Baking Workshop 5/29, Monday Morning

[absolutesnark]

Piper smiled at the students as they arrived. "Just so you all are clear, none of my ingredients are demonic. I know some of you were wondering last week."

She couldn't help snickering a little before pointing out the carrot cake sitting on the counter in front of her. "We're going to make carrot cake today. As you can see, I made one for the class. Feel free to take a slice."

She gave each student a list of ingredients and instructions. "I'll be around if you have any questions. Good luck."



Equipment Needed

Mixer

Paper Plates

Grater

Measuring Cups

Measuring Spoons

Spatula

Non-stick cooking spray

Cooling Rack


Ingredients

2 Cups Sugar

1 Cup Corn Oil

3 Eggs

1 Can Pineapple (15oz)

2 Cups Grated Carrots

2 Cups White Raisins

1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract

2 Cups Toasted pecans

3 Cups Flour

2 teaspoons Baking Powder

1 teaspoon Salt

1 teaspoon Cinnamon

1 teaspoon Baking Soda

1 Cup Powdered Sugar (for lemon icing)

2 Lemons (for lemon icing)


Instructions

Mix together until well blended:

2 Cups Sugar

1 Cup Corn Oil

3 Eggs

1 Can Pineapple (15oz)

2 Cups Grated Carrots

2 Cups White Raisins

1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract

2 Cups Toasted pecans


Pre-heat oven to 350F


Mix together on a paper plate:

3 Cups Flour

2 teaspoons Baking Powder

1 teaspoon Salt

1 teaspoon Cinnamon

1 teaspoon Baking Soda


Spray your cake pan with cooking spray, make sure you cover all the inside of the cake pan.

Pour the cake batter into the cake pan and bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 1 hour.


Make icing while the cake is in the oven:

Take your two lemons and grate 1 teaspoon lemon peel.

Juice the two lemons that you just finished grating.

Mix together:

1 teaspoon lemon zest

Juice of the Two Lemons

2 Cups powdered sugar


Cut the cake loose once it's finished baking.

Take a knife and cut the edge of the cake loose from the pan around the outside and around the center stem.

Shake the cake back and forth until it seems to be detached form the pan.

Now put a cooling rack on top of the cake and then flip it over.

Remove the cake pan and let the carrot cake cool.

Add the icing to your carrot cake.



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

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[stykera]

Stark signs in.

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[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

With a feeling of impending doom, Sam signed in

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[blondrepublican.livejournal.com]

Ainsley Hayes.

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[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow Rosenberg

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Jude signed in.

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[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

Pip signed in and took a slice. Because, hey, free cake!

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[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders signed in a day late and a dollar short, oops. Stupid three-day weekends.

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Maia signed in


((sorry afk most of the weekend due to holiday))

Bake

[absolutesnark]

Make carrot cake and chat with each other.

Re: Bake

[stykera]

After taking a slice of cake, Stark started working on his own.

He managed, this time, to not completely ruin his eggs on the first try. Yay. Baking was so much cleaner this way. Well, it was cleaner until he turned the mixer up to a very high speed anyway. Then he was a little spattered with cake batter. At least the mask was easy to clean off.

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[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam decided to take a different approach to baking this week since last week had been such a disaster, and began carefully measuring out all of the ingredients first. She also preheated the oven, this time to 350.

She may have also snitched a couple of raisins while she was measuring, but she figured it probably wouldn't hurt anything.

Re: Bake

[blondrepublican.livejournal.com]

Ainsley had set up not far from Sam.

She waved.

"Hey, Sam."

And did not wonder why that particular phrase seemed so portentious. Nope, nope, not at all.

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[blondrepublican.livejournal.com]

Ooh. Carrot cake.

Munching along happily on the complimentary slice, she gathered the ingredients and supplies and began to bake.

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[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow was determined to show she could crack eggs into a bowl using only one hand.

This could take a while.

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[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

Jude was impressed by her attempts and tried to do it himself.

Frighteningly, he managed it on the second try.

"Awesome . . ."

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[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

Pip was pretty impressed by this feat and, being Pip, attempted to do it himself.

It took him a couple of tries. And a couple of spare eggs.

Okay, a lot of spare eggs.

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[maias-notebook.livejournal.com]

After making her cake and putting it into the oven, Maia started on the icing.

Several eyewashings from squirted lemon juice in her eyes and some swearing as the juice got into the cut she has sustained during the weekend; Maia managed to complete her icing and waited for the cake to be done so she could frost it.

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[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders and a grater are probably a very bad combination. It's a good thing he's so paranoid about keeping his fingers in good condition for playing Pyramid, or his carrot cake really would have been partly made out of human. Unfortunately this also meant that it took him half the class period to get the carrots grated.

Good thing he'd made enough cupcakes to be decent at cracking eggs (you know, when he wasn't all flustered), or that would've taken up half the time that was left.

It was the combination of forgetting the cooking spray, and accidentally preheating the oven to 450 instead of 350, that spelled his doom today.

The double batch of icing to cover up the carbonized cake top was probably a dead giveaway anyhow.

Questions

[absolutesnark]

Ask questions or talk to Piper if you need her.

Present

[absolutesnark]

Show off finished products here.

Re: Present

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Once her cake was done, Willow did not immediately take it over to Piper.

It was entirely possible she was standing there, looking at it, and wishing she knew an invisibility or vanishing spell off of the top of her head.

Re: Present

[stykera]

Eventually Stark made his way over to Piper, cake in hand. A distinctly lopsided cake that had clearly been iced before it cooled enough.

"It's crooked," he said with a frown.

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[maias-notebook.livejournal.com]

Having filled in a semi large dent in the middle of her cake with icing, Maia trotted her cake over to Piper, her eyes still a bit red from the lemon juice.

OOC

[absolutesnark]

I don't even like carrot cake.