fandomhigh | Baking Workshop 7/17, Monday Morning

"Good morning," Piper greeted with a smile. "You're going to make oatmeal cookies today. With raisins! Unfortunately, I didn't have time to make samples for you. Sorry. I did bring muffins, though."

She pointed out muffins she had purchased earlier at J,GOB. Then she handed the students a list of instructions. "As always, if you have questions, do not hesitate to ask."

Equipment Needed

Mixer

2 Cookie Sheet Pans

Measuring Cups

Measuring Spoons

Spatula

Ingredients

1 1/2 Cup Shortening

2 Cups Brown Sugar

1 Cup White Sugar

2 eggs

1/2 Cup Water

2 Teaspoons Vanilla

2 1/3 Cups Flour

1 Teaspoon Cinnamon

2 Teaspoons Salt

2 Cups Raisins

2 Cups Pecans (optional)

6 Cups Oatmeal

Cooking Spray

Instructions

Preheat oven to 325 F.

In a mixer set on medium high combine and mix shortening, brown sugar and white sugar thoroughly.

Add eggs, water and vanilla on medium speed.

Add flour, cinnamon and salt on low speed.

Make sure that all these ingredients have been thoroughly combined.

While your mixer is still on low speed, add raisins and pecans.

Mix in the oatmeal.

Spray a cookie sheet with nonstick cooking spray.

Use a teaspoon to shape the cookie dough into clumps.

Put the cookies on the middle rack and bake for 12-15 minutes.

Make sure not to bake them over 15 minutes.

Remove them from the oven and let them cool for at least 5 minutes before removing them from the cookie sheet.

[ooc: ingredients and instructions from here.]

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Alphonse let out a chuckle, getting ready to prepare the cookie sheet. "You were amazing, too," he said. "I've never seen you use a sword before."

"Which only reminds me, Alphonse," Sakurazaki says, lifting her chin and adopting a lofty tone, over a grin, as she reaches for a couple of spoon, "that you've still to come down to the salle one of these days and help me with my rock training." She hand him a spoon with a very serious arch of her eyebrow.

"Well," he began, grabbing the spoon offered to him with an equally broad grin. "You need to tell me when you're going down there first, silly."

"I know, I know," she chuckles. "But, really, when we're in the dorms, I can garantee it's almost every afternoon. Not so much when we're out here; not as convenient."

Digging her spoon into the mix, Sakurazaki grins, feeling some sort of odd buzz of happiness. It's enough to make her playfully twist up her face and stick out her tongue as she plops the first clump onto the cookie sheet. "You sure this is going to end up as food? And this is coming from a Japanese girl! We eat raw squid! But this just looks kind of gross."

Alphonse turned to her with a grossed out look. "Raw squid?" He began making his own rolls out of the dough, plopping them down on the sheet as he finished. "Of course it's going to, it's how cookies are made," he teased. "Which reminds me, I can't break tradition..." Alphonse grabbed a small amount of the dough out of the bowl with his finger and promptly popped it in his mouth.

"Ugh!" Chuckling, Sakurazaki sticks out her tongue in mock disgust as she picks up a rhythem of little dough-ball making. "I think I'll take raw squid over raw cookie dough. I know, I know. What a freak."

"It's good!" Alphonse said in protest, holding up a small ball of dough between his fingers. "This is the stuff that becomes cookies, after all." He put the ball down on the cookie sheet.

"Becomes is a key word, I believe," Sakurazaki grins softly, shaking her head, putting the last of it on the cookie sheet. Her head tilts slightly as she looks down at the clumps of dough ready to go into the over.

"Hopefully, anyway," she assesses with slightly nervous grimace.

"We managed to make good brownies last week," Alphonse reminded. "I'm sure this will turn out just as good."

"This is true," Sakurazaki nods with a little grin. Maybe they wouldn't turn out like rocks as they probably would have if she hadn't had his assistance. "Thanks for the help again, Alphonse."

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