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CHERRY LIMEADE POKE CAKE Made Easy with Box Cake Mix
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Welcome back everyone to Catherine's
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Plates. Today I'm going to show you how
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to make a cherry limeade poke cake made
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easy with boxed cake mix. We're going to
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turn this classic white cake mix into
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something a summery. We all know what a
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cherry lime is from Sonic. And if you
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don't like cherry, turn it to strawberry
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limeade. All right, you guys, grab your
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box. Let's get busy. That's the first
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step to make the cake. Now, as we're
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following along, the ingredients are
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going to be just a little different when
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you make this boxed cake mix. So, follow
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along with that. This is a 15.25
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oz size box.
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Now, what I'm going to do,
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toss that out of the way. I've got three
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eggs, and we're going to need the whites
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of the eggs. So, what I'm going to do
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is crack these eggs and then split them
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up between the yolk and the white.
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So, just give it a crack.
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Split it open.
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And then you're going to drop the white
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into the bowl.
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And then go back and forth with your
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yolk just to get any of the whites out.
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And then just put the yolk to a separate
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bowl. We're not going to use that for
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this recipe.
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Just give it a crack on the side of your
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bowl.
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And then you're just going to pull the
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shells apart.
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Hang on to it.
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And let the whites fall in, not the
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yolk. Get the yolk back out.
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And we'll put that in there.
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And get rid of the shell.
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It's as simple as that. Make sure that
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when you pull them apart, hold on to it.
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There we go.
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Don't use. All right, bring my mix over.
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And then we're going to add in the
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whites.
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Let's take a lime. Now, I've already
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scrubbed it off really good. And get
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your zester, and we're going to zest
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around the whole lime
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into the cake mix. Ooh.
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That woke up a flavor and just keep
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going around the lime. Now, Thomas and I
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like to drive around the countryside
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around our area
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and we stop by Sonic and pick up a
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cherry limeade and
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I think of tots. And then we just get
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out of the house and go and just he
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loves the countryside driving.
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Just to get out and get away from the
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traffic, get away from the people and
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just drive around and he likes that. So,
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we don't do it very often, but it's one
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of our favorite things to do.
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All right, y'all see all those flakes in
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there? Hang on to this lime because
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we're going to need it at the end of the
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recipe. We're going to take 1/3 cup of
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melted butter and we're going to add it
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in.
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We're going to measure out 1 and 1/4
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cups of Sprite or any other type of
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lemon-lime soda.
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There we go. And we're going to add that
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to the mix.
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Ooh, look at that foam in there.
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Now, we're going to take an electric
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hand mixer and we're going to blend this
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together
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till everything is well combined.
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Get you a spatula and we're going to
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pull down the sides as we go along.
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I love those little green specs in
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there.
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All right, we're going to spray a 9 by
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13 baking dish with some nonstick
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cooking spray. Now, when I'm baking
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cakes or anything like that, I generally
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like to use the Baker's Joy cuz it's got
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flour in it.
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And that just kind of helps you release
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the cake.
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Hold your breath, move off to the side
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and let that fog of spray out of the
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way. Bring your dish over, bring your
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bowl of batter over and pour it in.
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Smooth it out.
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Yeah.
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We're going to pop this in the oven
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that's been preheated to 350°.
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We're going to bake this for about 30 to
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35 minutes till it's nice and kind of
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golden on the top. The edges have pulled
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away slightly. Take a toothpick, insert
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it into the center of the cake. If it
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comes out clean or has a few crumbs on
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it, it's
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it's totally done.
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If it's still got a little batter on it,
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just pop it back in the oven for a few
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more minutes. All right, you guys, we'll
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be back because the best is yet to come.
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Now, the cake is cooled down completely.
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It takes over an hour to do that. If you
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put it on a wire rack, it really helps
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to get that bottom of the cake nice and
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cool. Then we're going to take a kitchen
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utensil or a large straw. You want to
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use the end of it to poke holes all
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through the cake.
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Cuz we want to put the mixture in and
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have every bite
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be able to have that cherry flavor to
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it. Cuz that's what's next. Now, we're
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going to make the cherry filling.
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The next step is to just take a small
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pot, fill it with water, and bring it to
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a boil. We definitely want boiling water
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for this step. I'll be back when it's to
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a boil.
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We're going to take one box of cherry
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Jell-O flavor mix. It's a gelatin. And
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it's 3 oz. And we're going to place that
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into a small bowl. This is what's going
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to give it that red color to the
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dessert.
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All right, what we're going to do
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is add it to the Jell-O mix. I got a
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small whisk here. We're going to blend
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it in.
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And then stir it until the sugars
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are all dissolved.
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Now, I'm going to cool down the Jell-O
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somewhat. While I'm mixing it, I'm just
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going to put it into another bowl that
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has some ice in it.
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And while I'm whisking,
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cool that Jell-O down before we pour it
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on the cake. Now, we weren't looking to
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get that ice cold. Just take that heat
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off of it. Now, I'm just going to take a
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a ladle and I'm going to take it and I'm
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going to pour
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the Jell-O into the holes as much as
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possible.
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You can smell the cherry for sure. And
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just keep doing this until the cake is
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nice and saturated with the Jell-O.
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We're going to take an 8-oz container of
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Cool Whip, thaw it out.
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And I'm going to spoon it all over the
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top of the cake.
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All right, let's spread it out. Now, I'm
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using an offset spatula cuz I tell y'all
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this every time. It's just so easy to
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spread.
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We're going to be decorating the cake
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once it's been set up. All right, I'm
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going to clean up the edges and bring
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you back.
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Now, I'm going to cover this. I'm going
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to place this in the refrigerator for 2
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hours. That will help the Jell-O set up
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and the Cool Whip. And then I'm going to
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decorate it. Okay, it's chilled for 2
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hours. We're going to decorate. We're
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going to take the second lime, scrubbed
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it really good, take your zester,
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and we're going to zest it all over.
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All right, look at that zest on there.
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Now, I'm going to take a jar of
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maraschino cherries. You're going to
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need to 12 out of the jar. You want them
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with the stems on them. And all I did
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was pull them out
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and I dried them up a little bit and
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then we're going to put them on the
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cake.
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One, so three, and then we're going to
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go across for the four.
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And then we're going to do something
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else to it
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before everybody digs in,
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like Thomas.
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All right, now let me show you what
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we're going to do.
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Now, on the lime,
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what I'm doing is I'm slicing them.
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These are the ones that we zested.
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So, just take off the end.
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And then, you want to get six slices off
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of each lime.
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We can work with that.
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Now, what you want to do
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is take your knife, go right into the
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middle, and then just cut a slit all the
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way to the end there.
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What you want to do is just be able to
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twist it like that. And then, we're
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going to put it on top next to the
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cherry.
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There we go. So, just give it a twist,
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and then just kind of roll it around
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this cherry, pushing into the cake,
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so it holds it.
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Just like that.
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What do y'all think? My cherry limeade
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poke cake. Look at that layer down there
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with all that Jell-O in it.
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Let's cut a slice, so I can give it a
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try for you.
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I got the piece out. Look at that, you
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guys.
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Who wants a bite of that?
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I get the first.
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Mhm.
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There we go.
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Mhm.
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Wow.
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That's refreshing.
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Now, what a cherry limeade does, it's
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refreshing.
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I get the lime in there, because we put
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it in two different layers, on the top,
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and then we put it in the cake layer,
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and we got that cherry Jell-O on the
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inside of that cake,
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and a cherry on top.
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Mhm. Mhm. Mhm.
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Wow. That's delicious, you guys. It'll
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serve 12
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if you do it like this.
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>> [laughter]
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[snorts]
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>> All right. Or, if you're going to serve
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it up somewhere, you can chill it and
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then when you get somewhere, you can put
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the cherries and the limes on there and
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then cut it if you want to do it like
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that or serve it individual pieces and
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then decorate it at that point, but
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I needed to show y'all this right here.
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All right, you guys, thumbs up on this
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one. It was made easy with a box cake
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mix and a few ingredients.
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I'll see y'all on the next episode. Bye.
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I better hurry up and eat this before
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Thomas does.
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