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Hey y'all, get excited because tonight on Paula's Party, we're gonna be cooking up all of our favorite Christmas recipes

I've got Amy Grant here as a guest in the kitchen with me. We're baking up ham

And I've got my good buddy Robert Irvine from Dinner Impossible. Eight minutes to produce a Christmas brunch

And Jamie's gonna be popping in and making us a Christmas eggnog custard pie

Merry Christmas, son. And I'm going to be living out a Christmas fantasy, kicking high with a Radio City Rockette

So y'all go find me that mistletoe, because Paula's feeling frisky. Let's party

Merry Christmas! Hello! Hello

Hey! Oh, my goodness, y'all are so pretty! Hello! Thank y'all so much

Thank you, thank you. Y'all make an old girl feel good. I'm so excited y'all are here today

Because you know why? Tonight is our Christmas party. We're going to be celebrating Christmas

And I'm so glad you're here to be a part of it. So I want to get immediately to our first guest

She is a singer. She's a songwriter. She has sold over 30 million albums

And she is married to a hunk, a hunk, a burning love

So y'all put your hands together and make her feel at home

I'm so excited. Amy Grant! Hi. Hi. How are you

Hello. It's great to be here. It's great to have you here

Thank you. I have to tell you, my husband says, Amy, I should be on the Paula Deen Show

Because he watches and he loves food like nobody. Do y'all know who her husband is

Who is her husband? Vince Gill. Oh, blue eyes. He is a food lover

Is he really? And loves you, so. Well, you tell him that I love him back

Okay. And next time, maybe you can bring him with you. Oh, yeah, he'll be here

Well, I want to share with you a recipe that's really over the top for hams

Great. I have got a butt portion here, a butt end. Now, I'm going to take this and I'm going to score it

Okay. I'm just going to score through that fat. Great. Just like that, because we're going to put a glaze on this, Amy

And, you know, when it bakes, you'll see these little diamond marks on the ham

Now, you're a Southern girl. I am. I'm a Southern girl. Tell me some Christmas stories

Oh, goodness. Y'all cooks? Yes. Holidays are all about the food. And I have three of my sisters here

My three sisters. Where? Right here. Raise your hands. They're so... NeNe, Tabby, and Carol

They're beautiful, too. Did y'all sing? Y'all don't sing in the shower

But we, holiday meals or any meals at our house and our family, we all live in Tennessee, in Nashville, and we don't cater

We always do the meal. We divide and conquer. We cook the food

Oh, I love it. We cover for each other because accidents always happen in the kitchen. Like what

Well, this was a year when Kathy's daughter was getting married. Now, which one's Kathy? Kathy

Okay. And so we had 70 people at that Thanksgiving, 75. It was crazy

Are you kidding? It was nuts. At your house? Yes, at our house. And so I had made cheese grits, and I hadn't really checked it

And, you know, sometimes they have those little dark flecks in them. That's right. Sometimes those dark flecks are bugs

Vic said, Amy, this is filled with bugs. And I said, it's filled with, as an exaggeration, it has some bugs

And he said, you can't serve this. And I said, we're going to put some cracked black pepper in there

There you go, girl. Protein. It was protein. A girl's got to do what a girl's got to do

Yes, and don't you see somebody return from them? Well, you can't do that in the restaurant business. No

But in the privacy of your home for your loving family. You know these bugs do not need to hurt them

I know. I know. Now, we have a glaze, a very, very simple glaze of Dijon mustard

Okay. You want to mix it together? I'd love to. And orange marmalade

Okay. And about a teaspoon of bugs. I mean, black pepper. All right

Now, how many children do y'all have? We have... Is yours mine and ours

It's yours mine and ours. I birthed four of them. And... Oh, wow

And I have a fabulous stepdaughter, Jenny. All right. Now, what I want you to do, Amy, is just glaze our ham

And we're going to put this in the oven at 350, y'all, and we're going to bake it for just about 20 minutes

Are you a heavy glazer? Not very long. I am. I'm heavy at everything I do

I love that about you. I'm a condiment girl. Yes, yes, yes

I love condiments. Okay, this was mustard and pepper and? It was Dijon mustard, orange marmalade, and cracked black pepper

To glaze the front or just the skin? Yes, glaze it all. Ooh, okay. And our ham is fully cooked

because it's a smoked ham. Right. So you don't have to cook it for hours and hours and hours

which is what I love about serving ham. Yes. So in the oven that goes 20 minutes

and when we come back, I'm going to show Amy how I snuggle this ham down in some pastry

Ooh, yum. I'm going to be arrested one day, y'all. See you back in a minute

Merry Christmas. Up next, y'all, Amy Grant grants me two holiday wishes, a Christmas ham and a Christmas song

And later, it's a Christmas impossible brunch with cranberry stuffed French toast

Welcome back. This is like one of the best Christmas parties I've ever thrown

I'm here, y'all, with Amy Grant, and I'm going to share with Amy this recipe for ham today

Now we took a butt portion smoked ham we scored it we baked it in the oven for 20 minutes Now here the fun good part to this ham We going to come over here Amy and we going to use an ingredient

that Southern girls cannot do without, and that's canned crescent rolls. Oh, yeah

Honey, we can take you from breakfast to lunch to dinner to dessert

with a can of crescent rolls. Can't we? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah

All right. So what we're going to do is I'm just going to take these cans, and it's two cans

Okay. I've pressed them together. And while I'm doing this, I would love for you to do this

Okay. I've got an extra can of crescent rolls, Amy, and I've got some pretty little cutouts

All right. And I've got just some bench flour here for you to dip them in

Great. So why don't you make us some, like, pretty holly leaves to put on top

All right. All right, so while you're doing this. See, my kids would love this part

Isn't that great? Yes. I love things that you can get the kids involved in

In fact, Amy, you know what? I'm fixing to have the most exciting thing happen

I just started a few weeks ago my first children's cookbook. Oh, great

Yeah, because I'm a granny now. I'm a granny now. All right

I'm going to have to tell on you. Okay. A little bird flew through here

Now, y'all, I'm just going to take this crescent and gently tuck it around under my ham

just barely under the edges. A little bird told me that you almost burned your house down

Oh, Ella. I'm always trying to create a great mood, and the easiest mood to set are candles and music

I mean, I do that sometimes for breakfast before school. I do that when I'm cleaning the house

Wonderful. Always candles and music. But we had a gorgeous greenery and five-candle centerpiece that I put on our coffee table

And I showered. I was blowing my hair dry. And my son came in, way to burn the house down

And the entire coffee table was aflame with, yeah, those candles burned out of the greenery

And the fire trucks were there. No! Yeah. Believe it or not, it did not spark the Christmas tree

But, you know, when they spray with those fire extinguishers, everything was covered in white dust

It covers everything. Well, so we just pretended we had a flock tree. But that table, if you ever come to my house, our coffee table in the den has a big black scorch in it, which I love

It's the ultimate distress. It gave it character, didn't it? Yes. You and your family, do you open gifts on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day

We do, with my large family, my mom, all the nieces and nephews, we do a dirty Santa, because there's so many of us

A dirty Santa. And so, you know, you pick a number, one through however many of you are there

Number one goes first. They open a present. Oh, what? Oh, let me do the egg wash

And then you can steal it. Oh, gosh, I love that. We had a Paula Deen present last year

No, you didn't. What was it? It was a stinky gift. No, that was a good gift

It was a great gift. And they have to be good gifts, but everybody shows up with one great gift

I love that. And then they're stolen and stolen, you know. Now, Amy, I'm brushing this with just an egg wash

Okay, all right. Because that's going to give our pastry a real shine to it

Yes, yeah. All right, now you go, honey. Okay, all right. Express yourself. I am

Woo, I feel better already. Oh, your leaves are gorgeous. Okay, thank you

Look at that. It doesn't have to just be leaves. I guess it could really be anything, right

Yeah, anything that you've got, you know, a cookie cutter, you could cover it with Santa Claus's

Okay. Or musical notes. Initials or your fabulous comments. I love you

Yes. You have done an excellent job. I would love to come to your house one Christmas with all your sisters

Invited. Consider yourself. I'll be in on the 23rd. Okay. We'll set the burn table

Yes. All right, now look how beautiful this is, y'all. That's great

Whoever. It's like a great big ham and biscuit, isn't it? Yes. So in the oven that goes 350, y'all, and we're going to bake it for just about 20 minutes

And I've got one that's ready. Wow. Look at this beautiful ham

Is that not a different way to serve ham? So let's cut into this

I can't wait for you to taste it. All right. Oh, that's a lucky first bite right there

Yes. You've got all that crust. Look at this, Amy. Yes! Okay

Am I waiting on you? No, honey. You go ahead and eat it. Are we tasting it? Yes, and I'm going to come right behind you

Oh, the bread's the best part. Oh, yeah. Mmm, that glaze is so good

Yummy, isn't it? That is great. Well, Amy, another bird flew over and told me

Did you have a song for us? I do have a little Christmas ditty

May I? Is that wonderful? You go over there and you get comfortable

Oh, that ham is so fabulous. Now, while Amy's getting comfortable, y'all

I just want to prove what kind of sweet girl she is

She has a CD and her book in a gift bag, and she brought one for every one of you

Isn't she sweet? Now, what song do you have for us? Well, this is just a traditional kid's song, and many times when I'm cooking, Vince will come into the kitchen with a guitar and sing, and he's always making up words

Up on the housetop, reindeer paws. Out jumps good old Santa Claus. Down through the chimney with lots of toys. All for the little one's Christmas joys. Oh ho ho, who wouldn't go? Oh ho ho, who wouldn't go? Up on the housetop, click, click, click. Down through the chimney with good Saint Nick

Now in our house we make up words to song. Here comes a stocking for Paula Deen

Filled with grits and bacon grease Use lots of butter when you bake

Stay off the scales for goodness sake Oh, oh, oh, who would go

Oh, oh, oh, who would go? Up on the house top, click, click, click

Down through the chimney with good saint me. Amy Grant, everybody. Thank

you, darling. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Next, Food Network's Robert Irvine Christmas brunch

in eight minutes flat. Hurry, Robert. And later, the most famous dancers in the world, trying to get me

in line. Welcome back So I wanna get immediately to our next guest I love this young man

He's got a hit show called Dinner Impossible on Food Network and a new book called Mission Cook

Give a warm, warm welcome to my dear friend Robert Irvine. Robert

How you doing, baby? I'm doing great. Don't have some mistletoe out here

Mistletoe? Where's the mistletoe? You don't need mistletoe. You don't need mistletoe with me

Y'all, I just adore this man. Come on with me, honey. Come on

Jeez. So, you know, your show Dinner Impossible has been a huge hit

Yeah, I don't know why. But I have a situation here. We have a tape recorder

And I think that we have a mission. So. This is what happens on the show

You know, you all think that I know what I'm doing. I actually have no clue

So I show up at an airport, they give me a ticket and say you're going to Kathmandu

When you get there, somebody says, oh, your mission is today, and that's what that is, I take it

It's Christmas impossible, honey, here at Paula's party. So we're going to listen quietly, we're going to mash the button, y'all

and we're going to see what Robert's mission is, should he accept it

Robert, Paula Your mission today Should you choose to accept it Is to make a Christmas brunch

For your entire family You have nothing prepared And they're arriving in 8 minutes

The audience you need They're on a table right behind you This table self-destruct in about 50 years

8 minutes To produce a Christmas brunch For my whole family Our whole family

In 8 minutes Using the ingredients that are here Do you accept the challenge

Yes. Yes. Robin says he can do it. All right. We've got a pretty girl sitting here

Her name is Crystal. So Crystal's going to set our clock. Look, honey, I'm here for you, baby

Hang on. Hang on. Right, I got the love. I will goo

I will goo. I will goo. Goo goo. Goo goo, whatever I can to help you

Okay, Crystal, you start our clock, baby. Three, two, one. Go, Robin, go, go, go, go

All right, slice them up, oil a pan, and we'll make like little sweet rolls from them

Okay. What are you doing, Robert? Right now I'm trying to have a heart attack

Christmas, yes, we like that. We'll make some sweet rolls with that. We'll take some sugar and some cinnamon

All right, now you've got me just some crescent rolls here that I've sliced for you, okay

Put sugar on them. Wally. Oh, excuse me, baby. Hey, listen, eight minutes

I've got to catch a cold. You can do it, you can do it. You've never had any formal training, have you

No, really. You're like me. Yeah. Was your mother a good cook

It's a sore subject. My mother is over there. Where's your mom

Mom! Mom! It's a sore subject. She was really good. She was a horrible cook, except for Sunday roast

Oh, very good. She could cook a mean Sunday roast, couldn't she? Yes, she could

All right, they've got to go in the oven. Okay. That's all I did

Cinnamon, sugar, nutmeg. No butter? No. All right. Always butter my cinnamon rolls

Well, you've got five minutes and ten seconds left on this job

What is that? All right, cranberry. Here, hold that. Cranberries. Christmas. Christmas

Cranberries. Cranberries. Do you want me to do these up? Put a little sugar

A little sugar. A little sugar. A little sugar. Sugar, cream cheese, and cranberries

Are you done yet? A little sugar. How much is a little sugar

Paula and Robert are just halfway done. They have four minutes left to finish their Christmas impossible brunch after the break

So far tonight on Paula's Party, it's been a holiday to remember

Mmm, that glaze is so good. First, Grammy Award winner Amy Grant baked a Christmas ham and sang for her supper

Here comes a stocking for Paula Deen filled with grits and bacon grease

And I'm helping Food Network star Robert Irvine with a Christmas Impossible Challenge

Holiday brunch with cranberry stuffed French toast in just eight minutes. How much is our love

We're halfway done. Let's see what happens. We now continue with our Christmas Impossible Brunch Challenge with just four minutes to go

will they make it? Alright, so we've got the French toast. And what do you do

Now! Now! Well, what's the difference between me being... Open your pocket

We've only got eight minutes. Put it in the pocket and sink it in like that. This one ain't got no pocket

That's a crappy pocket. Here. Here. I like that one already

You like that one already? Merry Christmas. Great. Tom and I just put the perfect amount of sugar

Cream cheese. All right, are we going to fry these? Oh, God. I'm going to fry them

Where's George when I need them? Where's the butter? Butter's over there. Where? There

I'm going to do these the way I like them. Here. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Who are you cooking for, too

Is this what you was going to do? All right, Robin

I've got to show some food at the end of this. Hurry up. You've got three minutes and 20 seconds

You're killing me. You're killing me. What on earth is that? Well, I don't know

I just read your mind. I thought this is what you were going to do. You read my mind

You don't want to read my mind right now. Would you be cursing me? Salmon

We love smoked salmon, don't we? Yes, we do. Two minutes and 41 seconds

Hurry, Robert. Hurry up. Hurry, hurry. How's me rolls doing? Me rolls

Oh. Me rolls are great. You didn let our pan get hot and I needed some spray What do you mean And who going to eat this raw sausage Do we have a torch A torch We need a torch to try and cook these sausages

The sausage will cook, don't you worry about them. Oh, Jesus. We're getting it now

We like cranberries? Yes, we like cranberries. I love cranberries. All right, we got some salmon

What about some... 47, 46. You're killing me. Here we go, Robert

We're laughing and a-scratching now, ain't we? Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one

All right

Girls, y'all see why I love him. Show him that bicep when you do that

This one? Show the girls. Yeah, pull up that shirt. So what have you got, Robert

All right, let's have a look at the oven. Oh, you didn't even turn it on

You didn't tell me to turn it on. She ain't too smart, but she's awfully pretty

All right, so we got the French toast. Oh, this would be nice, actually

Oh, honey, it was good raw. This is wonderful. I am going to use this recipe

I stole it off you anyway. Oh, you did? I thought it looked familiar

Oops, I didn't slap my bracelet off. Oh, look at that. That would be nice

I'm going to eat this, not you. What are you doing? I'm trying to get my bracelet back on there

This is halibread French toast that's been dipped in egg and milk

And it's stuffed with cream cheese, sugar, fresh cranberries. But anyway, I want you to taste it

OK. Put it in your mouth. It's like Wow

Out of this world It's actually good It is out of this world

Don't go anywhere We are having a Christmas party at my house tonight

See you back in a minute Robert Irvine Dinner Impossible With salmon

With salmon Next, a new twist on Christmas. An eggnog custard pie

And later, there are weight requirements. No, no weight requirement. Perfect. Chicken up fruit roll-ups with a rockette

Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas, everybody. Thank y'all. You know, I can't have a Christmas show without a little family

Jamie Dean, come out, honey. Hey, y'all. Hey, Mama. Hey, Sam. Happy holidays

Happy holidays. Happy holidays. Thanks for having me, Mom. Oh, gosh. Did you see our Christmas tree

I did. It's beautiful. It is beautiful, y'all, in case you hadn't noticed

These are all Christopher Radko ornaments. Fancy. Aren't they fancy? They're beautiful ornaments

And actually, it was North Pole City that came in and decorated for us

Isn't that beautiful? It's beautiful. Thank y'all. Is this in your cookbook

No, ma'am. What we're doing today is an eggnog custard pie. Well, show me. Show me

We came up with this recipe because my mom, all of our lives, has made eggnog at the holidays

Which is my mother's recipe, y'all. With some brown water in it, it makes it so good

It's the adult eggnog. It's really good. Everybody used to show up at our house for Christmas on Christmas Eve just to have some eggnog

Well, that's what we're doing today. But this is a new twist. We're going to do it in a custard pie, which is really good and super simple

Okay. We got a pie crust. Would you like for me to do anything? If you would, flour that and roll that out. Okay

We're going to put it into a nine-inch, this is a deep dish pie shell. This is super simple

Just buy one at the store, you know, that's frozen. There's no sense. You can do your own, but this makes it really cool

Actually, Jamie, I love the pie crust that you get in the dairy section

You know, it comes folded up, and it really gives your pies a homemade look, and it's wonderful

It's flaky. It's tender. This is actually one that comes rolled and frozen

And, you know, it's not a giveaway because it's not in that tin. Yep

Although I ain't above using a 10 either. Me neither. So mom, while you're doing that, I got four eggs here that I'm going to beat up

And what I'm going to beat these with, I'm going to add a little bit of sugar. Okay

Just about a cup. I'm going to blend these together. And I've got some evaporated milk

Not to be confused with sweetened and condensed. I love sweetened and condensed, but we're using evaporated for this

I'm going to blend this up. I'm going to add a little bit of water. Okay

And just a pinch of salt. A little bit of salt

And this is where the nod comes in. What is that? It looks just like water

You want a sip? I want a sniff. Fire water. This is a little bit of white rum

No, it's white rum. I don't know a lot about alcohol. I don't

I don't. Excluding margaritas. Well, I do like the taste of a margarita

Never seen a woman drink a margarita faster than Mama. I made one for her and one for my wife

And Brooke said, are you done already? Brooke was so funny. She said, Paula

I said, I know. I love the taste of that. And you can just take your fingers, you know, and just pinch your... Pinch. Pinch

Just pinch your edge up. Wait. I'm going to give it a little... Prick

You know, don't ask me why, I just always poke holes in the bottom of my crust

Okay, we're gonna add this. Can't have the holidays without cinnamon and nutmeg

So a little cinnamon and nutmeg on top of here. Uh-huh. And then we're gonna put this, this is kind of a delicate, and we don't wanna cook it

too quick, so we're gonna do it in a water bath. Water bath, oh okay, great. Come on, if you'll add that water there

Okay, you wanna sit the... Yep. And it's hot water. The water bath, y'all, is just going to make the pie cook slowly and prevent it from cracking

And I'll be very, very careful because I certainly don't want to slosh into our pie

You're going to go about halfway up the pie pan just so it can kind of control the temperature

Yeah, and this will give it a nice, even, slow cook. Now, this goes in our oven

and it's about 350 for just shy of an hour, maybe 55 minutes or so

But the best way to tell with something like this is if you get you a toothpick and stick it in the center

and if the toothpick comes out clean, you know it's done. Or a knife, a knife works good

The magic of television though. Oh, look! Ding. Not only is it ready, but it's already chilled

So this is what it's going to look like. Beautiful! Beautiful! I can't wait

So let's have a taste. You want to? Aren't our plates beautiful and Christmasy looking

Here, son, you want a knife? If y'all didn't know, Mamas always know best

He lets me think that. No, it took me about 30 years to figure it out

Sometimes it does take us a while for our parents to get smart

This looks so good. Mama always said the first piece is the cooks, because this is going to be ugly

Uh-huh. It's hard to get that first one to come out looking like a picture

That's not so bad. No, it's not bad at all. And we've got a little bit of..

Look at that, the beautiful red and the white. A little bit of cream. A little bit of cream

And this has got some cinnamon in it. That's for the first bite

I like the way my son thinks. I just adore our Christmas plate

They're beautiful. Good save

Cheers Look how beautiful that is Merry Christmas son Mmm I taste the rum

I love eggnog. Just a little bit, though. Just enough to give it some flavor. I got an early Christmas present for you. Is it like a necklace

Not quite. Are y'all ready? Is who ready? It's the Radio City Rockette Show

Oh my gracious! Not even close, Marla

Y'all stick around, we'll be right back. Next, a Radio City Rockette shows me her sweet fruit roll-ups

Welcome back, y'all. A little girl's fantasy came true today, y'all. You know what does every little girl dream of

We dream of being a Rockette or Miss America. And I thought I was a Rockette

Believe it or not. Calling his origin. Thank you. A long time ago, a long time ago, I had a little bitty waist and kind of long legs

Beautiful legs. Thank you. We all have our day, I guess. You are ready to go

Where are we going? To celebrate the 75th year of the Christmas Spectacular

Are you kidding? 75 years. 75 years? Y'all look so good to be 75 years old

Well, listen, I hear that one of you brought a recipe to share with me

That's me. I brought some date roll-up cookies to share. Did you? Wonderful, Ciara

Well, listen, you girls get comfortable, and Ciara, take me to the kitchen

All right, I can't wait to cook with you. You mean you can cook? I can cook, a little bit, not as well as you

You look like this and you can cook. Well, I am so excited to make this

This is a recipe that my mom loves. Her grandmother made them and my grandmother made them

So they're just a simple cookie. In here is some butter and some cream cheese, which I thought would be perfect

My two favorite ingredients, y'all. What a Christmas. So all you do is you mix

With a rock head, y'all. You mix the butter and cream cheese in here. It's already been creamed together

Then you take sifted flour. So you just add that flour right in here

Is that all-purpose flour? Yes just all flour And you mix that in here And do you need a mixer or anything You know by the end I sometimes end up using my hands I love it

You can use a mixer or even just a spoon to get it going. And then there's also a little bit of salt, but the dough itself is not sweet

So once you get all this nice and together, it doesn't take that long

then you just end up chilling it. And I usually stick it in the freezer because it's faster

Uh-huh. All right, show us how you dig in with your hands, Sierra

All right, that's always a faster way to go. Yes. Just get the cream cheese

The heat from your hands help break down that cream cheese. But it's important that your cream cheese be at room temperature

Definitely. So it's workable. All right, so it's almost getting there. Once you get it into just about like a nice little ball, then you stick it in

So you have to let it chill, don't you? Otherwise, it's going to stick to your fingers

And any tips you have for me, I would love. I'm sure my mom would be happy to make her recipe even better

I've got lots of tips, honey. And one that has worked probably the best for everybody is don't bet on the fat jockey

Slows the horse down. Because he's probably going to come in last place

All right, I think that's been a nice fall. How long have you been a Rockette

This will be my third season as a Rockette. Really? Yep. And how many shows do y'all do a week

We do, well, we can do as many as six a day. Are you kidding me? No

Six a day? That's how we keep in shape. We get to eat all these great cookies during the holiday season because we are performing all day long

Well, I have had the pleasure of seeing your Christmas show at Radio City Music Hall

It's a fabulous, fabulous show. Thank you. All right. Okay. So now we've chilled our dough

We've chilled it, and then you just roll it out, and you want it to be not too thin because it's, you know, you want it to be nice

That's probably a quarter of an inch, right? Just about, yep. And instead of sprinkling this with flour like you normally do to roll out your dough, I use confectioner's sugar

That way it adds a little sweetener to the dough. Yes. Perfect. Yes, but it acts as like a non-sticking ingredient, like flour

Exactly, and you can even put a little on your fingers when you're rolling it up so your fingers don't stick to the dough

And this is an easy, easy dough to make. So easy. All right, now you've got some dates up here and some cranberries

You can pretty much put anything. Cranberries, you can put chocolate. All right, well, show us how you do that

Do you need some sugar on your hand? Perfect. More sugar, the better

Yes. So you just take it and you put it on the end and roll it up. And this is just a regular date

A pitted date. A pitted date. Yep. And do you know what I would do, Sierra

Please tell me I would take a knife All right this is a tip you can take back to Mama Okay I would split this with a knife and I would put a pecan half in that

That sounds delicious. And roll it up because I love nuts. And that would add more texture to it

It would add more texture. I'll definitely be telling her about that tip. So there's your tip for Mama. Thank you

Well, listen, I've got a couple of questions I want to ask. What are the requirements

Because y'all all look like you were cut from the same pattern

Well, we're definitely all very different. You do have to be between 5'6 and 5'10 and a half

5'6 and 5'10. Okay, I've almost got that. You do, actually. You got the height

So what we do, actually, to make the illusion that we're all the same height in the line is we line the tallest girls in the center with the shortest on the end

So the illusion is that we're all the same exact height, but we're really very different. All right

Now, is there a weight requirement? No, no weight requirement. Perfect. Perfect

Perfect. Is there an age requirement? We do have to be 18 to audition, so that's our youngest Rockette, but that's the only age requirement

And you've got to be able to kick those legs. How high do I have to be able to kick

We kick eye high. So you want to see. Eye high. Eye high

So we kick our legs so that you can see your toes inside with your eyes

You know, I think I used to could do that. I'm sure you could

I'm sure with that picture that you saw. Now I can kick eye height of my Shih Tzu

She didn't say whose eye, did she? So then you just slide them in the oven

They only need to bake for 15 minutes, sometimes 20, just until they're nice and golden brown

15 or 20 minutes. I like that cookie already. This is how they come out

Oh, gosh. They're beautiful. And then you just add a little more of the confectioner's sugar on top

Okie doke. Gosh, they look wonderful, Ciara. And they're real simple. I'll make these for the girls back at Radio City

It's a quick little snack in between all of our shows for the Christmas spectacular

And you don't eat all this stuff, really? Definitely. We have sometimes six shows a day

so we have the luck of getting to eat whatever we want during the holiday season

So let's have a bite. Ooh, I've got a cranberry sticking to me. I think I've got cranberry also

To Ciara and her mother and grandmother. Thank you. Mmm. Mmm. It's delicious

I've had so much fun with y'all today. I hope that you've had a good time here at our Christmas party

I want to thank the Rockettes and Robert and Amy and Jamie and most of all, all of y'all for coming today

Merry Christmas and God bless. Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo

Thank you