Ok people! Finally another chapter! WITH ROBIN!! Whoot! Anyway.. ENJOY!
Chapter 2: What's a Cake?
Zoom in to the Teen Titans kitchen.
Our story begins in the not so incredibly clean kitchen in the Teen Titan's tower. Their refrigerator is covered with some unknown greasy substance and insideÉ. You just don't want to go inside, believe me. Even Beast Boy has passed out from the horrible stench that wafts from inside. A large stack of dishes sits in the sink, unwashed and crusty. Obviously someone forgot that they had dish duty this week. Only two titans are brave enough to conquer the mess and actually cook something in the kitchen.
"So Star, I guess I'm going to show you how to bake a cake," said Robin fixing his apron while thumbing through the only cookbook in the tower.
Starfire waited patiently as Robin looked for the recipe. "What is a cake?
"Well it's aÉ It's like aÉ WellÉ You'll just have to see when we're done! Ah yes, here we areÉ Cakes." Robin said looking at the different cake recipes. There were quite a few, but he thought they should stick to something less elaborate.
"I want chocolate!" Beast Boy yelled from the couch where he was, not surprisingly, playing video games.
"Alright, chocolate it is!" Robin said flipping to the chocolate cake recipe. It seemed simple enough, he thought. But he was oh so wrong.
"You should wear this," Robin said handing Starfire an apron. As she struggled to figure out how to put it on, Robin began his lesson. "To start off, a chef should start with a clean surface." He surveyed the surface in front of him that was covered with various food stains. He sighed and grabbed a sponge and started scrubbing at the stains.
Starfire had finally figured out how to put on the strange piece of cloth after much confusion. Surprisingly, she had it on right and watched as Robin scrubbed. He was not getting many results. "Shall I assist you, Robin?" She asked, always ready to help.
"Sure, grab the other sponge and start cleaning.
Between the two of them, after about fifteen minutes of hard work, they had the kitchen somewhat clean. Well, it was clean compared to the dump it had been. Robin and Starfire stepped back to survey their work.
"Is this the cake?" She asked, once again reaching a new height for the word na•ve. But Robin was patient, maybe too patient.
"No, we haven't started! Now comes the fun part!" He exclaimed going back to the recipe. "Ok the second thing is laying out all the ingredients, or the stuff you are going to use. " He added, answering her next question.
"Oh.
After laying out the various food items onto the now clean surface, Robin and Starfire start to encounter some minor problems.
"How come no one said we were out of butter?!" Robin yelled to no one in particular, his voice echoing through the whole tower. Butter, being one of the crucial ingredients to any
dessert was missing. This was not a good sign.
"Hey don't look at me! It was Cyborg! He practically used a whole stick for his waffle this morning!" Came Beast Boy's voice from the couch. Robin fumed for a moment, letting himself calm down before trying to think up a solution.
"Why don't we go to the place where you purchase food?" Starfire asked. Robin nodded and the two friends made their way down to the nearest grocery store. Starfire of course headed straight to the fruit section while Robin, went the other way to the dairy section. Obviously, our beloved alien forgot where butter came from. I'll give you a hint. It doesn't grow on trees. As Starfire looked through the fruits, looking for one labeled Ôbutter,' Robin had already paid and had just now realized that Star wasn't following him anymore. Way to be observant there Robin. Robin then proceeded to search the whole store, though miraculously, not even thinking of the fruit and vegetable section. By this time, Starfire had strayed toward the vegetables and found the Ôbutter squash.' She examined the oddly shaped orange vegetable. Starfire then found Robin, whom she happily showed her butter squash to.
"Um.. Star, that's not exactly what we were looking for
"But it is named Ôbutter.' How can this not be right?
"WellÉ We were looking for a different kind of butter, but I found it." He said holding up the bag which contained his purchased butter.
When they had arrived back at the tower, they began putting in the ingredients. Robin set to stirring while Starfire was put to work cracking eggs into a bowl. Luckily, she knew enough that she didn't put the egg shells into the bowl, for she had been lectured on this before. After everything had been mixed in, Robin put it in the preheated oven.
"Ok! Good job!" He exclaimed, the whole job had taken about 2 hours and it would take another half and hour for it to bake. Starfire smiled happily at their work.
After a half and hour, Beast Boy agreed to be the first to try it, because it wasn't green or fuzzy, like most of Starfire's other dishes. He bit in and collapsed choking.
"Dude! What are you trying to do?! How come you didn't tell me that thing has real eggs in it?!" BB said, running over to the sink to scrub his tongue.
Chocolate cake3 cups light brown sugar
1-cup butter -- softened
4 eggs -- or egg substitute
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup baking cocoa
1-tablespoon baking soda
1/2-teaspoon salt
1 1/3 cups sour cream
1 1/3 cups boiling water
Cream brown sugar and butter in a large mixing bowl. Add eggs, one at a time; beat well after each addition. Turn mixer on high and beat until mixture is light and fluffy. Blend in vanilla. In a separate bowl, combine flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt. With mixer on low speed, add dry ingredients alternately with sour cream to butter mixture and mix until just combined. Blend in water. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour three 9-inch round baking pans, or use two 9-inch pans and make cupcakes with the rest of the batter. Bake the cake for 35 minutes and check cupcakes with tester after 20 minutes.
Recipe from:
Kitchen Konnection - Alice Brown
There you go.. My second chapterÉ Oo it's so bad! ;; but I like it anyway. It's hard to screw up chocolate cake you know! Well I hope you enjoyed my cute little chappy. Hopefully I'll be able to write another!
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