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The tent was set up the same as it had been the previous weeks, but this time around there was one extra teacher up at the front of the class. One who was somehow blonder and broader than Steve.

That was right, folks. Thor was here to judge baking.

"We have a special guest for a themed week," Tony said, so so glad he didn't have to come up with these recipes.

"It's Nordic Week," Steve said, "so hello to our friend Thor!" Thor was definitely going to be better pronouncing any of the food this week!

Thor was sure that, as the teachers of the class, his friends’ pronunciations would be ~~hilarious~~ more than adequate! “Indeed,” he said gravely. “I am honored to be here to sample your wares. I am certain you will all perform admirably.” And if he was lying, well, his face gave nothing away.

"First we'll of course be tasting the pies ~~that were handwavily assigned because oops forgot~~ from last week. A citrus curd with an intricate meringue," Tony reminded the class. And hopefully none of the meringue tasted like sweet scrambled eggs.

Hopefully. Even if they did, Steve would still eat it!

"And then we'll start the signature," Steve said. He looked down at his notes. "Saffron rolls?"

“Saffransbullar,” Thor said fondly. “Or Lussekatter, if one is celebrating the saint.” Couldn’t be Thor, obviously.

Tony nodded along with the explanation like he too could totally pronounce it all correctly. "And then for our technical challenge there's an, ah, interesting take on a cake?"

Everybody's so creative! See how we did that? Looks like you probably shouldn't do that.

“It has been many years since I had a good smörgåstårta,” Thor said, which raised the question of when there had ever been a good smörgåstårta in the first place.

Steve, again, was reading his notes. "There's fish in the cake?!"

"I'm sure it'll be… fine," Tony settled on. He was bravely soldiering on and hoping this all wasn't entirely just Thor messing with them. "And for your homework, we want you to all.. Well, I'll let Thor explain it."

"FISH," Steve repeated, looking slightly distressed.

“I thought you as fond of smoked salmon as any New Yorker,” Thor said to him, looking concerned, before he turned to address the class. “Yes, I believe for your ‘homework’ you are to make a kransekage--or, if the shape is reversed, it would be an overflødighedshorn.” Very normal words here. “It is a sort of cake made of stacked rings of marzipan, though your teachers may have further instructions for you.”

Tony gave Steve a sympathetic pat on the arm before realizing he was up again. "Yes, we'd like you to include marzipan decorations… on top of the marzipan cake."

Yo dog, we heard you liked marzipan.

"No fish," Steve said firmly. "That's very important."

“They could make fish out of marzipan,” Thor argued, like a helper. He was helping.

Tony smiled, but it was for sure strained. "Pie! Time for pie!"

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Ready for some delicious treats!

A citrus curd pie with a meringue top! But make it all fancy like. You know. Fancy.

[RNG says... Vi
Kitty Pryde-Barton
Hannibal Lecter
Yelena Belova
Nell Ingram]

The sky was the limit on creativity! Surely everyone would so well with this, right?

[RNG says... Hannibal Lecter
Yelena Belova
Nell Ingram
Kitty Pryde-Barton
Vi]

Well. It sure was something.

[RNG says... Vi
Yelena Belova
Nell Ingram
Kitty Pryde-Barton
Hannibal Lecter]

And Thor! Thor was also there for this one!

It's too early.

Kitty Pryde-Barton

Kitty had made orange curd. It was surprisingly good! Her merengue didn't look the prettiest and that was something they would all have to deal with, but it tasted good and after the last couple weeks, she would take it.

Vi was legitimately surprised with how well her lime and raspberry curd had turned out, let alone the rest of her pie.

Vi had gotten the bright idea to shape her buns into little cats, because, well, they were saffron buns after all.

And in her defence, they were very cute, just kind of burnt around all the edges and thin bits.

Okay, so this was kind of a weird overly fancy way to serve a sandwich, but it wasn't like there was anything you wouldn't normally eat together on it, so Vi made a weird fancy giant sandwich.

Nell Ingram

"Tell me about your pie," Steve said, looking excited.

"It's orange curd, my daughter didn't get into anything this week? And I swear that's merengue on top," Kitty replied. "Please like it."

"This look delicious," Steve said with an earnest smile.

Nell's pie had been beautifully fancy. Unfortunately, Gladio had seen it set out last night and incorrectly assumed that Nell had left it as a special treat for him. And had eaten the whole thing. Well... technically there was enough left over for Nell to have a piece, but that was about it.

He did say it was absolutely delicious, however, so there was that.

Sorry, judges. No pie for you.

Nell was off her stride, what with not having a pie to turn in and all, so while her saffron buns were serviceable, they were not her best work.

This was, well, not anything Nell would choose to eat, but she tried her best to make it at least appear edible. It was... okay.

"I'm sure I will," Steve said, smiling.

"No pie?" Steve asked sadly.

"No pie," Nell said, equally sadly. "Gladio ate it in the night."

She sighed. "It was really beautiful, too. Raspberry lime curd with swirls of meringue in the shape of leaves and raspberries."

And of course... "Gladio said it was delicious."

Kitty was having a problem with underbaking lately, and seeing how these turned out, she was checking her oven. Maybe it was broken.

There were a lot of mutters blaming the oven, and anyway she was so worried about getting it made right that it was not going to be pretty.

"Would he say anything else?" Steve asked.

Nell considered that for a moment. "Well... he probably wouldn't say it was terrible, but there have been things I cooked that he didn't like as well as others."

Another moment. And a smile. "And he ate the entire thing. When there was plenty of Cup Noodle in the cupboard. That's saying something."

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