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On today's podcast, Paula walk us through how to make a rainbow cake, which is a layered cake with many beautiful colors
Cake Preparation - Note - you can use a yellow box cake or make from scratch.
Cake Recipe
Ingredients:
2 stick of butter at room temperature,
2 cups of sugar
4 eggs
3 cups of self rising flour
1 cup of milk, vanilla extract and a teaspoon of almond extract.
This is a basic 1, 2, 3, 4 cake:
https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/basic-1-2-3-4-cake/
Preperation:
Step 1
Cream butter
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hey y'all welcome to another episode of
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what's cooking with Paula Deen and the
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other day I did some tips over recipes
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that I've made through the years that
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people seem to like so I've just tried
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to give you some hints and tips maybe
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that I didn't have time to give you
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during the show so I heard that y'all
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enjoyed it so we're gonna do this again
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and today I'm gonna go through making a
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cake with you that was just so much fun
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to make I had been home to Albany
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Georgia we've celebrated my best
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friend's Mother's like 94th birthday and
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this young lady from Albany had made
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ring-ring this beautiful cake and when
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you sliced it it was like all different
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colors all throughout the layers and I
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thought it was so pretty so I said well
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I wanted to show this to all my friends
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out there and try my hand at it to see
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if I could do it well I did it and it
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was so much fun so I want to walk
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through with y'all how easy this
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beautiful interesting rainbow of a cake
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how easy it was to do all right now you
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can start with a box cake mix if you
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like or you can make your your cake from
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scratch which I really like this from
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scratch cake but the the instructions
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that I'm gonna give you today is just a
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basic yellow cake and we're gonna start
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with two sticks of butter that have been
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brought to room temperature two cups of
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sugar 4 eggs 3 cups of self-rising flour
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a cup of milk vanilla extract and a
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teaspoon of almond extract so we're
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gonna cream my butter which we brought
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to room temperature we're gonna cream it
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until it's nice and creamy and then
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we're gonna add our sugar to our our
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beet butter and we're gonna whip those
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together until they're nice and creamy
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and smooth and
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that'll take you know maybe five to
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eight minutes but you'll want to cream
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it well and then we're slowly gonna add
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an egg one at the time and if you're
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using an electric mixer it's so
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important that you have you a spatula
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that you can stop your motor that you
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can cut off your machine lift your
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beaters up and make sure you scrape
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around that bow real good because you'll
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want to make sure all that's
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incorporated so we've got our three cups
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of self-rising flour and our one cup of
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milk on the counter now we're gonna
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start adding our flour and milk and
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we're gonna begin with flour and we're
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gonna end with flour and I can't tell
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you why but I know that's the way you're
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supposed to do it
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it makes for a creamier smoother black
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up batter when you start and end with
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flour so I'll scoop up maybe a heaping
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fourth of a cup full and I'll put that
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in my creamed mixture and I'll beat that
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and then I'll cut off my my mixer and
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I'll go around with my spatula scraping
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all that goodI down so it gets all in
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the beaters of your your mixer so I'll
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do that until I have used all the milk
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and all the flour mixture and then
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you'll want to take a teaspoon or two of
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vanilla extract now I always use the
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real thing it's just easier and it
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tastes so much better it's a little bit
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more expensive but it's worth it do you
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Sapir enough vanilla extract versus an
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artificial vanilla flavoring and then
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I'll add in a teaspoon of almond
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flavoring and you want to mix that just
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tool in its incorporated and then we're
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going
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divide our batter we've got three 9-inch
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cake pans and I always take me wax paper
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and I'll lay my pan on top of the wax
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paper and I'll go around the edges with
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my scissors because I want to I don't
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want my cake to stick to the pans I want
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it to come out perfectly so I'll cut me
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a piece of wax paper for each of my pans
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and I will use a baking spray to spray
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around the edges and the bottom and then
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I'll put my wax paper on it the spray
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helps your wax paper from moving around
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on you so I've got my three pans
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prepared I've sprayed them and I put the
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wax paper down in the bottom of each of
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them so they my cakes won't stick there
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is nothing worse than spending your time
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and money and then your cake stick I've
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had it happen and it's not fun the space
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or call one eight hundred six five nine
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nine 3300 all right now here comes the
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fun part we are gonna take our batter
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and we're gonna pour it into four
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separate bowls and try to try to mix it
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evenly as you can try to separate that
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batter of cake mix into four equal
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portions
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so then we're gonna use I have found
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that I love the gel food coloring Joe
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they are really vibrant in their color
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so you'll want to mix up your favorite
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colors naturally a red or green a blue
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and I love the purple color the purple
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it just reminds me of an Easter Egg I
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just love the vibrant color of purple so
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we're gonna color each of our bowls of
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batter and then we're going to take our
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cake pan and we're gonna spoon out a big
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dollop of batter say a purple batter and
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on top of that we're gonna choose
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another color say green and we're gonna
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put a spoonful of the green right into
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the middle of our perfect all right and
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we're gonna put that right in the middle
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of our purple and you can see as we add
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cake mix to your circle that it's
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eventually gonna make it to the edge of
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your pan alright so we've got our purple
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down we've put a big dollop of say green
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down alright on our next one we're gonna
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use a big ol scoop of say pink what the
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color of my sweat sweater it's gonna
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look like beautiful mush strawberries
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and each time that layer of cake
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is gonna move closer and closer to the
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edge until we have got enough batter in
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there to make a nice fat layer and then
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we're gonna go to our second pan and do
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it the same way but you can mix up your
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colors you can start with a yellow or a
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blue or a green or a purple whatever
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color you want and then just keep
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spooning batter on top of batter and
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you'll watch your batter spread out in
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that pan and when you take out of the
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oven and cut into it it's gonna have all
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these beautiful rainbow colors in it so
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we're gonna bake that in a preheated 350
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degree oven for about 20 to 25 minutes
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and there's a few ways that you can tell
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if your cake is done you can put your
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finger in the center of it and if it
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springs back then you know your cake is
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done and also a good way to tell is when
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your cake is done your cake will pull
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away from the sides of the pan and you
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can very easily see that so you'll want
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to take this your cake pants out of your
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oven and you'll want to let them rest
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but just a couple of minutes and then I
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always have a rack that that is actually
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in three pieces it was like an accordion
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it will close up or open up so I opened
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my up my rack up and I take each cake
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and turn it out of the pan and put it on
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the rack on my cooling rack and you'll
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want to let it cool completely to room
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temperature because once we iced it you
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know if the cake is warm then it'll melt
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our icing all right so we've got our
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icing made and that's two cups of butter
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at room temperature and four cups of
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confectioner's sugar beat together and
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you'll want to add probably one to two
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tablespoons of milk to just get it
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spreading consistency but a little milk
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goes a long way with confectioner sugar
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so you'll want to be real real careful
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now that we've gotten it beat up well
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we'll want to add a teaspoon and a half
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maybe a vanilla flavoring or a little
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almond flavoring I usually use a
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teaspoon of vanilla and a teaspoon of
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almond so your cake is is ready to frost
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and your children your grandchildren
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they are gonna just love slicing into
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that cake but you know what they'll love
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even more is helping you make the cake
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because it really is fun watching all
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those vibrant gel food colorings work
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together I hope y'all like it and I hope
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this is maybe a little easier for you
11:47
but you gotta make that cake the space
11:51
that you live in really affects the way
11:54
you feel so my first recommendation is
11:57
start by updating your window treatments
12:00
with Smith & Noble Smith & Nobles
12:02
beautiful handcrafted blinds drapes
12:05
shades and shutters are custom made just
12:07
for you and they offer different service
12:10
options to fit your needs to get started
12:12
today contact Smith & Noble to get my
12:15
special limited time offer 25% off on
12:19
your window treatments plus free design
12:22
consultation create a space that you're
12:25
gonna love but details about my special
12:28
offer go to Smith & noble.com slash
12:31
Paula that Smith & noble.com slash Paula
12:35
or call one eight hundred six five nine
12:40
3300 that's one eight hundred six five
12:43
nine 3300
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