fandomhigh | Baking Workshop 5/29, Monday Morning

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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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.

Piper glanced at Willow curiously. "You okay, Willow?"

"Let me try again!" Willow said. "I can stay after! I can do better!"

"Why would you want to try again? The cake looks okay to me."

"It's too dark," Willow said. "I burned it. And I'm sure it's supposed to be taller."

Piper smiled at Willow. "You don't have to do it over again. This workshop is meant to be fun. You're not even getting graded."

Willow's eyes went wide. "I'm not??"

"Like I said, it's supposed to be fun. I just expect you to show up and try. That's all I ask," Piper assured.

"But how will I know if I do it right?" Willow asked. "How will I be able to show that I learned from my mistakes and did not make that many mistakes all things considered and what mistakes I did make I stayed after and kept at it until it was exactly right which is how somebody earns a 4.0 GPA."

She might've been close to hyperventilating.

"Willow, breathe!" Piper instructed, trying to calm her down. "Since this is a seven week workshop, there isn't really time to learn everything. That's what home ec is for. But, if you ever have questions, you can ask me anytime."

Willow looked like she wanted to believe, but wasn't all the way there yet. "This won't mess up my transcripts for college?"

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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.

Piper just kinda stared at it. "It's...not so bad. At least you finished it."

"It's crooked," he said again. "Should have been flat. Flat is much better for cakes."

"It could have been a lot worse," Piper said, trying to think of the right thing to say. "It's intact. That's all that matters."

Stark gave Piper an odd look, not really believing a word she said.

"Really? What if it tastes terrible? I don't know how it's supposed to taste. No carrots in the Uncharteds. Not many cakes where I was either. Food cubes. Lots of food cubes."

Piper blinked. "Food cubes?"

Stark nodded. "Food cubes. Very nutritious. So they say. Didn't taste like it," he added, making a face.

"That's all you have to eat out there?" Piper was almost horrified at the thought.

"Not always. Sometimes. For a while we had real food. Lots of food. ~~After we robbed and blew up the bank!~~. Then...more food cubes. At least there was something to eat. Isn't always that."

Piper frowned slightly. "Well, I'll always have something in this class every week."

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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.

"Good job, Maia. Nice improvising," Piper said, glancing at the icing filled dent.

"Thank you." Maia said beaming as she looked down at her cake.

After she took a bite she thought her cake was good and thought about filing the carrot cake recipe away with her bunt cake recipe.