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"Good morning, everyone," Ignis greeted the class as per usual, the supplies and ingredients well stocked and gathered on everyone's work stations with the clear indication that they would be getting right into things that morning. "And welcome back. This week, we'll be continuing our foray into baking, in a way that will emphasized the fact that precision is key in ensuring that the final product is light, fluffy, and delicious. Today, we turn our attention to cupcakes.

"The nice thing about cupcakes is that they're quite a modest dessert or treat that leans itself to a wide range of variety and quite a bit of creativity in the end. For the purposes of our class, we will walk through a simple, though classic, vanilla cupcake, and once we've managed that, we'll make it our own in the decorating process afterwards. Because cooking is just food until you give it your own personal flair, and that is when it becomes art.

"If there are no questions before we start, we will get started and mix up our batters together for the sake of time. Take a moment to prepare yourself, and your stations, and then we will begin."

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Cupcakes!

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It's follow-along instructions today, so once everyone is ready to go and all preliminary questions are out of the way, the lesson may begin in earnest.

"Let us start," Ignis began, "by preheating our ovens to 350 degrees, and then we'll grab a large mixing bowl..."

And, assuming no one had any particular problems following instructions, they should have no problems with the rest of the recipe, he should hope.

"Now that our cupcakes are in the oven," said Ignis as they got to that point, "we have a bit of time for them to bake before we can get to decorating them. So, in the meantime, let us clean up our stations and then perhaps we can dive into a little bit of the culture of the food we are making, or perhaps the idea of cakes and desserts where you are from. Typically, such things are used for various celebrations. Are there any special cakes or treats that are associated with certain events where you're from? Birthdays, holidays, so on, so forth. Do you have a favorite kind of cake, cup or otherwise? And why is that?

"Perhaps if we can cultivate our love for this particular culinary pursuit through discussion, the patience required for our final product to finish will not seem so daunting. Let's discuss."

Finally, the timer goes off and the cupcakes should be finished! Hopefully, they managed to come out of the oven looking fine and ready to go.

"Now," said Ignis, "it is important to let your cupcakes cook a bit before diving straight into the decoration, unless what you're going for is a goopy frosted mess. So be sure to allow a sufficient amount of cooling to take place before we start with the decorating, but once they're ready, please feel free to get as creative or inventive as you see fit, and then we'll all get to show off our final product before diving in to enjoy."

Ignis's own cupcakes will wind up being surprisingly more cute than fancy.

Fancy pastry work was actually not an area he excelled at, unfortunately. Blame the fact that he spent years trying to perfect one mystery dessert for Noctis to really spend much time being all decorative with others.

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