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Do alarms like that normally happen here? It was quite a wake-up call! I'm glad I wasn't drafted, but...

[ she's pretty concerned about people who are. Platina glances worriedly off to the side, then turns back to the feed. ]

I hope they'll be all right. In the meantime... does anyone know how to make a cake?

[ pointing the camera at her disastrous-looking attempt. yyyyes, wrong canon, but the girl is not a cook! it's her birthday and she wants cake damnit o9" also action is cool for anyone living in pokehouse too. ]

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Of course! [Yes, very good Platina!] What type of flavors do you usually like as the frosting on your cakes?

... Actually, until now, I didn't even know frosting had flavors. I thought there was only just the one.

There's actually quite a few--vanilla and chocolate are often the most common flavors, as well as making frosting with cream cheese for some types of cakes. There's also buttercream frosting, and I've come across mentions of some flavors used for cupcakes such as strawberry, lemon, mint or even expresso-flavored for people with particular tastes...

[Though we're pretty sure you don't want those kind of flavors (like expresso haha) for your red velvet cake in particular, but the ones mentioned before are at least more normal sounding to have...]

[ WOW it's like sophie's choice!! thinking over which sounds like the classiest flavor instead of which might compliment the cake best... ]

Which flavors would we have the ingredients for? That could narrow things down.

[He steps over to take a look through his own cabinets a little, just to be sure.]

Well, we should have the necessary ingredients for making frosting with cream cheese, as well as possibly vanilla and chocolate too...and while I'm sure the other examples I gave before would be...ah, a unique taste to have, I'm afraid we'd have to do some grocery shopping to pick up what's needed for those.

[Sorry Miss Platina. ^^;;]

[ WHY SORRY this is awesome!! vanilla and chocolate are all well and good but she's attracted to novelty so the obvious choice is... ]

I don't think I've ever heard of cream cheese frosting before. Let's go with that one! It sounds like it'd have an interesting taste!

[He nods in agreement as he acquires and moves over some of the ingredients needed towards us on the table.]

We let this margarine and cream cheese soften a little more to room temperature--one of the fastest ways to do that can usually be by microwaving them carefully, or sometimes even grating them can help bring them closer to room temperature soon enough. [And the mun doesn't even remember if we have microwaves in Luceti, but we're pretty sure there's probably a cheese grater around here somewhere at least.] Once that's done, we then cream and mix them with our sugar here, and adding vanilla to the mixture afterwards. [Indicating the sugar and vanilla we've got here. Not too many steps to making frosting, this time.]

A microwave... ah, the commoner's heating device! But I suppose grating would work just as well. Let's see.

[ glancing around in the drawers before realizing... she totally doesn't know what a grater looks like. FIRST WORLD COOKING NEWB PROBLEMS. ]

["Commoner's heating device", pffft...

When it looks like Platina is having trouble finding it, he leans over to see where she's looking before he points to it.]

Here, this should do. [He'll reach in and take it out, holding it up for Platina to look at.] I take it you've never seen one of these used before?

[ about to say no, but... then again it looks simple enough, I bet I can do this!! she takes the grater and the cream cheese and just stares at it.

and then puts the grater on top and tries to push down on it like she can squeeze the cheese into shreds. surely this is how it works?! ]

[And he's going to just gently stop you right there when she starts trying to push the grater down on top of the cheese.]

Ah, I'm afraid that's not necessarily how you use it. Here--[He picks up the cream cheese and shows how to correctly grate it along the sides of the edges of the grater.]--like this, see?

R-right. That was my second guess!

[ D... EFINITELY. she follows his lead, grating slowly, then picking up in speed somewhat. oh this isn't too hard after all! pretty soon there's a nice pile of shreds 8|b ]

[Once that's done and after a minute or two it looks like the margarine has been softened enough as well to mix them together, he shows how to cream and mix them together (in what do you know, yet another bowl) before indicating the sugar.]

Since our ingredients have now acquired a creamier taste, we then add this sugar and beat them together like we did for some of our previous steps in preparing the cake--however, you don't want to do it too forcefully, otherwise the frosting will be considered too loose, rather than having a thicker consistency like you'd expect for most frosting.

I'm sure I can handle more stirring by now. I'd like to hope so, at least.

[ pooouring in all the sugar in the measuring cup before taking the whisk with a determined AWW YEAH CAN DO kind of look. but... not too forcefully, huh?

sloooowly trying to beat it... :V ]

[...Well, that's technically not a wrong way to go about it to keep from whipping this poor mixture into being too loose... ^^;;]

You can pick up in a speed a little more if you'd like, but so far your stirring has an acceptable taste to it.

A little more, then?

[ picking up the pace into a more acceptable speed. oh this does look much more frosting-like now :9 she beams and finishes up when it's lighter and more fluffy-looking. hmm, is there a spoon nearby~ ]

Let's see if the frosting itself has an acceptable taste!

[~~...I meant "a little more quickly" in that previous comment, gosh I'm so smooth forgetting to add words to sentences.~~

Yes, there are a couple of spoons here, so Cilan picks one up to take a small sample to taste...but judging by his slight frown afterwards, it seems something's not quite right yet, speaking up once Platina has potentially tried tasting it for herself with one of the other spoons.]

Hm, it tastes like something's missing...ah, of course! [We forgot to add the vanilla in to stir next. He looks about their ingredients for finding where they had last set it down, adding the vanilla to their mixture and stirring it a little more. There, maybe now it should taste a little better?]

[ sampling the before-spoon with a bright look. this seems tasty enough! but she does go ??? at his dissatisfaction and just watches as he adds the missing ingredient before trying out the after-spoon with a curious look. ]

You're right! This is considerably more palatable... amazing, with just the addition of a single ingredient!

[He beams at that.] Of course--part of being a chef sometimes is the joy of tasting and experimenting to figure out what flavors need to be added to a dish to create the perfect combination!

And once the cake layers are ready to come out of the oven, which should be... [Checking the time momentarily.] ...Just about any minute now, we remove them from the pans and let them cool before adding our frosting here to each layer of our cake. After that, the cake will be completed and ready to be served!

Amazing...

[ she seems to sag a little from relief that she'd actually completed something like this, before brightening and perking up again. would fistpump, but that's not ladylike 8|b ]

Amazing! I've never made a cake before. This is an awesome accomplishment for me. And it's thanks to your help, Mr. Cilan!

[But there's nothing wrong with being enthusiastic like that! Cilan certainly seems to think so considering how cheerful he tends to be.]

Ah, no need to thank us--it was our pleasure to assist you~! And thanks to our marvelous teamwork, I am sure that your cake will have a wonderfully fulfilling taste, fit for celebrating your birthday.

I'd like to think so! And maybe in the future, I could try to make something by myself to thank you for your kindness.

Oh, that would be wonderful! [Provided whatever you bake next doesn't look like that disastrous first attempt of a cake next time.] If you'd ever like any recipes for something you'd like to try baking on your own, I wouldn't mind writing them down for you!

[ don't worry it'll at least be edible this time! she spares a glance at the oven timer. ]

If you don't mind! It seems like we still have a few minutes before the time's up.

Alright. [And he does just that, getting some paper and writing something down, maybe taking a quick look at something in one of his books before he finishes writing down a recipe or two, including one for the very cake they just made, recipe for frosting included.] Here's the recipe for our Red Velvet Cake, as well as a few with simple tastes you can practice baking as well--oh, and it looks like our cake layers are ready to come out of the oven now to cool.

[But the timer didn't go off y--ding, oh, there it goes. Got your owl oven mitts nearby, Platina?]

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