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In this week's "what's cooking with Paula Deen", Paula talks about one of her famous recipes, no your mama's banana pudding. Some of the best tips about making this pudding:
1. When you whip the cream and sugar, be very careful to not over whip cause you will get butter.
2. Use a bowl that has been in the freezer.
3. Put your beaters in the freezer as well.
4. Have the cream cheese and butter out early to come to room temperature.
5. Use sweet and condensed milk. Don't confuse it with evaporated milk.
6. Use a whisk to break up the pudding mix to make sure everything is smooth.
7. Chessmen cookies or homemade shortbread cookies are great to have on the bottom, as layers and top of the pudding.
8. Toss your banana slices in lemon juice to keep them from turning brown.
Enjoy!
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hey y'all welcome to what's cooking with
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Paula Dean today and today's podcast is
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all about more tips uh to help you along
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in the kitchen uh you know I think I
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want to start today by talking about a
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no cooked banana pudding I don't care if
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I'm in California or I'm in Kentucky
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somebody is going to
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say Paula I use your recipe all the time
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for your banana pudding and I'll say not
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your mama's banana pudding and they'll
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say yeah yeah that's it I I promise you
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y'all this is the best cook uh no cooked
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banana pudding you'll ever taste now
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there's nothing that can beat the
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traditional banana pudding that my mama
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used to have waiting on the counter for
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Bubba and me when we get home from
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school in the afternoons nothing can
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compare to that but this notcho Mama's
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is pretty dadgum good and we're going to
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start with two cups of whipping cream
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and a half a cup of confectionary sugar
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and uh we're going to mix and beat it
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until it's light and fluffy you'll want
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to be very very careful now when you're
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whipping cream if you overwhip it it's
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going to turn back to butter and that's
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the last thing you want to happen to
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that wonderful uh whipped creams and I'm
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going to start out by using a bowl
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that's been in the freezer I've gotten
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it nice and cold and I'm going to pour
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two cups of whipping cream into my nice
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cold bowl and you can also throw your
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beaters in the freezer and get them nice
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and cold and it will assure you a better
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whip on your cream now I'm going to
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sweeten our whipped cream with powdered
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sugar I use a/4 of a cup of sugar for
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each cup of whipping cream and that
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makes it nice and sweet
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[Music]
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this is perfectly whipped cream
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[Music]
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y'all you can run your finger through it
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and the little indention that you made
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stays
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M so good so
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fresh all right you'll want to beat it
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until it forms soft peaks but don't
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overbeat it and another Bowl you're
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going to uh mix 8 oz of cream cheese
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that you've had come to room temperature
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on your counter now that's important
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that you don't wait until it's time to
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start the dish to take your cream cheese
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and uh your butter or whatever you're
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using make sure you have it out on the
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counter to get to room
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temperature um so we're gonna mix our 8
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O package of cream cheese along with a
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14 oz of sweetened condensed milk now
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don't confuse that with evaporated milk
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your sweet and condensed milk is the one
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that's real white and real real thick
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and uh where your evaporated milk pours
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kind of like a half and half does so
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this is a real thick gooey delicious
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sweetened uh condensed milk now I have
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let my cream cheese get to room
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temperature now I'm going to beat
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it just a couple of
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seconds just so it'll be easy to
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incorporate people tell me that they
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take it to family
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reunions and they never get to bring a
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bite
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[Music]
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home step in here and get me a little
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spatula because now I'm going to add one
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can of sweetened condensed
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milk and this stuff by itself
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is just marvelous it's
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delicious all
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right so we'll incorporate those two
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3300 so we got two bowls right now we've
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got our bowl of whipping cream we've got
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our bowl of cream cheese and condensed
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milk now in a third Bowl we're going to
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add 1 5 oz package of instant vanilla
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pudding to two cups of
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milk and I recommend that you use a
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whisk to break that up and incorporate
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that powder in with your milk so you mix
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that till it's smooth and then you're
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going to go back to your whipping cream
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cream that you made at the start of your
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recipe and you're going to fold that
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whipping cream into your custard mix now
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I'm going to add one 5 and 1/2 o box of
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instant pudding mix and I'm going to
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slowly add in our two cups of regular
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milk see how
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simple so all I'm going to do now is
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fold it
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together with our fresh whipped
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cream all right so I'm just going to mix
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that
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together oo
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look look how beautiful that is the
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serving dish that you decide to serve in
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instead of using banana uh instead of
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using vanilla wafers we're going to use
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a ches men's cookie and ches man is a
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wonderful little cookie that is
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um packaged and produced by um pepp
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farm and they come in the little sacks
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in your cookie
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aisle now I also use homemade shortbread
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cookies if I've made shortbread cookies
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and I've got some left over they are
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wonderful to use in the banana pudding
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um so I I love the homemade cookies
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myself um I love using a cookie kind of
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like um the old sandies that you used to
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buy Mama used to buy these in a sack and
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I think they were call sandies and it's
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a short bread cookie with pecans in
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it and uh yeah pecan sandies I think
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Phil just said it was called that was my
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favorite bag of cookies that mama bought
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cuz for some reason uh my mother didn't
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make a lot of cookies she would make
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cupcakes and cakes and pies but not a
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lot of
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cookies so we're going to select our
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dish and we're going to put a a row of
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chesman cookies down and then we're
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going to cover this with our mixture of
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whipped cream the cream cheese and the
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instant vanilla pudding we've got that
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all mixed together now so we're we're
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going to cover our cookies with a layer
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of that and then a layer of sliced
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bananas and you want to just keep
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repeating these until um your final
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layer is cookies whether it be chesman
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or uh a homemade cookie that you've made
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yourself all
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right now we're not going to use the
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little Wafers that you ordinarily think
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of using I'm using um a chess man chess
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man chess man cookie and I'm going to
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start by
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putting a
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row on the
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bottom and I'm going to put some
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custard on top of that and that first
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row of ches men cookies will make kind
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of like a little crust for us
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and I'm just going to keep layering this
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until we run out of all the
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ingredients now if you don't put this
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together
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quickly you know if you've sliced your
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bananas and done everything ahead of
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time I would uh highly recommend that
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you toss them in a little lemon juice
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and that'll keep them from turning dark
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on you
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because if I had been on my game I would
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have already sliced these bananas and
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had them all
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ready and in that case you definitely
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want to use the lemon
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juice cuz this and
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apples are the two fruits that will turn
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brown on you rather
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quickly and you know different
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people have different preferences so bye
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by all means do it the way you like it a
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lot of people like a lot of custard a
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lot of people like a lot of cookies so
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you know suit yourself with
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that all right now I'm going to come in
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here and put another layer of the
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chesman
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[Music]
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down okay here we
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go another layer of the custard
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[Music]
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M that custard looks like kind of semi
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melted ice cream doesn't it just looks
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[Music]
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Heavenly Hy do here we go the last layer
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of the custard
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[Music]
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this looks like I'm making it for a big
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old
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crowd it looks like it'll feed a crowd
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but I promise you we'll eat all this
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won't we
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Bud say I'm waiting Mama I'm
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waiting ah highly recommend the the uh
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homemade cookies they'll make it so good
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and so extra special you know no cooking
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all right you're going to mess up three
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or four bowls but you know what that's
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all right cuz uh it's going to be so
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delicious you won't mind washing three
12:20
bowls the space that you live in really
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affects the way you feel so my first
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12:29
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12:34
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12:36
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12:39
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12:41
needs to get started today contact Smith
12:44
and Noble to get my special limited time
12:47
offer 25% off on your witer treatments
12:51
plus free design consultation create a
12:54
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12:57
details about my special offer go to
12:59
Smith and noble.com
13:01
paaa that's Smith andy.com
13:04
paaa or call
13:07
one800
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659
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3300 that's 1 1800 659 3300
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