Creative Cooking with a Focus on Pudding - Thursday 3rd Period

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The smell would hit you before you entered the room. The savory, almost woody lull of the nut family. Nuts filled the shelves, stacked precariously high, crammed into cupboards. Wonka was seated at his desk today, several types of nut and cracker at his desk.

There were nutcrackers, too.

"Last week, you may have noticed that the disparity between topping and bread made each taste better. This week marks your first formal foray into a discussion of texture! It's dreadfully boring to have any sort of food be the same consistency all the way through. Nuts do of course bring a warmth to the flavor of a sweet, but they are also used to vary texture.

This week, you will be making simple chocolates. You will include at least one nut of your choice, shelled and chopped, diced or ground as you see fit. Other ingredients may be added as inspiration strikes."

Wonka passed out a very plain recipe for melting and moulding small chocolates. His disdain for its plainness shone through in each line.

He looked to the window, where a scurry of squirrels was grouped, tiny paws and faces squashed expectantly against the glass.

"And under no circumstances should you feed the reporters. They know perfectly well that I do not appreciate being accosted on my way to class. They will receive treats after they have demonstrated patience by waiting until the end of the class."

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Sign in, homework in hand, please.

[not_every_mage]

Anders

[sprinklesgoboom]

Pinkie Pie

[boneyard_girl]

Ada Miller

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Kuzco

[rebelseekspizza]

Dante

[omgnochecksyet]

Eric Bittle

[good_for_six]

Isabela

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Listen during the lecture.

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Work on your chocolates, and feel free to help each other or ask help from Wonka.

[sprinklesgoboom]

Pinkie was torn between the almonds and the macadamia nuts.

On the one hand, almonds were used to make marzipan. On the other, "macadamia" was way more fun to say.

Decisions were hard!

[not_every_mage]

Anders made small dark chocolates with almonds. He enjoyed the work; its fiddliness was soothing. And he liked eating th emistakes.

[boneyard_girl]

Ada was making dark chocolate with diced almonds and candied ginger, in some heart-shaped molds that she'd found. Not that the shape changed the taste at all, but simple shape let her put in as much candied ginger as she liked.

Ada was a very simple girl to make happy. Chocolates and ginger were a guaranteed recipe to make her smile.

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Kuzco went for the Brazil nuts--they felt vaguely homey--and made some seriously ugly chocolates using them.

[rebelseekspizza]

Sure, 'making chocolates'.

More like 'eating a ton of chocolate'.

Look, Dante wasn't a nut guy.

Not dirty.

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After class, Wonka is preparing to throw open the windows for the squirrels. He's acting very reserved and tutting at them, but it's clear he can't say no to those little faces for long.

OOC

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OOC: If your character has a nut allergy, let me know. Wonka has ways of keeping them safe.