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0:00
- Come on in the kitchen y'all
0:03
because I have a recipe
0:06
from a fan out there
0:08
that calls this a diabetic coma cake.
0:11
And I don't think he means it keeps you
0:15
from going into a diabetic coma.
0:18
I think he means it will send you into a diabetic coma.
0:23
It sounds wonderful.
0:25
This recipe was sent in to me from Jeffrey Bridges
0:30
and he was just so cute with his little letter.
0:34
He told me that...
0:35
He wrote and he said that he has a recipe from his grandma
0:39
that he would just love for me to have if I was interested.
0:43
Well, of course I'm interested.
0:44
I love hearing from y'all
0:46
and knowing what your grandmothers
0:48
or your mothers did for you.
0:52
So he told me, he said,
0:54
"Call me if you have any questions about making this cake."
0:59
Did I tell y'all the name was a banana fruit cake,
1:02
which doesn't sound like...
1:04
Don't think it's a fruit cake 'cause it's not.
1:08
'Cause I'm not crazy about fruitcakes
1:10
but you know what?
1:11
He sent me his phone number.
1:15
If I can find it.
1:16
Oh, here it is.
1:17
(phone beeping)
1:27
I bet he won't answer 'cause it's going to come in
1:31
not recognizable or something like that.
1:35
- [Theresa] Or he might be at work.
1:36
- Yeah.
1:38
But maybe it says cell number.
1:40
(phone ringing)
1:47
You know, I know one thing, nobody can talk
1:50
about me and butter anymore. (laughs)
1:55
As long as...
1:58
- [Voicemail: Jeff] Hey, you've reached Jeff.
2:00
Leave your name and number after the tone
2:02
and I'll get back to you as soon as I can, thanks.
2:05
- [Voicemail Prompt Voice] At the tone,
2:07
please record your voice message.
2:08
When you are finished recording,
2:10
you may hang up or press pound for more options (beep).
2:14
- Hello Jeffrey.
2:16
It's Paula Dean and I knew you wouldn't pick up your phone.
2:22
You tell me that you're not a weird person,
2:25
that, laugh out loud, I'm just a funny gay guy.
2:30
Well, I still like to think I'm just
2:31
a old funny straight girl.
2:34
So we make a good pair.
2:36
All right, let's see.
2:37
Please let me know when she will be making this.
2:40
I would like it dedicated in the memory of my grandma,
2:43
Grandma French.
2:45
So Grandma French was heavy into the butter as well.
2:51
So Jeffrey, I'm so sorry that I couldn't get you, dear
2:54
but I wanna thank you for sending in the recipe,
2:58
and I'm making it right now,
3:00
and I'm showing your recipes,
3:02
I'm sharing your recipe for Grandma French cake,
3:06
banana fruit cake.
3:10
I am sharing that with all of our friends out there.
3:13
So thanks Jeffrey.
3:14
Sorry I missed you.
3:16
Bye bye.
3:19
Too bad, I wanted to talk to Jeffrey.
3:22
All right, what is this?
3:23
It takes so many different pairs of glasses
3:25
just for me to get the job done,
3:27
I can't remember.
3:28
All right, so I'm gonna do what Jeffrey said.
3:37
He didn't tell me about the bananas, you know.
3:40
But, you know, I think I'm gonna throw those
3:43
into the mixer instead of mashing them.
3:48
I think I'll just...
3:50
(mixer whirring)
3:52
I'll do it this way.
3:55
And he said, "add all your wet ingredients together."
4:00
So I'm gonna to beat that up.
4:03
Mash those up pretty good and pretty quick.
4:05
And I like this cake because we're gonna cook it
4:09
in a 13 by nine by two.
4:12
Jeffrey said, "Cook it in an 11 by nine pan."
4:15
I don't know about 11 by nine pans,
4:20
so I'm gon' cook it in a 13 by nine pan.
4:27
And I like that because that means
4:30
I just don't have to put a cake together.
4:32
You know, like two or three layers together.
4:35
All right, I'm going to add my two cups of sugar.
4:40
I'm gonna add two eggs
4:44
and Jeffrey said that he...
4:47
This is what he did different from his grandmother.
4:50
He said he separated his eggs
4:53
and he beat his whites until they were stiff.
4:56
But I'm not doing that Jeffrey.
4:58
I'm gon' do like your Grandma said.
5:02
Not that I don't trust you. (laughs)
5:05
I'm just going to follow Granny's rules.
5:09
All right, so...
5:13
two sticks of melted butter y'all.
5:18
I love it.
5:19
(mixer whirring)
5:26
I'm gonna add that kind of on the slow side.
5:37
So it won't get all over me.
5:40
All right, so I have two and half cups of flour
5:44
that I'm running through my little sifter,
5:47
and I've got two teaspoons of baking soda right here,
5:52
and Jeffrey says to add three tablespoons of hot water,
5:57
and this is pretty hot.
5:58
Now let me make sure I don't have the ingredients
6:03
back asswards mixed up.
6:06
Two teaspoons of baking soda
6:07
and three tablespoons of hot water.
6:11
So I just took this water out of the microwave,
6:15
so it's good and hot.
6:20
I mean, this is really an easy cake to make, Jeffrey.
6:23
All right, so I am going to...
6:30
Sift.
6:34
I think it's a half a teaspoon of salt.
6:37
Can you shove that over to me please, Eddie?
6:40
Skank ya.
6:42
All right.
6:50
Yeah, half a teaspoon of salt,
6:56
one teaspoon of cinnamon,
7:03
one teaspoon of ground cloves.
7:07
Yep, that's the cloves,
7:10
and then one teaspoon of nutmeg.
7:13
And that's the nutmeg.
7:17
All right, let's see.
7:18
And then you're gonna add to that
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one cup of chopped walnuts,
7:23
but I'm outta walnuts and we're using pecans,
7:26
which is perfectly okay.
7:29
And Jeffrey said one cup of raisins that are optional.
7:33
So that was two cups of sugar, two eggs,
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six ripe bananas that are almost brown,
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two teaspoons of baking soda,
7:43
and three tablespoons of hot water,
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a half a teaspoon of salt,
7:49
one teaspoon of cinnamon, ground cloves, and nutmeg.
7:53
And then we're substituting the walnuts for our pecans,
7:57
a cup of raisins,
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one cup of melted butter,
7:59
and three and a half cups of flour.
8:02
So, I'm gonna sift those spices
8:07
into the rest of the flour.
8:11
And Jeffrey said to just slowly,
8:15
slowly add this to our wet ingredients.
8:24
You know what?
8:26
When Michael and I married...
8:29
When Michael and I got married,
8:30
his favorite cake in the whole world
8:34
was a banana nut cake with cream cheese icing.
8:38
So, the groom's cake was banana nut bread.
8:42
So Jeffrey, this sounds a lot like Michael's...
8:47
one of Michael's favorite cakes.
8:50
So he is gonna love this.
8:54
I need my little chute the side of this but I don't have it.
8:59
All right, so mix, mix, mix.
9:02
And then we'll have to stop and stir down our sides.
9:14
There, I don't know why I did it on this side a minute ago
9:17
'cause y'all can see that side much better.
9:27
Okay, I'm going to try not to get my...
9:30
My spatula in the beater.
9:35
Okay.
9:38
It's smelling good.
9:40
(phone ringtone) Who's phone is that?
9:43
Tell them we don't want any. (laughs)
9:46
We busy.
9:47
(dog barking)
9:50
Hey, hey, hey!
9:52
All right, I'm gonna go ahead.
9:56
Y'all hush.
9:58
I'm gonna go ahead and add, y'all,
10:01
my two teaspoons of baking soda and hot water.
10:10
And then, I'm just going to stir
10:13
my nuts and my raisins in the cake.
10:23
Those spices, do you smell them, Eddie?
10:25
- [Eddie] Yes!
10:28
- You know, nutmeg and cloves,
10:29
they're very strong spices.
10:32
And what I'm mainly smelling is the nutmeg.
10:38
- [Eddie] It smells a lot like the essential oils
10:43
that we burn in the kitchen.
10:44
- Oh yeah, yeah.
10:46
Sometimes I'll think Eddie's in the kitchen cooking,
10:50
but he's just in here burning things in our little...
10:56
Oil things.
10:59
It smells so good.
11:01
- [Eddie] It's less calories. - Less calories (laughs)
11:04
It darn sure is less calories, now,
11:07
'cause I ain't had the urge to go over there and eat
11:09
that one, not one drop.
11:12
All right.
11:14
(mixer whirring)
11:15
Whoa!
11:17
All right, I'm going to cut this up,
11:19
cut that off, and let that beater up
11:23
so I can get in here and really clean up the sides
11:30
of this cake.
11:32
It's going to be a big fat cake, Eddie.
11:37
Mmm, smells so good.
11:39
- [Theresa] That might be why it takes an hour to cook.
11:41
- Yeah. (mixer whirring)
11:44
And what did he tell us to bake it on, Theresa, 350?
11:47
- [Theresa] Bake it on 350, (mixer drowns out speaker).
11:50
- [Paula] Okay, well I'm not,
11:50
I'm going to make sure that it's not on convection
11:54
'cause I didn't, I don't want the bottom to get over brown.
12:05
Okay, those bananas make your batter very, very sticky.
12:10
See how sticky that looks?
12:24
All right, a couple more spins.
12:29
Then we're going to have Granny French's cake in the oven.
12:34
Gonna be hard to wait an hour.
12:37
I'm about to swallow my tongue right now. (laughs)
12:42
All right, I'm going to spray my pan.
12:50
This way we don't need to worry about turning this out.
12:55
So it'll live in that pan until the cake's gone.
12:59
All right, I'm gonna try to just
13:07
turn that batter out.
13:14
So that's pretty good, most of it.
13:18
Most down it slung off.
13:22
Just so I won't make a mess,
13:26
I'll get rid of that.
13:29
And now I'm going to stir in a cup of nuts
13:33
and a cup of raisins.
13:38
And I do love raisins.
13:41
I love raisins in my cakes.
13:44
So if you want a plump, plump raisin,
13:47
you can soak these in hot water and they'll just puff up,
13:53
and they'll just become real tender and big
13:57
if you want them puffed up,
14:00
but I'm not puffing these up 'cause that doesn't matter
14:04
to me because I just love
14:07
that little chewy sweet bite of raisin.
14:11
Okay.
14:15
So Jeffrey, I hope I've done it to suit you honey.
14:20
So here we go
14:23
into the pan.
14:28
- [Theresa] Yum. - [Paula] Huh?
14:29
- [Theresa] I said yum
14:30
- Do you want to lick the bowl, Theresa? (laughs)
14:33
I think Theresa would rather have the batter
14:38
than the actual cake.
14:41
- [Theresa] You've got it.
14:42
- Okay. (bowl clangs)
14:43
Get you some Theresa.
14:43
- [Theresa] That's unusual for you to even leave that.
14:45
- This is going to be a very, very dense, heavy cake.
14:52
Very heavy.
14:53
I can tell just by the way the batter feels.
14:59
- [Eddie] So can you tell the difference?
15:00
What's different about this from your banana cake?
15:09
- You know, I don't know, Eddie.
15:12
Did you taste it, Theresa? - [Theresa] Not yet.
15:15
- Well, I didn't hear you...
15:16
- [Theresa] I'm preserving the moment for a little while.
15:18
- You know, when I give Linton a cookie that he likes,
15:23
he says, "Mm-hmm!",
15:26
and he will come up to me and say "mmm"
15:28
until I say it. (Theresa laughs)
15:32
That boy appreciates guineas cookies.
15:36
This is a delicious batter.
15:41
Mmm, mm, mm, mm.
15:44
So, we're going to set the timer for one hour.
15:51
And if it doesn't turn out it's Jeffrey's fault. (laughs)
15:57
Okay, Jeffrey baby.
15:59
It's time to frost your banana fruit cake.
16:04
And I'm telling you what, honey, this is one dense cake.
16:08
I mean, feel how heavy it is Eddie,
16:09
put out your other hand.
16:12
- [Eddie] Yeah, it's...
16:12
- I mean, it's dense.
16:14
It's very heavy.
16:15
Did you feel it?
16:16
Yeah.
16:17
- No, I pilled it, see you could do a workout with that.
16:18
- Yeah, I know!
16:20
So I can't wait to taste it Jeffrey.
16:22
And you know, I tried to call you earlier,
16:25
(mixer whirring)
16:26
but you wouldn't take my call.
16:30
- [Theresa] Bet he's going to regret that one!
16:33
- You know, I got a private phone number
16:36
so it wouldn't give you a number,
16:38
and I said, people are not answering phone calls
16:41
from unidentified numbers.
16:46
And I don't blame you a bit.
16:49
All right, so I have got two sticks
16:52
of softened butter that I've whipped up,
16:58
and now I'm adding one box of powdered sugar
17:03
per Jeffery's directions.
17:09
And it calls for one tablespoon of milk.
17:14
So I'm going to go ahead and add that
17:15
and see if that will help me incorporate
17:19
that butter into that powdered sugar better,
17:22
and oh, it does.
17:23
See how it's doing?
17:25
A little liquid goes a real long way, y'all,
17:27
with powdered sugar.
17:30
Okay, you know, I might as well stop now
17:34
and add our tablespoon of vanilla.
17:43
I keep wondering why the, why this light is bothering me.
17:49
'Cause I don't know which pair of glasses to put on.
17:52
So there, I've got the best of both worlds. (laughs)
17:57
All right, so Jefferey tells me to
18:11
add this mixture, which is two tablespoons of very hot water
18:19
to the three tablespoons of an instant coffee.
18:23
And he said just add that, well now I don't need those.
18:27
He said just add it slowly
18:32
until the icing is creamy
18:34
and that coffee smells delicious.
18:39
(mixer whirring)
18:41
Oh, it's going to be a caramel color, y'all.
18:45
Look at that.
18:46
That looks just like caramel icing.
18:50
- [Eddie] Like a tiramisu.
18:51
- [Paula] Uh-huh, yeah.
18:54
All right, so more coffee.
18:59
This would be good with some coffee ice cream.
19:03
This cake.
19:07
Jeffrey said to pour this icing on the top of the cake.
19:12
- [Theresa] I don't think that's pouring.
19:14
- [Paula] I just can't imagine, you know,
19:17
this pouring out of the bowl
19:19
'cause it's really kind of thick.
19:20
So, hope I hadn't done anything wrong, Jeffery.
19:28
(mixer whirring)
19:31
- [Eddie] Okay, if the coffee was supposed to be poured
19:34
over the cake, then the frosting.
19:36
- [Paula] No, no, he said last add this
19:42
and beat until it's creamy.
19:47
Eddie, uh oh, (laughs) a little slinging
19:52
(mixer drowns out speaker)
19:55
Stick your finger in.
20:03
- [Eddie] That's good. - [Paula] That is good.
20:06
- [Eddie] If you're a coffee drinker.
20:08
- [Paula] If you're a coffee drinker, you are gonna love it.
20:14
And you know what?
20:15
I like cakes.
20:17
In a 13 by nine by two pan.
20:22
'Cause you're so easy to frost.
20:25
No guessing whether you got enough
20:27
in the bottom layer or the middle layer.
20:33
Mmm, Theresa, do you like coffee?
20:38
- [Theresa] Mm-hmm.
20:40
- Well, stick your finger in that for a second.
20:45
- [Theresa] I will do it at the top
20:46
so I won't really get it into anything.
20:49
- [Paula] Okay, okay good.
20:51
- [Theresa] Wow.
20:53
- [Paula] Isn't that good?
20:54
- [Theresa] Mm-hmm, that's very good.
20:57
- [Paula] Yes, now you know what?
21:00
I might like some more nuts sprinkled on top of that cake.
21:07
- [Theresa] Is that a hint to me?
21:08
- [Paula] No, I was just waiting for y'all to say
21:12
un-uh, it doesn't need that,
21:14
or yeah!
21:21
- [Theresa] I'm not as big of a nut person as you are.
21:22
- [Paula] I am a nut.
21:24
I am a nut lover.
21:26
- [Theresa] Everything we cook.
21:28
- [Paula] Uh-huh, got to have my nuts.
21:30
- [Theresa] Eddie, are you a nut lover?
21:31
- [Eddie] Yeah.
21:32
- [Theresa] You like them.
21:33
Would you put nuts on top of that?
21:34
- [Eddie] Sure.
21:36
No, when she said that, I was trying to think
21:38
what kind of nuts would be good on that.
21:42
- [Paula] I mean, would you want a nut
21:43
with that coffee flavor?
21:44
Maybe not.
21:46
- [Theresa] Well, you're going to have it in the cake.
21:47
So, might be too many flavors.
21:51
- [Paula] Yeah. - [Theresa] Competing.
21:53
- [Paula] Yes.
21:54
- [Eddie] You could put like chopped, chocolate covered-
21:58
- [Theresa] Well, you know, the other thing is
21:59
this is a pretty strong coffee flavor.
22:01
So like, if you didn't want it to be this strong coffee
22:05
you could probably put a,
22:06
you could lighten up the amount
22:08
of instant coffee you put in.
22:09
- [Paula] Yes, yes.
22:11
- [Theresa] Taste that Eddie.
22:12
- [Eddie] I've had it.
22:13
- [Theresa] You already tasted it?
22:16
- [Paula] All right, who's ready?
22:18
- [Theresa] I can't believe Michael's not already here.
22:20
- [Paula] I know it, Jeffrey.
22:22
Wait, I hear flip flops.
22:23
- [Theresa] I do too.
22:25
And speak of the devil!
22:27
- [Paula] (laughing) We're just fixing to cut the cake.
22:31
- [Michael] I smelt it.
22:32
- [Paula] This your banana cake.
22:34
Oh Micheal, you're not going to believe this cake.
22:36
- [Theresa] But this is a different version.
22:37
Different version.
22:39
- [Paula] It's a different version,
22:41
but, I think it's going to taste much
22:44
like your groom cake tasted. - [Michael] Oh, good.
22:48
- [Paula] So come over here and...
22:51
- [Theresa] The groom cake didn't have a coffee flavor,
22:52
though, did it?
22:53
- [Paula] No, - [Theresa] Yeah, so
22:54
- [Paula] No, but the cake part-
22:55
- [Theresa] The coffee flavor's going
22:56
to be just a little bit different.
22:57
- [Paula] Yeah, but the cake part.
22:59
So, come get your cake.
23:03
- [Michael] I was so excited on the reception,
23:07
I don't even remember what it taste like.
23:09
(Paula laughing)
23:11
- [Theresa] He's trying to butter you up.
23:13
- Well, well it ain't working.
23:16
- [Theresa] 17 years later.
23:17
- Yeah, (laughs) all right.
23:21
- [Michael] I love it.
23:22
- [Paula] Ooh! Jeffrey.
23:27
That looks pretty good.
23:29
The banana smell will knock you down.
23:31
Smell Eddie.
23:32
- [Eddie] I can smell it.
23:33
- [Paula] You can smell it from there?
23:34
- [Eddie] Mm-hmm.
23:35
- All right Michael.
23:35
- [Theresa] Come taste the first piece.
23:40
- [Paula] So this is Jeffrey's diabetic coma cake.
23:47
- [Theresa] Only on special occasions.
23:49
- [Michael] I'm going to take this one
23:50
that's got more icing.
23:51
- [Paula] Okay, you take any piece you want.
23:53
- [Michael] I don't know.
23:58
- [Paula] (laughs) Why don't you eat two?
24:02
All right, here it goes.
24:04
Y'all get your cake.
24:05
- [Theresa] I'm coming, I want to see Michael's face.
24:09
- [Michael] All the girls do.
24:12
- Wow.
24:14
It tastes as dense as it looks.
24:20
- It's good.
24:21
- Mm-hmm.
24:23
- I get my fruit this way.
24:28
- [Theresa] Bananas and raisins.
24:30
- The banana flavor is very good in it.
24:36
And it's tasty with the icing.
24:46
The icing makes it.
24:50
- Delicious.
24:51
- Thank you Jeffery.
24:53
Love you.
24:55
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