Baking Workshop 7/10, Monday Morning

[absolutesnark]

Piper smiles at the students as they arrive. She kind of already fears for the home ec classroom. "Good morning everyone. I'm Piper, in case some of you don't already know that."

She points out a plate of brownies on the counter. "I usually make samples of the assignments I choose. Today is no exception. As you can see, you're going to bake brownies today."

She hands them each a list of ingredients and instructions. "I try to make the instructions as easy to follow as possible, but, if you ever have questions or need help with anything, please don't hesitate to ask."


Equipment Needed

bowl

8x8 baking pan

dish towel or oven mitt

spatula

mixing spoon

measuring cups

measuring spoons


Ingredients

6 Tablespoons Cocoa

1/4 cup butter

1 cup sugar

1/2 Teaspoon vanilla

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/3 cup flour

1 cup toasted pecans (optional)

2 eggs


Instructions

Melt 1/4 cups of butter in a microwaveable dish.

Measure 6 tablespoons of Cocoa powder into the mixing bowl.

Add melted butter and mix.

Add to Batter (1 cup sugar, 2 eggs, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract, 1/3 cup flour, 1/4 teaspoon salt).

Mix batter.

Pre-heat oven to 325 degrees.

Flour the Pan (cover pan with butter, then add some flour to keep brownies from sticking)

Pour the brownie batter into the dish.

Put the brownies into the oven for 35-40 minutes.

Let them cool until slightly warm.


[ooc: ingredients and instructions from here.]

Comments

Bake

[absolutesnark]

Make brownies. Chat amongst yourselves.

Re: Bake

[untouchableskin.livejournal.com]

Marie looked over the instructions. These seemed easy enough.

She started gathering her ingredients.

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[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally was also gathering her ingredients. She was pretty good and following directions, so this wouldn't be too hard.

"Hey," she said, as she went about her gathering. "I fully apologize if I end up getting flour everywhere today... or any day, for that matter."

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[untouchableskin.livejournal.com]

"Don't worry about it," Marie said easily. "My momma always said you weren't really baking if you didn't end up messy."

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[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Well, my mom always told me messes were the product of carelessness, so I'm thinking we come from very different homes," Cally said, continuing to make sure she had everything. "Then again, my mom never baked. Or cooked."

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[untouchableskin.livejournal.com]

"Sounds like it," Marie agreed with a smile. "I grew up in Mississippi. Where are you from?"

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[demonbelthazor]

Bel decided to be a smart ass and melted the butter in his hand. Unfortunately, he melted the microwave safe bowl, too. Oops. Mmm, burning plastic.

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[likethegun]

Sam tilted his head a little as he glanced over between Bel and the bowl. "Call me crazy, but I'm not sure you're supposed to start the recipe out like that."

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[demonbelthazor]

"I thought the bowl was supposed to be heat resistant," Bel said mournfully.

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[likethegun]

"Maybe only to a certain heat level?" Sam suggested. "Or for a certain amount of time. I stuck a plate in the microwave once for five minutes instead of 50 seconds, and it wasn't pretty."

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[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly looked over the instructions. She'd never actually baked anything before, but it was just measuring and mixing. It couldn't be that hard. Right?

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[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

"Are we allowed to make bets on how badly we're going to screw up?" Alanna looked at her butter mournfully. Her bag sighed.

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[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly grinned. "How badly do you think you're going to screw up?" she asked. "I heard there were a few fires last session."

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[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

"I manage to mess up while making oatmeal. Enough said I think."

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[chasingangela]

The recipe seemed pretty basic. Which may have been why Angela didn't pay very much attention to it, melted too much butter, and ended up with a soupy batter.

She tilted the bowl and swirled it around, scrunching her nose. "So will butter evaporate?," she wondered aloud.

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[like-a-sponge.livejournal.com]

"It shouldn't," offered Greg, who had cocoa powder on his forehead but otherwise seemed to be doing all right with his batter. "But the water in it might if you melt it slowly enough. That's how you get clarified butter, like what you eat with lobster."

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[chasingangela]

"Thanks," Angela told the person she didn't know, as she rotated her bowl and watched the liquidy batter spin. "I melted too much. I'm trying to figure out if I should bake this batter and just hope they come out extra-fudgy from the extra fat, or completely start over."

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[like-a-sponge.livejournal.com]

"I'm not sure, since you would be minus one factor of moisture but plus another," Greg mused, adding his sugar and eggs. "Also, would you say your hair is red, or a very, very dark pink?"

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[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Sakurazaki definately recalled her last attempt to make brownies. The thought still made her stomach feel like lead. But these were very good instructions. She considers them thoughtfully, studiously, before she begins. It's difficult to concentrate, though, because all her thoughts are interspersed with questions of why did I think this was a good idea?

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[kitty--fetish.livejournal.com]

"Need a hand with this?" Alphonse peered over Sakurazaki's shoulder, taking a look at the instructions.

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[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"I'll probably need all the help I can get," Sakurazaki mutters, staring the componants she's gathered together. She knew she could do at least that part of it correctly, but reading English was still slightly problematic for her at times and she worried if she'd gotten the right things. She turns nervous, questioning eyes to Alphonse. "I've only tried this once before, and the results weren't pretty."

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[kitty--fetish.livejournal.com]

"No worries, I'll help you out then," Alphonse glanced between the list and the things she's already gathered on the counter, listing them off in his head. "Okay, I think you've got it all. Mixing it should be easy, I just, um... "

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[narglette.livejournal.com]

Luna had never baked before.

It was rare that she ventured inside of a kitchen not helmed by someone much more grown up than herself. Usually several someones.

This was going to be an adventure! She liked adventures!

Unfortunately, she also liked to stick the spatula behind her ear much she as did to the wand behind her other ear. This made for an interesting pattern of spots on her robe.

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[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel has a favorite brownie recipe (http://www.verybestbaking.com/recipes/detail.aspx?ID=28489) that she's made for years. She's interested in seeing if this recipe matches it.

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[fatalvoyage.livejournal.com]

Tempe arranged everything she needed in front of her before beginning the recipe. Having to run around to look for an ingredient would increase the potential that something would go wrong in the recipe.

With a precision possessed only by scientists, bakers, and incredibly OCD-type people, Tempe measured each ingredient carefully before adding it to the mixture, and tried to follow the recipe to the letter.