Wilton.
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They're Wilton Meltaways.
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- Okay, so these are- - Yeah, all different colors.
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All kinds of colors. - These, okay, all right,
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let me see what I'm doing now.
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Yeah, Meltaways and then we've got a tablespoon
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and a half of drapees.
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- Sragees (laughing). - Dragees.
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- To me, they're coated candy coated toppings for cookies.
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(Paula laughing) - Candy balls.
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- And then we've got nonpareils
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that we're gonna sprinkle on the top of this.
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So we're gonna start by melting our
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beautiful chocolate mints and then we're gonna just drizzle
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that over the base of our bark.
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We've got our green Meltaways melted.
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Dudn't that look so Eastery?
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The babies are gonna love this.
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All of our babies, big and small.
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- [Eddie] Very Jackson Pollack creation.
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- What? - Your Jackson Pollack
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Okay, now we're gonna swirl that
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and I'm using an extra long toothpick
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to just swirl that with.
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Oh, so pretty, so pretty.
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Doesn't that look pretty, Eddie?
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Okay, now we're gonna use our blue wafers.
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We're gonna melt those
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and then we're gonna drizzle this on top.
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So I'm gonna drizzle the blue over the green and the white,
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and it just looks so pretty.
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Looks so Eastery, dudn't it?
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Blue and green, that's some of my favorite colors.
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In fact, you know, we were remodeling the first house
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that Michael and I built when we got married
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and I'm leaning towards blues and greens,
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you know all of God's colors.
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In fact, I want to take y'all on a tour.
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I mean, it looks like a bomb went off in that house, y'all.
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(Eddie laughing) (Paula laughing)
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You know, I mean, Michael and I,
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were just gonna add a few extra feet.
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All right, so I'm gonna swirl it with a fork this time,
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see if that works any better
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You see anywhere it needs swirling, Eddie?
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- [Eddie] I think it looks good.
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- Mm-hmm, I think it looks so pretty.
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All right, now we're gonna put our paralase (laughing),
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or whatever these things
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are called. - Dragees.
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- [Eddie] You mixed nonpareils and-
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- Oh, I got the names bass ackwards, like I normally do
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Keeping with our green and blue theme.
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And, oh look, idn't that pretty?
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And these are the tiniest of all,
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and look what a pretty finish they give to it.
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Beautiful, beautiful.
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This is beautiful, and the kiddies, big and little,
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So I've got to refrigerate this for about 20 minutes.
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I know y'all have heard me say a thousand times,
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I'm hoping for a piece, but oh no, it's in storage.
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Well, my best friend, y'all probably know her, it's Bubbles,
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Susan and her mother.
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Her mother is what, is she 94 now?
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- [Eddie] I think so, yeah.
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- Yeah, I think she's- - Yeah, she'll be coming
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- Yeah, she's 94, Ring Ring,
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and she is just the sweetest little lady,
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and she was a pack rat though.
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She, I mean, not a hoarder, but everything
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that was good, she kept.
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She would pack it away and take real good care of it,
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and a lot of things are from her wedding gifts
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So right there, they would be 70, 75 years old Eddie, right?
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Yeah, yeah. - I would think,
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- And so Susan sent me some pictures.
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They were starting to clean out
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and I think they were gonna have an estate sale
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or something, but anyway, she said,
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"Is there any pieces you see you'd want Sissy?"
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That's what we call each other, Sissy,
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since we don't have a sister.
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She's my sister and I'm her sister.
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But so she brought, she hand delivered some
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of her mother's things,
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and this was one of Ring Ring's pieces.
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And Eddie said, he thought it was his favorite
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out of every piece we got.
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He just went out there and started going through the box,
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looking for something to plate our Easter candy on,
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and of course I went and put on my Easter bonnet,
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and on short notice this was the best thing
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You ain't looking at my Easter bonnet, Eddie.
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- Oh. (Paula laughing)
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- I'm trying to show everybody my Easter bonnet.
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This was the best I could do on such short notice,
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so while he was getting his ducks in a row,
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I was putting on my Easter bonnet (laughing).
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But look, it's three different pieces,
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and we finally figured it out.
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We've got this upside down.
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It should be set up with water in it,
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and then these little holes,
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you put your flowers in and they would be in water,
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Something else I love, look-a here.
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Look at this beautiful, beautiful bark.
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Just screams Easter, dudn't it?
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Ooh, these are some thick pieces too.
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I didn't do so good spreading it out.
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Oh, but that'll make it much more fun to eat (giggling).
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Those thick, thick pieces and I don't want to pick this up
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since it's in three pieces,
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'cause I would like to hold onto it
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since it was Ring Ring's.
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Am I putting it out right, Eddie?
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- Yes, it looks great. - I can't, I can't see.
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Here's a little piece, would you like to try it?
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When my children were little at Easter time,
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I would, it's so silly.
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I would sing this song for 'em
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and they would just look at me, and I sang it to Corrie,
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and now I'm singing it to the grandchildren,
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♪ Here comes Peter Cottontail ♪
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♪ Hoppin' down the bunny trail ♪
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♪ Hippity hoppity, Easter's on its way ♪
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- Oh, Paula. - That's it.
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That's all my talent.
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Happy Easter, y'all.
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Love and best dishes.
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♪ Here comes Peter Cottontail ♪
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♪ Hoppin' down the bunny trail ♪
