Sweet Ladies

Today, y'all, two of my favorite sweet ladies, Rebecca and Janine from Lulu's Chocolate Bar, are stopping by and we're making desserts all day and all night

They're fun girls. They know how to laugh. They know how to poke fun

And first, we're putting a decadent spin on a classic with our chocolate and caramel s'mores

How yummy is that? Mmm. Then, the girls give me the inside scoop on their delicious hazelnut cheesecake

It's delicious. And y'all, we're gonna wash it all down with a big old cup of coconut hot chocolate

Don't look so scared, girls. I'm not gonna burn y'all. Maybe. I quickly started trying to come up with some things that I wanted to fix for you girls

Wonderful. And I was just in here fixing to start the cookies, so y'all are right on time

Okay, well, we are armed with aprons. Yeah, well, yay. Ready to go

I don't use an apron myself, but this is great. We brought one for you, and you don't have to wear it if you don't want to

You know what? It goes with our clothes. Thank you. We have Lulu's aprons that we wear at Lulu's Chocolate Bar

And so you're an honorary Lulu now because you got your own. I am a Lulu

You know, I've been told that before. That I was a Lulu

Well, thank you, girls. You know, leopard print is so in again

It's always in. I was going to say, I don't know if it ever left. Well, I'm making cookies because I thought we could go outside and roast marshmallows and make some s'mores

Oh, yum. That sounds great. If you would, pack me up a half a cup of brown sugar in here

A half a cup of granulated sugar. One stick of butter. Cream that and then drop in one egg for me

And then we'll add the vanilla. What can I do for you? Over here, if you would measure me out, one and a half cups of all-purpose flour

Okay. That's great. And back here, what I'm going to be doing, I'm going to be getting up our chocolate chips and our peanuts

And I'm going to need three quarters of a cup of chocolate chips and about a half a cup of roasted peanuts

So there we go. All right, now, Janine. Yes. Rebecca. Yes. Rebecca, Janine

If you would put in a quarter teaspoon of salt and a half a teaspoon of baking soda

All right, so you're going to have our dry ingredients ready. Y'all, let's talk a little bit more about Lulu's

It's a dessert restaurant. We have a full bar, so we make all of our desserts in-house

We have about 18 different kinds of desserts a night. We also have, like, chocolate beer

Chocolate beer? Chocolate beer, and that's not sweet. Now, you shut up. Do y'all put the chocolate in the beer, or do y'all buy it like that

No, it already is chocolate beer. And people tend to be really excited when they walk in

and they think maybe it's a bakery or that's a bar. Uh-huh

And then they figure it out. I'm going to beat the heck out of that real quick, wife

All right, Rebecca, if you would come down with our dry ingredients

And I'm just going to move these down here out of the way so we've got room

I'm going to go ahead and I'm just going to eyeball a teaspoon of vanilla

And Rebecca, if you would start getting our dry ingredients into the bowl

All right, now, ladybugs. What we doing? I'm just going to fold these nuts and chocolate chips in

Yeah, you want to do that for me? Oh, sure. And I've got us a couple of baking sheets

Okay, how's that? All right. Mixed up? Yes. Oh, this is what we're going to drop the cookies with

Yes, we're going to do heaping tablespoons. Okay. And before I do that, I'm just going to spray them

So. That's a good idea. It'll sort of just come out a little easier for us

I never thought about that, so I don't have to use my finger. All right, now I'm going to just spray these

Let's put 12 drops of dough, four this away, three across, giving us 12

And hopefully we'll come out when we get through dipping, we'll come out with 24. Okay

We be right back We going to put these in the oven 350 for about 11 to 13 minutes Okay

And in the meantime, I've kind of got you out some pans and bowls

Can you get that, dear? Mm-hmm. So, can y'all show me how you make your famous hazelnut cheesecake

We have our two cups of the chocolate cookie crumbs. And that was three quarters of a stick of butter

And here, I'll just take this and get all that out for you

Look at that. See, another teaspoon was in there. Trying to elude us

Now tell me girls How'd y'all come up with the name Lulu's

We wanted to come up with a name That represented our grandmothers

Well my grandmother's name was Elsie Mine was Josephine And we couldn't come up with a good combination

Of those two names and Lulu just kind of Dropped from the sky And we both thought it was perfect

How'd y'all meet? We had a mutual friend And so we'd all go out together the three of us

And then the mutual friend went out of town for a month. So we went out almost every night

that month together. And then we stayed really good friends and we weren't quite as good a friend

So when the mutual friend that introduced y'all came back she was no longer a friend

No, she was. Rebecca, if you want to wash your hands. Yes, thank you. Janine and I can get

this in the oven for you. I'm assuming that y'all bake it off a little bit. 325 degrees for about

12 to 15 minutes. Okay, 12 to 15 minutes, It's 325 degrees

Coming up next, Janine and Rebecca show me how to make the luscious filling for their hazelnut cheesecake

Then our hot chocolate is so good, it's smoking. Don't look so scared, girls

I'm not going to burn y'all. Maybe. I am so ready for y'all to get your cake in the oven

Let's make this cheesecake. So y'all start making the filling. Okay. I'm going to take my cookies out of the oven

Okay. And let them be cooling. Look at our beautiful cookies, ladies

Yum. I'm going to get the crust out of the oven. Don't those look good

They look fantastic. Look. They're just sliding all around. I'm not going to have to fight them

All right, so y'all talk to me now while you're putting together the filling

Okay. So we've got four eight-ounce packages of cream cheese. Yes, you're starting it the way I like it

So 32 ounces altogether. Okay. And Janine's going to beat that up

And then once that gets beat up a little bit, we're going to add a cup of sugar

Uh-huh. We know the pan needs to be buttered for the... Oh, right

We need to butter our crust pan. Thank you. And now we're not going to add our sugar to you

You got that beat up, Janine. You always want your cream cheese at room temperature

Yes. It makes it so much easier. Right. It makes it so much easier. I think we can put the sugar in now

Okay. It looks good. And you don't want but one cup of sugar? One cup of sugar. Okay

Just level that off. Good again. I saw your garbage. So that's not real sweet

Well, the liqueur later is kind of sweet, so that'll sweet it up some more

Okay. At some point, you might want to stop and scrape down the sides and make sure it's all mixed in good

Okay, and how many eggs are y'all going to need? We're going to need three eggs

Get that ready. It's a fancy mixer. It's all electronic. I used to flip it up, you know, just a little time

What kind are you, are you used to using that? Move beyond that, but it has

I was gonna say, you look so much younger, Janae. Here, I'll help do that for you

So one of the two, there we go. These are your own chicken eggs? Yes

Oh, look how bright these yolks are. They're beautiful. You know, there is just nothing like having your fresh organic eggs every morning waiting on you. Right

All right, you ready? Yes. Thank you. Coming in with our two-thirds cup of sour cream

How much? Two-thirds of a cup. One. Two. Mm-hmm. Well, Rebecca, now you have put tinfoil around that

Why have you done that? We gonna bake our cheesecake in a water bath so it stay nice and creamy so we don want the water to get into the crust Because you know those pans aren airtight So just insurance You wrapped it in insurance

Okay. All right, now that's a hazelnut liqueur. This is hazelnut liqueur. We're going to put a half a cup

May I smell it before you put it in? Yes. I just love the smell of hazelnut

You can add that in for her slowly. Mmm. Smells so good

Well, just tell me, Janine, when you want me to start adding. Okay, I'm ready

Okay. There we go. It's looking nice and smooth. Yeah. Now, do you girls have any tips that you can give to everybody out there making cheesecake

because sometimes people can have problems with them, like cracking. That's the water bath

The top's cracking. The water bath is great for that. Yes. It keeps it from cracking

And then also you're going to have to let it cool once it comes out of the oven

Yes. For quite a while. If you put it in hot, it'll crack almost immediately

Okay. So let it cool down to room temperature after you've taken it out

This is more, it's not New York style at all. You know how those are kind of dry

This one's very creamy. I can't hardly wait to taste it. That looks good

What did I do? Did you get it all? I think you did pretty dadgum good. Okay

You didn't leave much for us to lick, Rebecca. And then I just sort of, you know, hit it on the top with my special to smooth it out

Yeah. All right. So you want the water right in the side

Try not to splash it up inside the tin foil. So y'all have the boiling hot water so it's got that head start

Right. I think you're good because you're about to get to the top layer of that foil. Okay, that's good

So, thank you, Janine. Now, what temperature for how long? 325 for an hour

Coming up next, we're making our decadent coconut hot chocolate. Delicious. It's fantastic, Paula

And later, these sweet ladies and I are roasting up marshmallows and making s'mores

So, girls. Yes. Yes. We are about to pull this stuff together

Nice. Cheesecakes in the refrigerator, chilling. Uh-huh. We've got our chocolate. We've got our marshmallows

Okay, I'm going to get us some hot chocolate. Ooh, great. Go in here

If y'all would be, I couldn't make up my mind about this hot chocolate

Uh-huh. I couldn't decide whether to use white or dark. Oh, I got white

So let's do both. Ooh, yum. We're just gonna add two quarts of milk and three ounces of both dark and white chocolates

So we're gonna let that... Oh, gosh. I forgot about my coconut, y'all. Oh

You know, you toast coconut, and it just brings out all kind of flavor

So, Janine, why don't you get the cheesecake out of the fridge? Sure

Oh, it's so pretty. All right, and y'all still have to make the chocolate thingies

Oh, the hazelnut marbles are made. Oh, they are made. Already made

You must have brought those in that sack of goodies. We did. Look how cute these are

Oh, my gracious. If you have to eat one, you have to eat one

I'm going to wait and taste my cheesecake. All right, here's our cake platter

Oh, lovely. So y'all do your thing to that, okay? Okay, we're just going to leave this on the bottom for now

because I think we could possibly make a big mess. Yes, yes

Do you want to decorate this? So we just have some fun with some chocolate sauce on top

Yes, have fun with it. Knock yourself out, Rebecca. Yes. Okay, then we're just going to decorate it with our hazelnut

marbles. We can both do some decorating. Yes. These are just beautiful. Thank you

Alright, our chocolate is starting to melt over here. Perfect. Alright, y'all stick your finger in there

I think it needs a little bit more chocolate, but tell me what y'all think

More chocolate. Yeah, so what do we have? Six ounces. Six ounces total

Should we chop it? The dark? Yeah, the dark. Let's chop. Okay

Let's just add three more ounces of each chocolate, y'all. And you know what

I gonna put a little bit of sugar That true I think I gonna add about a fourth of a cup to start with and we taste and see And you know what else I gonna do

I'm gonna do something that I don't normally do, but just give

it a little brownie look. With our toasted coconut? Oh no, I just

dropped a chocolate cake on the cheesecake. Okay, never happened. Oh, Tito

Listen, do not worry. I have a fine apron. I think this is enough of the chocolate

Yes. Look right there, Rebecca, and see if there's a whisk in there

There is. Yes, I just want to kind of whisk that chocolate

While I'm finishing that up, let's go ahead and make us a little tasting plate. Okay

Stand back, girls. We said way back

I'm going to toast our marshmallows. Don't look so scared, girls. I'm not going to burn y'all

Maybe. Oh, God, couldn't have happened better. Oh, perfect. All right. That's pretty

but I'm still not quite satisfied. So, fresh, sweetened. Never had whipped cream and marshmallows. No

Oh, really? No. It's an either or. All right. Mmm. Little piece of chocolate

Oh, look, it's running down the side. And then a coconut. Happy sipping, girls

Thank you. Mmm. What do y'all think? It's worth a bath

It's delicious. It is. Delicious. It's fantastic, Paula. Yeah, thank you. It's really, really good

Can we steal this for Lulu's chocolate bar? I would be mad if you didn't

Oh, nice. Thank you. All right, girls, let's try that cheesecake. Oh, yum

Uh-oh, some whipped cream fell on mine. Yum. Thank you. Okay. Mm-mm. Mm-mm

Oh, boy. Bon Appetit. Bon Appetit. It's delicious

I love hazelnut. Oh, we picked the right one for you. Yes, I adore hazelnut

Why don't we grab our cookies? Okay. Our hot chocolate. We need our chocolate squares

What can I carry? If you can carry that. I'll carry the marshmallows

Yeah, we can't go without our hot chocolates. Get all nippy out. A little chilly

Coming up, it's a perfect night for roasting marshmallows over a campfire

Whoa, blow Janine. Thank you. So what do you girls think

The hot chocolate is fantastic and this fire is perfect. Yes. What a beautiful night

If you would pass that to Janine, please. I'm making a mess with my hot chocolate

That's alright. We're out of doors. It's alright. I'm going to pass these to y'all

Thank you. We can make our s'mores. Wow. That's impressive. Isn't this wonderful

That's so cute. My grandson Jack and I roast marshmallows all year round in the fireplace

in the house. And we love it because we can do so many at the time

All right. So let's toast our marshmallows and make our s'mores. Okay

Whoa, blow, Janine. Thank you. All right. I'm going to get my plate

I'm going to fanangle my plate around here. Do you have a hand

There you go. Oh, my gosh. And it's going to melt. Whoa! Oh, no

Man down. Man down. All right. I'm fixing to go ahead and get mine

You know what? I might have just done the perfect marshmallow. Look at that

Yeah, it's fantastic. Look. Look. Girls, I have had a wonderful afternoon with y'all

We'll have to get together again real soon. And I can tell you right now, look for me

I'm coming to Lulu's. Oh, good. My husband's got a sweet tooth the size of that fire pit

So y'all hold on to your stuff. Mmm. Is it good? Mmm

How yummy is that? Mmm