The Great British Bakeoff! But American! - 2nd Period

[imafuturist]

It was a good thing that Ignis had made sure the Danger Shop's fire alarms worked on Monday because the teachers for the Great American Bake Off Class had been known to use the shrieking of the fire alarm to tell when their food was finished.

The room was set up just like the show on Netflix, so the students had come into a white tent that was going to be subject to the elements (so today it was freezing.) Their benches came complete with standing mixers, porcelain bowls, and tiiiiiny ovens with doors that could accidentally be ripped off even if you weren't a super soldier.

"Welcome to Cake Week!" Steve said excitedly from the front of the room.

Tony nodded like he'd ever baked a cake that wasn't somehow both burned and underdone in the middle. He was a scientist and still managed that, everyone. "We'll start out easy with box cakes that we want you to make taste better with a handwaved assortment of ingredients you can use to boost things."

"Please make them taste nice," Steve asked. "You can follow the directions on the back of the box if you need help, and then Tony and I will come around and taste them. After that, we'll give you another challenge, and finally you'll have a homework assignment to bring with you next week."

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[imafuturist]

Ready for your first day in the tent!

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[the_best_sister]

Yelena Belova

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[mylandmyrules]

Nell Ingram

Signature Challenge - Cakes

[imafuturist]

There were a variety of box cake mixes and an even wider variety of ingredients to use with them!

Surely nothing could go wrong when it came to tasting them!

[RNG says... Hannibal Lecter has the best, followed by:
Kitty Pryde-Barton
Nell Ingram
Yelena Belova
Vi]

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[the_best_sister]

Why was Yelena here? Was it the moose or her employer? Yelena was not sure. She had also never truly baked before. So she decided just to make a red velvet cake with actual beets. Because beets were awesome. Who didn't like beets?

Possibly someone who didn't like the fact that when Yelena made the cake she didn't totally puree the beets so there were raw beet chunks in the cake. She also ran out of time so she used frosting that came in one of those tubs with a plastic lid that tasted more like lard than actual frosting.

When Tony and Steve approached (if the decided to deal with this trainwreck of a dessert), Yelena would cross her arms and glare at them as if daring them to dislike what she made.

"This is a red velvet cake made with actual beets and fake frosting. Enjoy."

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[heroic_jawline]

"I love beets," replied Steve with an earnest, World War II era, enthusiasm. "What made you choose a red velvet cake?"

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[mylandmyrules]

Nell was doing well enough with her cake, which would have been quite delicious if the door to her oven hadn't fallen off before it was totally cooked. So while it might have tasted semi-decent it certainly was not completely cooked through, leaving some definite over gooey parts in the middle.

"This should be a chocolate cake with a mocha chocolate frosting," which really was quite tasty, "But I'm afraid my cake isn't all the way baked through."

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[heroic_jawline]

"Is that's a molten lava cake, then?"

Steven. No.

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[throughaphase]

Who had two thumbs and a reason to make cupcakes for a kid's class? This girl!

Chocolate was easy enough to start with, but she figured if she added cream cheese to the frosting and mixed berries in with the cake layers, it'd be good!

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[heroic_jawline]

"What are we trying now?" Steve asked with a smile.

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[giveittoyoursister]

Vi could follow a recipe and had a decent sense of what flavours worked together, so her cake probably would turned out okay, except she'd managed to pick a box that used measurements and temperatures that didn't match the equipment in the tent.

The end result was extremely underbaked and vaguely off.

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[heroic_jawline]

Steve smiled as he approached her station. "What did you make for us today?"

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[sharp_man]

Hannibal looked at the box as if at a terrible foe, then sighed.

Well, he could think of one thing that would mask the taste of the chemicals used in these things.

So he mixed a good portion of the box with a bottle of vanilla vodka, a bottle of chocolate liqueur, and a small container of half-n-half, then beat it on slow with the mixer. He used the rest of the box to make cookie shot glasses with and poured the drink in.

He hoped Summer would be proud.

Technical Challenge - Cakes

[imafuturist]

This time there was a simple recipe left out for the class to try to see if they can get it done in the time allotted! Somehow. Don't question it.

[RNG this time says... Hannibal Lecter again! Followed by:
Yelena Belova
Vi
Kitty Pryde-Barton
Nell Ingram]

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[the_best_sister]

Yelena looked at the instructions and frowned. No room for experimenting? Just follow the recipe? Bor-ing.

She made the cake anyway and was now just glaring at Hannibal because his cake still looked better than hers.

Rude.

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[mylandmyrules]

Nell... had no oven with which to bake her pound cake. She shook her head. "Give me a good wood stove anytime."

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[throughaphase]

Who had two thumbs and had never made this before? Yeah okay.

Maybe she added the ingredients in the wrong order? It was just not the consistency you'd expect from your pound cake.

Re: Technical Challenge - Cakes

[giveittoyoursister]

Again, since Vi could follow a recipe, this turned out better than her last cake, but since she kept opening the oven to check on it and see if it was actually cooking it was very unevenly browned.

Re: Technical Challenge - Cakes

[sharp_man]

This was a simple one. Hannibal had hoped for something a bit more challenging, but fine, he could do this.

Blindfolded and on one leg, probably, though he wasn't going to do that.

This week.

Showstopper Challenge - Cakes

[imafuturist]

"For your homework," Tony said with a whole mess of ingredients out for people to take if they wanted for this. "You'll be making a three tier cake of your choice to present to us next week. And hopefully nothing will fall down."

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[the_best_sister]

Yelena raised her hand. "Do we actually have to cry when making the cake? Or can we use those fake tear things that come in tiny eye dropper bottles?"

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[imafuturist]

"The crying is optional, but the tiers are as in another, smaller cake stacked on top." Look, he wasn't a baker, but he felt this was an appropriate challenge for the first day, right?

Oh so wrong.

Talk to the Teachers

[imafuturist]

Who could in no way do these cakes on their own, but they could pretend.

Re: Talk to the Teachers

[heroic_jawline]

"This was the best idea," Steve declared, "because we get to eat cake!"

He had not, admittedly, tried any of the cakes yet.

OOC

[imafuturist]

Now I want cake.