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HOLIDAY HOT CHOCOLATE POKE CAKE Made Easy with Box Cake Mix
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Mar 14, 2025
HOLIDAY HOT CHOCOLATE POKE CAKE Made Easy with Box Cake Mix Today's Recipe: https://catherinesplates.com/hot-chocolate-poke-cake-easy-boxed-cake-recipe/ **Click here to see my recipe blog: https://catherinesplates.com NEW: To purchase my Dessert Cookbook, click link https://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/10034701/10feb0fb4a14a171cfaeed6889d6656eab1a0016 *To purchase my cookbook vol 1, click link https://www.blurb.com/b/9452561-catherine-s-plates **To purchase my cookbook vol 2, click here https://www.blurb.com/b/10367334-catherine-s-plates-cookbook ***To purchase my cookbook vol 3, click here https://www.blurb.com/b/11248440-catherine-s-plates-3rd-edition-2022 ***My Amazon StoreFront https://www.amazon.com/shop/catherinesplates (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) ***Follow me on Social Media Facebook @ https://facebook.com/catherinesplates/ YouTube @ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuvgtfqhHTKI5kymcLKeyxg Pinterest @ https://www.pinterest.com/CatherinesPlates/ TikTok @ https://www.tiktok.com/@catherinesplates Rumble @ https://rumble.com/c/c-1642522
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hello everyone welcome back it is the
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Christmas season and we want to make
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something fun for you I have my daughter
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Rihanna in the kitchen today hello and
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she wants to make hot chocolate poke
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cake and we're going to make it Easy by
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using a box cake there you go so we're
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going to get started and the first thing
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you want to do is bake the
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cake and we're not going to follow the
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directions on the back of the package
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we're going to change up some
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ingredients because we want to make this
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a bakery style cake it's fluffier
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lighter it's got delicious flavor to it
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so let's go ahead and get started
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Rihanna's going to start by emptying one
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box of Devil's food cake mix and this
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is a
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15.25 o size box they always seem to be
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different these days don't
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they okay let's talk about the ingredi
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we're going to add to that now you can
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follow the directions on the back of the
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box that's totally fine okay we're doing
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it Bakery style today so we're going to
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change up some ingredients so while
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she's getting that in there she's going
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to add in one cup of
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milk and then we're going to add in half
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a cup or one stick of melted
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butter now since we're going to be
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adding in eggs you want to make sure
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that your butter cools down a little bit
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that way you don't scramble your
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eggs and we're going to be using four of
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them so Rihanna is going to crack the
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eggs into a separate Bowl we'll just use
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this one right here it's okay it's got
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butter in it and then we'll add them
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that way we don't get any shells in our
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cake
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mix so go
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[Music]
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one all right we got three and four
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put it in
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there we're going to add
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it okay Rihanna's going to beat our
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mixture for about 2 minutes that'll make
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it nice and fluffy also lots of tips
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that you can use to make a fluffy batter
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now I've just got my spatula here I'm
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going to push down every so often the
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mixture on the side of the bowl so that
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way we get a good mix on everything
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how's it going in there going good my
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kids moved out about four months ago
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they live together in a
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house learning how to pay bills learning
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how to deal with situations that arise
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at the house they're sure learning about
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life they're both in their 20s okay we
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got a nice fluffy batter we're going to
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turn that off come up slowly there you
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go and then just pull it out that way
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you get all that cake batter off and
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we're done with
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that we're going to bring over a 9x13
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baking dish we're going to spray it with
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some non-stick cooking spray now I like
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to use the kind this is a baker's Joy
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it's got flour in it which really helps
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release the cake from your baking dish
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all right
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Rihanna now we're going to pour the
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mixture into our baking
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dish Rihanna loves to learn how to cook
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something don't you I do they have to
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now oh yeah it's not really easy when
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you don't have a pantry full of stuff is
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it so when you use a cake box you can
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make a lot of cake recipes by using a
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cake box and just using some simple fun
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ingredients there we go go ahead and
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smooth that
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out that looks good and you know this
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will sort itself out in the oven okay
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we're going to bake this cake per the
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directions on the back of the box now
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you want to look for the 9 by 13 and
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that's how long you're going to bake the
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cake and we're going to be in the oven
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for 35 to 38 minutes and we've got it
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preheated at
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350° when we pull it out we got some fun
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stuff fixing to happen it's a hot
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chocolate cake so we got to get it there
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all right Rihanna pop it in the oven and
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we'll be
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back okay we've got the cake out of the
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oven we allowed it to rest for about 10
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minutes now we did the toothpick test
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before it came out of the oven and
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Rihanna just put it into the center of
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the cake pulled it out made sure it was
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nice and clean that way you know your
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cake isn't ready to go we are going to
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poke holes in our cake CU it is a poke
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cake we're going to use a large straw
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that's a perfect thing to use or if you
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have a wooden spoon the end of it s is
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going to start and you want to make sure
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your holes are about A4 of an inch apart
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now we're going to make some delicious
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filling for the holes of this cake to
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start the yumminess we're going to be
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using two jars of marshmallow cream now
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this is by jet puffed so I'm going have
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Rihanna open one I'm going to open one
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these are 7 oz each jar take a spatula
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and then we're going to spray it on both
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sides with some non-stick cooking spray
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I'm going have Ranna do that over the
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sink you don't want to do it in your
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workspace you might get it on the floor
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or on other stuff and going to get
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really slick on the floor and you don't
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want that so you're going to dive in to
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the very
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edge and it should pull out empty my mom
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had marshmallow cream in the cabinet and
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I would wait until everybody went to
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bed yep and I would get up
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go in there with a spoon and this and
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hide behind a chair and try to eat
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some but I wasn't I wasn't really good
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at it I always got caught yep I used to
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love this stuff as a kid just out of the
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jar I don't know why I couldn't do that
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now we're using a microwave safe Bowl
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cuz we're going to place it in the
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microwave this recipe can be found on my
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recipe blog Katherine
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plates.com we've got one4 cup of water
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going in
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Rihanna mix that up just a little bit
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before we put it in the microwave and
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we're going to put it in the microwave
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at 20 second increments stirring each
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time until we get a nice smooth
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consistency okay we've pulled it out of
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the microwave we're going to give it a
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stir and then we're going to go ahead
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and put it back in the microwave for
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another 20
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seconds look at this creaminess right
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here going to move it forward so you can
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see that's how smooth you want it okay
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now we're going to work quickly with it
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before it cools down we're going to pour
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it all over our cake aim for the
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holes go
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slow pour it over the
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top and get a nice smooth mixture
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there now rean just going to take that
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smooth it out going all the way to the
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edges there we go that looks good right
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there that's Rihanna's spatula
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today it's like if you snooze you lose
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right but Thomas is not snoozing today
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he's out doing some errands so she gets
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the bowl in the spatula about time she
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wants that straw too that has the cake
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all in it froming the holes here so
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we're going to share all of that while
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we're waiting for this it's got a set up
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for for 1 hour to 2 hours however long
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you're going to wait we're going to pop
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it in the refrigerator to do that and
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then we're going to come back and we
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still have one more layer to put on here
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and involves hot chocolate we'll be back
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okay we've rested our cake in the
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refrigerator for a good hour hour and 15
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minutes I would say so now we're going
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to top the cake with a hot chocolate mix
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we're going to be putting in one
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container of Cool Whip now we thought
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this out we're going to put it into a
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medium Bowl I'll have Rihanna do that
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we're going to talk about the hot
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chocolate just use your favorite hot
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chocolate
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packets now my recipe calls for two but
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I feel like if you want it darker add
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more
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so we're definitely going to be putting
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in three but I'm going to bring out
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four in case we need it and this is what
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we're using right here it's just a rich
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milk chocolate
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flavor these are individual packets and
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if you need to know how much this is
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these are 85 Oz each all right you're
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going to put that in and then we'll add
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in the hot
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chocolate
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okay that's
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[Music]
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one Rihanna said to add all four mhm so
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we'll do that okay Rihanna Take Your
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whisk we're just going to blend that all
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together this is the perfect holiday
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cake to bring out especially this winter
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time it's going to be cold okay we've
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got that all mixed together what we're
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going to do pop it onto the cake here
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smooth it out and we've got something
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else to add oh doesn't that look good
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smells delicious too here I'll hold it
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if you want and you can scrape it on out
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now what you want to do is smooth it
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out now while she's doing that I'm going
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to be taking some of this hot fudge
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topping and I'm going to put it into a
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microwave safe bowl and we're just going
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to melt that a little bit for about 20
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seconds so that it's pourable all right
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now when we get done brien's going to
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come back through here and give it some
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little whiffs so just yep put it down
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bring it up like that and we're going to
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do it all over the cake make it look
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really pretty
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this was a 12 O jar of the hot fudge now
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it took about 40 seconds to
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melt in the microwave all right
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Rihanna's going to go ahead start down
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here and then start
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swirling
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yep all the way down to the end get
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really thick down there toward the end
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boom pull up y'all look at that our hot
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chocolate poke cake made easy with a
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devil's food boxed cake
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mix we're we going to cut a piece give
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it a try for
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You Rihanna said this slic right here
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right oh
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yeah look at that you
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guys
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oh here we
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go layer after layer after layer filled
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with
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deliciousness
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mhm oh my gosh that's delicious that is
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give us a thumbs on this one Rihanna did
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an awesome job helping me today thank
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you very
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much it's hard to get her in the kitchen
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sometimes she's
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busy all right we'll see y'all on the
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next episode happy holidays Merry
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Christmas Christmas hope everyone has a
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happy New Year we'll see yall on the
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next episode bye bye
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