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

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."

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

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.

"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.

"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."

"Aren't cupcakes, sort of by definition unhealthy?" Mercy asked with a smile. She finished whisking up her filling and gave it a taste. "Oh, yes, that's what I wanted."

"Are they?" Sam shrugged carelessly. "I dunno, I'm a vegetarian and I've figured out how to make that lifestyle unhealthy. It's all relative. Healthy things can be unhealthy and unhealthy things can be healthy. Labels are too confining."

She thought about that for a moment as she poured batter. "I don't think I could be a vegetarian." Certainly the coyote part of her wasn't about to switch. "But yeah, sure anything can be unhealthy. Now, I'm not sure you could make say, deep fried twinkies healthy, but..."

"No, some things aren't gonna be healthy no matter how hard you try," Sam agreed, tossing some Cheerios onto the top of his cupcake to see how they looked. "If you wanna be healthy with deep fried Twinkies, you just don't eat it."

"They've never actually appealed to me," Mercy admitted. "Brownies now - oh... Next time I should try a brownie cupcake!"

Brownie cupcake?" Sam asked, deciding he could be dubious this time. "Why combine two good things into one? Two's always better than one when it comes to sweets. You can rot your teeth outta your head faster too."

"Why not? You can always eat two brownie cupcakes if you're in that much of a hurry." She was already thinking about how to go about it - maybe some whoopie pie type filling for frosting - or a filling itself. These could be good!

"Didn't know you were suck a baker," Sam remarked idly. "Probably better suited for an actual bakery and not this class where people put Cheerios on their cupcakes."

"It's not like I signed up for it," Mercy said. "But since I'm here, might as well make the most of it, right?"

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

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.

"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."

That had Cassidy even more interested -- even if she was acting a little more shy than she usually did.

"You make hot chocolate with hot peppers? Is it good?"

She sounded intrigued by this idea.

Mercy nodded. "With the spice, yeah, it's delicious. I mean, hot chocolate is great by itself, but this just gives it a little kick. Soooo good!"

"It sounds like it. I've never had anything like that in hot chocolate before, and I love chocolate. It's one of the few things I've found so much of here."

"I'll make it for you sometime," Mercy offered. "I have my secret stash in my room."

Cassidy smiled at her. "Really? That's great. I can bake you something in exchange. I love cooking." She extended her hand, but then drew it back, looking at the gloves she was wearing. "Uhm, sorry. I hurt my hands during the weekend."

No, she was afraid they were still gray with black claws.

"I'm Cassidy. I don't know if we've met."

Oh, I'm sorry," Mercy said wincing. "Do they hurt badly?"

"That sounds great. I'm really good at brownies and cookies, but I don't do much else. And I'm Mercy. I know I've seen you around, but I don't think we've officially met."

"Not any longer, no," she was quick to assure her. "It's nice to meet you."

"Absolutely! Anyone willing to try the wonder of spicy hot chocolate is good to meet!" Mercy was all over smiles.

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