John reeled back from the mixing bowl, coughing violently.

Sherlock looked up as he walked through the kitchen, holding his bed sheet in place. "What are you coughing? I removed the chemicals last night."

"Ci-" John waved a hand, still coughing. "Cinnamon."

Sherlock frowned.

"I'm making applesauce ornaments."

"Three problems, John. One, we don't have a Christmas tree. Two, how can you make ornaments out of applesauce? Three, what does this have to do with cinnamon?"

John turned back to the mixing bowl, carefully sinking his hands into the applesauce-cinnamon mixture. "I know we don't have a tree; I'll hang them somewhere else. Secondly, when you mix applesauce and cinnamon, it can... well, it forms a sort of a solid mixture that you can take cookie cutters to or whatever and then let dry overnight."

Sherlock snorted, although John was aware that the detective was now standing over his shoulder. "Why bother?"

"It's fun," John retorted, continuing to knead the mixture. "I think I need more cinnamon..." He glanced at Sherlock. "Could you...?"

Sherlock sighed, wrenching the lid off of the cinnamon. "I keep getting roped into this Christmas thing, John."

"You know you actually enjoy it," John teased, smiling.

"I do not," Sherlock retorted immediately, adding a generous amount of cinnamon to the bowl.


Cinnamon applesauce ornaments are tons to fun to make, not to mention they smell delicious. (Although I wouldn't advise eating them.)