So far so good. Adi knew he could do this. Following recipes weren't that hard. Carefully he removed the first cookie and stuck the now shrunken parchment containing the fortune middle. Fold it over, right? There! All folded. One cookie down. The steps were repeated for the remaining two cookies. After they were each formed into a fortune cookie shape, they were placed into a muffin tin to cool.

Just then, the Hufflepuff noticed Professor Cassie approach him and Fern. Why wouldn't everything be okay? Adi was still oblivious about Fern copying him. "Yes, Professor.'' He glanced at Fern who seemed to be just standing there at the moment. Was something bothering her? Did she need help?

Leah folded the cookies over, though maybe they were a bit small. Imagine if you bit into these cookies, thinking they were normal ones and tasting parchment. Eww. She should have had a tiny bit of parchment sticking out just in case, but too late. The pieces of parchment were completely hidden.

Shaping the cookies. Leah had not seen many fortune cookies before but she got idea of how they looked like. She squeezed the first cookie carefully, making it like what she had seen previously in class. Was that right? It looked kind of wrong, but her skills improved as she moved on.

Waiting was not her specialty. Even though AJ only had to wait fifteen minutes, she was bored. She wished she had something to do with her hands. She inspected her fingernails. A little humming happened for maybe a whole minutes. Bored, she was still bored. Everybody else was busy with their own cooking. Maybe the first year should have partnered up. Then at least she would have somebody to talk to during the forever long waiting process.

Hop scotch popped into her mind suddenly. There wasn't anything drawn out in front of her, but that didn't deter the lion. Hop, Hop, Hop. She contined doing that for the entire fifteen minutes. When her time was up she donned her kitchen glove and took the cookies out.

Now she needed to fold them. That sounded like a recipe for disaster. AJ placed the parchment paper down and folded the cookies to best of her ability. They didn't look great, but they were folded.

Angel now had to form them into a fortune cookie shape which was going to be funny because she was now going to have to try her best even though she didn't know much about what fortune cookies looked like though she did have a small idea which she would use and hopefully it will be alright.

Angel made sure her cookies were folded properly and then she placed them into a tin, and sighed, more waiting. This was one reason why she didn't like cooking so much, you had to wait for ages and she hated waiting.

Now, how she was going to manage to form it into an actual fortune cookie shape was beyond her. She had a hard enough time just folding the cookie over. Looking at her lump for a moment, she grabbed it and with a clear picture of what a fortune cookie was supposed to look like, her hands started moving. Molding this way and that. Viola. She was done. Looking at the cookie proved that she had no idea what she was doing. It was a good thing that she had made so many. AJ would have plenty of opportunities to get it right.

Moving on the her next victim. She picked up the next one and started to form it into a fortune cookie. When she was done she noticed that this one was looking better, but it wasn't good by any means. NEXT! She did this over and over, and one of her creations actually looked like a fortune cookie. Hooray! Happy dancing could happen now.

Alrightey. Last step. Now that the ten minutes were up, Adi could move on to decorating. This wasn't something he wanted to do much of. He just wanted simple yet attractive enough ones to grab someone's attention.

He head over to the decorating station. Sooo, what should he used as decorations? Chocolate, of course, was a must. nothing was complete without that. Maybe some sprinkles afterwards? Sounded good to Adi!

The Hufflepuff dipped each of his fortune cookies into the chocolate before grabbing a handful of sprinkles and tossing them onto the chocolate covered cookies.

Awesome! They looked really delicious.

Toddles looked up at Missus Studentsie curiously. Oh no, she didn't like the flour cloud, did she? Missus was coughing. But Toddles was only trying to help, Toddles wasn't a bad elf... was he? He started to pull on his ears, but no, she DID like the flour cloud!

Tilting his head, he looked at her hand for a moment before smiling widely and slapping her hand with his own. "No one has ever given Toddles a high five." He liked this Missus. She thought Toddles was a good elf AND a fun elf. "What else would you like Toddles to do?" Oh... what was she doing with Pips' ears?

Toddles watched the Missus examine Pips' ears for a moment before he heard the beckoning call of another of the studentsies. Toddles wandered over. "Toddles knows where the icing is." Or at least he thought he did, unless someone moved it in preparation for this lesson. "Toddles will go get it for you, Missus." Professor Missus Cassie had some over by her table last he checked. He toddled over and got the pink icing before heading back over to the girl studentsie. "Here you go!" he plopped it down on the table in front of her. Too bad that didn't make a funny cloud like the flour did.

Simon laughed a little as Ethan began to explain to the rest of the class why he had been dubbed 'The Chef'. Not only was the nickname accurate, it just sounded really, really awesome. The boy beamed. "Alright, Sherlock, let's see..." he said when he began scooping up the batter and placing it on the cookie sheet. Soon enough, Ethan jonied him.

Halfway through the process, Simon took a peek at his mate's work and his eyes widened when he realized how accurate and precise Ethan was being. Man, he was making Simon's estimations look really bad! The Slytherin boy even pulled a ruler out of his book bag to see how far they little globs of mixture were apart from each other. His eyes widened when he read that they were exactly two inches apart. "Merlin, you're really good at this, Ethan. Being accurate," he slipped the ruler back into his bag and then eyed the next step.

OVEN time.

Once the batter was on the cookie sheet, Simon popped the tray into the oven and set a timer. "Alright, now we wait fifteen minutes!"

All of the molding was done, and AJ had something that sort of resembled fortune cookies. If anybody else couldn't tell what they were, then that wasn't her problem. Looking down at her jumbled notes she noticed that it was time for more waiting. She moved the cookies over to the muffin tin. Boring. Jumping jacks happened again while she waited. Jump, jump, jump. Once the ten minutes had finally passed, AJ saw that the only thing left to do was to decorate. Again, this wasn't her specialty but she would give it a go anyways.

Naturally, AJ picked gold and red icing colors. She knew better than to try to draw a lion because that would be a hot mess. Instead she made polka dots, alternating between the red and the gold. Hmm... it looked a little plain. Sprinkles! Sprinkles made everything better. Finding some chocolate ones, she sprinkled coated the cookies with them.

Now they looked mouth watering. Could they eat them now?

Argyle couldn't help herself from cleaning all the surfaces around the students. Lots of the other elves were helping the studentsies but Argyle thought it was always important to have a clean workspace. She darted around the kitchen, wiping spillages on the surfaces and floor, big elf ears flapping as she did so.

Oh, LOOK at them! Such precious little studentsies, they made Argyle so proud.

"Well done, Masters and Misses!" Argyle squeaked, ears flapping excitedly. "Argyle is here for assistance also!"

Caaaaaaarefully placing the last tablespoonful of batter onto the baking sheet with his tongue sticking out, Ethan pumped his fist in the air as he successfully accomplished his task. Right there, ladies and gentlemen, and elves are perfectly spaced cookie batter up until the last decimal point. You see, instructions are important, yeah? Ethan pulled a Sherlock and popped up his collar for full effect, crossed his arms and gave his Watson an arrogant nod. “Of course. No one else in this room can do it.” Hehehehe.

Ethan watched as Simon placed the baking sheet inside the oven. Fifteen minutes, yeah? “So…where was I…oh yes…about that…” the blond boy scooted closer to his best friend and continued to fill him in about what transpired during their hunt for runes with the Runes Master. He even discussed how the device felt in his hands.

“I felt like a real detective. It was pretty awesome…” Ethan would love to continue his story, but it seems that their cookies are ready! “I think that’s golden brown enough, yeah?” The boy took the liberty to don a pair of thick mittens, and got the tray out of the oven. “It saaaaays here that we place the parchment in the middle and fold the cookie over.” The blond snake got his reduced parchments, and handed Simon his parchments. “Here goes nothing…”

Simon coughed to hide his laughter. Oh dear was Ethan really popping his collar? Perhaps the whole Sherlock-Watson dynamic was going to their heads a little bit TOO much? He coughed. "Sorry, frog in my throat," he said as he watched Ethan finish up the precise placing of the batter on the cookie sheet.

As they waited for the cookies to cook, Ethan informed Simon of the trip that he had missed out on. The boy listened with excitement and nodded; however, he wished he could have gone with him and Botros because Runes were his expertise not magical dark creatures. He nodded and was about to ask Ethan another question when the timer went off. Mmm.. Those cookies did smell goood!

With the batter out of the oven, Simon carefully placed one of the fortunes in one of the batters and folded it over, making it neatly into the fortune cookie shape. He repeated this twice more with the others. Carefully he picked up the hot cookies and placed them quickly into a muffin tin so that they could hold their shape. He set the timer on.

As they were waiting, he turned back to face Ethan. "Merlin, that sounds brilliant. I wish I could have gone with you. We just kept researching which was exciting but it was about chorts... Not about runes," he explained. The timer went off so he gazed at the recipe.

"Sooo...what's next?"

Yeaaaaaaaaaaah............. Chef Z was definitely happy. Of course, Grayson understood because who WOULDN'T be happy to work with him? 'Xactly. But he wasn't used to people being so happy around him. So this was NEW. And certainly welcome. Hang out with him more, mkay Whitty? Good. Soooooo, that goofy grin was matched with a smile of his own. Feel special, Adair.

What?

WHAT?!

They had to eat OTHER PEOPLE'S cookies? "You mean we'll have to politely eat someone else's cookies, even if it tastes like dragon dung?" Oh jeez. OH MAN. Grayson already had trouble being polite in situations like that, but this would really take the cake. Talk about difficult, man. There was NO way he could be polite in a situation like that. "I guess you're right. That way we can really see if our fortunes come true." Which raised another point: if people had written down some ridiculous things, Grayson was going to lose all faith in humanity.

He didn't know about Culloden but this fifteen year old was certainly proud of the cleaning spell that Z had used. Very proud. "Culloden would be impressed with that, you know." Uh huh. That man had taught them very well, hadn't he?

While Zander went ahead and mixed the ingredients up, Whitty went ahead and started spreading out the cookie sheet on a tray. He wasn't dumb. 'Course not. This was important, even he knew that. Two tablespoons were picked up and Grayson had oooooonly managed to clean them both when the Gryffindor's words reached his ears. Looking up, the Slytherin leaaaaaaaant over and peeked at the inside of the bowl. He scooped up some of the dough and inspected it before placing the dough onto the cookie sheet. "Brilliant! It looks smooth enough. Good job, man!"

"Here!" he said, holding out a tablespoon with his left hand and using the one in his right hand to scoop out some more of the cookie dough. Dude can feel like a dough!digger too. They had quite a bit to scoop out after all.

Text Cut: Steps!

Ingredients
•2 eggs (whites only), use the yolks for something else
•1/2 tsp. (2.2g) of vanilla extract
•1/2 tsp. (2.2g) of almond extract
•3 tbsp. (41g) of vegetable oil
•8 tbsp. (62.5g) of flour
•1 1/2 tsp. (4g) of cornstarch
•1/4 tsp. (1.5g) of salt
•8 tbsp. (100g) of sugar
•3 tsp. (15g) of water

Steps
1. Make fortunes, use the shrinking charm reducio to make the parchment small enough to fit into the cookie
2. Using your wand heat preheat the oven.
3. Combine all the ingredients and mix well until dough is smooth.
4. Place tablespoons of batter onto a cookie sheet, space them around 2 inches apart.
5. Bake for fifteen minutes or until golden brown.
6. Remove cookie and place parchment in the middle, fold the cookie over.
7. Form into fortune cookie shape.
8. Place cookies into a muffin tin to hold their shape. Let cool for ten minutes.
9. Decorate if you like.

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Originally Posted by Pips

Toddles brought Pips the flour so Pips could get moving on the cookies. Pips poured the flour into the bowl and began mixing everything together. Missus was happy so Pips was happy. He worked faster to get it all smooth.

"Pips is almost done with this part and then Pips will put them in the oven for Missus."

MISSUS HAS PIPS EARS!!!! Why did the studentsies have Pips ears. He wiggled to try and get out of her grasp, "Pips can hear well."

but Pips did't like his ears touched..

Hiccup hiccup

"Awesome," Zahra said, most heartfelt. This WAS awesome. Divination was going to turn out to be easy. "You are the COOLEST Elf Pipsqueak!" As for his ears? Zahra was looking into it... then she kind of sniffed it... 'cause when else would she have an opportunity to sniff an elf ear? "Do you wash them? Do elves TAKE baths? Do you use the same showers as us? How much longer til our cookies are ready for my belly?" YOU KNOW? SO many things Zahra had never thought about ELVES before.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bazinga

What fun this was. She couldn't help the few snaps of encouragement as she went around the kitchen. "Your cookies are just looking wonderful and isn't the heat from the ovens just splendid?" See a lesson of learning and warmth. It was just brilliant in the Divination professor's green eyes.

Noticing a look from a young Hufflepuff, Cassie made her way toward Adi and Fern. "Everything alright?" She really wasn't sure if she could help, but she'd try. She was thinking about trying to bake the cookies too, just to see if she could. Nessa would try them if she made them, she thought.


Her eyes glanced around the rest of the class. "Everyone doing alright?"

"YESSSSSSSSSsssssssssssssssssssss!" Zahra answered with a HUGE BEAMING GRIN. Like Zahra had the MOST SKILLED GROUP in the kitchen and she hadn't even meant to be here! "Doing well professor! I'll let you eat one of my cookies if you give me like... 40 house points."

And THAT was a BARGAIN.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Toddles

Toddles looked up at Missus Studentsie curiously. Oh no, she didn't like the flour cloud, did she? Missus was coughing. But Toddles was only trying to help, Toddles wasn't a bad elf... was he? He started to pull on his ears, but no, she DID like the flour cloud!

Tilting his head, he looked at her hand for a moment before smiling widely and slapping her hand with his own. "No one has ever given Toddles a high five." He liked this Missus. She thought Toddles was a good elf AND a fun elf. "What else would you like Toddles to do?" Oh... what was she doing with Pips' ears?

Toddles watched the Missus examine Pips' ears for a moment before he heard the beckoning call of another of the studentsies. Toddles wandered over. "Toddles knows where the icing is." Or at least he thought he did, unless someone moved it in preparation for this lesson. "Toddles will go get it for you, Missus." Professor Missus Cassie had some over by her table last he checked. He toddled over and got the pink icing before heading back over to the girl studentsie. "Here you go!" he plopped it down on the table in front of her. Too bad that didn't make a funny cloud like the flour did.

Well... since Toddleypoo was ASKING.................. "How about a BIG piece of lasagna to go? You know, sometimes, Toddles... sometimes I just get hungry and it's a LONG walk down here in the middle of the night.... plus that whole CURFEW thing, you know? So I was thinking, if you want or aren't too busy or anything, I could really go for some lasagna to go...."

Zahra figured he PROBABLY heard her with those BIG OLE ELF ears of his before he TODDLED off. HAHAHAHA Zahra... cracking herself up...

Quote:

Originally Posted by Argyle

Argyle couldn't help herself from cleaning all the surfaces around the students. Lots of the other elves were helping the studentsies but Argyle thought it was always important to have a clean workspace. She darted around the kitchen, wiping spillages on the surfaces and floor, big elf ears flapping as she did so.

Oh, LOOK at them! Such precious little studentsies, they made Argyle so proud.

"Well done, Masters and Misses!" Argyle squeaked, ears flapping excitedly. "Argyle is here for assistance also!"

WHAT! MORE ELVES! "HEY ELF! Wassup! Your group is over here!" LIKE REALLY. Plus, he had some REALLY wicked ears that Zahra wanted to flip.

Ethan raised an eyebrow at the coughing, and swatted the air in front of him, as well as wearing a disgusted look on his face. “You will contaminate the cookies with the coughing, Watson.” Ethan grinned, breaking out of his character and nudged Simon. It was always a joy to work with this dude. Hehehe.

Now…carefully placing the parchment right smack at the center of the cookie, Ethan began to fold the sides, blanketing the parchment completely. He then formed it into the shape of a fortune cookie and placed it into a muffin tin. Precisely, and efficiently, he did the same for the next two fortunes.

So…there! Done. Now…they still have time to decorate it, yeah? “How about dipping it in melted chocolate and sprinkle it with...those colorful stuff?” Simon was the chef here, so…

He still felt bad about Simon having to stay and help the research group, but then he can’t blame the higher ups because Simon’s good with finding stuff as well as making sense of it. Oh and was there any progress? “What else? Did Zander find anything?” Ethan asked as he got one of the bottles containing the sprinkles and inspected it, holding it high above his head.

Sophie wasn't one for cuteness and all things fluffy and sweet, but...this elf was just PRECIOUS! Sophie smiled as it graciously volunteered to go get the icing then set off. The icing must not have been far, because the elf was back in no time with a tub of pink icing. "Thank you," she said, accepting the icing. "I'm Sophie. You're Toddles, right?" She'd heard somebody mention it early on.

Sophie found a spatula and began spooning pieces of icing onto her fortune cookies. She used the spatula to spread the icing into neat swirls. Pretty soon, the tops of the cookies were covered in pink. She was about to ask the elf for a container of sprinkles, but she happened to look next to her and noticed someone had left them nearby. Ohh, rainbow sprinkles!

Sophie opened the container and began sprinkling the rainbow pieces onto the iced parts of the cookies. With that, she thought she was done with the cookies. Icing and sprinkles should be good enough...not to mention the fortune inside. She then began cleaning up her area, because she knew they'd be expected to do that.

The Gryffindor widened his eyes a bit at Cool Group Leader Grayson's surprise. Actually, Zander had no clue as to what they were going to do with the cookies... It was just a guess. DRAGON DUNG!? ".... I.... I hope not..." So like um, was there a way to get out of that? Because uh... Dragon dung? "Maybe we can find a way to get out of it?" They were 'Colonel Cool Grayson Whitlock' and 'Pretty Cool Mate Zander Adair' after all?

He was probably blushing now. Was he blushing? And furthermore, was it getting hotter in here or was it just him? It was probably just him. Because he was GLOWING, yes glowing with pride now. And being a Gryffindor-despite the accusations ahem cough- pride was very valued and sometimes dangerous. Culloden would? How Zander always wanted to make that guy proud, but yet was terrible scared of him was beyond confusing. But he definitely did want to impress the man. So. Just. Grayson Whitlock staaaahp, you're going to make this Gryffindor explode. "Heh, thanks! I picked it up from watching you though," HEHE someone please send help.

Zander looked over at Grayson as the older guy began taking out the cookie sheet. Yes. This Gryffindor approves. "Good thinking," and now for the moment of truth. Would Cool Group Leader Grayson Whitlock approve of his mixing skills? Aaaaannnnndddddddddd YES! Success. These were going to be some great cookies. HA! Ahem. Back to the cookies... Right.

The Gryffindor gave the fourth year another smile as he reached over and took hold of the spoon. Zander began following suit and scooping and placing and scooping and placing. They really made a lot of dough. BUT AHHH the end of the bowl. He could SEE it! AWESOME! Cool. So now that the scooping was over, the could get back to the baking! Picking up the tray, carefully, the Gryffindor stuck the tray into the oven that Grayson had preheated before. "And now we wait?"

Now since he shrunk the fortunes and folded over the cookies he checked the next step and he needed to make them into the fortune cookie shape. Alright so what was it again? He thought about it and it kind of looked like a moon. No wait they looked more like lobster claws. He got that down. He even saw a cookie pan that had the fortune cookie shape. Now that was easy to start with. He put the dough and formed it. Now onto almost the last two steps. He was doing well.

"I'm not sick. Trust me," he said, sharing a grin with his mate. He had coughed under his arm anyway but technicalities. When he heard Ethan call him Watson, he just couldn't resist but getting into character as well. Heh. His mate had asked for it. He smirked at Holmes. "Right, who's the doctor here, Holmes?"

Now. Back to business. Simon nodded in agreement. Dipped in chocolate and sprinkles did sound good to him. He wasn't a big fan on sprinkles but he figured that Professor Morgan would like them especially if they put some pink and purple sprinkles on it. "Sounds good. Let's chocolate dip both sides and only put sprinkles on one side of it? It'll look cool, mate," he said with a wide grin. Now where could they get the chocolate dip from? Aha! He pulled out a little stove pot from one of the cupboards, turned on the gas stove, grabbed some chocolate, and began chopping it up. Once it was done, he added the chocolate into the pot and put some sugar and cream with it. He began stirring the mixture.

Ah, right, they had been talking about the research group. Simon eyed his surroundings and lowered his voice. "Zander thinks Romanos is responsible," he said as he took the molten chocolate ganache off of the stove. He turned off the gas and then waited it to cool for a little bit.

He needed to place the cookies into the tin to hold the shape. He nodded when he read the second to last step. He got the cookies carefully from the parchment and placed them into the tins. He saw they were holding their shape. He smiled and was glad it was working. He continued to place them into the tins and once he was all done, now it was time for decorating. He wondered how he was gonna decorate them.

She beamed at Adi and looked towards Fern. "Very good, I was just wondering because it seemed like some facial expressions looked like my own with the thought of baking or even figuring out how to turn on an oven." She giggled a bit. She was horrid with the kitchen skills and was not afraid to admit that at all.

"Well if you need anything just ask of course." She gave a few encouraging snaps as she continued on her way.

SPOILER!!: Zhara

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mad Eye Touz

"Awesome," Zahra said, most heartfelt. This WAS awesome. Divination was going to turn out to be easy. "You are the COOLEST Elf Pipsqueak!" As for his ears? Zahra was looking into it... then she kind of sniffed it... 'cause when else would she have an opportunity to sniff an elf ear? "Do you wash them? Do elves TAKE baths? Do you use the same showers as us? How much longer til our cookies are ready for my belly?" YOU KNOW? SO many things Zahra had never thought about ELVES before.




"YESSSSSSSSSsssssssssssssssssssss!" Zahra answered with a HUGE BEAMING GRIN. Like Zahra had the MOST SKILLED GROUP in the kitchen and she hadn't even meant to be here! "Doing well professor! I'll let you eat one of my cookies if you give me like... 40 house points."

And THAT was a BARGAIN.



Well... since Toddleypoo was ASKING.................. "How about a BIG piece of lasagna to go? You know, sometimes, Toddles... sometimes I just get hungry and it's a LONG walk down here in the middle of the night.... plus that whole CURFEW thing, you know? So I was thinking, if you want or aren't too busy or anything, I could really go for some lasagna to go...."

Zahra figured he PROBABLY heard her with those BIG OLE ELF ears of his before he TODDLED off. HAHAHAHA Zahra... cracking herself up...



WHAT! MORE ELVES! "HEY ELF! Wassup! Your group is over here!" LIKE REALLY. Plus, he had some REALLY wicked ears that Zahra wanted to flip.

Looking towards Zhara, Cassie beamed at her answer. "That's wonderful. I've seen you have had the house elves helping you." She didn't mind if they helped the students she would certainly need the help. She had to chuckle at the girl when she said about eating the cookies. "I'm not promising anything with points for eating cookies." She wasn't against trying cookies, but if she gave points to one she'd have to give them all extra for trying their cookies.

Ooooh. Buuurn. That was a nice response Simon. Hehehehe. Ethan wore his arrogant Sherlock look…paused and said, “You.” Another quick pause, and came his words tumbling down faster than a road runner. “But since you’re a doctor you should know not to cough or do any form of expelling plausible harmful virus out in the air especially in the immediate presence of food.” Did…he understand everything? It was the fastest he could go, and he had a hard time matching his thoughts with his speech. “…Merlin, that was hard.” He wiped an imaginary sweat and resumed with their cookies.

Ethan got another clean baking tray as Simon prepared the chocolate dip that they were going to use. Wait what? The blond boy almost dropped the tray when he heard Simon whisper. Why would…Zander suspect on Romanos? She was the one who taught them about the Cold Ones…and how to defeat them, yeah? That…didn’t make much sense to the boy. He too looked around, “…and your thoughts about this?” Ethan was curious. What does Simon think about it?

Seeing that the chocolate stuff was ready, Ethan got one of his fortune cookies, dipped it in the chocolate, placed it on the baking tray and sprayed it with sprinkles.

Awesome!

One down, two to go!

Why was she still holding Pips ears? He moved his hand like a puppy brushing over his face to try to get her off. "Pips is a clean elf. Pips baths in the elf allowed area."

Missus was full of questions, but she did call Pips a cool elf. This got her a beaming smile, though she might not have seen being behind him with his ears.

Looking up as Missus Cassie came over Pips fidgeted with his hands. "Pips likes to help. Pips is a good elf."

Hiccup Hiccup

Hearing the timer Pips jumped and hurried towards the stove. Pulling out the cookies and setting them on the counter. Forming them to the moon shape and placing them in a tin. Grabbing at his nose and making honking noises to show they were done.

HONK HONK

"Me neither. I don't want to taste foul cookies." No, keep that stuff AWAY, thank you very much. As for a way to get out of it, WELL, wasn't THIS an interesting line of thought? "How do we get out of it? We can't use the under-the-table-feed-the-dog technique." Because they were missing something crucial from that plan: a freaking dog. "Though, I guess, if it's from someone we trust, we can trust them to make good cookies." Like Simon and Ethan over there. Uh huh. You two'd better be making cookies for Taureans and whatever star sign Zander happened to be.

Was he BLUSHING? Grayson was picking up a lot of interesting things from this Gryffindor and blushing was, apparently, one of them. Along with him not being one of those overly brave Gryffindors that jumped straight into something without thinking about it first. What a bunch of idiots those were. And WHY wa he thinking about that when this guy over here was praising him? Grayson smirked before saying, "Looks like you're a fast learner." Was his chest puffed out a little in pride? Yes, it was.

The scooping really had taken forever, hadn't it? Jeez. It was as if the two had been one of those people in primary school maths problems. You know, the loonies that bought fifty pineapples and were all too glad to be giving them away. Swear to Merlin, who even bought that many freaking pineapples in the first place?! Jeez. Some people sounded like they came straight out of the loony bin.

Sigh. Task, Whitty. The dough. Which they had scooped aaaaaaaaall of it out and placed onto the cookies sheet and theeeeeen......... into the oven! "Yeah, we wait. Fifteen whole minutes! And MAN, these are going to smell SO good." He was sure of it because THEY were the ones who had made it. Of course it was going to turn out to be brilliant. "Though, maybe not as good as the chocolate chip kind. Do you think they have chocolate chip fortune cookies?" And more importantly, could they have some? Because waiting was making him hungry, as was that SMELL. Sweet Merlin!

Tick tock tick tock!

Fifteen minutes was a long time. Come ON! Hurry up and BAKE alre--

"TIME'S UP!" Was he excited? He was. He really really was. He even grabbed an oven mitt and took out the tray and the cookie sheet. "Mmmmmmm! That smell!" What was the next step again?

Text Cut: Steps!

Ingredients
•2 eggs (whites only), use the yolks for something else
•1/2 tsp. (2.2g) of vanilla extract
•1/2 tsp. (2.2g) of almond extract
•3 tbsp. (41g) of vegetable oil
•8 tbsp. (62.5g) of flour
•1 1/2 tsp. (4g) of cornstarch
•1/4 tsp. (1.5g) of salt
•8 tbsp. (100g) of sugar
•3 tsp. (15g) of water

Steps
1. Make fortunes, use the shrinking charm reducio to make the parchment small enough to fit into the cookie
2. Using your wand heat preheat the oven.
3. Combine all the ingredients and mix well until dough is smooth.
4. Place tablespoons of batter onto a cookie sheet, space them around 2 inches apart.
5. Bake for fifteen minutes or until golden brown.
6. Remove cookie and place parchment in the middle, fold the cookie over.
7. Form into fortune cookie shape.
8. Place cookies into a muffin tin to hold their shape. Let cool for ten minutes.
9. Decorate if you like.

Time for decorating! Kace's favorite part. He loved just making his own creations. Maybe he might design one for Lux and put a cucumber on it. Yup, he got some frosting and drew a cucumber. Then he would make one for Emmy and had a panda for his girl. Then for Bay he just made it red for gryffindor. He got some for his friends. Maybe he could make one for the professor? Eh why not? He made it pinkish because it seemed like the professor liked pink in his opinion.

He decorated it with a pink tiny flower and some green. Then once he saw it was done, he went up to the professor and handed it to her, "A fortune cookie for you Professor.." he smiled and showed her.