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."

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[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Willow," Sam waved back, and ignored the eggs, which seemed to be taunting her from their carton. "How's the cabin?"

Re: Bake

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"Pretty good," Willow said. "We had a slumber party last night. Fun was had. Though turns out one of my cabin-mates is a guy."

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

[blondrepublican.livejournal.com]

"Hey" Ainsley waved back, shyly. Context. Maybe all I needed to find was context.

"I'm Ainsley."

Re: Bake

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"Nice to meet you. I'm - um. Still Willow. You'd think I'd get better at introductions after all the people I've met this week," she said.

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

[blondrepublican.livejournal.com]

Okay, the flour on her nose? Cute enough to make Ainsley giggle. And somehow feel a little less morose than she had this morning.

"Hi," Ainsley said, wiping her hands on her jeans and leaving white streaks all over them. She waved back. "I'm Ainsley Hayes. It's nice to meet you."

Since working by herself in the corner wasn't a.) very much fun or b.) very polite to Sam, she piled her stuff on a baking sheet and moved closer.

"I'm new."

Well, duh Ainsley! That's some brilliant and scintillating commentary, I'm sure!

Re: Bake

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam had no idea about the flour on her nose, on her cheek, or in her hair. It was probably better that way. "That's what I was hoping, actually. Where are you from?" She poured some vanilla into the mixing bowl.

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

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

"Nah, bro, I think I got it," Jude said, glancing up and grinning. His foot hit the table and the second egg rolled off the edge, dropping directly onto his head and cracking on the tuque.

"Duuuuuuuuude. Not cool."

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

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"Wait, time out. We have to make demon brownies now?"

Re: Bake

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"They're demon brownies?" asked Anders, wide-eyed.

Hey, around here, you never really knew.

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

[stykera]

Having gotten a new egg and hopefully learned how to crack said egg without making a terrible mess, Stark returned to his brownie batter.

Adding the eggs went much better this time. It was even possible that no eggshell made it into the bowl.

Of course, now he had to mix it all. And being Stark, he made a bit of a mess. Not that he minded. Getting chocolate batter everywhere just meant that there was chocolate everywhere. Who would complain about that? And if he got a bit of flour everywhere when flouring the pan, well, it complemented the chocolate nicely. Didn't it?

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[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.

Re: Bake

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

Jude grinned at Maia from across the way, sheepishly returning with his new, unbroken eggs and his hair sticking up in blond tufts. "Hey, Maia, bra."

Re: Bake

[maias-notebook.livejournal.com]

"Jude hey." Maia said with a smile finally freeing up her measuring cups. "How's it going?"