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.]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

"I guess I could say it's added calcium," Willow said. "But some people might not like crunchy carrot cake. Which doesn't make sense when you think about it because carrots crunch, so why not the cake?"

She started to fish out the shells.

Jude could follow this logic. Sadly. He chuckled. "Crunchy carrot cake makes way more sense than non-crunchy carrot cake. But I guess the crunchiness is lessened when ya grate the carrots?" He picked up some grated carrots and peered at them.

"I suppose," Willow said. "But it does make you wonder who thought of it first. Like who looked at the long, crunchy, orange thing and said hey, this would be way better if it was softer and sweet. And at that point why not just skip the carrots and go for chocolate? Unless maybe this was before the discovery of chocolate? Which I think we can all agree was a sad time in human history."

"Very sad," Jude agreed. "But ya never know. I mean, who first thought that really funky milk was a good idea? And then ya get cheese." He continued cracking the eggs. "I tried to make soup onna stick once. I still think the idea has potential."

Willow pondered this as she mixed her other ingredients. Feeling certain that an entire cup of oil had to be wrong, she cut that down to 1/4. "Was it in a cup and the cup on a stick?"

Jude shook his head. "That would be way too messy, bra." He kept mixing ingredients. Despite the fact that he ~~was~~ looked like a screw-up teenager, he was surprisingly good at it. "Froze it instead."

"Neat!" Feeling certain the order of mixing ingredients couldn't matter either, Willow went for the - to her - far more efficient method of adding in everything based on what was closest to her. "What flavors did you have? Was stew like the fancy version? Like ice cream with cookies in it? Only stewy?"

"Never got out of the development stage," Jude replied, slumping a little. "Had somethin' to do with havin' to turn a profit at the Stick-It. But that's a great idea, bra."

Willow smiled. "Thanks. It's a creative idea. The soup thing, I mean. Did your boss appreciate that at least?"

Ingredients mixed, she put them all into the pan and the pan into the pre-heated oven.

"I never met my boss, actually." Jude smoothed down his eggshell- and lump-free batter in the pan. "I was hired over the phone and then when I called my manager's number I got the store. Where I was the only one working. So I guess I was my own boss?"

"Even better," Willow pointed out. "That looks great on a college resume. Makes you look all mature and ready for whatever scary thing will get thrown at you, like thesis papers."

"Guess you're right about that," Jude chuckled, sliding his pan into the oven. "Never really thought about the college or university thing."

Willow looked a little uncomfortable, but quickly tried to hide it. "I do. I'm big into the whole learning thing. Plus I'll have to try really hard to make sure that when I get out of here I go somewhere other than UC Sunnydale."

Which had the benefit of being true, at least.

"I should probably start thinkin' about that, too," Jude mused. "But Toronto's got so many universities and colleges I'm bound to get into at least one of 'em."

"I've never been to Canada," Willow said. "Do you like it?"

"Yeah, I like it fine," he shrugged. "But I never been to the States before I came to Fandom so I don't have a real basis for comparison."

"What brought you to Fandom?" Willow asked.

"A combination of parents, bad marks, and the mall," Jude replied mellowly, unconcerned.

"My folks sent me here too," Willow said. "They thought it'd be safer than my old school."

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