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GOOEY CHOCOLATE BUTTER CAKE BARS | Dessert made easy with box cake mix & 6 ingredients
Aug 4, 2026
A Dessert made easy with box cake mix and 6 ingredients. GOOEY CHOCOLATE BUTTER CAKE BARS
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Which one do you want? They're gooey.
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They're buttery and chocolate. Two
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layers of goodness right here in my cake
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bars. Let's make them. Now, to make the
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gooey chocolate butter cake bars, as you
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can see, these are the only ingredients
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that you're going to need, and there's
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seven of them. And the first one is
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going to be your cake mix. I'm using the
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dark chocolate fudge. That just sounds
0:26
delicious, but you can use any type of
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chocolate cake mix that you want. Even a
0:32
devil's food cake would be great with
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this recipe. You're going to need some
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vanilla extract.
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You're going to need one stick or half a
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cup of very soft butter. Now, what I
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like to do is pull this out the night
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before and just let it rest on my
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countertop to get nice and you know the
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word, squishy. That's what you want. All
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right. Now, I've got four eggs. And what
1:00
I did was just bring these to room
1:01
temperature. So, I just pulled them out
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about 30 minutes or so before I'm going
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to make this recipe. Just let them sit
1:07
on the countertop. Now, these are going
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to be divided. So, there's going to be
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two at the beginning of the recipe and
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two at the other part of it.
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And you're going to need some cream
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cheese. I have one block, which is 8 oz.
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And you want this at room temperature
1:22
also. So, while I'm pulling the eggs
1:24
out, I'm pulling out the cream cheese.
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It needs to set out for an hour to get
1:30
nice and what's the word? Squishy.
1:32
Right.
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You're going to need some unsweetened
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cocoa powder. Now, this is what I use
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right here.
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And then you're going to need a whole
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lot
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of powdered sugar. So, I had to go get
1:46
another bag of this. Make sure I had
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enough.
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Okay. Now, we're going to be using a
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large mixing bowl, an electric hand
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mixer to get started. There's going to
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be two layers. They're going to come
1:57
together pretty quickly, and then it's
1:59
all going to bake together as one cookie
2:02
bar. All right, you guys. Let's go ahead
2:04
and get started. In the large mixing
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bowl, we're going to empty out one box
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of chocolate cake mix. Now, this is
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15.25 25 oz size cake mix.
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All right. To the cake mix, we're going
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to add in the one stick or half a cup of
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very soft, squishy butter.
2:47
Make sure you get it all out of there.
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What kind of butter do y'all like to
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use? Now, this is salted butter. You can
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use unsalted if you want. I'm using the
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KY Gold Irish butter.
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We're going to blend this until it's
3:04
well combined.
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You want that butter into that cake mix.
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What we're going to do is crack one egg
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in.
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We're going to beat that in.
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And then we'll crack the other egg in.
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We're going to mix that in.
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Now, we want to mix this until
3:54
everything is incorporated in the bowl
3:56
here. Now, it's going to be a thick
3:58
batter.
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There we go.
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Perfect.
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We're going to be baking in a 9 by13
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baking dish and we're going to spray it
4:12
with some non-stick cooking spray. Now,
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I like to use the Baker's Joy or you can
4:17
use a non-brand. This is the one that
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has baking spray with the flour in it.
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There we go.
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Now, we're going to bring the cake
4:35
batter over here and we're going to
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spoon it into the baking dish.
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Now, we're using the 9 by13. We're going
4:45
to need it. You're going to think not,
4:47
but when you see it done, you're going
4:48
to go, "Oh, that's why." Okay. So, I'm
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going to spoon the batter all over the
4:54
baking dish here.
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That way, it's easy to spread.
5:03
Thomas wanted to try this recipe out.
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So, we're we're doing that. [laughter]
5:09
Now, the best tool to use to spread that
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evenly across your baking dish is a
5:15
offset spatula. So, the offset spatula
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is going to look like this right here.
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And it really helps to spread out any
5:22
kind of frostings, icings, cake batters,
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whatever you got that's thick so that it
5:28
goes where you want it. There we go.
5:31
So just take and spread this evenly
5:34
across the bottom.
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Nice and even.
5:40
Now the cake mix does have a
5:42
leavenvening agent in it that will help
5:44
rise the cake.
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Yeah, this is very fudgy consistency.
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Try to get it nice and even.
6:01
All right, there it is.
6:04
Let's make that second layer. So, when
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you're making that second layer, you are
6:07
going to be using your electric hand
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mixer again. So, what you want to do is
6:12
just clean off your beers and then get a
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separate bowl. Now, I'm in a large
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mixing bowl and we're going to add in
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the one pack of cream cheese, 8 oz. Now,
6:23
I'm using the block and you want to make
6:26
sure this is very soft. like I talked
6:28
about at the very beginning.
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All right, there we go. Now, what I'm
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going to do is just blend this for just
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about 30 seconds or so to get that nice
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and creamy before we start adding stuff.
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There we go. You just want to break it
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up, get it moved around the bowl
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somewhat like that.
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There we go.
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All right. What did y'all miss? I had
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the cream cheese in there that we
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blended until it was nice and soft in
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there. Then I added in the two
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tablespoon of
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cocoa powder.
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That was the unsweetened version. And
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then I added in one teaspoon of vanilla
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extract. I think y'all missed that whole
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section right here. And I'm very sorry
7:23
for that. And then I cracked two eggs
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into a bowl, added it in there, and then
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we just blended it with the electric
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hand mixer until we had a good mix on it
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like this. It doesn't have to be perfect
7:35
because we're going to go in and still
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combine
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our powdered sugar,
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which we're going to be doing about
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four cups. So, we're going to put in one
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cup at a time and get that mixed in.
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Now, this is a dessert, you guys.
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So, I love how I'm when I make a
8:04
dessert, y'all are like, "Oh, it's too
8:05
sweet. It's too this." Well, it is a
8:07
dessert. We're going to put it on a low
8:10
setting. Am I on? There we go. And we're
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going to get that mixed in. And then
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we'll add the second cup.
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Now, we're not going to see what
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happens, but y'all, things happen,
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right? There we go. There's my mess.
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[laughter]
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All right, let's add the second cup.
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I'll clean all that up for y'all. I got
8:32
a dog down here. Oh my gosh. Thomas is
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happy for the dessert,
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but is he happy that people are coming
8:40
over to eat his dessert? [laughter]
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Those people will be Megan and Joseph.
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So, we're excited to have them over. All
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right, that's two.
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All right, what I'm going to do now is
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add that last
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cup of powdered sugar in.
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And then we'll clean up this mess of
9:06
powdered sugar. Sorry, you guys.
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Make sure you get your spatula and pull
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start pulling down the sides at this
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point
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so we can get all of that powdered sugar
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incorporated.
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This is a new recipe for us. Yes, it is.
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So, um, we're super excited about it.
9:32
Looks delicious.
9:35
I've made ooey gooey cakes before,
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but not this way. So,
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all right. You should have a nice creamy
9:44
consistency there.
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Now, if you do, you're ahead of the
9:52
game. So, am I.
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Yeah. Nice and smooth. Did y'all see
10:00
that coming? Look at that.
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All right. We're going to pour this on
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top of the cake batter.
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>> [sighs]
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>> in the 9 by13 baking dish.
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All right. All we did was take this
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batter, that cream cheese cocoa one, and
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poured it right on top of the cake mix.
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We're just going to spread it out nice
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and even.
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We're not combining this with that
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bottom layer. We're just setting it
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right on top.
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There we go.
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All right, I'm just going to clean off
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the edges here.
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I've got my oven preheated at 350°.
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We're going to bake this for 45 minutes
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and then we're going to cool it down
10:52
completely before we cut it into bars.
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Y'all going to see the magic happen.
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Gooey chocolate butter cake bars. It's
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two layers baked into one. Let's cut
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these up. Let me show you the final
11:08
product. All right. Cut them like
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brownies.
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Which one do you want? They're gooey.
11:16
They're buttery. And chocolate. Two
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layers of goodness right here in my cake
11:22
bars.
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Thomas is brewing more coffee.
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[laughter]
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Here's my bite.
11:36
What is going on?
11:39
We got that cake layer down there on the
11:41
bottom. Oh my goodness. And then we have
11:44
that cocoa cream cheese mixture on top.
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Wow.
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Mhm.
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So, it's like a cake on the bottom and
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it's kind of a goooness on the top.
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Chocolate all the way through.
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Those are delicious. You need a fork for
12:09
it.
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[laughter]
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All right, you guys. I think Thomas' has
12:14
his eye on this plate right here, don't
12:16
you?
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>> Oh, yeah.
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>> Thumbs up on this one on my gooey
12:21
chocolate butter cake bars. Look at
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that. Think Joseph and Megan are going
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to be happy tonight.
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Thomas has to
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>> There's any left.
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>> Thomas has to give some up. There will
12:31
be some left.
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>> I [clears throat] may hide them.
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There'll be some left. All right, you
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guys. Thumbs up on our dessert day
12:37
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12:45
gonna say it again, thumbs up. All
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right, you guys. I'll see y'all on the
12:48
next episode. You know, I post almost
12:50
every other day and sometimes more. I'll
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see y'all on the next one. Bye.
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