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Old 11-28-2021, 02:37 AM   #29 (permalink)
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Hogwarts RPG Name:
Brandon Fox
Hufflepuff
Fourth Year

Hogwarts RPG Name:
Phoebe Calypso [s]Dupont[/s]
Slytherin
Second Year
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Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?

Ash was less than enthusiastic about cake decorating, and that dampened her earlier excitement about getting to be creative. But that excitement returned when she realized they didn’t have to MAKE the actual CAKE. Because decorating was the only part of baking that she was good at.

She wrestled her long hair into a ponytail and washed her hands, which was very very easy. She put the cakeboard on the turntable, which would have been easier if she didn’t absolutely need to center the cakeboard in the middle.

Putting the cake on the cakeboard was probably the hardest part, because it involved actual food. Luckily Ash had a steady hand, and it wasn’t too difficult if she went slowly.

Now came the fun part! Ash carefully frosted the cake, making sure it was absolutely perfect. Sure the frosting wouldn’t be seen in the final cake, and it was just plain frosting, but that was no reason to not do a good job. A perfect job. Okay, nobody was perfect, so maybe an almost perfect job.

Ugh, she had to move the actual cake again. She went extra EXTRA carefully this time, because if she had to adjust the cake, it would mess up the frosting underneath and then it wouldn’t be perfect and she’d have to redo it which probably involved starting from scratch and looking incompetent in front of the whole class.

She applied the crumb coat, trying to be as even as possible. Was there a way to make crumbs look artistic? Ash was trying. Decorating food was harder than regular art, in her opinion. She respected the cooks in her household a lot. And Alex too, even though he wasn’t technically a cook.

Ash thought that if the kitchens didn’t have a refrigerator, they ought to get one. Really? An icebox??? Was this a renaissance fair? Victorian England? The 1900s? Ash was dying to know if all wizards used iceboxes. Seriously. She needed to know! She put the cake in the icebox, suppressing a smirk.

Waiting was soooo boring. Ash entertained herself by scribbling notes on the back of her hand and stressing about waiting for exactly ten minutes. She figured that this was potions, where you had a window of several seconds to do things OR ELSE. She was probably wrong.

When the waiting(for ten minutes and one second) was done, Ash removed the cake and added the icing. She decided to make a very simple cake, because it would look tasteful and also because she was not awesome at this. She frosted it in white, made a couple of designs in the frosting, then added a border around the top with whatever was in the piping bags.

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“Professor, do you have any strawberries I could put in the middle of my cake?” Ash thought it would look very pretty.
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