Competitive Cooking - Wednesday, Period 3 [8/18]

[absolutesnark]

"Hey, everyone," Piper greeted as students started to arrive. "Welcome to the final class. And you survived."

As did the kitchen and all the appliances. Piper was pretty proud of that fact.

"Since this feels a bit celebratory, your assignment today is to pair up and bake a cake. Any kind you want. It can even be for any occasion. All I ask is that you have fun with it," she continued. "And if you need me or any of the TAs, we're around."

She grinned, adding, "Good luck!"

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Re: Brain Storming

[life_inshadow]

"It has," Tara agreed, with a lopsided little grin. "I had a bad case of guinea pig last week. And I'm not really one for, uh, beef."

Re: Brain Storming

[theotherpeter.livejournal.com]

"Well hopefully your case of guinea pig ended better than Warren's case of parakeet," Peter said. "And I was joking about the beefcake. I could make a bad cheesecake joke here, but I think that'd be in poor taste. So... red velvet? Devil's food? Any ideas?"

Re: Brain Storming

[life_inshadow]

"It's so weird, I was thinking angel food," Tara said, after an obligatory theatrical wince at the 'cheesecake' reference. "But devil food has chocolate, so, obviously, that's got to be better."

Re: Brain Storming

[theotherpeter.livejournal.com]

"Come to the dark side, we have delicious chocolate," Peter joked. "The only problem is, I'm used to baking cakes out of mixes. If by 'used', I mean 'I've done it once or twice'."

Re: Brain Storming

[life_inshadow]

"I don't make cakes a lot either," Tara said with a little shrug. "I mean, even if we mess up, we still get cake, right?"

Re: Brain Storming

[theotherpeter.livejournal.com]

"Right," Peter said. "So it's flour, eggs, sugar, and flour, right? Plus chocolate?"

Re: Brain Storming

[life_inshadow]

"And sour cream and butter, I think," Tara nodded. "Are there cookbooks somewhere?"

Re: Brain Storming

[theotherpeter.livejournal.com]

"Sour cream?" Peter said, a little surprised. "You can tell baking isn't my forte. I'm sure there has to be one somewhere."

He started looking around. "I mean, it would make sense."

Re: Brain Storming

[life_inshadow]

"Yeah, it makes it ... I dunno. Moister or creamier or sour-er, or something."

She stretched and pulled a cookbook off the shelf. "A-ha!"

Re: Brain Storming

[theotherpeter.livejournal.com]

"Perfect," Peter said, now starting to scrounge up at least the ingredients he knew about. "The real question is does it have the recipe we need?"