With the oven preheating, Lux needed to mix all of the ingredients together for the cookies. That didn't seem too hard because there were not a lot of things that needed to be added.

She had gathered all of the ingredients before beginning but still needed bowls, a spoon, measuring cups, and measuring spoons. As soon as all the equipment was collected, it was time to start. Cracking one of the eggs on the rim of the big mixing bowl, Lux carefully added only the whites before doing the same with the other egg. Both yolks were placed in a smaller bowl that she then set aside.

From her limited understanding of how baking work, Lux knew that generally wet and dry ingredients were done separately before being mixed together. The vanilla extract, almond extract, vegetable oil, and water were individually measured out and added to the bowl. Flour, cornstarch, salt, and sugar were then added before everything was blended together with the spoon. Once she was satisfied with the consistency of her dough, it was time to move on to the next step.

SPOILER!!: Recipe

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.

So now after she picked the signs she had to make up fortunes. First she needed to read about each of the signs. The snake started with Aries. She read what was written then paused trying to think of something about it to write. Finally inspiration hit her and her quill was moving.



This actually was fun. And she was eager to do the next one which was Aquarius. Now first to read and then to come up with something. This probably took a longer pause but she wanted to write something that actually made sense. She didn't want to just fill the parchment with meaningless words. But then she could think of something that had a meaning.



And the last one. If she thought that the previous one took the longest time she was wrong. This did. Mainly because she was afraid she was going to be held back thinking about this when everyone else moved on to the next portion of the lesson. She had to come up with something now! Pressure did work after all. She was glad that her hand started scribbling.

Cutty finished up writing the horoscopes for his fortune cookies and by the time he'd gotten to Pisces, he'd developed what he thought would be a great voice for fortune telling. He then laid them each out and proceeded to reduce them to a suitable size to fit into the cookies.



"Reducio." He moved his wand over the little parchment and shrunk it down to size.



"Reducio." He followed on to the second one.



And then moved onto the last one.




Cooking. Well at least they were allowed to use magic. Cutty used the measuring instruments to gather the vanilla, flour, cornstarch, almond extract, eggs, salt, sugar and veggie oil. From what he remembered about muggle studies, it was probably easier to combine the dry ingredients first. No. No, start with the eggs. The snake boy looked for a small bowl, or possibly a large mug.

So, cookie making! That sounded really fun. Cassia liked to bake though she never felt that she needed because she shared a dorm with Cat and Addi. You don't have to bake cookies or anything for that matter when you had those two as dormmates. But she was glad that she was familiar with all of this because it would be easier and more fun. Usually hard things suck the fun out of everything.

The snake pulled out her wand. First she had to reduce the size of the parchments. Her wand was pointed at the first, "Reducio," Voila! She had a tiny piece of parchment that would easily fit in the cookie. Repeating the spell she had three tiny pieces with fortunes on them. Now to start with the actual cookie making.

Well, not yet actually. She had to preheat the oven. She retrieved her wand which she set aside a bit ago, the seventeen years old cast a spell on the oven. This should take a bit. Now really, she was starting.

As she waited for her cookies to turn a nice, golden brown color, Sophie worked on cleaning up her work area. She knew they'd be expected to anyway, so why wait until the end when things were a complete mess? Sophie did keep an eye on the oven while she was cleaning, though. By the time she finished cleaning, the fifteen minutes had passed. She opened the oven door and noticed that her cookies were a nice, golden brown.

Oh, thank Merlin! She hadn't burned them!

Sophie slipped on some oven mitts and removed her cookies. She placed the cookie sheet in a safe place then turned off the oven. Looking at the directions, she noted where it was now time to add the little pieces of paper containing the fortunes. She gathered them up and got them ready to be added.

Lex had been waiting patiently even after she'd gathered her ingredients. Know why? Because Cassia was still working on fortunes and Lex couldn't get started without the snake who actually knew something about this baking stuff. Now that she was done--she was done, yes??--Alexa levitated everything and yanked her stool over to where Cassia had chosen to work. It was so clean over here. Perfect for baking.

"Hi." Standard greeting, yes, hello, hi bestie. "So I'm thinking you bake, I supervise, we enjoy the cookies and the world is a happy place. Kinda like we always do." Lex was FAR better at supervising than she was at baking, even Cassia knew this so no arguments should happen.

"You reduce the fortunes while I go pre-heat the oven--no, wait, I'll burn myself. I'll shrink these, you light the oven so we can get that started." It might have been weird having someone boss around the Head Girl but Cass didn't let that sort of power get to her head. Power wouldn't make her bestie not listen. Pfft. Plus this was a team effort!

With that, she gathered their fortunes together to make one spell of it. "Reducio."

Cassie moved in and out of the students watching and being available if needed, though she hoped her warning of no baking skills would get them to ask the elves. Pulling her snuggie closer she moved around some more, "How is everyone doing? Finding everything alright?" She hoped everything was out. She honestly wouldn't know. She never doubted the elves to have it ready.

Looking at the House elves she beamed. "Thank you for being here to help." Glancing up again, "Please do not be afraid to ask them for your help if needed." Such great elves to be here. She snapped excitedly and went to get herself a bit more hot chocolate."[/b]

Maybe she should try to make some while the students were making. She could learn something today too.

See she wondered where the quiet-for-this-lesson Gryffindor had gone. Turned she didn't go anywhere and had just joined her. YAY! Cassia looked up from the parchment where she scribbled down the steps and all and beamed at Alexa. "Sounds like a perfect plan," she nodded glancing back at the parchment. See, she and Lex had attempted this , baking, a couple of times. Years ago they totally failed because they always had better things to do. And when they did do it together it was Cassia working and Lex providing the greatest entertaining and conversation anyone could ever dream of. Perfect team.

While the sixth-year shrank the fortunes that belonged to her. Cassia was mentally deciding what she was going to do next. Yup, got it.

"Hand me that bowl, will you?" Just so the other blond would feel involved and not like she wasn't doing anything at all. The snake trusted that her friend knew what a bowl was. If not it would be quite an alarming thing.

But yeah, a bowl was the easy thing, so far so good. Rolling up her sleeves, Cassia switched to cook mode, which wasn't really that different from her regular one. Except just a little when someone ruined her work. No one was going to do that fortunately so all was well. One by one, Cassia started adding the ingredients. Flour, oil, vanilla, sugar, salt and all while adding water. She was using her mother's technique because she knew it by heart. And professor Morgan didn't specify a way for them to do it which was good. "How is Felix, by the way? I haven't seen him in while," And by seeing she meant spending time with him petting him and rubbing his stomach.

Simon grinned as Ethan made his way over to him. Oh yes, the two Snakes were back in business and they were going to make the awesome-est fortune cookies ever. He nodded and grinned excitedly. "I think regular would be good. I don't know how the oat ones would taste," he explained as he got out a clean bowl and measuring instruments from one of the cupboards.

They needed ingredients now! "I'm going to grab the ingredients, want to shrink the fortunes, mate?" he asked and then he set off to do so. They needed 2 eggs, vanilla extract, almond extract, vegetable oil, flour, cornstarch, salt, sugar, and water. Okay, sounded good.

Now that Jasmine had mixed her ingredients sufficiently, it was cookie time. Picking up a tablespoon, she carefully scooped up some dough and dropped it onto the nearby cookie sheet. Back to the bowl she went scooping and dropping, scooping and dropping, making sure to position her cookies approximately two inches apart. Jasmine repeated the process until the cookie sheet was full.

Once she was finished, Jasmine checked the time on her watch. Then she put her cookies into the oven. They had to bake for fifteen minutes. That was a long time to wait so Jasmine decided to clean her dishes and utensils in the meantime.

After using his wand to preheat the oven, Adi proceeded to add the vanilla extract, almond extract, vegetable oil, flour, cornstarch, salt, sugar and water (all in their right amounts) in a bowl. Now came the mixing.

Mix, mix, mix, miiiiiiix!

After what felt like hours, Adi decided his mixture was smooth enough. At least he could see no clumps when he turned the mixture up using the spoon.

Another step complete!

....hehehehehe. Since Zahra's house elves were being SO EPIC and SO HELPFUL, she had some time to put a DASH of SALT in a wound. She leaned towards that Slytheriiiiiiin Cutty, griiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinned, and SNAPPED SNAPPED SNAPPED just like Professor Snaps-a-lot.

"Sorry about your rotten luck. Never bet against my mouth though." WINK. "On the bright side, Professor Snappy ain't so bad. If ya hafta shine someone's crystal balls, hers will be at least less painful."

Zahra cast an eye back to her house elves. SHE BEAMED. THEY WERE THE BEST HOUSE ELVES. DID THEY GET HER LASAGNA YET?????

Pips was getting pats from the studenties. Pips looked up at Missus, "Oh thank you, you are so kind." Though the head lock feeling wasn't something Pips liked.

Hiccup Hiccup

"Missus wants to lick the bowl? Missus can lick the bowl when done." That meant Pips was doing good. Pips was a good elf.

Pips continued to mix the ingredients. Snapping his fingers to preheat the oven. Pips looked up to hear Toddles and see him bringing flour over.

Hiccup Hiccup

Flour was everywhere, Pips wasn't pleased and pulled his ears. Though the studenties didn't look too upset. Elf high five? Pips just pulled his ears.

The batter looked so tempting. Could she not eat some before placing it in the oven?

Shrugging, Lux figured why not then dipped her finger in. Yummy. So this was what fortune cookies tasted like. Was it possible for a dessert to NOT be delicious? Because seriously this girl was going to become fat with the amount of sweets she consumed on a daily basis.

The recipe said to place the batter on a cookie sheet, so that was exactly what she did. Scooping and dropping, she soon had all the cookies laid out at what she guessed to be two inches apart. After checking to see what time it was, into the oven the cookies went.

Now to play the waiting game.

SPOILER!!: Recipe

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.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pips

SPOILER!!: Toddles and Zhara

Pips was getting pats from the studenties. Pips looked up at Missus, "Oh thank you, you are so kind." Though the head lock feeling wasn't something Pips liked.

Hiccup Hiccup

"Missus wants to lick the bowl? Missus can lick the bowl when done." That meant Pips was doing good. Pips was a good elf.

Pips continued to mix the ingredients. Snapping his fingers to preheat the oven. Pips looked up to hear Toddles and see him bringing flour over.

Hiccup Hiccup

Flour was everywhere, Pips wasn't pleased and pulled his ears. Though the studenties didn't look too upset. Elf high five? Pips just pulled his ears.

Pips was the flippin' BEST ELF AT HOGWARTS. "WOOT! Thanks. That's the best part. Maybe you could lick the spoon," that was the SECOND best part. Zahra moved around, inspecting the ingredients, and she threw one or two in? 'cause why not! She had super elf help so how could it go wrong?!?

But that got boring and Zahra ended up with an ELF EAR in EACH HAND. PIPPPY'S EAR! HEHE! "Can you hear like REAL good, Pips?" she asked, INTO his ear.

Angel had found her wand and she was now trying to figure out what she had to do next, it wasn't until she saw the fortune cookies did she remember and she gave a small giggle, she shouldn't have forgot that.

"Reductio." Angel did the wand movement on all three of the piece of paper and smiled as they shrunk, when they got to the perfect size she stopped the spell. She looked at the next thing on the list, oh yeah well that did make sense, she remembered when she was younger she actually once forgot to preheat the oven.

Angel went over to the oven and cast a spell on it, now she smiled, it was actually time to do the cookie making and she couldn't wait to see how it went after the disaster of the pizza topping in muggle studies.

It seemed that Angel had decided to work on her own, so Leah shrugged and turned to her table. She did not want to do the making fortunes part yet, but she did not have a choice now. She picked up her parchment and ripped it into three parts. After a moment of thinking, she started writing furiously.




That would be good enough. Now, how do you do this reducio charm?

"You're the chef." Ethan shrugged as he fished out the parchment of fortunes out of his pocket and laid each one of them flat on the table. He too got Simon's parchments, and prepped them to be shrinked. "Reducio!" One by one, the parchments became tiny strips of paper, small enough to be enveloped inside the cookies.

"I'll go start the oven, yeah? That should save us time..." If Simon asked, his best friend is now a master when it comes to the Fire Making Spell. How many times did he actually burn the Aparecium articles? He lost count. Ahem. Anyway. "Incendio!" Fiiiyaaaaaaaaah.

Now that two steps are done, Ethan consulted his notes and checked it off the list.

Lucy preheated the oven with her wand..
Then it was time to collect the ingredients and her stuff for cooking.
Lucy started taking the eggs to separate the white from the yolk into two different bowls.
Lucy continued weighting all ingredients: vanilla and almond extracts, vegetable oil and water, the flour, cornstarch, salt and sugar and added them to the bowl.
With the spoon, she stirred and mixed the ingredients.
When all ingredients were mixed well and the dough seemed soft she said:" Done! I'm ready to cooking! "

Leah flattened the three pieces of parchment out. Hopefully it would be easier to cast the spell if they were y'know, FLAT. She had only learned the theory to the shrinking charm but had never tried it before.

She pulled out her wand from her robes pocket and pointed it at the first fortune. "Reducio?" she said uncertainly. Noooothing happened. "Reducio." she repeated, and soon the parchment started shrinking at a fast rate. Leah had to think how big a cookie would be before saying, "Finite!" That would be good enough. At least she could do the Engorgement Charm if needed. The second year did the spell two more times and soon had little parchment. She had to squint her eyes to read the words on it.

Happy with her process, she scanned her recipe for her next step.

Having cleaned all of her materials, Jasmine still had time before her cookies would be done. She decided to make a few more fortunes for her extra cookies. Taking a moment to glance at the horoscope cards, she chose Aquarius, Cancer and Gemini to work on next. Grabbing some pieces of parchment, she began to write.

Aquarius
Cancer
Gemini
Having finished her fortunes Jasmine laid them on the counter and raised her wand. "Reducio", she said while making the accompanying wand movement. Fortunes completed, Jasmine checked her watch. It should be time for the cookies to come out of the oven.

Now to preheat the oven. Leah directed her wand at the oven this time. Does she just say incendio? Okay then. "Incendio." she cast the familiar spell at the bottom of the oven and it started warming up.

This should take a while. The next step was to combine all ingredients, and the girl observed the materials on her table to make sure that she had enough amount of each.

Alright, so it was time to get down to the fortune cookie making part. A recipe should be easy enough to follow, but as she learned in muggle studies it wasn't if you didn't pay close enough attention. AJ laughed to herself at the thought of her too sweet pizza. It really wasn't bad to her sweet loving self, but to anybody else that didn't want a sweet dough with pepperoni they most likely wouldn't have liked it.

Turning her attention to the card, she jotted down the information and read it over three times right then so there hopefully wouldn't be any mistakes this time around.




First things first. She needed to shrink the paper for her cookie. Oh, but she didn't actually make a fortune. She just jotted down notes from the card. Okay, so for Virgo she would say that the fortune is "Today is a good day to start a new project." Oh yeah, that was good. Now to the shrinking. What was the spell again? Reducto? No... that was the spell that made things go boom. Disaster averted! Everyone was welcome by the way. Reducio. "Reducio, Reducio, Reducio." She was all set. Get ready to shrink, paper!

Angel now had to get the ingredient for the fortunes cookies because she didn't want to do anything wrong, she looked at the list and sighed this was going to be really hard to understand what was going to happen here, she wasn't really good at cooking but well she was going to try her best.

Angel decided that she was going to put all the ingredient into the bowl and then she would mix it, she hoped that she could do this, she started to put the things into her bowl and then she mixed it all up, she was glad that she had done it right when she was done with the mixing, she made sure that the dough was smooth.

Now she still had a few things to do.

Since the fifteen minutes were up, Jasmine went over to the oven and peeked inside. The cookies seemed to be golden brown so she grabbed a pot holder and took them out of the oven. Setting the cookie sheet down, Jasmine waited a moment so they would not be scorching hot.

Jasmine reached over to pick up her fortunes. She would have to place them in some sort of order so she would remember which cookie was which. Thinking that maybe alphabetical order would be best, she took a minute to arrange them that way. Any second now, the cookies should be cool enough to handle so Jasmine waited........