5th Floor Common Room, Around noon

[soniaroadsqueen]

Ringo wasn't silly enough to think that she was much of a baker. It wasn't something she had much practice at, and it wasn't something she'd ever even done before coming to Fandom. But she was trying to expand her skillset, and she sort of felt like a good senpai could cook and bake because sometimes that was the most comforting thing you could do for someone.

So she had a recipe in front of her. A couple actually. And they were actually printed out on paper.

The smell of warm butter and sugar were already sort of filling up the common room as her first batch of cookies began to bake in the oven. Now she was shuffling through her papers trying to decide what to try next. "Brownies, maybe?" she murmured to herself. Because those still seemed a lot simpler than some of these cake recipes she had.

[ooc: Open, of course!]

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[that_oldsaying]

Alluka had work, and she was going to go to work, but first she'd had to take Mr. Bubbles up onto the roof for a while, since he'd wanted to look at everything.

On her way back down from that, she peeked inside the common room.

"Ringo! Ringo, hi! What are you doing?"

[soniaroadsqueen]

"Alluka, hey!" Ringo beamed. "I'm trying some baking." Well, at the moment she was staring intently at a piece of paper, but that was apparently part of baking?

"Want to help?"

[that_oldsaying]

"May I?" she asked eagerly. "Can Mr. Bubbles help too?"

He could sit on pages to make sure they stayed put!

[soniaroadsqueen]

"Of course!" Ringo grinned. She fanned out some of the papers which had pictures at the top of them. Each depicting a different baked thing.

Ringo wasn't even sure she had ingredients for all of them (she hadn't checked), but she showed them to Alluka. "What do you want to make?"

[that_oldsaying]

"I get to pick?" she asked, wandering over to peer at the recipes. "What were you going to make before I showed up?"

[soniaroadsqueen]

"Well, I already put some chocolate chip cookies in the oven, and I was actually just trying to pick. I was thinking about maybe trying some brownies, but all of them look so good!"

[that_oldsaying]

"I like chocolate chip cookies," Alluka said hopefully, as she and Mr. Bubbles looked at the recipes together and conferred about the options.

"What about these ones? With caramel?"

[soniaroadsqueen]

"Ooooh, those sound good!" And they did. Because, really, who didn't like caramel?

"Want to give them a try and see how tasty they are?"

[that_oldsaying]

Alluka grinned at Ringo.

"If, if it's okay!"

Just don't let her eat all of them, Ringo. Because she'd try.

[soniaroadsqueen]

"It's totally okay!" Ringo grinned. "So, let's see. I guess we should start by making sure we have everything we need."

[that_oldsaying]

"Caramel and chocolate for sure, right?" Alluka said. "There should be chocolate because you made cookies."

[soniaroadsqueen]

"Uh huh." Ringo nodded. "Let's see. I already have sugar, flour, butter, chocolate, and baking powder. So we need to know if there's caramel anywhere." She grinned over at Alluka. "Want to help me look?"

[that_oldsaying]

"If there's extra, can we eat them?" Alluka asked in a whisper, already opening one of the cupboards to look inside it and see.

[soniaroadsqueen]

"Extra caramel?" Ringo asked, trying not to grin too broadly. "I don't know. Will you have enough room for the cookies after if you do?"

[that_oldsaying]

"I always have room for cookies," Alluka said cheerfully, checking another cupboard and then another one. "What about you, Ringo?"

[soniaroadsqueen]

"I suspect I can't eat as many cookies as you." Ringo grinned. "But I can always try!"

"Any luck finding caramel?"

[that_oldsaying]

"N-No," Alluka said, then brightened. "Wait, I think--I mean yes!"

She pulled out a bag of wrapped caramels.

"It was hiding!"

[soniaroadsqueen]

"Oooh, that was sneaky of it." Ringo flashed Alluka a grin. "Good job finding them!"

She glanced back down at the recipe in front of her, and then across the counter. "In that case, I think we've got all the ingredients we need, so we can totally make this recipe!"

[that_oldsaying]

"Have you made it before?" Alluka asked. "Or are we experimenting?"

[soniaroadsqueen]

"This one's new to me," Ringo admitted. "So I'm relying on your help!"

[that_oldsaying]

"I'll do my best!" she said. "And, and even if it doesn't work well, it should taste good in pieces, right?"

[soniaroadsqueen]

"Exactly!" Ringo grinned. "And if even that doesn't work, we always have other cookies we can try!"

[that_oldsaying]

"Yes!" Then she drooped a bit. "But I do have to work today, Ringo. So I can't cook all day with you."

Which was sad.

[soniaroadsqueen]

"Awww." Ringo smiled gently. "That's okay. We can just do a little bit so you're not late. And we can always do it again later."

[that_oldsaying]

She brightened. "That's true! And I get to AT to work, and I do like that."

Look what you'd done to her, Ringo.

[soniaroadsqueen]

Now that made Ringo beam happily. "You're getting really good at it, too!"

She laughed, then turned back to her ingredients. "Okay. Let's see what the first thing we need to do is, shall we? After all, the sooner we start, the sooner we get cookies!"