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Post by Kath Blackthorn on Apr 22, 2008 15:14:56 GMT -5
The animals were now safely up in their dorm which some weren't happy about but they'd had quite a long run around so they couldn't really moan, Kath would take them out later anyway. Approaching the kitchens Kath tickled the pear on the painting that hung on the door. After a few seconds the picture turned into a door which allowed her to quite easily enter the kitchens.
Seeing that Shawn wasn't here yet Kath began searching through the cupboards for the ingredients that would need. This search soon stopped once she found a whole bunch of cake decorations, coloured icing pens and food colouring. Taking the box out of the cupboard Kath placed it onto the counter and began to search through it to see what they could maybe added to their cake/s.
After having a good look through and maybe choosing some decorations that she would like Kath continued to look around the cupboards attempting to find the flour etc that they would need to bake their cake or cupcakes. Kath and Shawn weren't really sure on what they were going to cook but Kath was sure that they would soon decide.
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Post by Shawn Myers on Apr 22, 2008 16:06:39 GMT -5
After tickling the portrait of the pear as well, Shawn traipsed into the kitchen, sure that he had managed to get here before Kath. Wronggg. His mouth dropped as he saw her wandering around the kitchen, having already picked out a bunch of cake decorations. Honestly, sometimes it seemed that every else had the ability to move twice as fast as him. Granted, he tended to take his time wherever he was going, but Miss Kath had had to make an extra stop. He was convinced that she must have basically flown up to her dorm in order to get here before him.
"Starting without me, hmm?" he said, grinning lightly as he skipped over to the counter to peek at what she had picked out. Mm, cake decorating was always so fun.. and inevitably messy. For him anyways. "Anyways, what are you looking for now?" he asked, not wanting to seem like a lazy bum. It was a little too late for that though.
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Post by Kath Blackthorn on Apr 23, 2008 4:19:18 GMT -5
Hearing Shawn's voice Kath turned to see him stood in the doorway "Nope just getting some of the ingredients" she laughed. Though finding the ingredients seemed to be a little harder than Kath had first thought because they seemed to put everything in different cupboards around the kitchen.
There were many cupboards so it would take a good few minutes to look through each but Kath decided to give up on finding the sugar and take the easy route by going to the fridge and get two eggs. "I was finding sugar but I can't find it anywhere" She told Shawn as she pulled two eggs out from the fridge. The sugar was probably sat there in the first cupboard she had opened just staring at her.
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Post by Shawn Myers on Apr 23, 2008 16:19:58 GMT -5
"Sugar? Hmm," Shawn said, looking around the kitchen. "I know where it is. Possibly. Probably." He nodded his head and walked across the kitchen, looking in one or two cabinets before finding what he was looking for. "I got it!" he squeaked, pulling out the bag and grinning. If it wasn't obvious, he spent a lot of time down here. Lately he always seemed to be out of cookies, so he'd been here an extra low.
"What's next?" he asked as he skipped back over to the counter where Kath had been putting all of the ingredients. He sat the bag down and spun around, looking to see if they were missing anything. He hadn't made cake in a while, though, so he couldn't remember everything that was used to make it. "I'll look for a recipe. Yea." He nodded his head and found a cabinet full of cook books, sifting through them and finding one with cakes on it. "You can pick one, miss birthday girl. he told her as he skipped back over to the counter with the book.
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Post by Kath Blackthorn on Apr 24, 2008 12:17:05 GMT -5
Kath was quite relieved when Shawn said that he knew where the sugar was. Sure enough he eventually found it and it was in a cupboard that Kath hadn't looked in yet which made her feel a little better. "Thanks" Kath smiled as Shawn placed the bag of sugar down on the counter with the other ingredients. Putting down the two eggs that she had in her hand down on the counter gently Kath stood wondering what else they needed Shawn also wanted to know what they needed next.
"Ok" Kath told him as Shawn went off to find a recipe book with lots of cakes in it. As he did so Kath sifted through the cupboards trying to find some flour of the self raising kind. After she had found the flour Kath put that down on the counter with the rest of the ingredients and then went off for a search in the fridge to find the butter "I guess just plain fairy cakes" Kath called out from behind the fridge door. She wasn't that fantastic at cooking but she was ok at cake and biscuit baking, though she was better at making biscuits and those biscuits were often purple. The purple was due to food colouring not because Kath made them very very wrong.
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Post by Shawn Myers on Apr 25, 2008 14:20:31 GMT -5
"Okay theen," Shawn replied a Kath told him what kind of cake she wanted, flipping through the book to find the recipe for it. He looked down the list of the ingredients and then looked at what they had, skipping around the kitchen to get the few stray ingredients that they had missed. When everything was piled up on the counter he glanced back at the recipe and preheated the oven, even though it would probably take them forever to make the batter. He didn't know how good of a cook Miss Kath was, though he didn't doubt her cooking abilities.
Hmm, they would probably need some bowls. He scrunched up his nose, seeing a pile of dirty bowls in the sink. Shrugging, he picked them out and cleaned them off, using a spell he'd learned years ago in charms class. He was surprised he was able to remember it for this long, but he did have to use it a lot. "I thinkk we're ready!" he said excitedly as he sat the bowls he'd cleaned on the counter with their ingredients.
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Post by Kath Blackthorn on Apr 27, 2008 8:18:17 GMT -5
Cupcakes/fairy cakes were kind of simple cakes but they tasted nice and they were easy to decorate if the baker decided to do so, in this case it was Shawn and Kath. Kath watched as Shawn ran around the kitchen picking up all the ingredients that they need to make the cakes. Kath wandered off a little to the cupboard and took some cake cases out of it and rested them on the counter with the rest of the stuff. While Shawn was getting the other stuff Kath measured out all the ingredients.
Kath didn't know the spell that Shawn used but it did seem quite effective as it soon cleaned all the dirty bowls that were stacked in the sink. Now they would start their cooking. "We now need to mix the sugar and eggs and gradely add flour and butter" Kath wasn't sure if Shawn wanted to do it or he wanted Kath to do it, Kath didn't mind either way.
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Post by Shawn Myers on Apr 28, 2008 16:58:28 GMT -5
"Umm, okay," Shawn said, nodding his head and looking at her. "You can do.. some of it. And I can?" He scrunched up his nose, unsure of whether Kath wanted him to do it all. It didn't really matter either way, as long as the cake was made in the end. But he really wasn't very good at cracking eggs, so maybe she could do that. "Do you want to put the eggs in? I kind of fail at cracking them right. I'm getting better at it though!" He giggled and nodded his head, pulling one of the bigger bowls over in front of them and pouring the sugar in. Wohoo, that was fun.
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Post by Kath Blackthorn on Apr 29, 2008 13:28:58 GMT -5
"Sure" Kath nodded as Shawn asked her if she wanted to crack the eggs into the bowl. Kath occasionally got a bit of shell in the bowl but she could easily take it out if she did. Picking up one of the eggs Kath cracked it successfully into the bowl with the mixture that Shawn had began making. Once Kath had finished adding the eggs she stepped back and allowed Shawn to stir it all together "Now the butter" she told him as she picked up the plate with the butter on and tipped it in with the rest of the mixture and allowed Shawn to stir it again.
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Post by Shawn Myers on Apr 29, 2008 17:08:18 GMT -5
"Whee, good job!" Shawn said as she added the egg without getting any shells in the batter or dough or whatever. When she stepped back he picked up a spoon and began to stir, being careful not to stir too fast and make a mess. He sat the spoon on the side of the bowl as she added the butter, and then stirred some more. "I guess we need some flour next. It's kind of watery." He giggled and nodded his head, picking up the flour that Kath had measured out and adding some of it. He stirred some more, then added some more, and then stirred some more and so on until all of the flour was gone. "That looks good so far, right?" He looked up at her, grinning.
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Post by Kath Blackthorn on Apr 30, 2008 6:46:26 GMT -5
Placing the empty plate that did have the butter on the side Kath nodded as Shawn mentioned that it needed some flour. The mixture was now pretty much complete and now all they needed to do was add it into the little cake cases and wait for them to cook.
Picking up the cake cases Kath reached over and put one in each compartment in the tray and then brought the tray over to where her and Shawn were making the mixture for the cakes. Kath then went over to the cutlery drawer and took out four spoons, two each that would hopefully help them get the mixture into the cases "Now its finished we can cook it" she grinned. Handing Shawn two of the spoons Kath dug one of hers into the mixture (even though it wasn't hard) and attempted to get a good amount into one of the cake cases.
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Post by Shawn Myers on Apr 30, 2008 18:17:19 GMT -5
While Kath was getting the pans ready, Shawn continued to stir mindlessly. Hopefully he wasn't over-stirring it, that would be bad. Their cakes had to be perrrfect for Miss Kath's birthday. "Yaay for cooking!" he said excitedly, taking the spoons and watching as she attempted to get the batter into the cases. He scrunched up his nose and dipped his spoon in, moving it quickly over to the cases and letting the batter fall into one. It took him a few times to actually get enough in the case, buuut he wasn't dripping everywhere so that was good.
"I thinkk they're all good," he said a few minutes later, inspecting the cases to see if they had enough stuff in them. There was a little extra batter in the bowl so he scooped some up and put it in the cases that had less than the others.
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Post by Kath Blackthorn on May 2, 2008 14:37:04 GMT -5
Kath and Shawn's first cook experienced together had gone quite well, so far. The mixture was fine and now all they had to do was cook them without burning them and ice a couple or all of them. Dripping her last spoonful of mixture into the cake case Kath rested her spoons down on the counter and was just about to put them in the oven when Shawn tipped a little extra bit of mixture into the cases that had less mixture in them.
"Good idea" Kath laughed as she picked up the finally finished tray and put it on the top shelf in the oven. Closing the oven door Kath peered in to check on them even though they'd only been a couple of seconds "Looks good" Kath nodded as she dipped her finger in the mixture bowl and then put it in her mouth. She shouldn't have really ate it considering it was raw egg but that was the fun of cooking, eating the left over batter.
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Post by Shawn Myers on May 2, 2008 15:19:43 GMT -5
Shawn smiled and clapped his hands excitedly as he watched Kath put the tray in the oven. They were almostt done, and he hadn't even made that much of a mess yet. That was a first. He giggled as she checked on them not even a minute after they had been put in. "Awesome," he said grinning and giving her a thumbs up. He looked at all the neat things for decorating that Kath had found, excited to decorate them and make them pretty.
He spun around a little bit as he waited, wandering over to a refrigerator and opening it. "You want something to drink?" he asked as he peeked inside, spotting some orange juice. He took it out and grabbed a cup, pouring some in before slipping it back into the refrigerator. "There's umm, some water, and milk, and juice, and umm.. other stuff."
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Post by Kath Blackthorn on May 5, 2008 5:52:33 GMT -5
The cakes were now in the oven cooking away and now all they had to do was wait for the cakes to cook. The cakes wouldn't take long but it could feel like a lifetime if you had nothing to do. Kath couldn't wait till the smell of freshly baked cakes filled the kitchen, that was always a nice smell to smell but it always made her hungry.
"Um orange juice please" Kath replied as Shawn asked her if she wanted a drink "If thats ok" considering he had just put the orange juice back into the fridge. The kitchen was slowly beginning to smell like a cake shop, not such a strong baking smell but it smelt nice. Leaning forward Kath picked up some of the decorating stuff and began to look at it "Any idea's on how we are going to decorate them?" She asked Shawn wondering if he had any ideas.
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