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CHRISTMAS CLASSIC M&M COOKIES | Look Who Got Married
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Merry Christmas everyone. It is cookie
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day. I am going to show you how to make
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a classic M&M cookie. Now you can make
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these soft and chewy or you can even
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make these kind of flat and nice and
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crispy on the edges. Now this recipe
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comes out of my Catherine's Plates easy
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delectible desserts recipe cookbook in
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the cookie section. You can even find
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this recipe on my blog cathplates.com
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where you can find all of my cookbooks.
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Also, now this is Joseph's favorite
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cookie, and I think it's become Megan's.
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Also, if you don't know, Joseph and
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Megan got married a few days ago, and
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they need some cookies. They need some
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holiday cheer. They went through a lot
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with their wedding, so let's move them
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into the holiday stage now. So, we're
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going to bring them some cookies. All
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right, you guys. This is an easy recipe.
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I mean, if you've been baking already,
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you know you have this stuff right here.
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So, let's put this one together. Grab
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you a large mixing bowl and let's start
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with that. Now, in our large mixing
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bowl, we're going to add in 1/3 cup of
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brown sugar. Now, we want to make sure
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it's packed. So, go in and just kind of
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press down as you're pulling it out.
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That's what I'm going to do. Like that.
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We'll add that.
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And then we're going to add half a cup
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of white granulated sugar.
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And then to that we're going to add one
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stick or half a cup of melted butter.
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Now I just cooled that down just a
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little bit.
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Now we're going to take the electric
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hand mixer. Now we're going to cream
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this together for 2 minutes.
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Yeah, they had a beautiful wedding. It
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was small and very intimate with just
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close family members just the way they
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wanted it. They didn't want anything
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big. I doubt if they could have even
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handled that.
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Thomas and I had a small wedding also.
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It was just perfect.
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Uh but it was very nice. They had the
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reception afterwards and it was just
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really nice wedding. I will insert a
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picture of the four of us right here for
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y'all to see. We haven't gone through
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all the pictures yet. um we're trying to
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determine what to put out online because
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we had other family there on her side
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with children and we didn't want to
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incorporate them unless we had
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permission to do that. So anyway, but
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you'll get to see the main characters.
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Okay. Now, what we're going to do is
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crack in one egg. Now, at this stage, I
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just like to crack it into a bowl. Let
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me get a little bigger bowl. I don't
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know if it'll fit in there.
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There we go.
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Make sure no shells are in there.
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Then we're going to add in two teaspoon
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of vanilla extract.
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Yeah. Whole two. It's going to give us
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some nice flavor.
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One and two. [snorts] All right, let's
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beat this up just until combined.
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Doesn't take very long.
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All right, we're going to go ahead now
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and in a separate bowl, we're just going
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to whisk in the dry ingredients.
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I'm going to need 1 and 1/2 cups of
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allpurpose flour. There we go. So, I got
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half a cup
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and I'm going to go in three times.
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[snorts]
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There we go.
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[snorts] All right, let's give it some
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leavenning. [sighs]
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Help these cookies puff up a little bit.
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We've got baking powder, one teaspoon.
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And then we've got baking soda, which is
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going to be half a teaspoon.
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Half.
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And then we've got [snorts] to change
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your measuring spoon when you have the
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one that has the
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adjust
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adjustable thing on it.
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And we'll really have some puffy uh
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cookies. And then 1/4 teaspoon of salt.
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All right. I'm going to take a whisk and
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we're going to blend this together.
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Doesn't take very long.
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We're going to add it all in to our
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batter.
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And then we'll mix this together till
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it's well combined.
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Start slow so you don't have flour going
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everywhere.
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These are not the avalanche cookies
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which are in the cookbook also. All
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right. You're just doing this just to
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incorporate everything. We don't want to
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over mix. So, I'm going to come up a
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little bit. Get all that batter off.
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There we go.
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All right. I'm just taking a spatula and
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just going around the sides, making sure
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all the flour's in. Now, we're going to
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take 10 oz. This is one pack of M&M's.
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These are the holiday blend. They're
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milk chocolate.
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You can use any M&M's you want.
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We're going to add them in. And then
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we'll just fold it in with our spatula.
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Yeah, that'll make Joseph happy. Okay,
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that was not Joseph. That was Thomas.
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He's got a special show for you guys,
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too, coming up.
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It'll be a fun one
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on his channel, The Rational Reviewer.
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All right, we got them all mixed in.
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Look at that. Yeah.
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Now, we're going to go in with a 1 and
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1/2 inch cookie scoop. This will help
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make all of our cookies the same size
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and cook perfectly. All right, we have
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that right there. We're going to place
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it on our sheetpan, which I've lined
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with some parchment paper. We'll just
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place it on. And we'll just keep doing
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that.
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Leave some space in between. You want
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about 2 in between each cookie. So, I'm
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going to put three of them on here. We
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have to do several sheet pans. We will.
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We'll keep one pan of cookies here.
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Darn two.
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Oh, look at all those M&M's.
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love M&M cookies. They're so festive.
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All right,
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get that one. I'm going to move this one
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down just a little bit.
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Love how fast these cookies come
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together, huh?
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I've got my oven preheated at 350°.
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Now, if you want rounded, soft, chewy
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cookies, leave them mounded on your
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sheetpan. If you want kind of a flat
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cookie that's nice and crispy on the
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outside of the cookies, take a piece of
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parchment, lay it on top of the cookie,
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and just flatten it down. All right,
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we're going to bake these for about 8 to
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10 minutes. It may take a little longer
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on the first go around because it I
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don't know why that always happens, but
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on your second batch, usually takes less
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time. All right, I'll be back. I'm going
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to finish off the second batch. I'm
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probably going to make the flatter
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cookies. Now, let your cookies sit on
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the pan for 1 to two minutes until they
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set up. And then you can remove them to
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the cooling rack to finish cooling down.
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Look at these. Woo! These are the soft
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and chewy ones.
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All right. Now, this batch made 24
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cookies. Now, this side are the soft and
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chewy cookies, and these side are the
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crispy flat cookies. So, we'll take one
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right here. Oh, yeah. Can y'all hear
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that?
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So, the M&M's going to make it nice and
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soft on the inside. And then you can see
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the edges are nice and crispy, golden
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brown on the bottom. That's that cookie.
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And then on the soft cookies right here.
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Yeah. You see that softness of the
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cookie? That's going to give you that
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nice chew. And it's still golden brown
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on the cookie also. All right. I'm going
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to give a try for that nice and crispy
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cookie right here.
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Mhm.
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That's the way I love my M&M cookies.
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Joseph will like it like this, too.
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I bet Megan will like the soft and
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chewy. Thomas does. You like the soft
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and chewy?
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I do.
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Here you go.
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Yay.
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Getting to wonder if I was going to get
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to have one or not. No, not
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good.
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You know, he's already tried one.
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[laughter]
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[gasps] All right, you guys. Merry
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Christmas, happy holidays, happy new
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year coming up. Give me a thumbs up on
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this one. Stay tuned. We still have more
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Christmas coming. And then we have New
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Year's stuff for that. And then we have
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the new year.
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All right. We'll see y'all on the next
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episode. Bye.