Halloween One shot
"Hey guys!" shouted Phil as he waved to the camera, "and welcome to this year's All Hallows Eve baking special!" Dan than makes a spooky sound in the background. "This time me and my special assistant," the sound effect maker rises from below the view of the camera with a 'scary' mask on, "Will be making poisonous cookies!"
"In reality they will actually be purple," spoke up Dan while removing his mask, "Sorry, folks if you were hoping I was the squirt, but he's at work at the moment."
"Maybe we'll get him in once he's back," said Phil, "I found this super scary Halloween mask for him that I think he'll love. I show it to you guys later." The last part was directed towards the camera with a wink. "Anyway, we'll just be making plain sugar cookies, but they will be decorated in a scary fashion. Now to the ingredients!"
"First up we have 1 and a half cups of creamy ghost butter." With each ingredient the boys struck a funny pose and tried to come up with silly names, with Dan of course calling eggs undeveloped chicken fetuses promptly creeping Phil out.
"This time our cookies will be purple, because" Phil didn't get to finish his sentence though as he was rudely interrupted by his best mate.
"Because Phil wants to make sure they come out in the color he wants."
"No, I just want them purple because of Halloween!"
"You want to make sure they're the color you want them to be, why else did you put in so much food coloring?"
"There's nothing wrong with wanting them to be the right color," pouted Phil crossing his arms.
Dan just rolled his eyes, "Just watch the universe will do something so they don't turn out purple."
"Dan the pessimist," sighed Phil, "Anyway now that the dough's ready it's time to use the cookie cutters!"
"Phil went crazy with those," sighed Dan pointing to the small mountain on the kitchen counter top.
"What? They were for sale and there were so many cool ones!" Phil said indignantly, "besides some of these are shorties and you had fun looking for cutters too."
"Guilty is charged," spoke Dan as he reached for one of the cookie cutters, "But look at this one, it's just so cool!" He held up a rather intricate cutter that seemed to be a cat on a broomstick, instead of the usual witch.
"Ya, that one's awesome." nodded Phil as he started showing off the other ones. There were many of them of all sorts and sizes- bats, pumpkins, monsters and skulls were just a few. Once they used up all the dough the boys realized that not all of the cookies would fit in the oven at once. "I think we're going to have to do this three times" said Phil as he put in the first batch of cookies.
"And since one takes 15 minutes we're going to be here for an hour," sighed Dan.
"Yup," replied Phil, "think we'll finish before Mat gets home? I kind of wanted to surprise him."
"He knows we're making cookies Phil."
"Ya, but he doesn't know when or what kind and after we're done decorating them they'll look even better!"
"Do you honestly believe that?" asked the brunet skeptically.
"Wholeheartedly!" smiled Phil as he started taking to the camera again, mentioning the baking time and temperature of the oven than having a mini dance off with Dan in the kitchen. None of the boys were sure as to who won so they left it up to the viewers to decide.
Once all the cookies were done baking they quickly cleaned the kitchen and made a decorating corner where they started to make their cookies into masterpieces.
"These are our last two cookies Dan should we leave one for shorty and decorate one together?"
"Sure, what should the last one be?"
"Well it's shaped like a bat," said Phil, but quickly came up with an idea, "zombie bat!"
"Zombie bat?" asked Dan eyebrows raised.
"Of course instead of drinking blood they eat your flesh like a zombie! Although they love the eyes the most because they're soft and squishy." Phil laughed like a maniac and promptly fell into a coughing fit, where Dan than had to slap him on the back.
"Alright?" asked Dan.
"Yup, just got carried away with my evil voice," the last part was said in a very low tone with Phil trying to be scary.
"Ok, so zombie bat?"
"Yes!" said Phil and the boys got lost in the creation of their zombie bat making it the best looking cookie in the world. At least to them it was.
"We have now finished!" shouted Phil as he gestured to the cookies all spewed about on the table. "Anyway those were our creepy Halloween cookies! If you want the recipe I'll put a link in the description. If you want to check out Dan's channel click on his face and if you want to check out past cooking shows they'll be somewhere here." Phil pointed vaguely to the right of himself.
"Also once squirt get's home we'll force him to decorate a cookie and we'll show it off at the end," spoke Dan while reaching for another cookie to eat, "Goodbye Internet."
"Well that was fun," said Phil as he turned to Dan, "Why don't we make more of these baking videos?"
"Because if we did I would be much fatter from eating so many sweets," replied Dan reaching for his next cooking. His hand was promptly slapped away though.
"No, bad dog," spoke Phil as he chastised his friend now pet, "No more cookies or you won't eat dinner."
Dan's counter argument was quickly silenced though as the sound of the door opening got both of the boys attention or more like their youngest house mate entering and looking like shit. Which Dan easily voiced "You look like shit mate," he only received a glare, "You know more than usual when you come back from work."
"Thanks," grumbled Mat as he slipped out of his shoes and coat, "Mind putting the hot water on? I need a cuppa."
"Sure," replied Phil as he watched his friend go to his room to change into something more comfortable- translation black jeans and a baggy grey shirt.
"Thanks," they received a small smile which clued them in that work was stressful and once Mat had drunk some tea he'd be back to his usual self. That's when they'd pounce.
"Hey Mat look what we made today!" spoke Phil once the other boy had mellowed. He gestured to the table filled with cookies and the three of them walked over to it, with Mat going over each cookie and commenting about which ones were his favorite.
"These are really cool you guys," said Mat as he continued to gaze at the cookies, "but this one's plain."
"That one's for you to decorate!" said Phil and he gestured to the dressing materials.
"Go ahead and do whatever you wish with it, even drown it in icing." Spoke up Dan, "It'll be tasty either way."
This got a laugh from the boy as he started choosing icing, candies and glitter for decoration. The cookie was in the shape of a pumpkin and because of his recent constant gaming of Pokémon he decided to make it look like a froakie. Although it wasn't until the very end when the other two realized what he was doing.
"Oh, that's so cool!" said Phil as he looked at the finished product, "I can't believe none of us thought of that while decorating."
"I think we focused on the scary theme too much, but it is a nice cookie." Spoke Dan as he took a picture with his phone and Phil went to his room to get the camera and Mat's mask. The cookie wasn't a masterpiece with a few awkward lines, but you could tell it was froakies' head.
"Here wear this," said Phil as he handed Mat a mask. The mask itself was bigger than Mat's face and a bright orange. It was shaped like a pumpkin and had black lighting slits for eyes which had see through material on the back so that the wearers' eyes couldn't be seen. There was no nose, but a huge creepy smile with blood coming from one of the corners that filled up practically the whole bottom half of the face.
"Wow, this is amazing Phil! Where did you find it?" asked Mat as he carefully put it on.
"The Internet of course!" he replied, "You can find practically everything there."
Once they had the camera on Phil showed a close up of Mats' cookie with Mat and Dan waving in the background. The scene lasted less than ten seconds, but they knew it would drive the viewers mad. They always had so much fun teasing them and reading their strange theories as to who 'squirt/ shorty was and what he looked like. Although most of them thought he was ugly and others camera shy. The fanfiction they came up with was creepy at times, but Dan had a great laugh whenever he read it. Phil shivered unconsciously now that's scary.
