I'm back after another long hiatus. Welcome to Day 21: Cooking/baking.
Luan and Benny wanted to make some special treats to give to their friends.
"What do you think we can make, Luan?" Benny asked.
Luan answered, "since we're giving them to our friends, let's make friendship cookies".
Benny was on tune with that idea.
The 2 of them started by getting the ingredients. They were 1 cup melted butter, 1 cup packed brown sugar, 1/2 cup sugar, 1.5 Tablespoons vanilla, 3/4 teaspoons baking powder, 2 eggs and 2 1/2 cups flour.
Before they got started, they called their friends and asked what else to put in the friendship cookies.
Spencer told them, "add some potato chips."
Miguel and Fiona both said, "we want white chocolates on ours."
Maggie told them, "chocolate chips with mine, please".
Luna told them, "Sam wants pretzel sticks in her cookie, and so do I".
"Looks like we have a lot of baking to do Luan," Benny said.
"I can see that," Luan said. "We better get started if we're gonna make it done right."
The two of them went upstairs to wash their hands.
While washing their hands, Benny told Luan, "I nearly forgot. What do you want to add to the friendship cookies?"
Luan told him, "I want to add raisins to mine. What about you, Benny?"
Benny answered, "some peanuts. I heard they taste amazing."
If they really did taste the same way Benny described the taste, they're gonna be making some yummy cookies.
Back downstairs, Benny and Luan were ready to get to work. The 2 of them put on their aprons and hopped to it.
"Wait," Benny said. "Since 2 of our friends are Luna and Sam, let's get some music in here."
"Great idea," Luan said.
Benny turned on some 2000s R&B for them. They then got to work.
They started by preheating the oven to 350 degrees. The two of them passed each other the ingredients needed for them to put in a big bowl. Afterwards, While Benny was mixing the ingredients together, Luan added 2 eggs.
By the time they got to step 5: Have your friends each pour in their special friendship ingredients, the 2 of them realized they were making a new dance.
"Can you believe this is turning into a new dance for us?" Benny asked.
"I know," Luan answered. "I'm having a lot of fun".
"So am I," Benny commented.
Next up was step 6: Stir all the friendship ingredients together. Since the two of them didn't have sprinkles, they jumped to step 8: Drop spoonfuls of cookie dough on the cookie sheet a few inches apart.
That was when Benny's mom, Mrs. Stein walked into the kitchen.
"Hey guys," she said.
"Hey mom," Benny said.
"Hey Mrs. Stein," Luan said. "What's shaking?"
Mrs. Stein answered, "Well, I heard a bunch of music and it had me wondering about what was going on."
Benny told her, "we kind of turned making cookies into a new dance."
Mrs. Stein offered to help. That was because getting the cookies in and out of the oven required a grown up. It was going to be a while before the cookies were done.
A little while later, Luan and Benny called the others. They wanted to know if the cookies were done.
"Just about," Luan said. "Meet us at the park and Benny and I will hand them out".
At the park, Benny and Luan distributed the friendship cookies. The others could not believe their eyes.
"Everything we suggested is in there," Sam said.
"I can see that," Miguel commented.
Everyone grabbed a cookie. Before everyone started eating the cookies, Luan wanted to make a toast.
The second she cleared her throat, she said to the others, "to us being amazing friends."
"Here here," Sam said as she and the others clicked cookies together.
The cookies tasted amazing.
"You know," Maggie said. "The school wants to have a sweets festival. We should make some more for the special event".
"I was thinking the same thing," Luna said. "We can all make friendship cookies."
They were all up for it.
If you and your friends were able to make friendship cookies together, what would you add?
That ends Day 21: Cooking/baking. Stay tuned for Day 22: In battle, side-by-side.