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RITZ Cracker CHRISTMAS TREE Appetizer
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Mar 14, 2025
RITZ Cracker CHRISTMAS TREE Appetizer Today's Recipe: https://catherinesplates.com/ritz-cracker-christmas-tree-appetizer/ **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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Merry Christmas everyone welcome back to
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Katherine's plates I'm going to show you
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how to make this delicious Ritz cracker
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Christmas tree appetizer doesn't this
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look delicious I'm going to tell you
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what no one's going to want to take one
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off of there because it looks so good
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we're going to start making that filling
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first let's build this Christmas tree
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the first ingredient is going to be this
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buson cheese we're going to need 8 oz
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now this one has 6 ounces in it so I got
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another one so I can pull out a few
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ounces from here now as you can see the
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name looks like it says Buren cheese but
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let me tell you it is called Busan
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cheese we've used it before in recipes
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and it's very delicious this one has a
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garlic and herbs flavor to it so we're
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going to add it to a large mixing
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bowl they come in different
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flavors there we go
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and 2 oz from this
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one I think that'll be good right
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there I'm going to break it
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up now to that we're going to add in 10
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oz of spinach this is the frozen spinach
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that's already been chopped now I thaw
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it out and then I rung out any of the
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excess water from the spinach to kind of
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keep it dry so we're going to add that
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I'm going to show you the box here what
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it looks like just so you can have an
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idea so you know you're getting the
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right
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stuff that right
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there now we're using the
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HB all right we're going to set this off
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to the side for just a second we're
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going to bring over roasted red bell
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peppers
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now if you can't get it open you use
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your
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husband okay so there we go he's handy
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to have in the kitchen plus he's my
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cameraman this will add the red to our
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Christmas tree we've already got the
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green okay so we're going to take one
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out you want about a/4 cup woo look at
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those charred bits on there I love this
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because they're already cooked nice and
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charred I'm just going to chop it up
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into small dices got to add flavor
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everywhere you can all right I'm going
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to see what this was packed in packed in
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water and it has the sea salt flavor to
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it we got a fine dice here that looks
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good let's go ahead and add that to our
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mixture we're going to give it some
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seasoning extra flavor we're going to go
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in with a/4 teaspoon of garlic powder
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1/4 teaspoon of of onion powder I'm
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going to mix the whole thing up give it
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a try and then see if we need to add any
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salt I'm just going across and then back
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over
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again and back over
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again all right let's cream all of this
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together now you can make this mixture
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ahead of time and then build your tree
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right before you need the tree for the
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appetizer okay I got this all mixed up
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I'm going to go in with my spoon give it
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a taste and see if I need to add any
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salt I'm going to be adding a little bit
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of salt about an eighth of a teaspoon or
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a
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pinch here we go I'm going to mix that
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together we're going to build a
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tree we're going to lay half of the
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crackers down on your serving platter
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which will be 30 now lay them the front
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side
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down now that's the back side that's the
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front
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side oh so the back side is flat yeah
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he'll show you
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see that's flat that's not flat you see
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right yeah learn something every day so
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did I I thought he was going to eat it I
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think they did too raise your hands if
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you thought he was going to eat that
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Cracker I better not see one hand these
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are Ritz crackers and they're delicious
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yeah they are to me they kind of got a
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buttery flavor to them now this is not
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where the crackers are going to be we're
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going to be building these up into a
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tree so I'll have Thomas keep track of
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the amount now you want to be sparingly
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with the mixture as we're going to put
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some on each of the 30 crackers so keep
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that in mind probably about that much
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right there we can always go back and
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fill
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more all right I got to admit now I'm
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temped to eat one but I won't you can
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have the whole one after it's all said
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and done all right make sure it goes to
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the edge
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it's a perfect little appetizer and it's
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just going to look
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cute M it smells delicious that little
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bit of salt really helped it really made
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all the difference so all right I'm
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going to bring you back as soon as I get
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all of these
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finished now I'm using the Busan cheese
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you can use other types of cheese you
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just want to make sure it's a very soft
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mild cheese very creamy
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like and it's got flavor in it or you
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can add your own flavor to it we're
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almost done here you could probably do
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cream cheese yeah make it very very soft
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but you know you got to make sure that
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it's going to hold up to everything and
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which cream cheese should all right I'm
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just filling in where I need to with the
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rest of that mixture there wasn't much
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left to do that with what we're going to
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do is take the other 30 Ritz crackers
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and we're going to place them on top of
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the mixture on each cracker make sure
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the top part of the cracker is facing
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up just kind of Squish on there a little
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bit just a light little tap don't squish
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all your mixture
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out then it'll look
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funny all right we're going to finish
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these up all right that should give us
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30 all right let's build the
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tree I'm going to pull these off except
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for 10 of the
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sandwiches to create the bottom base of
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our tree and then we'll come in with the
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rest of them now this is going to be
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like 3D so it's going to be on top of
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each other as a tree shape like I showed
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you earlier so we're going to create a
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circle with eight of them four six eight
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nine and then 10 in the center two in
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the center now you're going to build
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this before you're ready for your
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party and then we're going to build up
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up from there we're going to create the
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second
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layer okay we have one in the center and
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then I'm going to put one two 3
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4 five and six on that second layer from
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the
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bottom all right we're creating our
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third level from the
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bottom all right how does that look so
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far we got it all right let's create
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level
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four which we're going to put three
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right on the top one
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two and three we're going to put
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two on top of there
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one there we go two and
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one all right there we
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go now we're not finished yet we got to
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put some lights on the
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tree in the vegetable section of your
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store they make things pretty simple for
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you when they chop up vegetables all
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right I've got three bell peppers red
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yellow and green it came in a little
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container already diced up you know it's
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Christmas you're getting parties you're
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doing tree trimmings whatever you're
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doing make your life easy so we're going
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to take some of these we're going to
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sprinkle it all over the Ritz cracker
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Christmas tree and then we got to make a
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star now you can certainly dice your own
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if you want but I'm going to go around
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the Ritz crackers add these diced
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Peppers put it around your
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platter I'm using a whole yellow bell
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pepper I'm just going to cut off one
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side that's where we're going to cut our
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star out of and I'm just going to take
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some cutting shears now if you're really
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good at using a pairing knife you can
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use that also and what we're going to do
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is cut on one side a
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v then we're going to turn
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it and then we're going to cut another
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V there we go then we're going to go on
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the other side directly opposite of that
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one and we're going to cut another
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V up to the point of our first tip right
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there and then we're going to cut the
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other side of the
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V all right now we're going to cut two
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v's down at the bottom portion
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here and then we're going to
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make an upside down V right
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here there we
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go that's about the easiest way you can
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do it we're going to top our tree with
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it all right we're just going to put it
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right on top of our Christmas
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tree we'll put it like that there we go
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Merry Christmas everyone here's my Ritz
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cracker Christmas tree
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appetizer it's almost a shame I have to
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go in and give it a try but we
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will Thomas is over here he's tired of
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waiting he's going to try this for you
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yep
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what do you think that
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go that is the most beautiful Christmas
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tree in my
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kitchen yeah really good it's really
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good you guys got to give this one a try
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thought you wanted me to try one he did
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