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On today's show, 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.
Preperation:
Step 1
Cream butter
Add sugar to beaten butter
Whip sugar into butter until smooth, usually takes 5-8 minutes
Step 2
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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 bowl
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real good because you'll want to make
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sure all that's incorporated so we've
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got our three cups of self-rising flour
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and our one cup of milk on the counter
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now we're gonna start adding our flour
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and milk and we're gonna begin with
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flour and we're gonna end with flour and
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I can't tell you why but I know that's
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the way you're 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 a
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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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to learn it's incorporated and then
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we're
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gonna divide our batter we've got three
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9-inch cake pans and I always take me
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wax paper and I'll lay my pan on top of
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the wax paper and I'll go around the
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edges with my scissors because I want to
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I don't want my cake to stick to the
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pans I want it to come out perfectly so
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I'll cut me a piece of wax paper for
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each of my pans and I will use a baking
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spray to spray around the edges and the
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bottom and then I'll put my wax paper on
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it the spray helps your wax paper from
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moving around on you so I've got my
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three pans prepared I've sprayed them
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and I've put the wax paper down in the
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bottom of each of them so they my cakes
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won't stick there is nothing worse than
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spending your time and money and then
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your cake stick I've had it happen and
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it's not fun the space that you live in
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five nine 3300 all right now here comes
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the fun part we are going to take our
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batter and we're going to pour it into
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four separate bowls and try to try to
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mix it evenly as you can try to separate
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that batter of cake mix into four equal
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portions
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so then we're going to use I have found
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that I love the gel food coloring Jol
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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 a 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 going to 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 alright 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 bigger scoop of say pink like 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 this was like an
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accordion it will close up or open up so
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I opened my up my rack up and I take
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each cake and turn it out of the pan and
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put it on the rack on my cooling rack
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and you'll want to let it cool
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completely to room temperature because
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once we iced it you know if the cake is
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warm then it'll melt our icing all right
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so we've got our icing made and that's
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two cups of butter at room temperature
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and four cups of confectioner's sugar
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beat together and you'll want to add
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probably one to two tablespoons of milk
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did
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get it to spreading consistency but a
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little milk goes a long way with
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confectioner sugar so you'll want to be
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real real careful now that we've gotten
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it beat up well we'll want to add a
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teaspoon and a half maybe a vanilla
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flavoring or a little almond flavoring I
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usually use a teaspoon of vanilla and a
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teaspoon of almond so your cake is is
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ready to frost and your children your
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grandchildren they are gonna just love
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slicing into that cake but you know what
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they'll love even more it's helping you
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make the cake because it really is fun
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watching all those vibrant gel food
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colorings work together I hope y'all
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like it I hope this is maybe a little
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easier for you but you gotta make that
11:49
cake the space that you live in really
11:53
affects the way you feel so my first
11:56
recommendation is start by updating your
11:59
window treatments with Smith & Noble
12:01
Smith & Nobles beautiful handcrafted
12:03
blinds drapes shades and shutters are
12:06
custom made just for you and they offer
12:08
different service options to fit your
12:11
needs to get started today contact Smith
12:14
& Noble to get my special limited time
12:16
offer 25% off on your window treatments
12:20
plus free design consultation create a
12:23
space that you're gonna love but details
12:27
about my special offer go to Smith &
12:30
noble.com slash Paula that Smith &
12:33
noble.com slash Paula or call one eight
12:37
hundred six five nine 3300 that's one
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eight hundred six five nine 3300
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