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Community Center Class: Baked Baking, Tuesday Evening [1/10]

"I know this is going to be a little hard to believe," said Summer, "coming from me, but one of the goals," that one was a very important distinction here, be-tee-dubs, "of this class is to take that well known concept of 'the munchies' and….elevate it to new and unexpected culinary heights."

As if to….prove it? Or possibly make people even more skeptical of this claim, Summer took a moment to pull out from behind the counter a box of Ritz crackers and a bag of Ruffles potato chips.

“Is elevate the right word?” Stark asked as he eyed the snack foods with a very skeptical expression on his face. “It’s a word. Unexpected is a right word. I’m not sure anything is elevated.” Unless that was some sort of play on the word high in which case it had gone right over his head. “It might be?” The cookie dough crackers actually sounded delicious even if he wasn’t entirely sold on the marshmallows and chips.

"There's only one way to find out," Summer said. "Today, we'll be making cookie dough bites with Ritz crackers and Ruffles Rice Krispy treats, which may sound very what the fuck why, but I like to think you're all about to be somewhat pleasantly surprised."

“And if you aren’t pleasantly surprised you’ll at least have learned something,” Stark said. Maybe that something was ‘don’t trust Summer’s recipe choices’ or maybe it was just 2 recipes that could be made entirely with the microwave and thus were less likely to end in disaster if you happened to be in an altered state!

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Formulate your own opinions about whether or not Summer is really playing loose and fast with her terminology here!

Considering either of these recipes as 'baking' should be just as contentious as Summer's use of the word 'elevated,' but they're fun and (probably) delicious, so who cares? You really coming to this class for semantics??

Goose was helping himself to a bit of cookie dough as he made the recipes, he was finding he was quite enjoying the cookie dough.

They might be busy eating cookie dough but they're still there.

Man, it was a good thing Summer actually wasn't high for this class,because anything cookie dough related was dangerous, even totally sober.

"The cookie dough was a good idea," Stark said. "Maybe we should eat cookie dough more often."

"Just make sure not to get it with raw eggs," Summer noted, in all her sage-like wisdom, "because then you could get salmonella and probably die."

Or at least wish you just would, if her own salmonella-related cookie dough incidents were anything to go by.

Stark blinked a few times and then looked at his dough- filled cracker. "Does that really happen?"

"Look it up, if you don't believe me," said Summer. "It definitely happens."

There was, however, a paaaause.

"The getting sick part, anyway," she amended. "Maybe a lot less on the dying. I was just being a little dramatic."

Summer? Dramatic? Noooooo.

"That's very unlike you," Stark said very seriously.

Being a little dramatic was, anyway.

"I'll try to be careful of my cookie dough consumption then."

Summer nodded approvingly, before considering one of her own cookie-crackers.

"I guess," she mused, "you could also get sick and die from just eating too many."

Which he wasn't allowed to do until after his birthday, dammit.

"These are fucking delicious."

"I'd rather not get sick and die from anything," Stark said.

"But they are delicious. It could happen."

"Delicious enough," Summer simply had to ask, "to, perhaps, say that we have, indeed, elevated these humble Ritz crackers after all?"

"I may have to eat more before I can make a decision," Stark told her. "It's possible."

"Well," Summer replied with a snort, "when you finally do reach that very important conclusion, you just let me know."

Stark had picked up another cracker and was now taking very slow and deliberate bites.

"I think," he said between bites, "elevated would be an acceptable word for these."

"Boo-yah," said Summer, with a gesture and a grin to match. "I knew it. I mean, come on, we've made apple pie out of Ritz crackers. Elevating it with cookie dough was practically a no-brainer."

Stark was unable to resist grinning back.

"I'd forgotten about the pie," he confessed. "This is better. But there's chocolate so of course it is."

"Chocolate does tend to make most things better," Summer agreed, "but how could you have forgotten about that pie?? That pie still keeps me up at night!"

It did not, actually. But, well...dramatics.

"There were so many recipes that summer," Stark pointed out. "I remember now. And I don't think that pie does anything to your sleep. You've done so many worse things."

Like fizzy meat water jello shots that may have turned someone in this room into a koala. There was no proof either way!

There was proof! No one else who tried those shots turned into a koala! And one of them was even kind of even Australian by association!

"Worse, yes," said Summer, "but it absolutely defies logic how well those crackers managed to emulate apple pie."

It was one of those things that made Summer almost get how Fandom weirdness almost drove Barry to the brink of insanity so many times.

None of those people were glowy aliens!

"It was very strange. Like the beef fudge that still tasted good." That had been a personal affront to Stark, honestly.

"These at least make sense being delicious," he said, picking up yet another cookie dough cracker.

Not very many people were! Sorry for not being a complete glowy alien scientist chemist to know exactly how fizzy meat water may or may not effect glowy alien biology!

"See, now, I actually kind of forgot about the beef fudge," Summer admitted. "But I think that's sort of a...all the meat things tend to blend together."

A pause.

"Mentally, I mean, not, you know, actually blended together, but now I'm sort of wondering if I need to do, like, a turducken of meat jello shots. Just every meat I have, throw it in, see what unholy beast comes out of it."

Stark was the only glowy alien still around!

"Please don't," Stark said hurriedly, looking mildly alarmed. "That sounds horrible. Gross, even."

There was a certain, indescribable satisfaction over the fact that the first two words to come out of Stark's mouth in response to that were the exact ones Summer thought they would be, enough so that she was even going to preen even through the mention of gross.

"It does sound horrible," she agreed, far too wistfully. "Too horrible not to try!"

It was possible that Summer knew Stark very well. Certainly well enough to predict how he would react to certain things.

"Too horrible to make," Stark offered hopefully. "I'm not trying it." Unless Summer asked him to.

"You know I wouldn't make you try it," Summer pointed out.

In a tone that suggested that, while this was true, she also would not hesitate to pout a little over the fact that he wouldn't just try it on his own volition.

And that she totally could just ask him to, if she really wanted to.

"I know," Stark said. "I trust you."

Even though he knew there were risks involved with that.

Look, cookie dough was delicious and this cookie dough had the added bonus of extra chocolate and a salty crunch. Of course Stark was eating it.

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