Carter waited for an opening before sneaking off into the Great Hall. He walked up to the Staff Table and then turned around so he would be facing the door. He leaned backwards against the table and rested his hands on the edge of it.

They still had some time before the students would find their way down here... it did take some time to bob for apples after all.

He glanced over all the ingredients on the table. Everything looked good.

Now... where did Evelyn get off to...?

Maybe he could sneak a bit before she got in? He glanced around again before reaching for the cinnamon.

Evelyn had been right behind the Gryffindor boy as they walked into the Great Hall, however, as Carter turned around, the Slytherin girl was already walking around the staff table to the side that had the seats. She was not going to be standing during the entire task and besides, she always wanted to sit in the headmaster's seat.

Which is exactly what she did.

Making herself comfortable on the headmaster's seat, she grabbed one of the wooden spoons that the minions students would be using and crossed her feet on top of the table. That's right, feet on the table. Wait, what was this? Carter...

*SLAP!*

The wooden spoon was slapped down on the Gryffindor's greedy hand. "That's for the task." Pffft.

Running down three flights of stairs was not something that Kurumi had enjoyed during Borr's assignment last term and she wasn't enjoying it now. Well, that wasn't entirely true, there was a much better cause this time and it went beyond temporarily appeasing Carter's tummy.

Kurumi approached the staff table and her jaw dropped when she saw Evelyn seated in the headmaster's seat. COULD SHE DO THAT? Kurumi didn't question it and instead walked straight up to the Quidditch captain and handed him his apple. Her hair was still dripping water all over the place since she had dunked her head in to retrieve it for him. "As you requested," she chirped. "Arya should be delivering the clue to those who have finished soon, so you can expect people to start showing up any minute."

Kurumi surveyed the table and pouted her bottom lip. Baking...she missed it. "Do you...do you mind if I stick around and watch for a bit?" perhaps even put a pie together herself?

Caroline came down the stair carrying all five of her Apples. Even that big juicy one that was too big for her big mouth. The walked into the great hall. Hoping that she was heading to the right place. It was kind of hard to carrying five apples around this huge place.

She knew she had came to the right place when she first seen Kurumi, who had just seen not that long ago. Then she seen Evelyn and Carter. Yep, This was odd she was the only one here, she normally sucked at these clue puzzles things. "Kurumi, Evelyn, Carter." She gave small smile and held tightly to her apples.

Katelyn raced down to the great hall, please be the right place, she hoped it was, with the apples in her pockets unbalancing her she nearly tripped, but she was okay, and kept going, she finally arrived then looked around, this was it, she was right, this was defiantly the place, Katie giggled when she saw the head girl hit Carter with a spoon, Katie walked over to Caroline and smiled, "Hey again" Katie said, because she was cool like that and said hey to Caroline everytime she saw her, yeah!

Adanna practically leaped with joy as she bounded over to the staff table. Why, of course this was it! She gave herself a mental pat on the back as she reached it.
She'd taken off her robe to use it as a carrying bag, which was being held tightly in her arms and contained her five apples.

The little Hufflepuff glanced around the room as she shifted her weight from foot to foot. What now? Someone would give out instructions soon, right?
Surely they would. After more students arrived.

Sky ran into the room, barely holding onto her apples. She took a minute to balance them, then walked up to the prefects and other students. She looked around at the table, saw the ingredients, and immediately put their next task together. Apple pie making!

Walking into the Great Hall was a welcome event. The walk down here had been a cold one, what with the majority of his upper half being soaking wet but this room was pretty warm and the Gryffindor was beginning to dry off.

His five apples were laying in his out stretched shirt and he was walking besides Tori Bunbury as they were going to win this thing together--it had been decided already he was sure. Jai must have passed on the word to these Prefects and Captiains that the two third years were the champions that they just needed to be polite to the other kids and run out the rest of the events.

They were just too good at Apple Bobbing. He stopped close to where Cater, Kurumi and the mean looking Head Girl stood.

Kennedy made his way to the great hall, where he assumed the next clue would be. His hair was sticking to the side of his face, still wet. He joined the group of students who had obviously finished bobbing for apples first.

He had his sack (made out of his robes) of apples over his shoulder. He had a hunch they were going to need them what with the baking ingridients and such.

So, he just waited for what was next.

Yep.

Ooooh wow, look at all those ingredients! Tori had never ever considered what actually went into baking an apple pie, so she was kind of... surprised to see mounds of dough and cinnamon and whatnot.

And Evelyn in the Headmaster's spot. That was it, she HAD to be Head Girl one day. Officially.

Tori came to a stop next to August and folded her arms. Cheya. The winners were here now, everyone please take a seat.

O_O

"Sweet Merlin Evelyn! What was that for?" Carter asked rubbing his poor injured hand. He'd need that later! Then he spotted one of the bottles on the table. What were those doing on the table? He pocketed them.

Then he heard the door open. YAY! Kurumi was here with his apple! He graciously took it and began munching it. He didn't even notice her teethmarks in it.

He blinked. Did he mind if she stayed? Wasn't that cheating if Kurumi helped you bake something?

But soon other students entered and he didn't get to respond to her. First was Caroline. He greeted her with a smile and a nod. Then the girl he met at the quidditch match. Then some people he didn't know. Then one of his players. Followed by more people he didn't know.

That was enough people to start, right?

He cleared his throat to indicate he was starting...

"Apple pie is one of my absolute favorite type of pies. But we're not here to talk about the history of my eating habits. But... if you want to sometime... lemme know. Now. Apple pie was made famous by the Americans. They eat it with every holiday... and from what I understand they even have pie festivals." Carter paused for a second to let that wonderful thought sink in.

"But, did you guys know that apple pies originated in the Middle Ages? Sure, it wasn't the delicious pastry that we know and love today, but the thought was there. Fast-forward a few centuries and colonial Brits introduce apple trees to the colonies and batta-bing batta-boom we have the deliciousness that exists today."

Ehh... that was accurate enough.

"So, to celebrate this American tradition we are having a bake-off!" As if they couldn't tell by the pie ingredients everywhere...

"Everyone still have their apples?" he asked looking around. Looks like it. "Brilliant. You'll notice that our lovely Kurumi here has already pre-made dough for everyone... so your task will be just to fill up the pie and put the top crust on." He then walked the length of the table placing pieces of parchment at random intervals. "The parchment I just handed out has a simple pie filling recipe, but you're not limited to this if you have your own way of making them. When you're done putting the pies together set it off on the far end of the table there and Evelyn and I will take them down to the kitchens to bake."

Those were enough instructions, right?

"Everything you'll need is on the table here..." he said looking around to double-check that fact. "Oh... and one more thing. The house elves won't let me near their knives anymore... which is another story entirely... so you'll have to use diffendo to slice the apples."

"So... have fun people." And try to ignore the scary Head Girl sitting at the Headmaster's spot.

He then turned back to Kurumi. He was about to explain to her that it wouldn't be fair to have her there when he changed his mind.

"Yeah. But only if you plan on making a pie for me." Because he wanted one. He couldn't be in here and not go crazy unless he knew he'd have a fresh pie along with everyone else.



ooc: Just like last time there's no posting limit or minimum, just have fun and try not to make too much a mess (the staff wouldn't be pleased if we destroyed their table ). Like Carter said we're just filling up the pre-made pie crust with filling and sticking another pie crust on top. Feel free to work alone, in partners, or in groups. Although you don't have to have posted in the bobbing for apples thread to post here, it would be nice. And just like in the last event you'll have a day before the next part of the event is open, so take your time.

WHOOOOO! Pie-making time, all right! Tori bounced over to a mountain of doguh and signaled August to follow. She dusted off her hands and then got to work, starting to roll out a giant chunk of the stuff. Yeah she was gonna play with it a bit, so what.

"Do you want to start slicing the apples?" the redhead called over to her partner. "We should have enough for TWO pies!"

Um yum!!!!!!

As an American, apple pies were something Sky was very familar with. She thought about speaking up to tell everyone that Americans didn't have apple pie for every holiday, mostly just for Thanksgiving, Christmas and Fourth of July, but she left that to someone else. Instead, she walked over to the staff table, gathered her ingredients and got started. She started off with chopping up her apples. She placed one on the cutting board she had gathered and chopped it first in half, then into quarters. Then she cut the quarters into chunks. She repeated this process for all five of her apples, then grabbed the parchment she'd been given to see the next step.

Jez felt her heart sink slightly. Her mother wasn't exactly the let's-bake-cookies-together type mum, and she hadn't been let near the kitchen anyway - her parents believed the poor house elves were responsible for cooking - so her culinary experience was non-existant. But there was a first time for everything, right?
Okay ... mix up the ingredients first. Jez put everything into a bowl, and then remembered seeing the Head Boy put bottles in his pocket. She frowned at him. Was he keeping an important ingredient back?

Bake... APPLE PIES?!
O_______________O

At least her mom taught her to bake pies, but not APPLE pies. Katrina got her apron and...

TIME TO BAKE!

Katrina read the first instructions...

1. Heat oven to 425°F. Place 1 pie crust in ungreased 9-inch glass pie plate. Press firmly against side and bottom.

Katrina ran. She placed one pie crust in the ungreased 9-inch pie plate and made some special arrangements to it so it is pressed firmly against the side and bottom.

Next instructions...

BAKING?! Did they really think it was safe? Letting Aurora bake? Well... her cookies were usually pretty good... they had nothing on Kurumi's, not by miles, but they were edible. But pie? Really?

Just think of it like a potion... Add all the ingredients together in the right way and something good will happen.

Taking out her wand she began to diffindo the apples into thin slices... wobbly ones, but thin ones all the same.

Cass ran into the great hall just in time to hear Mr. Gryffindor start explaining the rules and the instructions and all that they needed to do, and as he went on, her eyes steadily widened at the thought of her cooking. Her? Cooking? COOKING?!

O____O

Technically, it was baking, but..meh, same thing. Oh, now was where all her troubles started. She could handle apple bobbing and running up and down the stairs, but not baking. She was rubbish at anything involving the kitchens...aside from eating of course.

She might as well quit now, after all, she might set the school on fire or something as terrible, but the Slytherin in her refused to admit defeat. She wanted to win. So badly.

And so, she set her apples down on the table, rolled up the long sleeves of her white blouse and tucked - still damp -strands of her hair before huffing determinedly and picking up the parchment with the recipe on it, trying to see if she could so it Without endangering anyone

"Right, I should get the ingredients ready first." Cass told herself as she set the paper down and started gathering the things that she needed, pulling them within her reach, humming softly as she did so.

"I need that, and that and thaaaat..." She said as she tried to reach for a bowl of sugar. Ok, according to the recipe, she only needed like 3/4, but hey, she liked sweet things! Maybe her pie would even come out edible and she might regret not making it extra sweet.

Then she cast diffindo on each of her apples, slicing them into slightly equal halves, before doing the procedure over and over again until she had sliced each apple into four equal parts. Then she took one of the baking pans, took a huge chunk out of the pre-made pie dough, mentally thanking Kurumi for them, and spread it out evenly on the base of the pan, pressing it firmly as instructed.

Then she consulted the parchment for the next step.

Bake a pie for Carter? Kurumi really wasn't picky about who the pie was for as long as she got to make it. Sadly, due to the kitchens still being locked to students and all, it was up to Carter and Evelyn to bring them to the house elves to take care of.

"You got it," Kurumi chirped, giving the Quidditch captain a quick thumbs up before snatching up all her ingredients and heading to a somewhat empty section of the staff table. This was around the area where Professor Hadley sat, right?

Kurumi looked around for a moment, seeing who all was around including the Slytherin girl she had accidentally got glue in her hair and steered clear of her gaze. Instead, she scooted a bit closer to Cass and flashing her a small smile.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaah, the smell of cinnamon...

OOC: Remember, you are only filling the pie pans with crust and apple pie filling! There are no ovens here at the staff table, so when you are done with your pie go ahead and RP bringing it to either Carter or Evelyn.

Keep up the good work everyone!

Cass broke her glaring contest with the pie pan and looked up when she heard someone move to the spot next to her and smiled when she found that it was none other than Kurumi Hollingberry herself.

"Hey Kurumi." Cass said cheerily with a smile as she pressed the dough to the corners of the pan, making sure to leave no open spaces of air pockets. If this thing was going to be the base for the pie, it shouldn't have gaps right? Even if they weren't going to bake the thing. "Really cool idea for a game. Pie baking."

Finally, when she was satisfied with how stuck together the pie dough was and the pan, the blonde set it aside and the 20 pieces of sliced apples close to her. She held one slice up to her face and peered at it closely, glancing back and forth from it and the pan at her side. "You look way to thick for apple pie." Cass murmured to the apple, as if it could hear her. Then she set it back down on the table and pointed her wand at it "Diffindo." causing it to divide into two more parts, but still way to thick, she repeated the spell a couple more times until she was satisfied with its current thickness - or rather, the absence of thickness - and did the same with the other apple slices until they all looked alike. Thin, crudely-cut apples. Satisfied, she gathered them together, dumped them on a mixing bowl, followed by her way over the 3/4 limit cups of sugar, two spoonfuls of flour, 3/4 teaspoons of ground cinnamon, a pinch of salt, an even smaller amount of nutmeg, and a whole tablespoon of lemon juice. Ech. She never did like lemon juice, but she didn't want to compromise the pie.

Gahh! Next!

2. In large bowl, gently mix filling ingredients; spoon into crust-lined pie plate. Top with second crust. Wrap excess top crust under bottom crust edge, pressing edges together to seal; flute. Cut slits or shapes in several places in top crust.

Katrina got a bowl & gently mixed the filling ingredients. She spooned them into the crust-lined pie plate too and topped it with the second crust. She wrapped the excessive crust of the top under the bottom edge of the crust, pressing them together to seal it and fluted them (?).

"Diffindo," the girl said and their were slits or shapes all over her pie when she used it a couple of times> Teehee.

Next, yipee!

3. Bake 40 to 45 minutes or until apples are tender and crust is golden brown. Cover edge of crust with 2- to 3-inch wide strips of foil after first 15 to 20 minutes of baking to prevent excessive browning. Cool on cooling rack at least 2 hours before serving.

She was done! Okay... okay. Katrina left her kind of failure pie at the place they were asked to place their finished product and waited. She wiped the flour from the crust on the apron and took it off. She fixed her hair, since she looked like a frickin' banshee.

The girl waited patiently for the next clue.

Thea FLEW down the stairs to the Great Hall, where she skidded to an immediate halt at the table. Oh say what? Baking? Oh please. Rolling her eyes, she took up her place. This was great.. This would fail. A lot.

Dumping her apples on the table, she looked to the front where she listened to the older student giving the instructions. Laughing slightly at his remarks about his eating habits and knives, she felt a bit happier about the task. She was a Gryffindor....

Pulling a pie dish towards her, she rolled up her sleeves. Grey eyes darting aorund the table, she then grabbed a pie crust. Placing it inside, she pressed it firmly against the sides and the bottom of the plate. Bowl bowl... she needed a boooowl. Wiping the back of her hand across her forehead, she reached across the table for a bowl. Tipping the other ingrediants, such as the nutmeg and lemon juice, into the bowl Thea stepped back and grabbed her wand from her bag.

Sky realized that her apples were supposed to have been peeled. Oops! She sliced the peels off her apple chunks. There! Now she was ready for the next step! Which was to put the pie crust in the pan. She carefully picked up one of her pie crusts and gently pressed it into the baking pan so the it was touching all sides. Next! She threw her apples into a bowl, along with the other filling ingredients and mixed away!

"For having greedy hands." she muttered to Carter, leaning back in her seat as she eyed the Gryffindor boy. Touch another ingredient and he'll have a permanent red mark on his hand. Alas though, all those minions students began piling into the room, and after Carter gave the instructions, they started with the task.

Apple pies. At least there was SOME healthy ingredients in there.

And it didn't involve chocolate...

Just look at all of them. Practically all of them had wet hair, and some with make-up running down their faces. It...it was quite a laugh. In fact, Evelyn DID laugh. She sincerely hoped that their baking skills were up to par though. And would'ya look at this? Some of them were already done! However, she was not going to be making multiple trips to the kitchens.

Just had to wait for a few more to finish up first.

Snicker.

Ooh apple pie?! Today was just MADE for Auggie!

Listening closely as his Quidditch Coach began to tell them what all theyhad to do, his eyesbrows smushed together in confusion; they were still going to be able to eat the pies right?

And they were off, August walked over to where Tori was already starting to play with fix the pie crust dough. Alright so she had that... "Sure I can start the apples." he raised his shirt some and then dropped his 5 on the table. Grabbing the first he pointed his wand at it and said the severing spell incantation. "Diffindo!" the firts apple sliced in half.

"Two pies, we do rock at this!" He grinned at her smally, with a sideways glance at her from his apple.