Baking Workshop 6/12, Monday Morning

[absolutesnark]

Piper smiled at the students as they arrive. It might have been a nervous smile. She pointed out today's assignment. "We're making snickerdoodles today. Chocolate ones even because chocolate makes everything better."

"Oh, and the first one of you to ask me if they're made of people gets detention," she continued, wondering if she could really abuse her power like that.

She hands the students a list of ingredients and instructions. "As usual, I'm around if you have questions or need help with anything."

"Try not to burn the classroom down," Piper added, remembering what happened last week.


Equipment Needed

Mixing Bowl

Measuring Cups

Measuring Spoons

Baking Sheets

Spatula


Ingredients

2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

1 1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup butter, softened

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 eggs

2 cups flour

3/4 cup cocoa

1 teaspoon cream of tartar

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

2 tablespoons sugar


Instructions

Preheat oven to 400F

Combine sugar, butter, vanilla and eggs.

Mix well.

Stir in cocoa, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt.

Blend well.

Shape dough into 1 inch balls.

Combine 2 tablespoons sugar and 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon.

Roll dough in sugar/cinnamon mixture and place 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheets.

Bake 8 to 10 minutes, or until set.

Immediately remove from cookie sheets.



[ingredients and instructions from here]

Comments

Sign In

[absolutesnark]

Sign in and take some snickerdoodles if you want.

Re: Sign In

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders signed in and took a snickerdoodle. He was pretty sure they weren't made out of people, but he wasn't going to ask at any rate. When he counted the number of ingredients on the instruction sheet, he almost cried.

Re: Sign In

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam signed in and took a snickerdoodle.

Re: Sign In

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow signed in.

Re: Sign In

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

Jude signed in and took a snickerdoodle. He looked at it for a moment, wondering why someone would think they were made of people.

Re: Sign In

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

Pip signs in and takes some snickerdoodles. Because snickerdoodles are the greatest cookie in the history of cookies. At least in the mun's opinion.

Re: Sign In

[stykera]

Stark signed in and took a couple people-free cookies.

Re: Sign In

[maias-notebook.livejournal.com]

Maia signed in


((so so sorry this is late, had three people quit at work so it's been totally insane in RL))

Bake

[absolutesnark]

Make snickerdoodles and chat amongst yourselves.

Re: Bake

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders spent about fifteen minutes going over the instructions. "Aw, this can't be that hard," he told no one in particular. "And no open flames this week."

He carefully preheated the oven and started measuring out his ingredients. The only thing that really stuck him for now was the bit about how the butter had to be softened. How do you soften butter?

With a shrug, Anders set the stick of butter down on the counter and started pummelling it with both fists.

Re: Bake

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow watched Anders beat up the butter.

"Serves the cookies right for mocking us."

Re: Bake

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders gave her a sheepish smile.

"Well, they haven't yet, but I'm trying to get the jump on 'em."

Re: Bake

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

Jude was in a good mood this morning. Which led to a little spinning of bowls before he set them down, a little cheerful twist of the wrist as he turned on the oven, a little bounce in his step as he measured out the butter and set it on the heating oven to soften.

Re: Bake

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"Well, aren't you in a good mood," Pip said as he cracked his eggs. "Anything interesting happen?"

Re: Bake

[stykera]

Cookies, somehow, were less intimidating than cakes. Maybe just because they were smaller.

So Stark set to work on making cookies. Preheating the oven? Easy.
Mixing things when you didn't bother to soften the butter? Less easy. But doable. Hopefully. It was just taking a little more effort.

Re: Bake

[maias-notebook.livejournal.com]

Maia read over the recipe several times and smiled to herself. This was so much easier then crepes over an open flame. She was going to love this.

Talk to Piper

[absolutesnark]

She's here if you need her.

Re: Talk to Piper

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Piper?" Sam asked, "Is it okay if I sit today out? I, er, sprained my wrist and broke a couple of ribs over the weekend, and I can't really do much. Not like I could do much in here anyway, but I'd like to be able to at least put out any fires I start."

Re: Talk to Piper

[absolutesnark]

"What happened?" Piper asked curiously, giving Sam a concerned look. "And I have no problem with you sitting out, especially if you're hurt."

Re: Talk to Piper

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

Pip approached Piper. "Er... sorry I missed last week's class. I was kind of... a gosling."

Re: Talk to Piper

[absolutesnark]

"Yeah, Nadia let me know about that. I won't hold that against you. This time," Piper said with a grin.

Present

[absolutesnark]

If you want Piper to be honest about your finished products...

OOC

[absolutesnark]

Because this might be needed.

Re: OOC

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

Not made of people? Not even a little bit? C'mon... Soylent Green adds just that little bit of flavor that everyone loves!

Re: OOC

[absolutesnark]

Maybe there's a reason I threatened to give detention if anyone asked. ;)