fandomhigh | Baking Workshop 6/19, Monday Morning

Piper grins at the students as they arrive. "We are going to make pie today, apple to be specific."

She points to the pie she made for the class. "You'll need to work with a partner. One of you will make the crust and the other will make the filling. Then you'll both work together to assemble the pie. Since there are eight of you, you should all have a partner. If anyone is absent, I'll be someone's partner."

She hands them a list of ingredients and instructions. "Have fun!"

Equipment Needed

Mixing Bowl

Rolling Pin

Knife

Measuring Spoons

Measuring Cups

Dough Blender

Cutting Board

Pie Pan

Ingredients

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon sugar

6 tablespoons butter

6 tablespoons shortening

6 to 8 tablespoons ice water

Instructions

Warm butter in microwave until soft, but not melted.

Mix flour, salt and sugar in bowl.

Add butter, shortening and ice water.

Wrap pie crust in plastic wrap then place in refrigerator for 20 minutes.

Ingredients

5 peeled apples

1 cup sugar

2 tablespoons flour

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon vinegar

2 tablespoons butter

Instructions

Peel and slice apples.

Soak them in water with a tablespoon of lemon juice. This will help prevent them from turning brown.

Mix flour, cinnamon, salt and vinegar in large mixing bowl.

Mix apples into the pie flavoring.

Instructions

Assembling the Pie

Now that your pie crust has had time to cool divide it into two equal halves.

Roll one of the balls of pie crust out until it is around 1/8 of an inch thick.

Wrap the dough around the rolling pin and unroll it onto your pie pan.

Take a fork and poke holes in the bottom of the crust to let steam out as it cooks.

Place the apples in the pie in a pattern so that they all fit in the pie.

Pour the leftover coating over them.

Place about 4 chunks of butter on top of apple filling.

Roll out the remaining pie dough and place it on top.

Create a pattern around the edge of the pie by using the back of a knife.

Baking the Pie

Cut long strips of tinfoil and place them around the edge of the pie.

Bake pie at 400 degrees for 50-60 minutes.

Take tinfoil off about ten minutes before the pie is baked to have a golden brown edge.

[ooc: ingredients and instructions from here]

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"So far," Anders announced about fifteen minutes later, "I see no gnomes."

"They could be invisible," Willow pointed out.

"This is very true," Anders admitted. "They probably wouldn't be as helpful if people could see them, and bother them."

"Oh yeah," Willow said. "People would be interrupting them all the time, asking for autographs, telling them they love what they did with that chocolate cake the other day."

"And then they'd spend all their time doing autograph tours and talk show appearances, and then where would we be?"

"Buying their t-shirts and writing fanfic?" Willow guessed.

Anders turned a little bit red at the mention of fanfic, but nodded. "Probably. But also with a sad shortage in the baked goods department."

"True," Willow agreed, not noticing the blush. "Plus then there'd be flame wars all over the internet. Brownie/Cookie gnome shippers vs. the Cookie/Pie gnome shippers."

"And then there'd be the people who send email going, 'Oh my gods, what the frak kind of sick bastard are you to ship cookies and pie in the first place?'" Anders mumbled. Not at all bitterly.

"Exactly!" Willow said. "When, hello, subtext that's pretty much text! We all saw how cookies and pie were looking at each other."

Anders snickered. "Yeah, exactly. And then someone will go and write Brownie/Pie just to spite them all."

"Yeah, right," Willow snorted. "Like Brownie would ever touch Pie if aliens didn't make them do it."

Anders rolled his eyes. "Someone will have enough time on their hands to completely make up a reason why it would work. And then there would be scary Photoshop attempts."

"Totally," Willow agreed. "Then, worse, Piepreg."

"Oh, Lords!" Anders blurted out. "Talk about flame wars."

He didn't just glance warily at the pie in the oven, really.

"Tell me about it," Willow said. "I don't judge what other people want to write but at least try to be plausible! You know if Pie ever actually got pregnant he'd be the first one going on all Atkins to get rid of it."

Anders buried his face in his hands. "Okay, that's it, you just completely broke my brain."

Willow patted him comfortingly. "We just won't read those message groups."

[ooc: must go to bed, woe]

"No. No we won't," came the muffled reply.

[OOC: Woe. Night!]

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