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Gesine Bullock-Prado Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: next guest is a a true leader in the balanced
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Speaker 1: life calgory. She's the owner instructor of a Sugar Glider Kitchen,
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Speaker 1: a baking school in Hartford, Vermont. She lives in a
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Speaker 1: small farm. She lives on a small phone with her husband,
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Speaker 1: two dogs, two cats, and chickens. I love the chicken part.
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Speaker 1: She bakes and cooks from the bounty of her property.
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Speaker 1: She's the author Baky Like You Mean It, which I love,
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Speaker 1: Leave Let Them Eat Cake, My Life from Scratch, Sugar Baby,
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Speaker 1: and Pie and Pie Forward, and has been featured in
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Speaker 1: Better Homes and Garden, People Magazine, US Yankee Magazine, and
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Speaker 1: in Style Magazine, just to name a few. She's piers
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Speaker 1: regularly on the regularly on The Today Show and The
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Speaker 1: Talk and she's the host of Food Networks Baked in Vermont.
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Speaker 1: She lives in Hartford, Vermont. I just got back from there.
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Speaker 1: Please welcome to Money Making Conversation and Jina, well look
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Speaker 1: produ thank you for having me. I was correcting with
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Speaker 1: everything right. I was great, Yet either great and it's
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Speaker 1: so nice to talk to a fellow baker. You okay,
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Speaker 1: like you know, let's let's get this right. Okay, fellow baker,
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Speaker 1: you'd been nice. You are like the Lebron baking Okay,
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Speaker 1: Roshan McDonald's like a high first round draft pick. Okay,
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Speaker 1: don't you know? Told I know the game. I can drillble,
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Speaker 1: I can dog still. You know. I have an up
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Speaker 1: and down game here and there. But you are the Lebron.
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Speaker 1: So let's get that straight. Okay, thank you, thank you.
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Speaker 1: I'm blessing well you should be because of the fact that,
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Speaker 1: first of all, I read your book and let me
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Speaker 1: get a little history about me, Roshan McDonald. I'm my
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Speaker 1: wife always complained. She said, anything I do, I'm good at. Okay.
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Speaker 1: In twelve, I was pranked on a talk show that
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Speaker 1: I co created with Steve Harvey to bake a cake,
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Speaker 1: and I wind up baking three cakes. And that's twenty twelve,
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Speaker 1: and I launched into a baking career, never baking anything
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Speaker 1: prior to that. I have an are people who just
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Speaker 1: have a knack for it. It's it's in your blood.
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Speaker 1: You have butter in your blood. Absolutely, that's why it's
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Speaker 1: great that I met you finally, because she she being
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Speaker 1: natural means that I'm just in the kitchen. I do everything. Uh,
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Speaker 1: everything's measured. I'm not like my my mom. You know,
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Speaker 1: she just goes in and just pick up some sugar
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Speaker 1: and hand just throw it in there, going really, mom,
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Speaker 1: really was that a half a cup? Or cup? Baby? Baby,
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Speaker 1: don't be bothering me. I'm cooking. I'm baking, okay. And
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Speaker 1: so so when I read your book and I'm recommending
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Speaker 1: this book, I I want you your team to send
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Speaker 1: me a social media post so I can put on
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Speaker 1: all my social media. It's called Fantastical Cakes, okay, and
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Speaker 1: it's it's it's one of these books that you can
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Speaker 1: put on your coffee table if you want to, okay,
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Speaker 1: because the pictures are amazing, the book covers amaze. But
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Speaker 1: when you opened a book, she changed my life. Oh
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Speaker 1: you know for me, cake does? I mean it might
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Speaker 1: sound really silly and superficial, but cake and bake goods
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Speaker 1: can really change lives. And you know, you being a natural,
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Speaker 1: you know how it feels to you to bake, because
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Speaker 1: for people who love to bake, it is meditative. It
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Speaker 1: is so crucial, especially when you feel like life in
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Speaker 1: the world isn't kind of going in the right way
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Speaker 1: or on the right path. You can find time in
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Speaker 1: your kitchen to create an environment where you find happiness
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Speaker 1: and your own meditative space. And that baking does that
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Speaker 1: for me. I'm sure it does it for you. But
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Speaker 1: the finished product too, if once you give it to
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Speaker 1: someone with all your heart and your soul put into it,
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Speaker 1: it can change someone else's life. Because you don't need
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Speaker 1: a ham sandwich for a wedding. You eat the wedding cake, right,
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Speaker 1: That's the big thing things anniversaries. You now they're making
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Speaker 1: divorce cakes whatever, but it is one of those things
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Speaker 1: that you need that cake to know that this is
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Speaker 1: a moment of great celebration. And to me, that could
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Speaker 1: be any day, that could be every day. It should be,
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Speaker 1: but you know, and then I've had customers when I
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Speaker 1: did have a pastry shop who had memories like when
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Speaker 1: how you said your mom baked or how she bakes.
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Speaker 1: Is that there's some people who they're like, I missed
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Speaker 1: my mom. She made this thing. She did exactly what
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Speaker 1: your mom does that she didn't measure and they're like,
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Speaker 1: I need this back in my life because I miss her.
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Speaker 1: So much and being able to have that in my
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Speaker 1: life again will recall her memory, and being the baker
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Speaker 1: who can recreate those memories for someone is such a
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Speaker 1: special thing. It's like it is. It is the gift
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Speaker 1: God gave me to be able to create things that
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Speaker 1: bring back memories for people. And thank you for doing it.
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Speaker 1: And thank you. We're going to talk about later because
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Speaker 1: I have too breaks with you. You making that transition
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Speaker 1: and following your path your blessing, and that's what you're
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Speaker 1: doing your life. You live in your blessing. It. But
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Speaker 1: let's talk about the book here and why Rashaan is
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Speaker 1: so passionate about the book. See, I just I just
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Speaker 1: bought a new oven. I had a Wolf oven, okay,
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Speaker 1: and and I automatically assumed that when I it was
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Speaker 1: brand new, it was only three weeks old. Okay. So
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Speaker 1: this is a good conversation with me. Okay, And so
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Speaker 1: I put you I got a bottom in the top
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Speaker 1: because I bake all the time. Every Tuesday, I baked
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Speaker 1: six desserts for my staff in my Atlanta in my
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Speaker 1: Atlanta office. I'm just often I bake, okay, and so
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Speaker 1: and so I I put it on three fifty or
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Speaker 1: three seventy five or four hundred. But I noticed it
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Speaker 1: was something off with with the heat, and so I
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Speaker 1: wrote it out. I wrote it out, and then I
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Speaker 1: opened her book and she said, dummy, she might well
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Speaker 1: just said that to me. Don't trust. I don't know
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Speaker 1: would say that to me, because I was. I trusted
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Speaker 1: this system. She said, Look, I'm sorry to be the
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Speaker 1: one to tell you this, but the most necessary implement
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Speaker 1: in your banking arsenal is probably not being truthful. She's
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Speaker 1: talking about the oven is lying to you. Okay, fine,
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Speaker 1: there are some ovens there are true the whole temperature properly.
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Speaker 1: But there's a rare oven. Indeed, it is. It's so unfair,
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Speaker 1: it's true, right, because you can't bake with that that
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Speaker 1: stupid oven. And then one of the things that people
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Speaker 1: complain the most about recipe is that, like it took
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Speaker 1: me twenty minutes longer than it's said in the recipe,
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Speaker 1: it's because your oven is a big fat liar. Oven
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Speaker 1: is a liar. And so everyone knows that everyone who
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Speaker 1: has an oven eating, whether it's a wolf which is
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Speaker 1: one of the best ovens in the world, or it's
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Speaker 1: just you know, the taddy thing that you got from
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Speaker 1: your grandma that you know barely works oftentimes does actually
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Speaker 1: work better. Bake that liars things and so and so.
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Speaker 1: So that's the beauty of that. So now she's so
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Speaker 1: so at the very beginning, she gives you structure and
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Speaker 1: rules to play by in the baking business. That's what
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Speaker 1: I really was found fascinating about this book because you know,
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Speaker 1: the average baking a cookbook, they just start, you start
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Speaker 1: baking and just so. But there are rules you have
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Speaker 1: to play by, and you have to understand flour is
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Speaker 1: different tools of the of the trade you have to
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Speaker 1: have working there. And I want to talk about something
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Speaker 1: that that the freezing of cakes. Like in your refrigerator.
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Speaker 1: You said, Richard, you look at my refrege and said
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Speaker 1: to me, but a book says that that Rashan. If
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Speaker 1: you look at my refrigerator, I always have layers of
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Speaker 1: cake just frozen, ready to be served. See in my
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Speaker 1: mind when you say that, I go, okay, it's frozen.
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Speaker 1: When do you My thought is it's stale. See See
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Speaker 1: I'm freaking out right there. So walking through that whole process. Okay, Well,
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Speaker 1: first off, in freezing many layer cakes, you improve the
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Speaker 1: texture of it because when you cut into the cake
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Speaker 1: and you look to the side of it, what you're
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Speaker 1: seeing is called crumb. And when you freeze that cake,
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Speaker 1: once it has come to room temperature, oftentimes it tightens
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Speaker 1: in a really nice way. For instance, and I know
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Speaker 1: you've done this when you cut a cake in half
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Speaker 1: because you want multiple layers when it has come to
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Speaker 1: room temperature, and then you lift the top off and
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Speaker 1: you're like, I have just shredded half of the inside
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Speaker 1: of that cake. If you freeze it for a little bit,
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Speaker 1: it literally tightens the crumb. So if you're gonna cut
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Speaker 1: it in half, you don't want to freeze it completely.
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Speaker 1: You just want to get it nice and solid inside.
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Speaker 1: And then once you slice it in half, you don't
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Speaker 1: lose any of that cake. That's the first part of freezing,
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Speaker 1: and that you can cut your cake in half and
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Speaker 1: actually still have cake left. Okay, Okay. The other thing
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Speaker 1: is that's just that's amazing. That's amazing. I want to.
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Speaker 1: I want to, I want to. I want to hold
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Speaker 1: that thought down, okay, because I want to. I want
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Speaker 1: to get the details on it, because I'm telling you,
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Speaker 1: reading your book has changed the way I'm approaching As
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Speaker 1: you know, life is about fear and walking into the unknown.
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Speaker 1: And you have open turned on the light in the
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Speaker 1: room for me to walk in with courage now in
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Speaker 1: the kitchen, and that's really something special. And I want
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Speaker 1: to drive that home to my audience that that this
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Speaker 1: book is not only fun and easy to use, but
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Speaker 1: it will change the way you approach in a good
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Speaker 1: way to do the kitchen. We were right back with
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Speaker 1: more money making conversation. I'm with the Lebrono baking this
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Speaker 1: for Sean McDonald. I'm having such a fantastic time with
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Speaker 1: my guests. Uh. I joking called her, I'm a high
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Speaker 1: draft pick, you know in the NBA Game of the
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Speaker 1: baking and she's the the Lebron James. She's an m
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Speaker 1: v P year you know, always takes her team to
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Speaker 1: the championship match. She has a fantastict book out that
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Speaker 1: I've been Uh, that's changed the way I approached my
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Speaker 1: baking in the kitchen is called Fantastical Cakes. She's back
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Speaker 1: on the phone and we're talking about it. Please let
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Speaker 1: me know why did you write this book, And before
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Speaker 1: you do that, explain the whole thing about the frozen layers,
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Speaker 1: because you know, my wife freezes everything. I'm gonna just
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Speaker 1: tell you my wife is so much a part of
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Speaker 1: this conversation because she's gonna be so happy she freezes
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Speaker 1: every thing. And I'll just go, why, why why you
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Speaker 1: freezing everything? If you just it's gonna be good. So
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Speaker 1: they have have you talking about this is amazing to me. Okay, well,
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Speaker 1: the thing to me about the freezer, it is just
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Speaker 1: it is kind of like going get hitting the jackpot
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Speaker 1: when you find things that you forgot were in there
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Speaker 1: and you're so excited to find them again. That's my
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Speaker 1: favorite thing. But when when you freeze, when you freeze
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Speaker 1: layers of cake, first of all, you have to wrap
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Speaker 1: them really well in plastic wrap, and then I wrapped
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Speaker 1: them in another layer of aluminum foil um and then
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Speaker 1: so they're protected because like oven, some freezers are jerks
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Speaker 1: and their temperature is very unregulated. So like if you
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Speaker 1: ever have the ice cream and you get the crystals
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Speaker 1: on it, it's because you're it's because you're it's because
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Speaker 1: you're freezer is dipping and rising and temperature and just
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Speaker 1: being cruel to you. But in general, layers keep really
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Speaker 1: well and oftentimes improven texture. And what I do when
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Speaker 1: I started some and cakes from the freezer. I take
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Speaker 1: them straight from the freezer and start building my cake.
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Speaker 1: And the reason that works so well is that once
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Speaker 1: you start putting the filling. Sometimes fillings are a little
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Speaker 1: looser than the outside icing, they will set almost immediately
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Speaker 1: so that you can start stacking the cake really fast
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Speaker 1: without having to take breaks. So if you have a
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Speaker 1: really loose filling and you're like, I have to make
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Speaker 1: sure that it goes into the freezer or whatever so
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Speaker 1: that it sets. If you have a frozen cake, the
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Speaker 1: second it hits that cake, it kind of like goes,
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Speaker 1: oh yeah, I'm gonna stay right here. And then you
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Speaker 1: can keep and you can keep building really fast. By
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Speaker 1: the time you're done with it, you can refrigerate it
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Speaker 1: and with an hour or two, I mean, those layers
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Speaker 1: will saw relatively quickly. So you're not going to have
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Speaker 1: to worry about serving frozen cake to your guest because
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Speaker 1: taste of it's gonna be phenomenal. Because there's been a
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Speaker 1: problem with me, because like I told you, every Tuesday
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Speaker 1: I do a big deserts for at least six desserts
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Speaker 1: for my staff. And I've been and I you know,
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Speaker 1: I work a regular job and then I go home
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Speaker 1: when I usually bake these things overnight and so but
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Speaker 1: the cake thing now I realized now and listen to you.
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Speaker 1: I can bake it on Saturday. I can bake my
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Speaker 1: layers on Sunday, freeze them and then on on on
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Speaker 1: on Monday night or wake up Tuesday morning. When I
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Speaker 1: do the presentation is just pull them out and do
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Speaker 1: my whole heights and then I'm good to go. You
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Speaker 1: are queen, You're the best. Thank you very welcome. And
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Speaker 1: it makes me happy because I know that there are
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Speaker 1: kind of two different heads from baking layers to the
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Speaker 1: actual assembling and decorating, so it's nice to have two
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Speaker 1: different days to do that so you don't have to
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Speaker 1: switch gears right in the middle of it. And that's
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Speaker 1: an amazing thing. Now, let's talk about your your your
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Speaker 1: baking school that I off air. I've just been raving
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Speaker 1: about this and let let's bring it on air and
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Speaker 1: about I want to come to your school. It'sen uh
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Speaker 1: Hartford from my correct Yes it is okay cool, tell
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Speaker 1: us about that and tell us how one can go
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Speaker 1: or google online, because you will be seeing me. You
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Speaker 1: maybe see me in January of maybe because you know,
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Speaker 1: when I go on vacation, I'm going to Alaska and
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Speaker 1: in May Alaska me. So you're becoming one of my
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Speaker 1: bucket lists. You one of my bucket lists. I'm here,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna put a reserved little plaque on on the
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Speaker 1: seat for you. Thank you. You're welcome. So tell us
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Speaker 1: about your baking school. Well, I I've been teaching over
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Speaker 1: a decade. So I was teaching at King Arthur Flower
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Speaker 1: off and on for a decade, and I loved it
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Speaker 1: so much. And my husband, I wasn't in Maine teaching
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Speaker 1: at another place called Stonewall Kitchen. And my husband comes
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Speaker 1: in at the very end of it because he's the
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Speaker 1: most supportive guy in the world, and at the end
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Speaker 1: of after class because he stayed for some of it illegally.
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Speaker 1: He said, you have to do this all the time,
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Speaker 1: like you were made to do this. And and I said,
14:45
Speaker 1: where where what he goes, we have your baking space.
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Speaker 1: Will just convert it into a school. So he actually
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Speaker 1: does the dishes on the weekends for the class or
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Speaker 1: whenever he complains about I go, this was your idea, um,
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Speaker 1: And so it's a really small class us and know
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Speaker 1: it's like dishes. Why would anybody want to play chocolates?
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Speaker 1: Your idea? So it's only eight to twelve students, So
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Speaker 1: I get to be in everybody's business all the time,
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Speaker 1: which makes me so happy because you get to connect
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Speaker 1: with students. You can make them comfortable, you can even
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Speaker 1: you know, it's so good to see someone doing something,
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Speaker 1: not just reading it. But even when students go back
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Speaker 1: to their tables, they stick there like yep, get it,
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Speaker 1: got it, got it, And then they start and they're
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Speaker 1: like what was that again? And then I can just
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Speaker 1: jump on them and say, Okay, I'm watching what you're doing.
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Speaker 1: Your hands are doing exactly the opposite of what your
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Speaker 1: brain is telling them to do, and I can like
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Speaker 1: correct them right down and there, and then they can
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Speaker 1: have that wonderful life all moment of that's what I
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Speaker 1: was screwing up, and it is just I just love
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Speaker 1: to have that connection with students to make them realize
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Speaker 1: things like sometimes it's your oven, isn't it great when
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Speaker 1: you find out that it's not you, that it's something
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Speaker 1: else entirely, that's the messing of your life. And then
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Speaker 1: just kind of give them the confidence to to move
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Speaker 1: forward in their kitchen and they don't have to use
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Speaker 1: my recipes. They can like look at whatever they want
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Speaker 1: and be able to decipher what they have to do
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Speaker 1: and maybe even do it better than what the recipe
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Speaker 1: is asking of them. So that's It's just it's my
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Speaker 1: favorite and people come from all over the country, and
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Speaker 1: people make friends and email each other after classes. Maybe
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Speaker 1: some enemies, I don't know, if they screw up something, well,
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Speaker 1: I'll be doing the coconut cake. That's that's one of
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Speaker 1: my favorites. Coconut cake, the banana cake, and the carrot cake.
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Speaker 1: Those are my three cakes that I will be making
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Speaker 1: out of the starting this weekend. I'm gonna do the
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Speaker 1: carrot cake because I'm a fanatical fanatic about and Palm
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Speaker 1: Restaurant has one of the best carrot cakes in the
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Speaker 1: countryt going in and get that. So so let's talk
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Speaker 1: about you, my friends, some more about this step by
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Speaker 1: step instruction for baking, piping, and finishing. It's called the
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Speaker 1: B A D A S S Methods. Yes, which is
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say it. That's good. That's why I
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Speaker 1: love her. I love her. She protected my show. Okay,
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Speaker 1: B A D A S S method It stands for
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Speaker 1: a baker head damn, assemble, smooth coat and spruce it up.
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Speaker 1: Tell us about that method, Well, I think some people
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Speaker 1: get so like they see layer cake and they feel
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Speaker 1: like everything has to happen at once, And I wanted
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Speaker 1: to break it down for everyone. For instance, make the
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Speaker 1: layers ahead of time, bake ahead, freeze it, have them
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Speaker 1: ready to rumble when you're ready. And then the next
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Speaker 1: thing you do is a symbol. This has nothing to
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Speaker 1: do with the outside. You're creating a sturdy structure that's
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Speaker 1: going to be so delicious. And if you take the
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Speaker 1: time to pipe a damn around the inside layer of
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Speaker 1: the cake, so you're you're going to make sure that
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Speaker 1: any feeling that you have on the inside isn't gonna
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Speaker 1: start like, you know, muffin topping out of the sides
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Speaker 1: of the cake. I called spank. It's banks for cake.
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Speaker 1: You know, you're keeping everything. I never knew about that.
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Speaker 1: I never knew about. So that's what I'm saying. Her book,
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Speaker 1: that little damn she's talking about, you know, putting that
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Speaker 1: little a little circle around the edge and holes the
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Speaker 1: filling inside. Never never know about that until I read
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Speaker 1: the book Fantastical Cakes. And so if you look at
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Speaker 1: all these things on Instagram, which is what everyone is
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Speaker 1: aspiring to, these really smooth, smooth cakes. It's because people
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Speaker 1: took the time to make the inside of the cake
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Speaker 1: really well constructed. The other thing that's possible is that
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Speaker 1: those could very well be starting the phone cakes. I
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Speaker 1: wouldn't rule that on entirely, but if you want a
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Speaker 1: real cake that looks gorgeous, taking those few steps will
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Speaker 1: make your cake look gorgeous on the outside but also
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Speaker 1: taste better on the inside because if you take the
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Speaker 1: time to like pipe the filling, you'll have an even
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Speaker 1: amount of filling for each bite, and so the great
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Speaker 1: ratio between filling and cake, which is crucial. This is,
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Speaker 1: this is awesome. I'm on the phone with Justina, right,
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Speaker 1: Justina uh and she's the author of the book Fantastical Cakes.
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Speaker 1: You may have seen on television today show The talk Um.
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Speaker 1: She's amazing and regards to what she's doing for me
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Speaker 1: as a as a as, she says, I'm a natural baker,
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Speaker 1: but any natural baker needs structure. The book gives a
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Speaker 1: lot of really cool structure to what you should be
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Speaker 1: aware of when you walk in the kitchen, from the
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Speaker 1: type of flower that you use the type of non
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Speaker 1: stickpan versus stick pan, knowing that, hey, you know you
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Speaker 1: want you your pan sometimes the stick so it can
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Speaker 1: make sure the the the layer that you cook stays
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Speaker 1: to the edges and doesn't shrink. Little things like that
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Speaker 1: that I didn't even know about, that she just enlightens
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Speaker 1: you about. And then the amazing damn that she talks
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Speaker 1: about to be able to keep all of the icing
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Speaker 1: that you put between the layers in place. It's uh,
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Speaker 1: you know you you wrote a book I felt for
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Speaker 1: for me. I think for a lot of people out
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Speaker 1: there who who want to be I think a starter
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Speaker 1: as a starter kit for baking because of the way
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Speaker 1: you approached. Uh, my wife is gonna laugh because she
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Speaker 1: has King Arthur flower and our cabinet, and I never
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Speaker 1: messed with it. I'm a gold medal guy. Okay, I'll
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Speaker 1: it's not gonna be pretty. I'm just gonna I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: and we're gonna spend a weekend with you and have
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Speaker 1: a good part of life. And that's what I That
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Speaker 1: life the nineteen years, and uh, it's a balanced life
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Speaker 1: and I respect you for that. And uh, hopefully you'll
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Speaker 1: see me more than like I'm gonna just tell you.
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