Baking Workshop 5/22, FH Home Ec Classroom, Monday Morning

[absolutesnark]

Piper smiles at the students as they show up at the home ec classroom after handwave hearing some sort of announcement letting them know to meet here.

"I'm Piper in case some of you might not know," she says somewhat cheerfully, handing each student a syllabus.

She points out the plate of brownies on the counter in front of her. "I made these for you because that is what we will be baking today. Try one if you'd like. I'm told I make the best brownies ever." She smiles proudly. "We will not be making the kind I brought in, though. They have a secret ingredient and, if I told you what it is, I'd have to vanquish you and no one wants that."

Piper grins to let them know she isn't serious about the vanquishing. She hands each student a list of ingredients and instructions. "I'm not going to lecture you because this workshop is supposed to be fun. So we're gonna get started right away. These instructions are, hopefully, easy to follow. If any of you have questions, please don't hesitate to ask."


Equipment Needed

bowl

8x8 baking pan

spatula

mixing spoon

measuring cups

measuring spoons


Ingredients

6 Tablespoons Cocoa

1/4 cup butter

1 cup sugar

1/2 Teaspoon vanilla

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/3 cup flour

1 cup toasted pecans (optional)

2 eggs


Instructions

Melt 1/4 cups of butter in a microwaveable dish.

Measure 6 tablespoons of Cocoa powder into the mixing bowl.

Add melted butter and mix.

Add to Batter (1 cup sugar, 2 eggs, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract, 1/3 cup flour, 1/4 teaspoon salt).

Mix batter.

Pre-heat oven to 325 degrees.

Flour the Pan (cover pan with butter, then add some flour to keep brownies from sticking)

Pour the brownie batter into the dish.

Put the brownies into the oven for 35-40 minutes.

Let them cool until slightly warm.




[ooc: Brownie ingredients and instructions are from here.]

Comments

Bake

[absolutesnark]

Make brownies! Chat with each other if you want to.

Re: Bake

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam faced the table full of ingredients and cooking implements and inhaled deeply. She could do this. Really.

Re: Bake

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow waved at her. "Hey, Sam."

Re: Bake

[blondrepublican.livejournal.com]

Ainsley gathered the equipment and ingredients.

She'd seen her Nana do this a million times.

She could do this.

Really.

Re: Bake

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow gave a wave. "Hi. I'm Willow."

Re: Bake

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam waved from over where she was lightly dusted with flour. "Hey, I'm Sam Carter. Or Girl!Sam, if you've been listening to the radio at all."

Re: Bake

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

Jude managed to drop an egg and spill his cup of pecans before he even got them to his work area. "Whoa! Um, sorry bra . . ." he muttered, depositing the rest of the ingredients before dropping to his knees to clean it all up.

Re: Bake

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"Dude, you need help with that?" Pip asked from his station.

Re: Bake

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

Pip wrapped his braid around his neck to make sure it didn't get caught in anything and started making brownies.

He wasn't sure he had seen all these people here before.

Re: Bake

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders had not, as it turned out, listened to the radio broadcast yet. Nor had he checked his voicemail (http://futurebucs-star.livejournal.com/3010.html?thread=1273026#t1273026) today, or he'd at least have a clue.

He headed into his workshop after moving into his cabin with a slightly confused expression on his face (okay, slightly more confused than usual) but absolutely no clue whatsoever about what potential humiliation lay in store for him.

But whoa. Brownies. With more ingredients than he'd ever had to deal with. He could do this. Right?

Re: Bake

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Morning, Anders," Sam waved a flour and cocoa-covered hand at Anders and tried not to smirk. "Ready to do battle with the demon brownie?"

Re: Bake

[stykera]

Stark looked at the recipe, and then at the ingredients, a little warily. It sounded simple enough, yes, but who knew what would happen.

Melting the butter and adding the cocoa was fine. But when it came time to mix things together for the batter, well, eggs were problematic. And he might have ended up with a very squished egg in one hand on the first attempt. Woe.

Re: Bake

[maias-notebook.livejournal.com]

Maia bit her lip and pulled out the required equipment. Going to do this, going to be a good cook. She thought to herself. A slight metalic clang as she wrestled with her measuring spoons that seemed to have gotten caught up on the handle of her measuring cups.

Questions

[absolutesnark]

Ask questions if you have any. Or talk to Piper if you need her.

Re: Questions

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"Piper, do you know any recipes for cookies with goat's blood?" Willow asked, in all earnestness. Because she hadn't been sure if maybe Bel was just being polite when he said he didn't need that.

Re: Questions

[blondrepublican.livejournal.com]

"Um, Miss Piper, ma'am," Ainsley began diffidently. "I sort of have the metabolism of four marathon runners missed breakfast. You wouldn't happen to have anything to eat just lying around, would you?"

Re: Questions

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

Jude looks a bit sheepish as he came up. "Uh, Piper?" He didn't call her 'bra', remembering the advice from the other night. "I kinda need more eggs . . ." Way to make a first impression, dude.

Re: Questions

[stykera]

Having thoroughly crunched one egg, Stark put the other down before walking over to Piper.

"The egg broke. A lot. More than it should have," he said, frowning. "May I have a new one? And how do you break them without...breaking them?"

Present

[absolutesnark]

Present your finished products. Piper might even taste test them if she's brave enough.

Re: Present

[maias-notebook.livejournal.com]

Maia carried her brownies over. There was an obvious dent in them from her and Jude having a taste. They were possibly a little flatter then they should be and the bottoms of them were caked with flour from an over dusting of Maia's pan.

Maia beamed as she sat them onto the counter in front of Piper. The fact they were edible made Maia feel successful.

Re: Present

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow brought her brownies over. She hadn't tasted them yet. "Okay, so I think they could be taller? And maybe more chewy than cakelike but they are brown and smell like chocolate so I'm hoping that goes really far on the part where they're supposed to be chocolate brownies. Also I didn't use nuts because I don't want to kill anybody by accident."

Re: Present

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders had completely forgotten to flour the pan before pouring in the brownie batter. He'd also put in 1/3 cup of sugar instead of a whole cup, half a teaspoon of salt instead of a quarter teaspoon, and a quarter teaspoon of vanilla instead of half a teaspoon.

Given how completely agitated he'd been after what Sam had told him, it was somewhat miraculous that this was about the worst of it.

OOC

[absolutesnark]

Because it might be needed.

Re: OOC

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

I'm going to end up trying all of these recipes, I can tell. Wench.

Re: OOC

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

I am so baking my Chocolate Chip Cookies of Doom for the last class. Although that would mean I would have to reveal my Sekkrit Ingredient . . .