Closed Lemon Cake - The Muggle Way? Club: Unusual Meeting

Azzy chuckled softly. Questioning if the girl knew what she was doing. A cardboard box? For baking? No doubt it came out dry. "In all my years of country style baking I have never heard of this style of baking. Do I even wanna know? You know what? Screw it I'm in. I'll start the fire. I mean we need hot coals right?" Azzy said, walking off to find some wood. They were glad their dad, Parker Faire, had grown up in a country family and passed on camping knowledge to them, else they would be lost. They picked up sticks and larger pieces of fallen log. That they could carry of course, they didn't want to get hurt. They found some flint pieces in the ground and picked them up, carrying the supplies back to the other girl and setting the sticks in a triangular pattern. "My dad taught me how to start a fire if ever need be. So we're in luck there." To be fair, Azzy thought the girl was off her rocker at this point. Their mom Lucille would kill them. A cardboard box? Talk about Lemon Cake and a complete disaster. Azzy struck the rocks together and a fire caught the leaves underneath, Azzy then lined the area in rocks. "So we don't accidentally start a forest fire." They explained.

Meris grinned at Azzy, "I'm Meris, by the way."

She spread out their supplies and moved the actually cooking stuff over with the mixing bowl, the tape, foil and box she tackled with vigor. She very carefully covered every internal surface of this box with foil backed by the packaging tape. Then she cleared a spot of any forest debris and set it down. Then she got rocks and made an outline in the bottom of the box and set an empty tin next to Azzy's fire making mound, "For the coals when you get them, you’ll need to put 15 of the coal bricks in. That should make it about 375 degrees in the box once we seal it up, and it should hover above 350 long enough to bake our cake. Make sure to line them up flat in there, we don’t want any of the coals up to far, they need space to heat the air in the box.”

She then turned her attention to the pile of cake ingredients. She sorted them according to wet or dry ingredients and then began to cream the butter and sugar. Then she added the eggs. After the mixture came together, she started adding the dry ingredients. Before long she had an aromatic mixture of cake batter. She paused and looked over at Azzy, “How goes the fire?”

@Azrael Faire

"Well, its hot that's for sure." Azzy replied to the girl beside them. They began praying the cake wouldn't be dry. They enjoyed being out here though, where nothing else could bother them while they made a cake, and they had to admit, this way was kind of fun, luckily Azzy had made and brought along buttercream frosting, made from scratch of course and several edible markers and paint for the decoration of the cake."How is your thing coming along?" They asked, poking the fire with a stick so as to get more air under the fire so the coals would be nice and hot, they wanted the fire hot to as the weather was a bit cold, thank the Gods that they had brought their riding jacket with them. Otherwise they would freezing their bum off! They had also brought their wood carving things because they needed a new project that wouldn't catch fire easy. Something else to add to their ever growing collection of wood figures, maybe they would give this one to Rhys later. A chilly wind blew in and Azzy shivered a bit. It was times like this that they were glad that they always had warm clothes on them. "I'm Azrael Faire, but, please call me Azzy."

saskia, ciel [pronounced seel]
she/her/hers
wc: 250
@Azrael Faire @Meris Barovar

After returning the library books and then stopping by her dorm to drop off her pet rat, Ciel found her way to the grounds of Hogwarts. She had also decided to take off her jacket and leave it on her bed. If she was gonna be outside with everyone else- and cooking, she probably shouldn't take her pet or a jacket.
As she headed to the grounds, Ciel spotted two of the people who were with Linda. The lemon one and the red one, as Ciel had affectionately nicknamed them. She had gotten close enough to hear their conversation, where they exchanged names and pleasantries. She had also gotten close enough to spot... was that fire?
"Hey!" she called, catching up to the two of them. "What in the world are you doing? I've never seen anything like that!" As she got closer, the smell of cake quickly filled her nose. It was sweet and smelled yummy enough to almost make Ciel drool!
"Woah, you're baking a cake in that thing?" Ciel asked, kneeling down. "It smells yummy. I'm Ciel, by the way. Also, you... have a lot of baking supplies." She addressed red with her last statement. Ciel was kind of curious as to why someone would have so many baking supplies with them at Hogwarts but, it wasn't like she was going to complain. After all, how would they make delicious cakes if they had no way to bake them or to decorate them?

Linda came to dorm and left her notebook and gift from Azzy, surely it would be hard to carry it now when she was going to think about party and decorations. They gonna cook cakes, that should be cool, maybe one day she would cook something for them as well. But she would need to learn it though... But that's fine, till that possible time I still have a lot of time. I guess it doesn't make sense to change clothes now, so I'll go like this. Wanna see how they cook, beside I could wait Ciel there to discuss with her where we will search decorations and we could agree on a place for party.

Linda went out of dorm and joined Azzy and another girl to go to the grounds together. Ciel didn't come yet, but that's quite fine, I can wait her. Interesting if Freya will come or not. Oh, this story sounds so interesting but at the same time like what, in a cardboard box? It's so unusual I wonder how it can be cooked.

Linda was thinking about decorations for party, how cake will be, what could she write to family and send one owl or two. Oh, why do I think about it now? So, her name is Meris, now I can stop calling her another girl, that really felt awkward.

Cake really starts to smell so tasty, I suppose it will be great and I got lost in my thoughts so much that I missed everything what they were doing. I hope no one got sad that I didn't help.

I think I see Ciel coming, yeah, it's definitely her. Great, so we could decide about decorations for party and now we can make final decision about place. But I guess we could eat lemon cake soon, I don't understand much in this kind of cooking, but I suppose it's gonna be ready soon.

"It smells so tasty although it looks really unusual to cook like this. You know, I think we didn't discuss what we would drink, I believe we would want to drink something after cakes. Does any of you have ideas about it? Also, Ciel, what do you think if we would discuss decorations and go to prepare them after eating lemon cake. I guess it will be ready soon. Then we could prepare everything and maybe go to change our clothes, Azzy could cook red velvet during this time, maybe Meris could help if they want. Then they could also go to change their clothes, and we would meet at the party place. Or, as Azzy was going to organize this party, they could also share their idea, so all of us could enjoy this day."

Interacting with @Azrael Faire, @Meris Barovar, @Ciel Saskia

They hadn’t yet smelled cooking cake because it was still in the tin waiting to go in. But they must have smelled the batter and the yummy frosting. Meris grinned when people started to follow them into the grove.

Meris turned to Azzy and retrieved some hot coals for the makeshift oven. After that she took the tin and deposited the it into the box inside the ring of rocks. The cake then took is place atop the ring of rocks. An odd sight to be sure for anyone who had never cooked inside a box. Finally she taped the box shut. It was now baking!

Soon lovely aromas of a sweet lemony scent would fill the direct vicinity around them. After a good 45 minutes Meris invited everyone to gather round to see the miracle of muggle ingenuity. She slit the tape holding the box shut and let the box open. Heat spilled out of the box. If they were close they would each feel it spilling out at their faces. Inside was a majestic perfectly cooked cake. Meris poked the top slightly to make sure it sprung back and then she slid it out with cloth from her robes as she had neglected to bring along hot-pads.

She placed the cake on the ground and stepped back.

“We need to let it cool before slice it into two layers and add the lemon curd and Azzy’s frosting.” She offered happily.

“Maybe we can play a game while we wait?”

Interacting with @Azrael Faire, @Linda Ramirez, @Ciel Saskia

saskia, ciel [pronounced seel]
she/her/hers
wc: 270
@Meris Barovar @Linda Ramirez @Azrael Faire

The smell of the cake filling Ciel's nose temporarily distracted her from the things she was lugging around in her satchel. She looked away from the delicacy that Meris had made and peered inside the leather bag.
Inside of the bag was a plaid throw she had brought in case the group decided to eat on the grass. Ciel knew that there were some picnic tables, but it was really up to the others if they wanted to have a picnic on a table or on the ground. Her calloused fingers grabbed at the blanket, and she pulled it out, expanding it and then sitting it on the ground.
"Here, I brought us a throw in case we wanted to sit on the grass," Ciel sat down on the blanket after she had placed it. "If we don't want to play games while we wait, we can always just sit down and hang out. After all, I don't know much about you guys! Well, besides that today is Linda's birthday."
She thought about the other thing in her bag, which was the poorly wrapped present she had brought for Linda. She luckily had a bit of wrapping paper leftover from Christmas, so hopefully Linda just ignored the red and green paper.
Ah, if only Ciel had known that she would've needed birthday wrapping paper! She could've asked her mum to send her some- and maybe had a longer period of time to ask her mother to buy her a gift for Linda, but Hogsmeade would just have to do. She was glad she had some leftover pocket change!

Azzy poked at the fire, trying to keep it going so they wouldn't get cold. They enjoyed being around other people. Maybe one day they would invite them all to the farm. They shifted a bit, listening to the bustling conversation around them. They stayed silent and listened, watching the fire, it reminded them of home all over again, they ended up zoning out and thinking about home. Their three dogs, a Husky, a Pitbull, and a Boarder Collie. Each named accordingly. Sassy, Thor, and Lassie. Their thoughts turned to Rhys, how were they doing? They hadn't talked much since the Valentine's Day Ball, and that was for good reason. They had led Jessicah and Rhys on, and they felt absolutely horrible about it. They were stupid. They were sure that they could have figured something out. They sighed and sat crisscross, their heavy platform boots thudding against the earth, they started playing with their chains, remembering the music box Jessicah had thrown over the side of the Astronomy Tower. So much had happened and they were now fixing the music box and remodeling it. They were changing the tune so it was Jessicah's favorite song, kinda like an apology. They came to as the fire popped. They then realized they were in their head again and turned to the other girls. "If you guys said anything to me please repeat it?" now they just felt stupid.

Meris smiles at Azzy, “I was asking, do you want to play a game while the cake cools? Unless someone knows a spell that can cool it down quickly.”

Meris turned to Ciel, “Have you ever played twister? I love twister! I remember one time Owen and I were the last ones on the mat at a birthday party and we got our bodies so tangled up that we ended up falling in a not. We both won though. Because we both hit the ground at the same time.

“Musical chairs is fun as well…” Meris glances around, “but we don’t have any chairs. Oh I remember doing a cake walk at a bazaar once,” she looked at the cake, “But no one can win our cake because its for a birthday. Ohhhh ohhhh!” Meris interjected into her own sentence excitedly, “What about red rover? I love red rover. One year my Nain played and everyone kept wanting her on their team.”

Meris walks over to the now sprawled blanket and makes herself comfortable. “This is a lovely blanket, did your Mam make it?” She traces the twists and turns, folds and ripples with her fingers. “My mam made one of the blankets on my bed.”