Cupcake War Crimes, Take 2, Thursday [8/11]

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Things looked normal in the Home Ec classroom this week. Hopefully even your TA was fully recovered from her bout of greyness. None of this week’s cupcakes were grey either, though you wouldn’t be able to tell that yet since they were all still covered.

"I hope everyone is well," Stark said, looking over the students after they arrived. "Recovered from last week. Everything that happened. And if there’s anything we can help with," yes, he was volunteering Anders for support services too, "please, let us." If nothing else, you know these two will offer baked goods.

Anders gave Stark a surprised look for just a second, but he was all right with being volunteered, he supposed. "And I’m just gonna throw this out there so you know before trying it yourselves in a situation. If you’re gonna use old stale cupcakes as a weapon, aim carefully, and be ready to run if they decide your ammo’s tasty." He cleared his throat and uncovered a large tray of chocolate-based cupcakes. "These are -- tasty in theory, but maybe the idea that chocolate makes everything better ain’t all it’s cracked up to be. What do you guys think?"

To be fair, the dark chocolate cupcake with the caramel cumin buttercream frosting looked pretty good, and the maple syrup cupcake with brown sugar smoked bacon . . . well, bacon did make everything better, right? On the other hand, there was that chocolate cupcake coated in potato chips, and the one with the jalapeno on top. It was really a mixed bag -- or plate, more accurately.

"Chocolate or bacon," Anders went on, snagging one of the maple syrup and bacon cupcakes for himself. "That’s your discussion for the day, and there’s plenty of both in with the ingredients when you get to baking."

Comments

Sign In [CWC, 8/11]

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

No longer grey!

Re: Sign In [CWC, 8/11]

[necroslacker]

Sam LaCroix

Re: Sign In [CWC, 8/11]

[walkswithcoyote]

Mercy Thompson

Re: Sign In [CWC, 8/11]

[its-theclimb.livejournal.com]

Miley Ray Stewart

Listen/Sample Cupcakes [CWC, 8/11]

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Pick off the potato chips, wonder why you would roll a cupcake in Corn Nuts, etc.

Re: Listen/Sample Cupcakes [CWC, 8/11]

[heromaniac]

Despite everything, Momoko had to try the chocolate covered potato chip cupcake. She was VERY upset to find it good, and her shoulders drooped.

The salt and grease of the chips were balanced out very nicely by the depth of the chocolate and the sweetness was actually complemented by the texture break that the rolled crumbs added.

She frowned and reached for one with a jalapeno on top. Surely they all couldn't be tasty.

Re: Listen/Sample Cupcakes [CWC, 8/11]

[its-theclimb.livejournal.com]

Miley was enjoying the bacon thing. What was wrong with mixing chocolate and bacon? They were, like, two of the best things ever.

Re: Listen/Sample Cupcakes [CWC, 8/11]

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

Considering the conversation he'd had with Kate the other day, Toby was... very amused that the subject of cupcakes-as-ammo was brought up today in class.

The puppy with him didn't seem to care too much about that, being more interested in attempting to sample some of the cupcakes. "Bacon, yes," Toby told him sternly. "Chocolate, no." He didn't know if the rule about not giving chocolate to dogs really applied when said dog was usually a human, but he didn't really think it was worth the risk finding out.

Re: Listen/Sample Cupcakes [CWC, 8/11]

[stykera]

"Student or pet?" Stark asked, looking at the dog. He was also trying to determine, by looking Toby over, whether he was recovered from last week.

Re: Listen/Sample Cupcakes [CWC, 8/11]

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

"Student," Toby said. "My roommate, actually. Who isn't normally in this class, but I didn't want him to like, chew up my shoes or something out of boredom." Or pee on his bed.

As far as recovery went, there was no trace of the alien infection or whatever-it-was... except for the line of grey scales running up Toby's spine. But since that was easily covered up (and really, the only reason *he* even knew it was there was that he'd happened to catch a glimpse in the mirror out of the corner of his eye after his shower yesterday), Toby was ignoring it.

Bake [CWC, 8/11]

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Or just eat the chocolate. Or bacon. Why not?

Re: Bake [CWC, 8/11]

[necroslacker]

Sam still didn't know how to cook but he was gonna try and combine two things he did like today: chocolate and Cheerios. It'd probably come out badly but wasn't the class about learning and being creative?

Now, he just had to figure out if he wanted to stick the Cheerios on top of the chocolate frosting or use them as the filling. Maybe he'd do both. The more Cheerios, the better.

Re: Bake [CWC, 8/11]

[walkswithcoyote]

"Cheerios? Really? Could you at least, I don't know, coat them in chocolate or powdered sugar or something?" Mercy was looking a bit dubious here.

Re: Bake [CWC, 8/11]

[necroslacker]

"If bacon can go in a cupcake, so can Cheerios," Sam reasoned logically. The powdered sugar wasn't a bad idea. "It'll keep them healthy. Ish."

Re: Bake [CWC, 8/11]

[walkswithcoyote]

Mercy had decided to take a page from her favorite kind of hot chocolate and add some aztec spiciness to a chocolate fudge filling.

Re: Bake [CWC, 8/11]

[nothornlessrose.livejournal.com]

Cassidy saw her adding spices to her recipe and she had to come over. She was still a bit jumpy after the last week and things that had happened, but this was chocolate.

"What kind of spices are you adding?" She asked softly.

Re: Bake [CWC, 8/11]

[walkswithcoyote]

"It's a kind of hot pepper," Mercy explained. "I love hot chocolate with it, so I thought I'd try it in the cupcake."

Re: Bake [CWC, 8/11]

[likethestore.livejournal.com]

K-Mart promptly started baking with the bacon. Just because.

She wouldn't object to people asking about the copious amounts of bacon she'd stuffed into her cupcakes.

Talk to the TA [CWC, 8/11]

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Who is hopefully nicely recovered from her bout of greyness?

Re: Talk to the TA [CWC, 8/11]

[heromaniac]

She has! Physically, at least. And she's looking forward to glomping Professor Stark after class for making her feel so much better not-physically at the clinic.

Meanwhile, she's wondering why anyone would enjoy bacon in a cupcake. ANYone. And being very frustrated that today's examples all looked so tasty, despite the ingredients.

Talk to the Teachers [CWC, 8/11]

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

When they make with the in-pinging.

Re: Talk to the Teachers [CWC, 8/11]

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders couldn't resist being a little adventurous himself, because if the students were trying it, why shouldn't he?

He'd risk Stark's reaction when he realized that the green apple brie cupcake was, in fact, pretty frakkin' good. The one with olive oil, though, he wasn't touching with a fifty foot pole.

Re: Talk to the Teachers [CWC, 8/11]

[stykera]

Stark eyed the apple and brie cupcake a little warily, the jalapeno one even moreso. And the mustard one was right out. The potato chip one seemed only mildly alarming so he took a few experimental nibbles from one of those. He wasn't sure about the bits of potato chip that it was rolled in, but the chocolate covered chips were tasty at least. But it wasn't the sort of cupcake he would be seeking out again any time soon.

Re: Talk to the Teachers [CWC, 8/11]

[heromaniac]

"Professor Staaaaaark!" Hopefully he was well braced, because Momoko was going for a full glomp of a hug. "Thank you for helping me at the clinic when I was an almost-monster!"

OOC [CWC, 8/11]

[batwaffles.livejournal.com]

From this account because I’m not done clinging to the final issue of Batgirl and BAWLING. DUN LEAVE ME BOOK NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. D: