A Wonderful Weird and Wacky World of Weasleys:In the Kitchen OR A Great Big Mess
A/N: I know my recipe is wrong but I couldn't track down a recipe book and my internet wasn't working and I just wanted to do this. Also, Ginny is four, Ron is five, Fred and George are eight, Percy is ten, Charlie is twelve and Bill is about fourteen.
Today was like any other day in the Weasley household. The only difference was that today was Arthur's birthday. None of the kids knew what to give him so I suggested that they make him something. Little did I know that my suggestion would turn into a great catastrophe.
Flashback
"Mum?" Bill called as he walked into the room. Behind him were Charlie and Percy followed by Fred and George and finally Ron and Ginny.
"Yes, what is it dear?"
"What should we give dad for his birthday?"
"Well... I don't know. Perhaps you could make something for him. I am sure he'd like that."
"Excellent," Bill said, "Did you make his cake yet?"
"Well no not yet. I was going to make it in a little while. Why do you ask?"
"Then can we use the kitchen?"
"Well I don't see why not." I replied thinking that they meant the table.
"Thanks mum," Bill said and left followed by the rest of them.
End Flashback
Soon after they had left for the kitchen, I began to sit down to finish the sweater I has been knitting for Arthur's.
Flashback in third person
"So what are we going to do Bill?" Percy asked.
"We are going to make dad's cake!"
"But how? We don't know how to cook."George or Fred said.
"How hard can it be? Mum does it all the time. Besides we can use a cook book."
"Can I lick the spoon?" Ron asked.
"Sure as long as you do it after we are done," Bill said as he reached for The Magical Cook Book: How to cook the perfect dessert.
Percy, being the control freak he was grabbed the book from Bill and immediately turned to the index to look for a cake recipe.
"Found one!" Percy said, "It's a double decker marble cake. It says we need two cups of flour, two eggs, two cups of sugar, one cup of milk, a teaspoon of baking powder, half a teaspoon of salt, one teaspoon of baking soda, two thirds of a cup of cocoa, half a cup of cooking oil, a teaspoon of vanilla, a half of a teaspoon of red food coloring, and a cup of coffee. We'll also need to make icing. For that we'll need one fourth a cup of semi sweet chocolate chips, which we'll have to melt, one fourth of a cup of whipping cream and two and one fourth table spoons of honey." Percy said, obviously impressed with his reading skills.
"Well that doesn't sound too hard. Ok, Charlie, you take Ginny and Ron and go get the eggs. Fred and George you find a giant bowl, wooden spoon, two cake tins and a measuring cup. Also if you can find some aprons that'd be good too. Percy you stay here and help me get the other ingredients."
"Yes sir!" the twins said as they mock saluted.
"Got it Bill," Charlie said as he took Ginny and Ron's hands while leading them out to the chicken coup.
"Ok, Gin and Ron. Let's find some eggs. Gin you grab that basket."
"'Kay Charlie."
"And Ron you come over here with me and we'll see if we can get the chickens eggs. Does that sound good?"
"Yup!"
"Ok Gin, bring the basket over here. And Ron follow me in to the chicken coop." Charlie instructed while Ron and himself entered the chicken coop. Charlie shooed away a few chickens and reached to grab an egg. He then handed it to Ron to go put in Ginny's basket. After Ron placed it in there they repeated the process a few more times. Just in case they break an egg or two. The three then headed back to the house.
"Hey, Fred!"
"Yea George?"
"Did you find a bowl?"
"Yup. did you get the spoon and the measuring cup?"
"Yup!"
"The cakey tins?"
"Yup!"
"What about the apron things?"
"Do you know where they are?"
"Nope."
"Me neither."
"Oh well. Let's go put them on the table."
"Ok Percy, you look for the stuff in the bottom cupboards. I'll look in the top."
"Fine." Percy said bitterly and set to work. After about five minutes of hunting they had found all their ingredients. They really did make a good team.
The rest of the Weasley children soon came to the kitchen. Percy, wanting to feel important, grabbed the recipe book and read off the first step.
"Step one, mix all the dry ingredient's together. That means you mix the sugar, flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cocoa, in the bowl."
"I knew that," grumbled Ron but soon set to work with the rest of them. Within minutes they were covered in flour which Ginny had managed to knock over. But since she was the youngest and the only girl, and the fact that she could do very good puppy eyes, they could care less. It was all in the process they said.
"Step two, Add the milk, oil, eggs,vanilla and food coloring. Mix well making sure there are no lumps. Then add the cup of coffee."
"Ok, who wants to stir?" Bill asked.
"I do! I do!" yelled Ginny, Ron, Fred and George simultaneously.
"Ok, you'll each get a turn. Ginny you first, come stand on the stool."
"'Kay." Ginny said as she climbed up. Soon her turn was over and then Ron followed by Fred followed by George took turns stirring. By then the mixture had no lumps left. They then added the coffee which Charlie mixed in.
"What's next, Percy?" Bill asked.
"Next you grease the pans, which we don't need to do cause mum has them magically greased. Then you pour the mix evenly in to each pan."
"Ok, then what now?"
"Preheat the oven to 375 degrees for about 35 minutes."
"Ok, I did that," Bill said thirty-five long minutes later.
"Now we just have to let them cook, then let them cool. But we also have to make the icing."
"Ok, how about you, Ron, Ginny, Fred and George lick the bowl while Charlie and I make the icing?" Bill said.
"Ok!" they all yelled but Percy. They soon had scampered of to the table to lick the giant chocolate bowl. Meanwhile Charlie and Bill prepared the icing.
End Flashback
They must not have thought I would notice the house being so quiet. I did and I was curious but I let them have their space. They were after all preparing a surprise for their father. I kept telling myself this until I smelled something peculiar. Something that smelled remarkably like cake. They didn't... at least I hoped not.
Flashback in third person
"The cake is ready!" Percy informed them.
"I can see that, prat!" George said.
"No fair!" Percy said.
"Be quiet, the both of you." Bill said while Charlie removed the cake tins from the oven. They immediately put them in a box that had cooling charms on it. It was a muggle thing that their father brought home. He had made his own adjustments to it. And now it would finally prove useful to them.
After about ten minutes, the cakes were cool. They took them out of their tins and iced them. It was right after they finished that Molly had come in.
End flashback
I entered the kitchen and what I saw shocked me. I saw seven children covered in flour and in the younger five's cases, what appeared to be cake batter.
"What is going on here?" I yelled.
"Well mum, you see, when you suggested that we make something for dad, I thought we could make him a cake. And you see, we did." Bill said as he pointed to the cake that they obviously had worked so hard to make.
"I'm sure your dad will love it. But right now, we have to do something about this kitchen." I said as I looked around. They too looked around and burst out laughing. The state the kitchen was in, was very comical.
As I suspected, when Arthur came home for supper the children met him and dragged him instantly to the table where they had their surprise. When he saw the cake he said,
"Lovely cake Molly."
"But I didn't make it Arthur."
"Then who did?"
He was then answered by seven cries of "We did!"
"What?" Arthur said flabbergasted.
"We did, dad." Charlie put in.
"It was hard work," Ron said.
"Hard," Ginny said as she nodded in agreement.
"We"
"Also"
"Agree"
"With"
"That." The twins put in. Each saying a word after the other. Sometimes it's like they can read each other's minds.
And after that, we all sat down and dined on the cake the kids had prepared. The only downside was we later found out that it contained coffee.