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Chapter 2Previously...
"But what would happen if he wakes up too early?" Will inquired. "Maybe we should leave a note telling him to come here at a specific time?"
"That'll work. Alright gang," Norma started her pep talk. "You two guys can get Jay to Senel's house, me, C and G-Girl will help out the Oresoren while Shirley writes out the note for you guys to take, got it?"
Everyone nodded, "alright then, lets GO!"
Shirley finished the note and handed it to Will, she kind of had the feeling that if she gave it to Senel, he would lose it. "Well, off you two go, we don't want this surprise party to go to waste, now, do we?" Norma hurried them towards Jay's house, "Oh and Teach, bring Hattie along when you come back from Werites Beacon! And one more thing, make sure she doesn't somehow sneak in some of her weird food!" The girls waved to them and they went on their way towards Jay's house.
Meanwhile...
"So, what you're tellin' me, is that Senel and Will are gonna kidnap Jay, and make 'im stay there 'till we're done preparin'," Moses gave her a goofy grin.
"Well, maybe 'kidnap' isn't the right word for it, but it'll do, for you, I guess..." Chloe had explained their plan to Moses and went back to preparing for the party.
At Jay's house...
Will and Senel snuck into Jay's room ever so quietly, that they themselves would've qualified as a ninja. The two quickly made their way towards his bed and saw the lump under the sheets, they gently pulled the covers back to make sure Jay was still asleep, and sure enough, they found him sleeping like the little boy he was."Wow, so he is a normal kid..." Senel said as a smile crept up onto his face.
"Of course he is," Will shook his head at Senel with a strange look on his face. "Just because he doesn't act like a child, it doesn't mean he isn't one."
"Yea, if Jay acted like Moses, that would just be creepy..." Senel's thought made the room awkwardly silent. "Anyhow, lets get him to my house and help the rest of the guys out."
They carried the bundle down the stairs of the house, out the door, and left the village through the duct to Werites Beacon.
Back with the rest of the Fun Bunch...
"Okay, so I'll help blow up balloons, G-Girl, you help make the confetti, Shirl, you help make the streamers, and C, you help make the cake! Okay gals, lets get to to it!" Norma let out her usual enthusiastic call, "CHARGE!"
The four girls split up to get started on the tasks given to them, Chloe went to go see the Scallop Brothers, since they were in charge of making the cake.
"So, what kind of cake are you three planning on making?" Chloe asked, although, she had this strange feeling that it had something to do with scallops...
"Well, we were planning on making our special, Super-Duper Double Layered Chocolate Cake!" Pippo said excitedly.
"And smothered with chocolate cream," added Poppo.
"And have chocolate moulded into the shape of a scallop!" finished Quppo.
"The chocolate scallop doesn't taste like scallops do they?" Chloe sweat dropped.
"No of course not silly," Poppo laughed, "it's only the shape this time."
"I wonder what he means by 'this time'...?" Chloe wondered. "So what should I help with?"
"You can help us make the batter first! First we need…" and they started to mix the ingredients together.
Scroll down to the bottom on how they taught Chloe in making this cake… Just read and don't ask any 'Stupid Bandit-like' questions, such as: "why is Jay in there", or "isn't Jay supposed to be in Werites Beacon?" Anyway, continue reading…
Grune and Shirley were busily cutting up paper and gluing it together to make the confetti and the streamers. While Norma blew up balloons and her face looked like a tomato from blowing too hard.
"Are you going to be okay Norma?" Shirley was starting to worry as her face was now turning scarlet.
"I think I can hear my ears ringing and I'm feeling really light-headed..." and Norma collapsed after finishing her 99th balloon...
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Hmm... I have the feeling that my chapters are always a little too short, and that's why I always add things to the end! Oh well, I'll just make the readers suffer and wait! MWAHAHAHA! Man, I'm evil... anyhow, please R & R if you don't feel like I've tortured you enough.
Oh and instead of "Backstage with the Fun Bunch", I'm going to put in, "In the Kitchen with Jay and the Scallop Brothers!" And this is how they taught Chloe how to make this outrageously long-named cake:
"Okay, today, we're making a special Chocolate Cake!" Poppo announced. "First of all, let's get Jay, to preheat the oven to 170 degrees Celsius."
"Alrighty! You need to take 3 eggs, and 80 grams of granulated sugar, and mix it very well with a whisk over a bowl of hot water, at about 80 degrees Celsius, until it becomes frothy." Pippo followed Poppo's directions.
"When the bottom of the bowl feels about the same as you're body temperature, take the bowl of water out from under your bowl. Jay, can you feel the bottom of the bowl?" Jay nodded and placed his hand under the bowl.
"Yes, it's definitely the same as my body temperature," Jay informed.
"Alright, then we take our whisk and whip the mixture until it gets heavy and creamy. Now Pippo, lift your whisk and let the mixture fall off, if it looks like a ribbon when it lands on the mixture, then it's ready!" Poppo then turned to Quppo.
"Now it's your turn, Quppo! You need to get a new, clean and dry bowl, and mix together 70 grams of flour and 10 grams of Cocoa powder, and sift it well." Quppo began to shake the sifter over a bowl.
"Yup, that should do well, now take your flour mixture and put it into the eggy mixture." Quppo carefully poured the flour mixture into the egg mixture, trying hard not to spill it.
"Now Pippo, take a rubber spatula and cut it in, don't stir it, but just enough to get the flour mixture completely wet, DON'T OVER MIX IT! Or else you will break all the bubbles you worked so hard to whip up." Pippo quickly mixed it, but not too much, as his brother was watching him with eagle eyes at his every move.
"Now that that is ready, Jay, will you melt 40 grams of butter in the microwave for us?" Poppo asked.
"Yes, I can do that," Jay cut some butter, measured it, placed it in a small bowl and was about to put it into the microwave.
"Oh, and don't forget to lightly cover it with some wrap before you put it in, or else you'll make a mess in there…" Jay obliged and cut a piece of wrap and covered the bowl.
"Watch it, and when it's melted or just a little before it is completely melted, take it out. You can just take a spoon and mix it into the solid parts with the liquid part of the butter." Jay stirred it until the butter was all-liquid.
"Now pour the butter mixture into the batter," Jay poured it in.
"Then mix it very well, make sure there is absolutely NO butter left at the bottom of the bowl, or else the final product will be hard. BUT once again, make sure you don't over mix it." Jay mixed it carefully.
Jay's tip - use a glass bowl so you can see the bottom to make sure there's no butter at the bottom of the batter.
"You have to prepare a pan to bake it in, you can use any shape you want, but it should be big enough to fit about a half of the batter. We will use a round one, you need a little butter, a piece of paper towel or anything you can use to spread the butter, and some flour." Poppo brought some things out and gave them to Jay.
"First we take the pan and spread the butter onto the bottom and side(s) of the pan with the paper towel." Jay covered the entire inside of the pan.
"Then you sprinkle the buttered surface with the flour and roll it around until the entire surface is floured." Jay got flour everywhere, including on himself.
"Well… that went well…" Jay grumbled.
"That's okay, Jay, we needed to get rid of the extra flour anyway. Now that we have our pan ready, we can pour the batter into the pan, pour only half if you want to make it in two layers, we're going to make it two!" Jay poured exactly half with his ninja skills, although, that's totally unnecessary…
"Now all we have left to do is place it into the oven, and bake it for 20 – 30 minutes. Jay, don't forget the oven mitts!" Quppo handed him a pair of cute oven mitts and Jay put the cake into the oven.
20 minutes later…
"We said 20 – 30 minutes, but lets check on it anyway, everyone's oven is different you know!" Poppo handed Jay a toothpick. "Now poke the center of the cake with toothpick and see if it comes out clean." Jay poked the cake and showed it to Poppo.
"Hmm… there's some batter on it, lets bake it for another 5 minutes! And while we wait, lets get Quppo and Pippo to go buy us some chocolate cream! Yay chocolate!"
5 minutes later…
"Alrighty, lets check on it, again!" Jay repeated the procedure with a clean toothpick and showed it to Poppo again.
"Yup, it's definitely ready this time! Now take it out carefully with oven mitts, and… JAY! DON'T BURN YOURSELF!" Jay sighed and reached into the oven, and brought out two perfect cakes!
"Hey, how'd you pull out two cakes, Jay?" Moses pops out of nowhere surprising everyone.
"It's called TV magic!" Poppo explained.
"TV? What's a TV?" Moses asked.
"… It's nothing a stupid bandit would understand…" Jay said under his breath, shaking his head.
"Did you say so…." Moses was suddenly interrupted by the two brothers coming home with the cream.
"WE'RE BACK!" Pippo and Quppo exclaimed.
"Okay, now we can take the cake out of the pan! It's still hot so be careful!" Jay flipped the cake over upside down and it came out of the pan.
"Now, we'll let it cool for about 10 minutes, and we can put the cream on!"
10 minutes later…
"It should be cooled enough, but lets just check, Jay?" Jay nodded and let his hand hover over the cake, "I think it's cooled down enough now."
"Let's take the chocolate cream and spread it across the first layer of the cake," Jay began to spread quite the amount of cream on.
"Then, you place your second layer on top, and do the same thing," Jay did as he was told.
"And then you spread the cream on the side(s) of you cake as well and you're done!" They presented their finished cake happily, "and if you want, you can write a message on it, or decorate it with sprinkles, or put fresh fruits on it." Jay explained, "if you don't feel like chocolate cake, you could always take the cocoa powder out and replace it with some vanilla instead!"
"Well, thanks for watching… er.. reading(?) our show and see you again on "In the Kitchen with Jay and the Scallop Brothers!" They all waved and the 'who knows where it came from' curtains closed.
"By the way…" Jay turned to look at the three Oresoren brothers with a puzzled look, "who were we waving at, and why did we bake a cake?"
"Umm… well, you see Jay…" the Oresoren brothers looked at one another, "RUN FOR IT, HE'S ON TO US!"
"Hey, wait! Where are you guys going!" Jay chased after them.
"… well, anyway, that's their show, and I'm outta 'ere too!" Moses chased after them.
By the way, if you all actually bothered to read through this thing… You all get cake! You have now learned how to make the Scallop Brothers' Super-Duper Double Layered Chocolate Cake! Oh, and this is an actual recipe that I use so you can try it too. It's okay, it's safe enough as long as you don't burn yourself… I've already warned you so if you do injure yourself in any crazy way possible… YOU CAN'T SUE ME! MWAHAHAHA! Thanks for reading folks!