Sweet Potato Bites

Potato balls is kinda like a sweet potato souffle

It's just not, it's just like it ain't. But it's like candy

If y'all have just tuned in

Leanne, don't go anywhere, because Leanne and I, we got one more thing to make

And this is a recipe that I've had a lot of good feedback on. It's sweet potato balls

It's just one of those things that's kind of fun. To take to a party

Yeah, well, I serve them at Thanksgiving sometimes. Oh, you do? Yeah, I'll change things up a little bit

So if you would, Leanne, just be mashing those sweet potatoes up, please

Okay. And while you're doing that, I'm gonna just get the yolk out of these two eggs

and I'm gonna toss them in there. The original recipe didn't call for yolks, y'all

but I've just found over the years that I kind of like what a yolk does to it

It makes them a little bit richer. When I walked in today, I said

Paul, you were so tiny. How much weight have you lost since you and I were together in Buffalo

About 30 or 35 pounds. Oh, my gosh. I need to... Thanks, y'all

I need to lose more, Leanne. No, you don't, you little bitty thing

I appreciate that, baby. But I said, I don't know if I want to film with her

because I look like I gave birth to Paula. She said, they don't think I ate Paula

I said, and gave birth to her. Oh, that's funny. You're little bitty es

But no, honey, I'm not. I'm trying to figure out what size this thing is

I don't know. I don't have all my glasses. Can you read? No, but I'm getting, let me get my glasses

You know, they ought to put it plain so us... Old girls can see it Do you is that say third Yes Okay I want two of packed brown sugar

All right, that's two-thirds. All right, I'm gonna add a little nutmeg

Now, y'all, I prefer fresh ground nutmeg, but we're kind of out, so

And be careful with your nutmeg, because nutmeg is strong. The recipe calls for a tablespoon

but I think that's way too much. Okay. All right. So I'm gonna do us some nuts

Okay. Maybe a half a cup. I'm gonna add probably a teaspoon of vanilla, y'all

And I'm gonna come down here and I'm gonna measure out two cups of sweetened coconut

Ooh! Yes, yes, yes. And I'm gonna add a half a cup of granulated sugar to that

and then I'm gonna add a teaspoon of ground cinnamon, y'all. All right, so we're just gonna mix that all up real good

Okay. I don't know how I came up with this recipe, but I remember I was writing that second cookbook

and I would sit at that dining room table all night long, and I'd look outside, and the sun would be coming up

And I wrote the entire book with a pencil and a notebook

It was nuts. Mo' nuts. All right, now we're going to form balls, Leanne

And then we're going to put a marshmallow in the center, y'all

And we're going to form that around that marshmallow. Now here's the kicker

You have to be careful when you bake your balls. Because if you bake them too long, they'll burst

So you come over here, and we just gonna keep kind of mashing that coconut into our balls

and then we gonna put them on the cookie sheet, just like so

This is intimidating making balls with Paula Dean Oh you fine honey you fine Okay All right make it a ball You got it too flat

Seems like I used to put a little butter in my sweet potatoes, too

How did I not do that? So this is what I'll do

I'll just bake it with a little butter on top Because you've got to have butter and sweet potatoes

Oh look, your bowls look so much better than mine That's alright, I've probably just got a little bit more experience

But you're doing great I think their mind goes in a bad, bad, dark place Yes

Leanne, have you been to any potluck parties? Or just parties? I do have potluck where all our friends get together and come to somebody's house

Yes. You know? And we were... What do you take? A lot of times I'll fry chicken, you know, or have cornbread for guests

Because if I see good-looking young men, I always promise them I'll fry my chicken

So I have to do a lot of that. And some people have better-looking casserole dishes than others

Oh, absolutely. And sometimes they accidentally leave them, but they don't put a piece of tape with their name on them

Oh, my gosh. And so you get to keep them. And, um, you know, I was always paranoid about that

because we had to put tape on it with our name. You know, I said, heaven forbid, should somebody pick up that dish

Mm-hmm. And it say Paula Deen, and I done got a bad dish, you know

That would just been awful. I feel like I've made my balls bigger than yours

Well, you may have bigger hands, so see, depending on your hand size

Yeah, I guess that's what did it. Do you want to make one more bowl? No, baby

I think we're perfect there with eight balls. Okay. All right, come on over here and wash your hands

and I'm going to put a little pat of butter on it. And then we're going to have to watch these suckers close

like I said to make sure we don overcook them This is hoompty people Huh You got a hoopty person thing and I couldn get it I do I started to panic break out and sweat over my lip

I couldn't figure out how to shut it off. It's kind of hoopty-doo. Because there's a GoPro camera underneath the sink

It's kind of hoopty-doo. And I feel like my pants are a little stretch in them

and now my crotch is hanging down to my knees. I don't want that GoPro to take the picture

A GoPro? All right, now I'm gonna stick these in the oven

and we're gonna bake them at 350. But we're gonna watch that, y'all

Come on, oven. Sometimes my oven goes out. Uh-oh, it ain't clicking

Well, if Paula Adeen's oven has gone out, then the rest of us, we're okay

We're okay in this world, because if Paula Adeen's oven goes out

you know, we don't feel so inferior. I'm telling you. Listen, the last time we were doing recipes

I did a pound cake that was so dadgum much work. And I noticed when I put it in the oven that the oven felt awfully hot

The man that had come serviced everything, he put the knobs on backwards, and it was actually on brawl at 500

Needless to say, in five minutes, I smelled something burning. It was my beautiful pound cake

But these are the ones that we have ready. and when they burst open like that

I just kind of close them back. So would you like a bite of one of my bones? Oh

Okay. But see, you open these up, y'all, and when folks go to eat it

there's a nice surprise in the center. That's good. Isn't that great

I love it. It's like candy. All right, so y'all, you know that there's going to be plenty of potluck dishes on this network

So y'all just look around, because they will be there