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

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.]

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"Okay..." Willow, after all, seemed to know more about baking than she did. And that wasn't making her feel inadequate at all, nope. She stirred with the rubber spatula a few more times, then peered in. "I think it's lumpier now."

"Huh." Willow peered at it. "Did you add the nuts? Because those would be lumpy."

Sam pointed to the pecans still on the counter. "Nope. I opted out."

"Me too. Hum." Willow looked thoughtful. "Are you against the nuts as a concept? Because you could put them in anyway and if people notice lumps you could say they were nuts."

"I don't really like pecans," Sam said, "but it's not like I'd be eating my own cooking anyway..."

She knew better.

"Chocolate chips?" Willow suggested.

"I like the way you think, Willow," Sam said, "there's very little that can't be fixed by adding chocolate."

"And whipped cream," Willow nodded. "There's very little that can't be hidden with a can of Reddi-Whip."

"Except turkey," Sam muttered. "Er, hypothetically."

"Yeah, I'm not good with that," Willow said. "Mixing bowls I can cope with. It's like science class, only you can eat it. Well you can eat science stuff too but it might kill you."

"I think that depends on what you're making, but I never thought of it like science before," she looked at the bowls in a new light. "Science I can do."

"Oh yeah," Willow said. "Like there's measuring, and being precise, and following instructions only not when they're stupid and some steps you can so skip even if they tell you not to. But pretty sciency."

"You can skip steps? How do you know which steps are skippable and which ones aren't? How do you know when the instructions are stupid?"

"Depends on the recipe," Willow said. "And sometimes you don't know until you get to the very end. In my past I have made things like Chocolate Surprise. You don't want to know what the suprise was."

Sam kinda did, but she couldn't say anything now. "I think my recipe today's kind of a lost cause," she poked the batter again, "but I'll definitely have to try it your way next week."

Willow looked at the syllabus. "Next week is carrot cake. Okay, there might be some panic here. Adding in vegetables is a whole new dynamic for me."

"Maybe you can pretend they're like orange chocolate chips?" Sam suggested hopefully.

"Yes, exactly!" Willow nodded. No, she was not pre-freaking about possibly failing a class. Why would you think so? "I'm sure that will work."

"Well, good," Sam nodded, unsure whether that strategy would actually work.

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