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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Make carrot cake and chat with each other.

Ask questions or talk to Piper if you need her.

Show off finished products here.

I don't even like carrot cake.

Stark signs in.

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.

With a feeling of impending doom, Sam signed in

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.

Ainsley Hayes.

Ooh. Carrot cake.

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

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.~~

"Hey, Ainsley," Sam said as she tried to concentrate very, very hard on measuring flour. She was frowning at the effort--she had a PhD in astrophysics and had saved the world at least eight times. Surely she should be able to back a cake.

"Settling in?"

Willow Rosenberg

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

This could take a while.

"Yeah." Ainsley decided to skip the part where she had lunch with Walter and Nadia and checked up on Sam. Or at least the information Sam had given her over brownie batter.

Ainsley started grating carrots, and scraped her knuckles on the grater.

"Ow!"

"You okay?" Sam looked over. "I didn't know cooking was quite so dangerous."

Jude signed in.

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

Frighteningly, he managed it on the second try.

"Awesome . . ."

Willow pouted when she saw this. "I keep getting shells in mine."

Jude shrugged. "Can't help ya, bra. Maybe the eggs are apologising for last class."

"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."

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