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[ aaand MIXING WITH ALL HER STRENGTH. on the bright side, the strands of egg flying everywhere sure look ribbon-like! on the not-so-bright side, oh gosh egg is messy why is it so messy. ]

[it sure does seem ribbon-like flying everywhere, but it's supposed to be staying in the bowl...]

Y--you don't need that vigorous of a taste in strength to beat them, Miss Platina...

I'm being thorough. This egg is surprisingly flimsy!

[ but okay maybe pausing for now because if she continues at this speed the bowl will be empty 8| ]

[Well, at least your tenacity is something to be admired...]

Perhaps, but it wouldn't do well for our eggs to end up outside of our mixing bowl, right?

[He looks down inside the bowl, checking to see how far along they've come with Platina's beating of ~~what's left of~~ them, gesturing to where the whisk is in the bowl.] The ribbon stage is reached when you can see a visible trail left behind when you move your whisk through the mixture, see?

You... might have a point. So that's what it refers to, then?

[ glancing down, then moving the whisk through more slowly. on the bright side, it does leave a visible trail thanks to the beating she gave it. suc... cess?! ]

That's right. [Success!]

Next, we take a small bowl and mix together our oil, vinegar, food coloring, and vanilla. [He gestures to each ingredient he is talking about as well as yet another bowl. (But don't worry it's the last one)] After they've been mixed together, we then add it to our bowl of eggs and sugar that we've beaten and mix them all together until they're well combined once more.

[He smiles despite how there seems to be so many steps to making this cake.] I suppose you could say we're starting to reach the midpoint of our baking, as the next remaining steps will begin to have a taste of finality to them soon.

[ whoaaa whoa maybe her head is spinning BUT NO she is a scientist, if she can keep track of data she can keep track of ingredients!! taking the small bowl, though, and trying to remember which ones he'd mentioned... ]

That's a relief. This has been a learning experience! Does it matter what order I put the ingredients in?

[Good to hear!] No, you may add them in whatever order you like!

[You just gotta be sure that those ingredients have all been mixed together before adding that mixture to the mixture of eggs and sugar, that's all.]

[ right then, she starts adding the ingredients, then taking up the whisk with a look of YOU'RE GOING DOWN at the small bowl. mixing is a go!... and with slightly fewer spatters, that's progress. ]

Good! It looks like it has an appropriately mixed taste. And now that they've been combined together, we mix them in with our eggs and sugar that we beat before. [In other words, dumping the contents of that small bowl into the bowl of the eggs and sugar you beat earlier and mixing them into it again] Afterwards, we'll be ready to add to it the buttermilk as well as our mixture of flour that we made earlier.

[So much mixing and adding stuff going on, but once all of that is done, they'll actually eventually get to the pouring into pans and putting them in the oven part... ^^;;]

What exactly is buttermilk? Is it different from regular milk?

[ it... sounds delicious :9 she pours in the small bowl mix into the larger one, then starts diligently mixing again. it's like making poffins! gosh, if Dia were here, he'd be so proud of her. ]

[He watches her progress with the mixing, nodding in approval. Looks like you're getting the hang of this, as he explains a little while you're mixing.]

Buttermilk has a thicker consistency to it than regular milk, as well as being a little more tart in flavor. It can be drunk straight, and it's also used as a cooking ingredient in some dishes, sometimes even sold in a powdered form.

I'm a little curious to try it now. We do have it in stock, right?

[ hmm... not quite ribbony yet. she stares down as if curious to try tasting it, then stirs faster like NO NOT YET... SOON... ]

Of course! [He'll go get it while you're finishing up with the mixing, and when he comes back, he has a measuring unit of one cup for the amount we'll be using to add in soon (though not quite yet), as well as a smaller, regular glass that Platina can pour some of the buttermilk in if she's actually curious enough to want to try to taste it for herself...]

Here we are--ah, and it looks like your mixing of our ingredients is coming along with a fine taste! [YOU'RE DOING GREAT PLATINA /o/]

You really think s... I mean, of course! But thank you.

[ got to be gracious! but she is pretty proud of not spilling much this time. she offers the large mixing bowl to him for closer inspection, while examining the buttermilk. it looks pretty tempting :9 ]

[Cilan will go ahead and look over their mixing bowl while she looks at the buttermilk, giving the mixture a few experimental stirrings with the whisk to be sure--well, it looks like everything is in order here!]

Now that this is done, the next step will be the last step we have to do before we'll be able to add our batter to the pans: when you add our mixture of flour in from earlier and the buttermilk to this, I find that it's best to alternate between the buttermilk and the dry ingredients. Always start with the flour and end with the flour.

[What he means by that is, as some people do, you don't dump both in all at once to stir together--it's best to pour and stir in some of the flour, then the buttermilk, then the flour and so on and such until the last of the flour is added in and the mixture has taken on the appropriate texture of cake batter. Which he will in fact demonstrate for you himself as he does just that, adding some of their flour mixture in and stirring it into their wet mixture, before reaching for the measuring cup that they can pour the amount of buttermilk they need into it.]

Like bookends, is it?

[ she tastes a bit of the buttermilk from the regular glass, then makes a bit of a face, shaking her head a little as she puts it down and helps pour out the rest of carton into the measuring cup for him. ]

This doesn't taste like milk at all! Maybe I've been spoiled by the drinks at the cafe cabin back in Sinnoh.

[Despite her distaste for it, Cilan still smiles a little.]

Well, I did say that it's flavor would be a little more tart--that is, a little more bitter in comparison to regular milk. For people that choose to drink it, I suppose you could say that it's an acquired taste.

You don't even have to be a connoisseur to say that, I imagine! I'll finish this later, but let's use the rest of the it for the cake.

[ setting aside the glass and adding the cups of buttermilk to the bowl so he can mix. but she's a little more cheerful at how well it seems to be coming along. ]

Mm, right! [Ah, thank you Platina! He'll tell her when to add and when to stop so that he can stir it in before adding the flour, and then have her add buttermilk again and so on until it looks like we can add the last of the flour and stir it in to complete our cake batter!]

When we pour this into our pans, we'll have to be sure to tap the pans gently on the table to help level out the batter and to release any stray air bubbles. After that's done, we'll be ready to put them in the oven!

Right. Let me see...

[ after pouring in the last cup, she searches the drawers for pans, looking them over curiously. ]

... You don't have any custom cake pans, do you?

[Platina...] ...As a matter of fact, I do. They're right over there.

[Pointing to some cake pans...the ones we prepared earlier about oh, forty minutes ago or so give or take before we started mixing ingredients. ~~But it's okay I nearly forgot we even did that already myself.~~ ^^;;]

Oh... there they were. O-of course.

[ whoops, well backreading backtags is apparently not what I a lady does!! she sheepishly pulls the prepared pans closer so he could pour. ]

[Cilan just smiles at that before he goes ahead and pours the cake batter into each pan, trying to make sure there's an equal amount of batter in each pan before he sets their bowl aside and gently taps each pan against the table to rid it of air bubbles.]

We'll let these bake for about...25 minutes, and then we'll check to see how our cake is--we'll have to be careful not to over bake, otherwise it'll end up with a drier taste than desired.

Then I'll definitely be careful. There's probably a timer we could use, right?

[ hmm hunting for oven mitts in preparation for putting the pans in. maybe some with cute patterns shhhhh shh 8D/ ]

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