#and have some dark chocolate chunks mixed in too

[holycritchance]

unintentional outcome | chance x reader

synopsis; sometimes things are better not going as originally planned. word count; 1.7k author's note; aaaaa my first piece for the loml - i've been nonstop playing the game since it was released and i finally feel as if i have a decent grasp on how to write for him!! this is for the monthly theme in the date everything discord :))

“Well good morning to you, too, cool kid.”

Freddy rumbles with a laugh as you grab onto the handles of your refrigerator, throwing open the doors with an excitement that was… uncharacteristic for you at this early hour.

“Mornin’, Freddy!” You chirp in response, eyes scanning what little food you had inside.

“What’s got you so chipper this morning, eh? I didn’t see you stop by Kopi’s for your morning fix,” Freddy questions, watching as you reach inside and pull out a container of mixed fruit to examine. “Is it some special day? Feel like Holly would’ve told me if it was a holiday.”

You hum to yourself as you set the fruit on the counter nearby before diving back in. “Not a holiday! Just excited for some plans I’ve got today.”

“Oh, that sounds wonderful!” He beams at you. “Whatcha got going on today, cool kid?”

You smile, grabbing a ziploc bag containing half a block of cheese. It joins the fruit on the counter and you shut Freddy’s doors, next swinging open Cabrizzio.

“Just… hanging out,” you say with a damning flush reddening your face. “I thought a picnic would be nice, yeah?”

Freddy’s expression becomes one of mischief as he chuckles. “Oh, I see. You’re hanging out with Chance today, aren’t ya?”

“Don’t make me regret confiding in you,” you retort as you bring the fruit over to Sinclaire for a quick rinse. “I’ll never tell you a thing again, Freddy.”

Freddy laughs in response, clearly amused at your empty threat. “Alright, alright,” he acquiesces, raising his hands. “A picnic sounds lovely. Here, there’s some ice cream I made last night waiting in the freezer — I tested the waters and made a black cherry with some chunks of dark chocolate mixed in. Take it with ya!”

You can’t contain your glee as you reach into the freezer and pull out the container, placing it with the rest of the food. With everything in one place, you bend down and dig through the cabinets beneath your sink.

“Ah, there we go! It’s no picnic basket but it’ll do,” you murmur as you pull out an old shopping bag and carefully load the food inside along with some silverware. “Thanks, Freddy, you’re the best!”

Freddy flushes with a chuckle. “Anything for you, cool kid. Swing by later to tell me how the ice cream was — and about your date!”

You shoot Freddy a pointed glance as you hurry around the corner and make a beeline for the office. As you approach the door you hear soft music playing within and a nervous feeling crawls up your spine. You stand outside the office, bag in hand, heart racing as your hand hovers over the doorknob.

You’ve no idea how much time passes before Dorian is what stands between you and the office, an eyebrow quirked at you.

“Just gonna stand here all day?” He asks, startling you. “Never seen you so rigid, friend. Nerves getting the best of you?”

“No!” Your face scrunches up in irritation as Dorian chuckles at your far too quick response. A surge of courage surges through you as you straighten your back and push past Dorian into the office. “See! I’m going.”

“Have fun —”

That’s all you catch before you practically slam the door behind you. You stop short as you find Chance standing in the middle of the room, surrounded by papers, game pieces, books and various writing utensils. A speaker playing some instrumental piece sits on the shelf and all the curtains are closed, giving the room a rather eerie feel.

“Ah, hello!” Chance calls, stepping over the disarray to meet you. “Sorry about the mess, I guess I got a bit carried away again…I’m just stumped on how I wanna go about this one.”

“Crafting another campaign?” You question, a fond smile tugging at your lips.

Chance chuckles, rubbing the back of his neck. “Am I that obvious?”

You hold up the bag of food. “Wanna tell me about it over some snacks?”

With that, you’re led into the heart of Chance’s planning, standing with him amongst the many pieces of torn-out notebook paper and guidebooks. You notice sketches of characters from past campaigns scrawled in the margins accompanied by scribbled out plots, twists, settings — worlds built only to be discarded.

“You see, I was thinking of asking you and Dasha if you wanted to reopen the troubadour run,” Chance says as he searches for his notes amongst the clutter, “for some, say, post-credits fun! I was thinking about how we never touched further on how Miles fared within reaching their dream and came up with… here!”

He bends down, grabbing a few papers and holding them out to you. He takes the bag of food from you and sets it aside, eyes never leaving you as you read through his ideas. As you flip pages back and forth, he watches your eyes scan each line and awaits your feedback.

“A royal ball?” You look up to see Chance grinning broadly. “Let me guess — at the apex of the event, expect an enemy force to raid the palace, pocketing whatever they deem valuable. This all is inconsequential to a point until they choose to also take with them… the prized royal family heirloom, a priceless ribbon sheath! Another adventure is born!”

Chance smiles but shakes his head. “Quite the imagination you have! I guess I’m starting to rub off on you, yeah? However, I was just thinking we have a relaxing session for once! Something fun and unexpected!”

“Woah, no risks? No danger? That is unexpected,” you agree. “You said you were having troubles with this? It seems so well thought out, though.”

Even in the dimmed lighting you can see Chance redden as he takes the papers from you. “Well, heh, I really appreciate that. My shortcomings lie within the main event itself — dancing, specifically. I’m just not sure how to best describe it to give you guys the imagery I usually provide.”

“You don’t know how to describe…how to dance?” You ask, confused. He nods and you can’t help but laugh — the idea of a man able to create such vast and beautiful worlds can’t conjure up a way to explain a dance?

Chance huffs, pouting at your reaction. “I-I’ve tried everything I could think of! I even talked to Rainey but that, well, didn’t give me much to work with. This music I’ve had on repeat for hours now has helped only set a mood but nothing more!”

He’s clearly frustrated as he gestures to the papers and whatnot scattered all around the two of you. The aforementioned music fills the silence that follows and you let it play for a moment before an idea comes to mind.

“Dance with me, then.” You hold a hand out to Chance, hoping to the geode goddess herself he can’t notice the tremble in your fingers. “Maybe if you live the experience it’ll be easier to work into a story?”

“Is this just an excuse for you to hold my hand?” He teases but rests his hand in yours regardless. “You know how to dance?”

“Vaguely.” You guide his other hand to rest on your hip before placing your unoccupied hand on his shoulder. “Ready?”

Chance is quiet and you slowly begin to lead in a, frankly, improvised dance. You’re careful to follow the beat while also making sure you don’t step on any of his materials. Neither of you speaks for a couple of moments, too focused on keeping up with one another.

Soon, comfort creeps its way in and the two of you move fluidly together. The proximity becomes less nerve wracking and you find yourself slowly moving closer, practically chest to chest as the dance continues.

“Is… this working?” You murmur after some time, curious.

Chance nods. “Oh, yeah. Had the scene all figured out about five steps into this whole thing.”

“I’m glad I could help.” You go to step back, figuring this is all he needed, but his grip on your hip tightens ever so slightly. “Chance?”

“I’m sorry I turned our hangout into a G&G planning session,” he mutters, casting a glance at the abandoned bag of food in the corner. “You brought food and everything only for me to hijack your plans.”

You attempt to stifle a laugh but find yourself unsuccessful, opting to cover your mouth with your hand. “You say this as if I’m having the worst time of my life.”

Chance shrugs, still swaying the both of you with the music. “Yeah, but —”

“I’d rather this over what I had planned,” you interrupt, reaching up and tapping the space between his eyebrows. “I admire your passion for what you love, Chance. Besides, I’ve just spent — what? — the last ten minutes in your arms. This was the best first date I’ve ever been on!”

Abruptly, the two of you stop swaying. Neither of you step away from each other, however, even when the speaker runs out of charge and leaves deafening silence.

“First date?” Chance echoes, a sort of excitement in his tone. You refuse to meet his gaze out of sheer embarrassment and he chuckles before giving your hip an affectionate squeeze before stepping back. “Here, I gotta clean this up and finish writing the oneshot. Are you free tomorrow to play?”

You nod, words failing you. His smile practically lights up the room and you can’t help but smile yourself — Chance’s joy is nothing if not contagious.

“Great! I’ll let Dasha know,” he says. “And maybe afterwards, you and I can grab something to eat? Koa’s place would be a great place for a second date.”

You nod as he talks, eyes widening as the words second date are spoken.

“A second…! Y-yeah, absolutely!” Your eagerness has you tripping over your words. Clearing your throat, you try again. “I’d love to.”

Chance places a hand on your shoulder and leans in, pressing a kiss to your cheek. “Till tomorrow, then.”

Your heart leaps into your throat as you nod furiously, slowly backing out of the office. Once the door is shut you find yourself staring at it just as you had earlier, only this time the nerves are gone, replaced by overwhelming joy. Your heart pounds in your chest as you grin and run for the kitchen.

“Freddy! Freddy! I’ve got something to tell you!”

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Everybody at the party seems to know somebody (who’s not me) pt. 2

Continuation of Part 1

2919 words | Set before the events of s3 | Rating: G (maybe T&up) |

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The next time Steve runs into Brown Eyes he’s freezing in an itchy, too small pair of shorts.

 He hasn’t seen him in—well he doesn’t know how long because keeping time after inter-dimensional shit goes down for the second time gets pretty difficult for him, but he knows he hasn’t seen him in long enough to forget what shade of brown his eyes were or maybe it was just dark and he never really got that good of a look in the first place but that didn’t really matter because he thought he would never see him again, he was supposed to never see him again.

Steve’s parents came back for all of three days to lecture him about hospital bills, bills he only had because the kids couldn’t tell their parents about the Upside Down. They didn’t ask about the scar that ran down his left arm, they didn’t ask why he was wearing medically prescribed glasses to numb the headaches they didn’t know he got and they didn’t ask if he was okay. The conversation ended with his father telling him that if he wasn’t going to college then he had to get a job to pay back the bills.

So here he was, elbow deep in ice cream that dried in flakes on his skin and pulling at the hem of shorts that couldn’t be his own. Robin must’ve mixed them up again. Hers fell to her knees and she had to pull them up with a huff whenever she moved. 

“Hello and welcome to Scoops Aboy!” She chirped at the kid standing in line, only just able to hide the dead eyed stare she’d had on a second ago, “What flavor can I get for you today?”

The kid stared before pushing one sweaty finger against the glass at the chocolate bin. They were out of chocolate.

Steve sighed because he knew he would be the one who would have to get it from the back freezer when the kid threw a fit and he knew he would be the one who had to clean the glass back to shining.

Robin was desperately trying to sell any other flavor to the kid, “It looks like we’re all out of chocolate, big guy. How about some banana extravaganza?”

The kid shook his head, “Chocolate!” He shouted, voice squeaking. Steve rubbed his temples.

“Hey, dingus, do we have chocolate in the back?”

Steve trudged over to the freezer, bracing himself for the chill, and threw open the door. Carefully arranging the leg of the break room chair to wedge between the door because it got stuck when it shut and the inside handle was frozen over.

Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate. Exactly one tub of double chunk-o chip chocolate ice cream sat on the shelf. Frozen to the metal, because of course it was.

“Okay, you can do this, just go out there and…be ice cream.” Jesus Christ. Talking to ice cream, Steven, talking to yourself in a dingy freezer.

Steve shook his head, rubbing his eyes to dispel his father’s voice. Steve blew into his hands, rubbing them together so he didn’t get freezer burn for a week—because that was something that happened when the ice cream sat on the shelf for too long—and tugged the bucket down.

When he managed to pry the tub of ice cream off the shelf Robin had already convinced the kid to get another flavor. 

“Thank you so much, Steve,” He dropped the tub on the counter, rolling his eyes, “It means a lot that you go into the freezer with all your migraines and concussions for nothing.” Stop whining, Steven, Harrington’s aren’t babies.

Robin just stared at him, deadpan, and Steve scoffed, grabbing a scooper to replace the chocolate ice cream. It wasn’t like he didn’t like her or anything, she was just weird. That was mean, he wasn’t that guy anymore, he was better than some high school peaking idiot now. He should apologize. He should apologize for a lot lately and so far he can’t say any of it, maybe he’s not so different from the asshole who stood by while his friends—

Robin dropped her scooper and shrugged off her vest, tossing her hat onto the table in the back as she walked past it, heading for the door.

“Hey, wait, where are you going? You can’t just leave me here.” Steve called. 

“Lady problems, dingus.” She didn’t even have to look back for Steve to know she was smirking.

Can’t even take one shift alone, Harrington men are supposed to be independent, Steven. He could—he would be fine on his own, he could handle this, it was just a few kids in a line that got longer and longer and—he was fine.

“Hello and welcome to Scoops Ahoy, what can I get for you today?” He droned on, customer after customer. 

It was nearing the end of his shift when it happened. Steve was grumpy and the lithonia lighting really drills into your eyes, goosebumps dotted his arms and legs. 

He was seconds away from filling his hat with ice cream and throwing it over his eyes to combat the headache forming and to top it all off some kid had dumped their banana split down the front of his shirt because it was ‘too cold’. The scratchy material of this stupid sailor costume was sticking to his chest, sopping wet and catching on the scar on his shoulder as if he needed another reminder that it was there, as if it didn’t already throb every few days just to show him he’d never really be okay again and he wanted to cry—if he hadn’t been in public he would’ve been sobbing on the floor. Get yourself together, Steven, you’re a working man not a pathetic little girl.

The bell rang again and he gave himself a second to prepare before lifting his head and facing the customer.

“Hello and welcome to Scoops Ahoy, how may I help you on this fine—” Steve looked up, breath catching when he saw a familiar face, hazel—they were hazel, “—day.”

“Uh…” Brown Eyes’ eyes darted around, avoiding eye contact.

“Hey.” Steve said, sounding more breathless than he felt but that was stupid, stupid, stupid, fucking hey, “I…uh, I wasn’t expecting—” to ever see you again, to ever think about that night again but that’s lie because it’s all I can ever think about. Because Steve had told himself to forget about it, give up on whatever had happened and live a normal life but now—

“Look, man, I didn’t even know you worked here,” Brown Eyes was putting his wallet away, “if I had then I never would’ve come here, I swear.”

“You wouldn’t?” He hadn’t meant to sound so pathetic. Pull yourself together, Steven, have we taught you nothing. Pathetic pathetic pathetic.

Brown Eyes’ eyebrows crinkled, “No?” But he sounded confused which Steve couldn’t blame him for. 

He’d been confused a lot since that night. Confused about why he let the gap close, why he pushed forward��why he liked it because that’s not something that happens to him. He liked girls, just like every other guy in this godforsaken town who liked girls, he had to because he and Tommy kissed once in fifth grade on a Saturday night after baseball practice just to see if it would feel different and Tommy had pushed him away gagging. Tommy had told him that his dad was right and boys shouldn’t kiss boys because it was gross so Steve didn’t think about why it didn’t feel different and they never talked about it again. Hadn’t thought about it again, until he was ducking under arms and following strangers to get away from Tommy years later at a party he wished would end and maybe it wasn’t as gross as he told himself it was. Maybe—maybe he—

Steve heard the back door open and slam closed and took his chance, “I’m taking my break, Robin!” He yelled as he grabbed Brown Eyes’ wrist over the counter and pulled him around it, walking them both to the freezer and passing an exasperated Robin.

“You already took a break, Dingus, you can’t just decide to take another!”

But he didn’t stop and she just rolled her eyes.

Brown Eyes was glancing around frantically, “Listen I’m sorry! I’ll leave you alone, dude, I get it! You didn’t mean to kiss me, I stupidly thought that was what was happening. It won’t happen again, I swear, man!”

The freezer lights were blinding and the faint buzz was more grating than usual. If Steve were thinking about it he would’ve known he was dizzier than he should have been. If he had been thinking about it he would have picked up on the beginnings of a migraine worming its way in. 

He wasn’t thinking about it, unfortunately, because Brown Eyes was still rambling and he was really cute when he was nervous but Steve wished he wouldn’t. Because Steve’s been doing some thinking since that night, thinking about why it didn’t feel so gross when Tommy kissed him, thinking about why he felt like he’d been strung up and gutted when Brown Eyes took off. He’s been doing some thinking and he’s pretty damn glad he did it before he had to face Brown Eyes again.

The second time they kissed was no more coordinated than the first—probably less so because Brown Eyes was mid apology and Steve flinched when the freezer door slammed shut—

Shit.

Brown Eyes hadn’t moved. He just stood there, mouth hanging open—well opening and closing and then opening again like he didn’t know what to do with it—eyes wide and confused. Because—because Steve kissed him, what the fuck was he thinking? Harringtons aren’t fucking queer Steven. And they weren’t, they weren’t. 

What would your father say? And for the first time since he’s ever really thought about it it was his mother’s voice.

“I’m sorry.” Steve whispered, backing against the cold metal shelf, “I’m sorry.” He muttered again because he didn’t know what else there was to say.

Maybe it was the plummeting feeling in his stomach that did it. The swooping and the dull thud of his heart against his ribs—he didn’t know. But he was doubling over so fast his already throbbing head spun, falling on shaking knees, not fast enough to swallow the bile before he was emptying whatever was left of his stomach into an empty tub of ice cream.

There was a panicked squeak behind him, “Uh, are you—should I—“ and then he was crouching down beside him, “I didn’t realize I was that bad of a kisser, Jesus, Harrington.”

 And Steve couldn’t help the snort that fell out of him even though it made his nose burn and his eyes water.

Brown Eyes hadn’t stopped fidgeting, “Sorry, sorry, that was stupid—I don’t know why I said that, just nobody’s ever thrown up around me and I don’t really know what to do. I guess rambling’s not the most comforting thing in the world and I can’t stop talking. Do you—should I get—I should go get napkins, probably, right? I’ll do that, yeah, just…wait here—”

But Steve reached out, stopping him with a hand on his wrist because he’d been so caught up in his own head that he forgot to stop the door and maybe he should have felt embarrassed for wiping his mouth on that stupid hat but, “Can’t go anywhere, man. Door’s stuck.” He breathed.

“Shit.” Brown Eyes swore.

“Yeah.” Steve sat up, wincing at the bucket and pushing it away, “‘’Sides, I can handle myself.”

“Right, no, obviously—“ Brown Eyes kept spinning a ring around his finger, tapping a pattern on his knuckles, “Has that—does that happen a lot?”

Steve huffed, leaning his head back against the metal shelf and closing his eyes as the sharp pain spiked behind his eyes, “Migraines. Happens if I ignore them.”

Brown Eyes slid down the shelf, he had a chain link hanging from his belt and it clacked steadily down. He opened his mouth again, barely took a breath before he was closing it and then seemed to shake off whatever nervous energy clung to him.

“Why’d—uh, why’d you ignore it?” He asked, and then, “Oh. Shit, man, I’m really sorry. I didn’t realize—”

“Dude,” Steve let his head tip, ear stinging where it pressed into the cold metal of the storage shelf, to look at Brown Eyes, “It’s not your fault, not like you knew about it.”

“Yeah. Yeah, you’re right— obviously. No way I could’ve known, I mean it’s not like we know each other.” He was still moving. An almost jumpy motion to the way he spun his rings, pulled his hair in front of his face, tapped his foot against the tile floor over and over, “I mean we do—or I do. Figure you’ve heard rumors but never put a face to the name, huh, Harrington?”

And Steve caught the almost hopeful way Brown Eyes said his name, the hopeful but shame-filled and god if he didn’t know about shame. The longing that curled bittersweet in his stomach every time he was reminded of a life he could never be brave enough to take for his own. The overwhelmingly dreadful certainty that he would only ever live to settle down, to buy a house and start a family and die a peaceful death beside some woman he liked well enough because technically it wasn’t out of the picture for him. 

Because maybe all this thinking he’s been doing has opened his eyes to the parts of him he was suppressing but it didn’t make the other parts, the parts that wanted a family and small little porch that overlooked a garden that won best in show at the neighborhood fair, just disappear. And he knew the path his life would take him down and he accepted it because he was scared, a fucking coward. Fought fucking demons and you’re still afraid, Steven, always afraid. So he ignored it, the hope. For now.

“’S not like you ever told me yours.” Steve hadn’t meant to sound so pissy about it, he wasn’t owed the guy’s name just because they kissed. Never be anything better than a high school bully, Steven, we raised you better than this—

But then Brown Eyes grinned, snorting a little in surprise. Leaned in fast, close enough Steve could feel their breath mix between them and just looked at him like maybe he was going to finally tell him. Or kiss him again. And honestly Steve would welcome either option.

“Maybe I like the mystery.” Brown Eyes was enjoying this entirely too much.

Steve was about to respond, shoot back some snarky reply because that was okay to do now, it would be reciprocated, when he heard the yelling.

“Hey, dingus! Your children are here!” Robin. She pounded on the door, “Jesus, d’you seriously get stuck again?”

Steve sucked in a breath, ignored the sharp pain that speared through his head as he scrambled off the floor. He caught Brown Eyes’ eye, the resignation in them, and only had a second to feel guilty about what must’ve looked like the embarrassment of being caught together. Only had a second to reach out, thought maybe he could grab his hands—it’s not you, it’s not you, it’s the fear, it’s always the fear and I can’t do a damn thing about it. But that sounded far too much like a break up to say to somebody you’ve only kissed twice. Somebody whose name you don’t even know. It’s not you, it’s me, because I don’t even know you but if I did it’d still be me.

The door swung open, Robin keeping it from closing on them with her foot, “What the hell are you doing in here, dude?” She asked, “We’ve got customers. Your tiny friends.” 

“Right. I’ll—uh,” Steve glanced back at Brown Eyes, helpless to say anything as he pushed himself up and made for the door.

“Thanks for the tour, man but I should really get going.” No, no, wait, not now please wait, Brown Eyes tipped his head at Robin in a little curtsy as he read her name tag and it would’ve been endearing if Steve’s heart wasn’t pounding in his ears, crawling up his lungs and choking him, “All the gratitude for freeing us, lady Robin. See you around, Harrington.” 

Except you won’t, Steve wanted to call out, I graduated, I don’t know your name, stay stay stay—

“Steve.” Robin clapped her hands, “Small children. Waiting for you at the counter.”

When Steve looked back at the door Brown Eyes was gone.

“I got that, thanks.” He muttered.

If he gave Mike a little less ice cream in his free sample when the kid told him he was ‘watching the door wistfully’ he didn’t notice. And if he blamed his sour mood on his headache then it wasn’t technically a lie.

And if anyone noticed anything about it, they didn’t comment.

When Steve got home he hung his jacket up in his closet, bumped the door with his hip by accident and sucked in a breath when he saw the shoes. The ones Brown Eyes left at the party. The ones he’d kept, stupidly telling himself he would return them if he ever got the chance only he’d had the chance and he hadn’t said anything about them. 

Now he never would have the chance.

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Part 3?

Fun Fact: I got so much second hand embarrassment from writing Steve throwing up that I had to stop writing for 2 days

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Maxi Muffin Chocolat Intense Dupe

(2024 Olympic Village Chocolate Muffin Recipe)

Original dupe recipe by Becky Krystal of the Washington Post

Instructions based off of a video by @jordan_the_stallion8

Typed up by: @LegendsCookbook

EDITED 8/12/24 to correct misinformation! The recipe was a dupe but passed off as the OG!!

The rest of the image text is under the cut! Also a little rabbit hole on the whole correction at the very end.

Prep Time: 30 Minutes

Bake Time: 20 to 24 Minutes

Yield: 12 Muffins

Muffin Ingredients:

¾ cup milk

¼ cup water

2 tsp instant coffee

½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder

½ cup chocolate chunks

¼ cup butter

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 tbsp baking powder

¼ tsp salt

½ cup dark brown sugar

½ cup granulated sugar

¼ cup vegetable or canola oil

2 large eggs

1 tsp vanilla extract

⅓ cup chocolate chunks + more for garnish

Chocolate Ganache Filling Ingredients:

½ cup heavy cream

¼ cup chocolate chunks

pinch of salt

Instructions:

1. Preheat the oven to 375°F.

2.  In a medium saucepan over medium heat, add in the milk, water, and instant coffee. Bring the mixture to a simmer.

3. Once simmering, add in the cocoa powder and stir until smooth. Then add in the ½ cup of chocolate chunks and the butter and stir until both are completely melted. Remove the chocolate mixture from the heat and transfer to a large mixing bowl. Set aside to cool slightly.

4. In a separate mixing bowl, add in the flour, baking powder, and salt and stir to combine. Set aside.

5. Once the chocolate mixture is slightly cooler, stir in the brown sugar, granulated sugar, vegetable oil, eggs, and vanilla extract until smooth.

6. Add in about ⅓ of the flour mixture into the chocolate mixture and stir until smooth. Add the rest of the flour and fold until just combined. Do not overmix! Lastly, fold in the ⅓ cup of chocolate chunks.

7. Grease a muffin pan or line it with muffin cups. Add the batter to the muffin pan, filling each cup about ⅔ full. Add a few chocolate chunks to the tops as garnish.

8. Bake the muffins for 20 to 24 minutes. The muffins will be done when a toothpick inserted into the muffin comes out mostly clean. Set aside the muffins to cool slightly.

9. For the filling, in a small saucepan over medium heat, add the heavy cream. Heat until just simmering before removing from the heat. Add in the chocolate chunks and salt and gently stir until the chunks are melted.

10. To fill a muffin, add the ganache to a piping bag. Pierce the muffin with the tip of the piping bag and fill with as much chocolate as desired. If you don’t have a piping bag, you can fill the muffin by carefully carving out a small chunk of the muffin from the top and spooning in the filling.

11. We may not be Olympians, but we can try to eat like them!

Additional notes:

Bake time will depend on how big the muffins are. Are they jumbo muffins? Cupcake sized? Mini muffins?

For richer muffins, use whole milk but 1%, 2%, and skim milk will work as well.

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After doing some research, it looks like this recipe is actually a dupe! While the original video by Jordan the Stallion was vague enough to have you think it was from the original bakery, Coup de Pates, it is actually taken from Becky Krystal of the Washington Post. That recipe can be found here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/recipes/olympic-chocolate-muffins/

The Maxi Muffin Chocolat Intense at Coup de Pates are mass produced, frozen, and sold to bakeries all over. As of 8/12/24, they have not officially released their recipe but that hasn’t stopped chefs from trying to recreate the chocolate goodness! https://www.coupdepates.fr/produit/maxi-muffin-chocolat-intense-831295

The blogger Kassie Mendieta was able to get locate an ingredient list and has based their dupe recipe around that. Give that recipe a peek too: https://ibakemistakes.substack.com/p/the-highly-sought-after-olympic-chocolate

Currently, we’ve reached out to the bakery to ask if they are willing to share their recipe, though we’re sure that we are one of many who want to know. We’ll keep everyone updated if they respond!

We decided to do this update to correct misinformation and to give credit where credit is due. If you make any of these recipes, please share photos and your experience making them! We love food and sharing meals with others 😊

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Shirley's Chocolate Chip Cookies!

As promised, (@ask-vanessa-wright ) my chocolate chip cookie reciiiipeee hehee!! 🍪🙏🏾💕 Everyone looooves these in my church so I know it'll be a hit at yours tooooo! (or just your homes. Looking at you athiests.) ✝️

-These cookies are chunky NYC style (@askingbrittaperry approved! heheeee!) You're all so welcome I shared the recipie out of the goodness of my hearrrrt 💟💕

Ingredients:

125 g unsalted butter

100 g light brown sugar

75 g white granulated sugar

1 medium egg

1 tsp vanilla extract

300 g plain flour

1 + 1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda

1/2 tsp sea salt

150 g dark chocolate CHUNKS (If you can't buy them, roughly chop a bar!!! Even betterrrr!)

Method:

Ideally with a stand mixer blend the sugars and (softened) butter together until creamy 🧈

Add in egg, vanilla extract and beat again! Get all those school grievances out on the mixing, mhm. 🥚

Add in plain flour, salt, baking power and bicarbonate of soooodaaa! And then mix until you get a rough dough!

Before the dough is completely together, add in the chocoooolate chuuuunks (chunks over chips anyday, and has to be dark, you hear me??) Mix until well distributed 🍫

Make balls of the dough - I like to eyeball these to my liking, I usually get at least 17 good-sized cookies out of this. But you could weigh them for accuracy, going no higher than 120g (makes roughly 8)

After rolling them, store in a tub IN THE FRIDGE overnight. Yes, you heard me - overnight! Overnight cookies will always be the best and anyone who tells you otherwise clearly needs the help of G O D. ✝️ If you really need them on the day, an hour or two in the fridge before baking will still give beautiful 🍪 cookies

Preheat oven to 180C Fan, or 200C regular! If you know your oven gets crazy hot crazy fast like some scheming jezebel at Greendale then maybe go for 160-170C instead 🔥 🔥 👽🍃

Line a baking tray and place your cookies on. The bigger the cookie, the less you place on the tray, they WILL spread slightly. Trial and error will teach you how many you can fit!

Bake the cookies 12 minutes minimum. Check them after 12 minutes. If they still look uncooked/uncoloured, give them another minute or two. With cookies, EVERY SINGLE MINUTE COUNTS!. One minute overtime, and you might aswell have baked that poor thing in the pits of H E L L .

Once baked, leave on the tray for at least 30 minutes, they'll still be cooking on the tray as they cool!!

Now you take your masterpiece and you share it with good, honest people. Don't forget to utter a prayer together before eatttttiiiing!

Pairs well with milk before bedtime, too. Good for kiiiids and monkeeeyyyss 🥛 🍪 🐒 👶🏿

Well, there's my first baking interweb blog poooost I suppossseee! 🍪✝️ Ask me if anything at all is unclear, ooookkaaayy?? 💕🎵💖🙏🏾

Happy Baking, interweb!

[yourgamemasterthewhiterabbit]

If anyone is curious about the cake, I looked up this recipe:

1 cup white sugar

½ cup unsalted butter

2 large eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 ½ cups all-purpose flour

1 ¾ teaspoons baking powder

½ cup milk

And bastardized it in the following ways:

Leave the recipe up on your screen but too far away to read it clearly,

Open and drain a can of beets. Yes beets, the red earthy root vegetable,

Use an immersion blender to puree the beets some,

Eyeball roughly a half cup of canola or sunflower oil instead of butter [to save butter, or just use butter see if I care],

put in a much *closer* to tumblr worthy level of vanilla extract,

Pour in about a quarter cup of heavy cream, it's fine there's extra fluids in the beets and you probably over-shot the oil,

Add in 2 extra large eggs because I never use anything but extra large eggs,

Add a pinch of salt it never called for,

Add in what's left in a bag of white sugar and then over-shoot making up the rest with brown sugar slightly, by eye, it's fine,

immersion blend again until you are sure there's no chunks,

Add in what's probably a 3rd cup of cocoa or more and blend more,

eyeball a cup and a half or so of flour by scooping generously a few times with a quarter cup measure and letting it heap,

Dump in what's -probably- more baking powder than that recipe calls for,

immersion blend again until it looks like batter, even if it's on the *slightly* runny side. If it seems way too runny add a bit more flour,

***If you want to be extra -me- about it, you can also add in a tablespoon of cinnamon and an tablespoon of cayenne pepper at this point, but I get the sense most people won't want to***

Oil and flour a baking pan and pour it all in, mine is this big oval-ish one. I baked it at 350 without preheating until it smelled done.

tada!

Now we mix SALTED butter with solid coconut oil half and half, dump in some coco and an appropriate seeming amount of icing sugar with a squirt of vanilla extract and blend aggressively until it's fluffy

Do not apply it until the cake is cooled.

Unless you are particularly sensitive to the earthy taste of root vegetables and dislike them, you probably won't notice the beets, but you know how carrot cake maintains this moist tenderness because of the inclusion of fibery vegetable matter? Yeah. This chocolate cake will have something very moist and carrot cake-like about the texture, letting it be heavy without being dense in a way that comes off as very rich, even though it still has plenty of air in it. No soaking in anything fancy required.

If you use cocoa that hasn't been treated with alkaloids it'll probably come out convincingly red too. This might actually be a red velvet recipe tbh but my coco is the dark stuff.

The coconut butter in the icing pairs well with the earthy hint from the beets and makes the icing firm at cooler temperatures but melt quickly in your mouth, it's very yummy. I didn't even bother making Italian meringue to make a butter cream and it's still impressively good. Coconut butter in icing is honestly always good unless you hate coconut.

Whatever, yay cake!

I know people will say baking is an exact science but getting the portions mostly correct is fine so long as the batter has the right consistency the beets make it more forgiving or something.

Have fun and be yourself <3

[accidental-spice]

I heard you had a gluten free brownie recipe? I'll trade with you for another excellent brownie recipe?

*grins* it would be my pleasure!! I have been needing a new brownie recipe, not gonna lie

Disclaimer, I did not invent this recipe. We took it from a blog or Pinterest post or something, I do not know for sure

Recipe under the cut

Ingredients:

6 oz butter or 12 tablespoons cut into chunks

¼ cup dark chocolate chips

½ cup dark cocoa powder

1 cup granulated sugar (I amended the recipe here to ½ cup granulated sugar, ½ cup coconut sugar, but if you don't have coconut sugar, that's fine, too)

2 eggs, large

½ cup all purpose gluten free flour

1 ½ teaspoons baking powder

¼ teaspoon salt

½ teaspoon vanilla

1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips (optional) (aka, it's in the recipe, but I've never tried it with them added in. For some reason)

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit, and spray an 8 x 8 pan with non-stick cooking spray (or in my case, butter it). Make sure there is no flour in your cooking spray

Put the butter and dark chocolate chips in a large microwave safe bowl and cook for one minute. Stir mixture up a bit, then microwave again for 30 seconds. (Alternatively, if you, like me, do not actually have a microwave, melt the butter over medium low heat, and when it's half or two-thirds of the way melted, add the chocolate chips, and stir until it's mixed together) Add cocoa powder and stir

At this point, everything should be melty and you can stir it up until everything's completely melted and smooth

Add all the sugar and stir well until combined

Next add each egg one at a time and stir only until incorporated. Do not overstir!

Add gluten free all purpose flour, baking powder, salt, and vanilla to mixture and stir until completely mixed together. Stir in semi-sweet chocolate chips

Scrape batter with a spatula into the greased 8 by 8 pan and spread evenly spatula. Bake for 30 minutes until the top is cracked and a toothpick comes out clean

Hope you like them!!!

[sundere1181]

Now that we’re getting into winter and Christmas, hot chocolate is something that people are making more.

Hot chocolate never impressed me. I dont know if its the autism, or i never tried the right hot chocolate, or just plain old superiority /j, i never liked instant hot chocolate (aka the only hot chocolate ive ever tried). I’d add whipped cream, mini marshmallows, but it just never did it for me.

When i imagine ‘hot chocolate’ i imagine a decadent, rich, creamy, thick, delicious blend of chocolate flavors that warms you from the inside. However, it never lives up to my expectations.

To remedy this, i have made it my mission to create the most delicious hot chocolate from mix.

So, in a pot i threw together:

Half and half

Hot chocolate mix (swiss miss)

Half of an 85% dark chocolate bar

About two teaspoons of cornstarch

At this point, I realized that i added too much cornstarch and it was more of a pudding so i added a bunch of more half and half. I also realized it tasted like fucking air (i could barely taste the chocolate) so i also added some sugar and semi sweet chocolate chips.

This was the result:

Its not entirely bad. It tastes like what chocolate pudding would taste like if it was good. Its thick, creamy, but not exactly decadent and maybe only middle class wealthy rather than rich. The top kinda solidifies so everytime you have to take a sip you bring it to your lips and you have to suck on the chocolate balloon until you can actually sip your drink and then it leaves a little bit on the top of your lips like a terrible doodoo mustache. Also, there are a few chunks of what i assume are cornstarch chunks in it, that have the texture between pudding (again) and tapioca pearls with erectile dysfunction. It also leaves gunk all over my tongue, which is a thing that happens with nearly every drink i like other than soda in water.

In conclusion: i need to try again.

[wolfiafuntime]

Event: 🧋Shakes Shop🧋

 Hello! I'm Wolf. I like writing fanfic, and I used to write some X Reader's about a year or so ago, but I fell out of the scene due to mental health problems. I've recently come back to it, but I'm super insecure now, and I get really stressed about writing for others (I tried doing a request thing on Quotev but I kept making myself too sick to actually do it). I also have creativity problems.

 My solution to all of this? Easy:

 The 'Shakes Shop' Event!

Featuring: Obey Me! One Master to Rule Them All X (Aged Up!) Disney Twisted-Wonderland X (Modern AU!) Genshin Impact X Gn! Ice Cream Bartender! Reader

Imagine This: You've always loved cruises. Everything from the beautiful sights to even the smell of the air. And for a while now, you've been wanting to work on a cruise ship. So, you started looking. And pretty quickly, you found a new position opening for your favorite cruise line: The Crux! The position? Working as a bartender for a shop that only serves ice cream! Instantly, you made a resume for it and put it in. And a few days later, the Manager contacted you, and offered you a four-month contract that would get you $7,200. That's $1,800 per month. Which is $450 a day. Meaning you make $90 an hour!

Damn, why didn't you try to get a job like this sooner?!

Upon getting the job, your boss sent you a description of your uniform, their shop's menu, and a plane ticket to the Crux's next wet dock location. Which wouldn't be happening for another month... Which gave you enough time to quit your current job, sell all of your non-important and non-sentimental items, and spend some much-needed time with your loved ones before your departure!

You also had more than enough time to buy clothes for your uniform: A sleeveless white button-up, a pink vest, and pale white shorts. And, of course, you also had time to learn the menu- which was more customizable than you thought-:

Sizes: Small Cup (125-word range) | Medium Cup (250-word range) | Large Cup (500-word range)

Flavors: Vanilla (fluff) | Chocolate (reverse comfort) | Strawberry (romance (Adults only!)) | Blueberry (platonic) | Banana (crack) | Mint (dark)

Mix-Ins: Reeses Pieces Chunks (1st meeting) | Cookie Dough (reunion) | Oreo Bits (rivalry) | MnMs (yandere) | Mini-Marshmallows (day off/break) | Chocolate Chips (cold/injury) | Peanuts (bad weather) | Caramel (karma)

Toppings: Chocolate Syrup | Strawberry Syrup | Caramel Syrup | Blueberry Syrup | Whipped Cream | Chocolate Cream | Rainbow Sprinkles | Peanuts | Chocolate Chips | Cherries | Banana Slices | Oreos | Chocolate Chip Cookies

Note: Customers can only choose one size, flavor, and mix-in; but they can choose 3 of the 13 toppings (5 if one is a non-pourable!)!

Some Additional Rules/Explanations:

I couldn't decide what I was gonna do with the toppings, so I'm making them wild cards. Most of the toppings are related to something previously stated on the list (ex. strawberry syrup has a romance element while Oreos have a rivalry), but some (whipped cream and rainbow sprinkles) are for me to decide. Also, having 3 of one topping doesn't do anything.

You can only choose up to three different characters for your fic! They can be from any one of the fandoms; so you can have a 'Mammon X Grim X Aether X Reader' fic if you want to!

I can refuse/change part of a order/request if I want to. But I'll only do so if I've already written a similar version of the order/request!

Finally oders/requests for the event close on July 16th at Midnight EDT!

[cicadabooks]

2024 Olympic Muffins: Gluten-free and dairy-free option version (with gram and ml conversions)

(Recipe transcript originally from this post above by @norabee)

(Edits: I baked the muffins and I have been rewriting this post with recipe changes!)

Muffins I baked (Gluten/Dairy free version)

Notes:

Makes about 12 standard muffins. Maybe 6 jumbo muffins?

I added gram and ml equivalents based on some websites for converting US measurements. I think 1 teaspoon is same-ish everywhere, it's about 5ml.

The muffins taste VERY chocolatey to me! A friend thinks they have a nice balance of not too much sugar and good chocolate flavor. Either way, it may be nice to pair the muffins with coconut ice cream or coconut whipped cream. Especially if (like me) you baked the muffins with soy milk instead of cow milk - adding back in some cream may complement the chocolate flavors.

FYI, I used decaf instant coffee.

Muffin ingredients:

¾ cup milk (175 ml) (sub in: soymilk or non-dairy milk of choice.)

¼ cup water (60 ml)

2 tsp instant coffee (10 ml)

½ cup cocoa powder (about 40 grams) (Dutch cocoa recommended*)

½ cup chocolate chunks to melt (about 70 grams) (sub in: non-dairy chocolate chunks)

8 TBSP butter (1 stick, or ½ cup, or 113 grams) (sub in: non-dairy butter)

2 cups flour (between 240 grams - 280 grams?) (sub in: gluten-free 1-to-1 mix flour)

1 TBSP baking powder (15 ml)

¼ tsp salt (sea salt or kosher salt) (1 ml?)

½ cup dark brown sugar, packed (about 110 grams)

½ cup granulated sugar (about 100 grams)

¼ cup vegetable oil (about 60 ml)

2 eggs, room temperature

1 tsp vanilla extract (5 ml)

Additional ⅓ cup of chocolate chunks (about 47 grams)

Filling ingredients:

½ cup heavy cream (125 ml) (sub in: coconut cream - scoop out the top cream from a can of full-fat coconut milk.**)

¼ cup chocolate chunks (about 35 grams)

pinch of salt (use sea salt or kosher salt)

Cooking instructions:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 C).

Add milk, water, and instant coffee to a saucepan, bring to a simmer. (I turned off the heat once it simmered.) Add cocoa powder, mix well, then add chocolate chunks and butter. Stir until melted, transfer to a bowl, and allow to cool.

In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt.

Once the chocolate mixture is cooled - add brown sugar, granulated sugar, oil, eggs, and vanilla. Mix thoroughly.

Add a third of the flour mixture to chocolate mixture and combine. Then add remaining flour mixture, folding in gently. Take care to not over-mix. Then add chocolate chunks (video says to fold in these choco chunks, but it also looks like choco chunks were added on top before baking).

Spoon batter into muffin tins. (Spoon about 1/2 cup or 120ml of batter, or just know that the muffin will poof up.) This might be when to add some chocolate chunks on top of the batter.

Bake for 24 minutes. (Baking time may differ with GF and DF substitutes, often takes longer.)

While waiting - For the filling: add heavy cream, chocolate chunks, and salt to a saucepan, heat until melted, taking care not to come to a boil.

After baking, fill muffins with filling (spoon filling into a ziploc bag, cut corner of bag, cut out a bit of the muffin center with a knife, squeeze filling into muffins)***

Serve.

More Notes:

* Dutch Cocoa suggestion is based on a tumblr tag I saw and also this article. “[....] Dutch-process cocoa powder is usually used for batters containing baking powder.”

** Coconut cream substitution as suggested on this recipe page. (One can had a little more than 1/2 cup cream, when I opened it.)

*** Muffin filling tips from @picturesque-about-it from this post:

"[....] But you could definitely just use a knife to cut out the middle and use a ziploc bag with the corner cut off to fill it." And more ideas -

#honestly…….. it would turn out a bit different but i feel like you could put the filling in before you bake it

#that’s how we made chocolate chip muffins at my old job

#scoop of ganache that would sink as it baked and chocolate chips on top

#they were soooooooo good

if you’re craving chocolate muffins after the olympic muffin man videos, jordan the stallion on tiktok has the recipe for you

[lexlee20]

Bought a container of “ready to use” chai masala powder but almost never used it bc it always left an off-putting sludge at the bottom of my cup, even after a traditional stove prep w CTC tea granules (put tea, spices, and sugar in cold water; bring to full boil; lower heat and add equal volume of milk; bring back to simmer; scoop up milk skin and repeatedly pour back in until reincorporated; ladle through sieve into cup)— unlike freshly toasted whole spices, the powder was so fine that it went right through the sieve.

Finally found the perfect application for it, after The Spouse volunteered me to provide stuff for a work party but I was feeling too unwell for anything complicated.

CHOCOLATE TRUFFLES.

1.) make ganache as a 1:2 mixture of heavy cream to dark chocolate. Microwave the cream in an oversized glass measuring cup until it’s hot. Drop in the chocolate and stir it until it melts. Let it cool nearly back to room temperature if necessary.

2.) Find a shallow container that’ll give you a ganache depth similar to whatever you want your final truffle size to be. (1 cm? 1 inch? idk, they’re your truffles.) If you’re not sure, pour in an equivalent volume of water (and dry it off afterward). Line the container with waxed paper, pour in the lukewarm ganache, and stick it in the fridge with plastic wrap over the top of the container.

3.) Wait until the ganache is solid enough that a knife in its middle doesn’t come out goopy. Might be only a few hours, but overnight is a safe bet. Lift the waxed paper with the solid ganache onto a chopping board and cut into approximate cubes. They don’t have to be sharp or precise.

“But where the hell is the chai masala powder?!” I hear you cry. Shhh. Here comes the magic.

4.) Get a reasonably large container with a secure lid (idk, ~1 liter/quart?). Put in a few scoops of plain dark cocoa powder and throw in some chai masala. Go easy at first, you can add more if you want to but you can’t take it back out except via dilution. Mix it thoroughly, drop in a naked ganache chunk, close the lid, and swirl it around until completely covered and probably somewhat rounded. Wait for the powder to settle before you open the lid to extract the test truffle. Taste it and decide whether to add more chai masala. (Or whatever else. This would obviously work with any finely powdered spices. Cinnamon? Cardamom? White pepper? Cayenne? You do you.)

5.) if you’re happy with the flavor, go into full production mode. You can put lots of truffles into the shaker at the same time as long as they have enough room to shake around and enough cocoa powder to cover them. Small orphaned chunks of truffle will fall off into the cocoa powder. This is fine.

6.) A slotted spoon is handy for scooping out the cocoa’ed truffles into a holding container. They’ll still carry some extra cocoa powder with them. Store the truffles in the fridge when you’re done.

7.) Except you’re not done yet. You now have a shaker with leftover spiced cocoa powder and bitty truffle gravel. The gravel should be sieved out and made into hot cocoa, maybe with milk that was microwaved with any leftover ganache in the measuring cup. The sieved powder can be kept at room temperature and stirred into coffee.

8.) fin!

[night-raven-miscellany]

✨Was sitting in my room eating some sour gummy worms (one of my fave sweets) and then decided I wanted to make a silly one-off post about everyone's favorite sweet treats as a result. Because why not?

✨My only thing, though, is I cannot choose their favorite foods (simply bc most of my OCs favorite foods are already generally sweet [red bean mochi, shortbread cookies, caramels, almond bark, dark chocolate. Literally only Rusul and Izem are the exception lmao]).

🦐: Yuna's allergic to coconut, so there are quite a few candies that she DOESN'T like. However one of her favorite sweets to get is chewy fruit candies like Starburst or HiChew. Her particular favorite flavors are the mango and the grape ones, but she also likes the odd flavors you can find (like the drink flavor mix)

🎩: Lewis's favorite candy is probably something like those shoddy strawberry or butterscotch hard candies (mmmm granny candies). I think he'd be a big fan of Werther's maybe.

♌: Izem isn't a huge sweets kinda guy, and he absolutely HATES those prank sweets you can buy (think like. Beanboozled or those candied bugs that they sell in gift shops that sometimes people will get as a gag gift?). That being said, though, he does have a slightly soft spot for taffy. He will bitch and moan that it got stuck in his teeth if he eats it, but he will still be satisfied with it and won't say boo to receiving some as a gift.

🦜: Rusul LOOOOOVES anything fruit flavored. As such, I think he'd love a good chunk of candies. In particular, though, he loves getting those filled fruit gummies. Like the fruit snacks with the juice in them or fruit gushers. If offered one he would probably take it and bite into it so it exploded in the person's face. Maybe intentionally, maybe not, but all a bit silly.

🐁: Aside from caramels, there are very few sweets that James enjoys. Luckily, though, marshmallows are one of those very few. I think he secretly LOVES shopping right after Easter just so he can hoard peeps on sale.

🌙: what better for the Evil Overlord's second favorite sweet other than candy corn and mellocreme pumpkins? Bro loves those Halloween candies so much. I think Casimir would be a STAUNCH candy corn defender when his peers start talking around Halloween about whether or not those kinds of things are good or not.

🩺: Heinrich was a little hard to think of something right off the bat, but I think he would really like. Chic-a-sticks or any other kind of dehydrated coconut candy. Unfortunately, he can't keep either those OR his top favorite sweet (almond bark) in his office (student allergies), BUT he does keep a bunch of lollipops and/or smarties in there, which he also doesn't dislike too much.

Taglist bc I forgot this last time:

(once again pls lmk if u want to be added to/removed from being tagged in stupid posts like this rip)

@bubblin-trouble @nrc-asteryn-crew

[yamneko]

Gathering peoples replies/links so I can find/read the recipes better than trying to scrollll forever on tumblr itself. I did not do video only recipes, or ones that I could not find (Stardew Valley and some other specific books mentioned) I have not gone thru the REBLOG addition recipes, but there's a TON there too

General Tips:

stevviefox If you like ‘crisp’ cookies use baking soda. Cake-ish ones use baking powder and self raising flour. Depending on where you are might want to store the dough in the fridge for a couple of hours to firm up before baking.

pepper-fandom-things Okay I'm a weirdo and for some reason having cold and hard chocolate chips ruins my experience but keeping them out isn't the same. My best solution has been to fuckin shred the chips. So you get the taste without the chunk of cold chocolate. It's like a chocolate chip *flavored* cookie with nothing shady about it

dustin-but-gayer Whatever you do; add 1 heaping tsp of cinnamon and half to 2/3 tsp of nutmeg to the dry mix (if it's a 2 cup of flour recipe, alter as needed)

A lot of people recommended the toll house recipe

https://www.verybestbaking.com/toll-house/recipes/original-nestle-toll-house-chocolate-chip-cookies/

tiruvenkadu yeah, this is the one i use, but two caveats: one, make sure the butter is, in fact, softened. two, use a bit less than teo and a quarter cups of flour - you’ll get cookies that crisp up just perfectly.

whoknowsyourfuture Use the nestle recipe, but double it except for the butter and chocolate chips. Use one bag of chips or equivalent, and 3 sticks of butter instead of 4(I think that's the correct proportion, I'm at work rn). I usually also add an extra cup to cup and a half of flour, makes dense, tall cookies. For flatter, crispier cookies, after whatever the recipe calls for in flour, gradually add until dough is moldable but still clings to hands. The version with more flour should not stick to your hands at all.

leadhelmetcosmonaut The recipe on the chocolate chips packet is good but if you add some cinnamon it becomes even better

estrellami-1 My family does the nestle toll house recipe BUT equal parts brown sugar & white sugar. It makes them a tad more molasses-y and REALLY good :)

Gemma Stafford Recipes https://www.biggerbolderbaking.com/cookie-recipes/ (no specific one given, and it looks like there's several CCC ones even)

ding-dong-dumbass Gemma Stafford's recipes are ones that I have never had trouble with, across two different countries, with their individual standards of production and QA for the ingredients. I call them idiotproof because even *I* can make them without any trouble. I'd 100% recommend scaling up the giant single serve cookie recipe, but she's also got a master recipe you can fiddle around with to make it your own.

https://www.seriouseats.com/food-lab-best-chocolate-chip-cookie-step-by-step-slideshow

The two hour version in this recipe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4CyhQqAPpk (the other two are the top comment in the video)

2-Hour Chocolate Chip Cookies (Makes 8-10 cookies) PREP TIME: 1 HOUR COOK TIME: 15 MINUTES TOTAL TIME: 195 MINUTES INGREDIENTS

½ cup granulated sugar

¾ cup light brown sugar, packed

1 teaspoon kosher salt

½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted

1 large egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1¼ cups all-purpose flour

½ teaspoon baking soda

4 ounces milk or semi-sweet chocolate chunks

4 ounces dark chocolate chunks

PREPARATION

1. In a large bowl, whisk together the granulated and brown sugar, salt, and butter until a paste forms with no lumps.

2. Whisk in the egg and vanilla, beating until light ribbons fall off the whisk and remain for a short while before dissolving.

3. Sift in the flour and baking soda, then fold with a spatula until just incorporated. (Be careful not to overmix, which will cause the gluten in the flour to toughen, resulting in cakier cookies).

4. Fold in the milk and dark chocolate chunks.

5. Chill the dough for 2 hours, or, for a more intense toffee-like flavor and deeper color, overnight. The longer the dough rests, the more complex its flavor will be.

6. Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.

7. Using a 2½-ounce ice cream scoop or a ⅓ cup measure, scoop the dough onto the prepared baking sheets, leaving at least 4 inches (10 cm) of space between each cookie and 2 inches (5 cm) of space from the edges of the pan so that the cookies can spread evenly. A half sheet pan should fit no more than 6 cookies.

8. Bake for 12-15 minutes, or until the edges have started to lightly brown. Let cool completely before serving. 9. Enjoy!

https://kickassbaker.com/jacques-torres-chocolate-chip-cookies/

https://hostthetoast.com/best-chewy-cafe-style-chocolate-chip-cookies/#tasty-recipes-9463-jump-target

bizexuals https://hostthetoast.com/best-chewy-cafe-style-chocolate-chip-cookies/#tasty-recipes-9463-jump-target this is my absolute favorite. i love a huge, chewy & soft cookie. just do me a favor & brown the butter (i usually add an extra half stick to make up for the water loss & make sure i have 6oz of brown butter at the end, adding a tbsp or more of regular melted butter if my estimate was off)

http://artofdessert.blogspot.com/2008/10/my-ultimate-chocolate-chip-cookie.html?m=1

courageousteapot http://artofdessert.blogspot.com/2008/10/my-ultimate-chocolate-chip-cookie.html?m=1 Fantastic even if you don't have allergies (uses cream cheese instead of eggs). I use 3 cups chocolate chips instead of 2, and use milk chocolate chips if I'm feeling fancy. These are so good they cause problems, like my boss calling me over the holidays to ask me to make some for her family (uh... No).

https://sugarspunrun.com/worst-chocolate-chip-cookies/

https://joyfoodsunshine.com/the-most-amazing-chocolate-chip-cookies/

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/10813/best-chocolate-chip-cookies/

https://www.hersheyland.ca/en_ca/recipes/original-chipits-cookies-recipe.html (I think this is the OG one recommended)

Recipes just given:

alyssdecoeur • Mix together in a bowl: o 250g flour o ½ baking powder little bag in France, should be about 5g order (the baking powder likes to be mixed directly with the flour) o 125g sugar (demerara is better for this recipe. I personally always have a couple of vanilla beans in my sugar jar for more taste) o some cinnamon o 100g chocolate chips: if you can get your hands on “Nestle dessert” baking chocolate and cut up your own chocolate chips, it will be way better. I found out that cutting my own chocolate chips with UK chocolate does not work as well because the baking chocolate I have found is rubbish. Maybe pre-made chocolate chips would work? • Melt 125g salted butter (microwave), wait for it to cool a bit and add 1 egg and 1 tablespoon of honey. • Add the wet mix to the dry mix and mix it with your hands (very important, it does not work properly with a spoon/fork/whisk) until you have a moist dough (do not overmix), refrain from eating all your cookie dough, and cook chunks at 180°C until they feel right

books-and-hot-drinks 200g butter, 120g sugar, 60g oatmeal, 250g flour, 1 egg, 100g chocolate (or more), mix everything, rest 30 min in fridge, bake 20 min at 175°C

zeromidnight Yes! I like to make it with peanut butter chips or butterscotch chips for variation. 1/2 cup butter, softened 1/2 cup white sugar 1/2 cup packed brown sugar 1 egg 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoons hot water 1/4 teaspoon of salt 1 & 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 to 2 cup chips of choice

riley-rogue This is the recipe I use. I like really soft cookies so that's how these will turn out. I've also tried it with butterscotch morsels instead of chocolate and that was honestly the best batch I've made. Also, when you pull them out of the oven they will be very fragile. so try not to touch or move them until they set after a few minutes :) 16 tbs of salted butter 1 cup of white sugar 1/2 cup of packed light brown sugar 2 tsp of vanilla extract 2 eggs 3 cups of flour 1 tsp of baking soda 1/2 tsp of salt 1 cup of chocolate chips -Preheat oven to 350. -Mix sifted flour, baking soda, and salt together. -In separate bowl, melt butter then mix with both sifted sugars until creamy. -Add vanilla and eggs then mix gently. -Add dry to wet ingredients and mix together until crumbly dough forms. -Bake for 11 minutes and 30 seconds

no-one-s-writing 2 1/4 cupsof ap flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 cup unsalted butter, room temp 3/4 cup granulated sugar 3/4 cup packed brown sugar 1 egg 1 teaspoonvanilla 3 cups chocolate chips 1 teaspoon finely ground coffee Cream together butter and sugars. Mix in the egg, vanilla, and coffee. Add flour, salt, and baking soda Bake for 7~ minutes at 350 I also like throwing them into cupcake tins with piece of chocolate in the center no-one-s-writing 2 1/4 cupsof ap flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 cup unsalted butter, room temp 3/4 cup granulated sugar 3/4 cup packed brown sugar 1 egg 1 teaspoonvanilla 3 cups chocolate chips 1 teaspoon finely ground coffee Cream together butter and sugars. Mix in the egg, vanilla, and coffee. Add flour, salt, and baking soda Bake for 7~ minutes at 350 I also like throwing them into cupcake tins with piece of chocolate in the center

strawberryapplesauce13 this is mine-1 stick of butter and melt and mix with 6 tbsp of brown and white sugar, 1/2 tsp of vanilla and an egg. mix 1 cup and 2 tbp of flour with 1/2 tsp baking powder and 1/2 tsp salt in another bowl. add dry to wet and add 3/4 cup choc. chips, freeze for 10 minutes and use an ice cream scoop to make them into balls. bake for 13 minutes and enjoy :))

anyone got a good chocolate chip cookie recipe? i trust yall significantly more than browsing internet recipes

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What are some tasty, healthy snack ideas for late-night cravings?

Late-night cravings can be satisfied with snacks that are not only tasty but also nutritious and won't disrupt sleep. Here are some healthy snack ideas for late-night cravings:

Greek Yogurt with Berries: Greek yogurt is rich in protein, which can help keep you feeling satisfied, while berries provide antioxidants and natural sweetness. Mix plain Greek yogurt with fresh or frozen berries for a delicious and nutritious snack.

Whole Grain Crackers with Hummus: Whole grain crackers are a good source of fiber, while hummus provides protein and healthy fats. Enjoy a serving of whole grain crackers with a dollop of hummus for a satisfying and filling snack.

Apple Slices with Almond Butter: Apples are high in fiber and antioxidants, while almond butter provides healthy fats and protein. Slice an apple and dip it in almond butter for a crunchy and satisfying snack.

Popcorn: Air-popped popcorn is a whole grain snack that is low in calories and high in fiber. Avoid adding excessive butter or salt and opt for lightly seasoned popcorn for a tasty and guilt-free late-night snack.

Vegetable Sticks with Guacamole: Cut up raw vegetables such as carrots, cucumbers, and bell peppers and serve with homemade guacamole for a nutritious and flavorful snack. Avocados in guacamole provide healthy fats and fiber.

Hard-Boiled Eggs: Hard-boiled eggs are a convenient and protein-rich snack option. They can be prepared ahead of time and stored in the refrigerator for a quick late-night snack. Sprinkle with a pinch of salt and pepper for added flavor.

Cottage Cheese with Pineapple: Cottage cheese is high in protein and calcium, while pineapple provides natural sweetness and vitamin C. Enjoy a serving of cottage cheese topped with fresh pineapple chunks for a satisfying and nutritious snack.

Cherry Tomatoes with Mozzarella Cheese: Cherry tomatoes are low in calories and high in vitamin C, while mozzarella cheese provides protein and calcium. Skewer cherry tomatoes and mozzarella cheese balls on toothpicks for a simple and delicious late-night snack.

Trail Mix: Make your own trail mix by combining nuts, seeds, and dried fruit. Nuts and seeds provide healthy fats and protein, while dried fruit adds natural sweetness and fiber. Keep portion sizes in check to avoid consuming too many calories late at night.

Dark Chocolate: Indulge your sweet tooth with a small piece of dark chocolate. Dark chocolate contains antioxidants and may have health benefits when consumed in moderation. Choose dark chocolate with a high cocoa content (70% or higher) for the most nutritional benefits.

Remember to practice portion control and avoid consuming large meals or heavy snacks right before bed, as this can disrupt sleep. Enjoying a small, balanced snack that combines protein, healthy fats, and fiber can help satisfy late-night cravings without causing discomfort or interfering with sleep.

[udo0stories]

Easy version of your favorite chocolate chip cookies? Friends, we had to do it! All the flavor is still present in these vegan, gluten-free, chocolate chip cookie bars—you just need to skip the hand mixer, chilling, and scooping steps! Simply spread, stir, and bake. Plus, you only need one bowl and eight ingredients! They are almost too simple to be true—perfectly chewy, buttery, sweet, and flecked with melt-in-your-mouth chocolate chunks. Now that you have your preferred mixing bowl, let us bake! How to Prepare Gluten-Free, Vegan Cookie Bars The base ingredients of these vegan + gluten-free cookie bars are flax egg for binding, brown sugar for sweetness and crisping edges, and vanilla and melted vegan butter for traditional cookie flavors! We mix them first, then move on to the dry ingredients! Sea salt brings out the flavors in every grain of our gluten-free flour blend, which is the gluten-free G.O.A.T. for simulating the texture of all-purpose flour. Baking powder also adds some lift. There is only one more ingredient needed, and it is possibly the most crucial of them all: chocolate chunks or chips! For a little crunch, we also enjoy adding walnuts, but feel free to ignore this if you are not a fan of nuts in cookies. These cookie bars should be a hit with you! They are: squishyCreamyTentativeJust right sweetnessadorned with chocolateGluten-free and vegan without a trace! Enjoy these with a glass of nondairy milk, and you will be in cookie heaven. Alternatively, try them with our 5-Minute Caffeine-Free Chai or Vegan Hot Cocoa if the weather is chilly. Additional Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipes Tell us if you give this recipe a try! Do not forget to rate it, comment, and tag @minimalistbaker on Instagram. Salutations, companions! Preparation Time: Ten minutes Cooking Time: 25 minutes 35 minutes in total 16 servings (bars) Dessert Course Cuisine: Vegan and Gluten-Free freezer-safe for one month Does it hold up? 3–4 Days Cook in Mode Avoid having your screen go dark. 1 tsp flaxseed meal (for flax egg preparation) 2 ½ tablespoons water (for flax egg recipe) 3/4 cup of packed brown sugar (for different results, use coconut sugar instead; see notes). 1/2 cup melted vegan butter  One teaspoon vanilla extract One-third cup MB 1:1 GF Blend*, or an alternative gluten-free blend One-third tsp baking powder Half a teaspoon of sea salt Half a cup semi-sweet chocolate chunks or chips (we prefer Enjoy Life; make sure it is dairy-free as needed) Half a cup of finely chopped walnuts (optional, but suggested) Put parchment paper in an 8 x 8-inch baking pan and preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit (176 degrees Celsius). Put aside. Combine the flaxseed meal and water in a medium-sized mixing bowl, then set aside to thicken for five minutes. Add vanilla, brown sugar, and melted vegan butter after that. Mix thoroughly to incorporate; the blend should solidify. Fold in baking powder, sea salt, and GF flour blend next. Finally, stir in the chocolate chips and optional walnuts until just combined. Pour the mixture into the lined baking pan and bake for 25–28 minutes, or until the edges are golden brown and the center is golden. Let cool at room temperature for at least 20 minutes before slicing into bars. The longer they sit, the better they will hold their shape, although we do love to enjoy them slightly warm! Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3–4 days or in the freezer for up to 1 month. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV9QvGcPgTY[/embed] *We preferred the flavor and texture of brown sugar over coconut sugar. The brown sugar made the bars chewy, while the coconut sugar gave them a more wholesome flavor and a cakey, slightly crumbly texture.*If not gluten-free, you can try all-purpose flour in place of the gluten-free flour blend. We recommend starting with 1 ¼ cups, adding more as needed to achieve the consistency of the batter in the video.Nutrition information is a rough estimate calculated without optional ingredients.

Serving: 1 bar Calories: 148 Carbohydrates: 20.9 g Protein: 0.7 g Fat: 7.1 g Saturated Fat: 5.1 g Polyunsaturated Fat: 0 g Monounsaturated Fat: 0 g Trans Fat: 0 g Cholesterol: 0 mg Sodium: 135 mg Potassium: 34 mg Fiber: 0.7 g Sugar: 12.7 g Vitamin A: 0 IU Vitamin C: 0 mg Calcium: 31 mg Iron: 0.8 mg

[roomaterecipes]

Nut brittle that slaps

Another bougie sounding treat that takes a few snacks and elevates them to look fancy

4 tablespoons butter divided, plus more for greasing baking sheet if your not using spray, pro tip:use the spray also use aluminum foil with spray and it comes off like a dream

a solid pinch of saffron threads, not necassry but adds color, a little dimension and like I said sounds fancy (by far the most expensive ingredient but can also be used in rice and couscous)

1 tablespoon vanilla extract, I personally always use the Good stuff like a vanilla bean paste or powder but dealers choice

1/2 salt, dont over salt as you may want to add salt on top for an extra kick and looks

Pistachios, Honestly i get shelled one because Damn are the shells a pain but you do you im not a cop Almonds, i prefer whole ones that i personally chop into chunks/ powder but slivered works too

1/2 cup granulated sugar

1/2 cup packed light brown sugar

1/2 cup light corn syrup

1/2 cup water

1 tablespoon rose extract, this adds a bit of a floral note and I'm not familiar with this ingredient or its strength so I err'ed on caution. But if you are a more deft hand or prefer a stronger floral taste you can punch it up a bit.

1 teaspoon baking soda

When making candy id advised NOT to fuck around with the oils/sugars and baking soda unless 1: you know what your doing 2: you have the ability to fuck around and find out without it be a body blow (mentally, emotionally, fiscally or cleaning wise 3: Your G-ds specialest little beings and the ancestors are guiding your hands as you eyeball things. Step 1 : chop and toast your nuts, Chop to your desired finess and put in the pan you plan to do the sugars in later. Toast them dry for a bit and then add in the 2 tablespoons of butter and saffron if you have that. Keep an eye on those fuckers they turn nasty if burnt. Afterwards scrap them out into a bowl and put aside for later Step 2: This is the candy making, Toss in your sugars, syrup, 2 tablespoons of butter and rose water, stirring with a silicon tool frequently, don't forget to scrape the sides and bottom. You may have noticed at this point I haven't mentioned a candy thermometer that's because we don't need one. Get a clear glass, preferably one you don't super care about or can go in the dishwasher/soak. Fill it 2/3's of the way up with cool/cold water and keep a utensil nearby. When you feel the sugar/ butter mixture is getting to temp (usually from 10-20 minutes depending on your stove and heat, I aim for med-med high as it gives me time to set things up) your going to take some of the mixture on your spatula and let it drip into the water, once it forms a soft ball stage thats when we proceed. Step 3: toss in baking soda, it will foam, perhaps even drastically always use a pot or pan thats decently tall (if you think its too tall reconsider for a moment and reassess i usually go for 'twice as tall as the sugar syrup and mix but you do want a good amount of surface area for the bottom) as this can go sideways real fast when hot molten sugar spills all over the place Step 4: Toss in your nuts and vanilla, this is go time. Keep stirring and scraping the bottom. Were aiming for hard ball/crack stage which is when your syrup mixture when dripped into the water is hard and barely/if at all malleable. Step 5: pour into your tin and spread, the thinner brittle is . Tip to make this fancier give it the holiday crack treatment, line your tray with crackers (butter crackers are extra fancy but saltines are also perfect and put some dark chocolate on it. If your broiler works just pop that on and shake the chocolate on your spread out brittle and pop it under for a minutes or so to help it spread more easily. Sprinkle witth a little coarse salt, maybe some rose petals or extra chopped nuts if you want it to have that extra oomph. Let cool fully and break apart. Imagine your some artic explorer trying to chip through ice with a small pointy knife and a blunt object to chisel it apart. Step 6: Enjoy

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Do Not Touch That Oven

hey @writtenonreceipts, happy birthday!!! you are such a talented writer and a wonderful person, and I hope you have the best day <3 here's some Aelin-Elide friendship fluff and shenanigans :))

~1k words

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“Ells!” Aelin squealed, opening her front door for her best friend. 

“Calm down, Ace,” Elide laughed, giving her taller best friend a hug, “you literally saw me yesterday.”

“Oh, this isn’t me talking, it’s the caffeine.” 

“Hellas,” Elide snorted, heading for the kitchen with her bag of ingredients, “someone needs to hide the coffee from you.” 

“Someone isn’t here this weekend,” Aelin smirked. “He’s on the boys’ trip.” 

Right. The “boys’ trip.” Gods only knew why Rowan, Lorcan, Fenrys, Connall, Vaughan, Aedion, and Dorian had decided to go camping that weekend, but Aelin and Elide were dead fucking certain that they’d all come back hungover and probably bearing a few bruises, if they made it back alive at all. 

In the meantime, though, Elide was staying at Aelin’s overnight for their monthly girls’ night, and she’d brought the stuff to make cookies because Aelin had taken one look into her pantry and quickly decided to put her much wiser friend in charge of the shopping. The last time she’d been entrusted to go to the store, Aelin had hardly been able to find the few things on her list, returning with milk, eggs, and flour–which she’d been asked to buy–as well as twenty dollars’ worth of junk food. She just couldn’t help herself. 

Aelin followed Elide into the kitchen, perching herself on one of the high stools at the island. “So what are we making?” 

“Double chocolate cookies,” Elide replied, unloading a bunch of cooking ingredients onto the counter. Aelin had eyes for exactly one of those things. 

“Chocolate!” she crowed, tearing into the bag of dark chocolate chunks. 

Elida snatched it before she could grab more than a few pieces. “Uh uh, Ace, hands off!” 

“Bitch,” Aelin grumbled halfheartedly, fake-pouting. 

“If you eat them all now, there won’t be any for the cookies. And you like cookies with extra chocolate.” 

“Damn straight I do!” Aelin cheered up. “Shit, Ells, you know me too well.” 

“Fourteen years of friendship and that’s all you have to say?” Elide placed her hand over her chest. “I’m wounded.” 

Aelin snorted. “Yeah, yeah, no you’re not.” 

“No I’m not.” She pointed a wooden spoon at the taller girl. “Now get a bowl, this is your kitchen and you have to help somehow, even if you’re a disaster behind the stove.” 

“Rude!” But she grabbed a mixing bowl from a cabinet and slid it over to Elide. Then she grabbed her phone, setting her speaker up on a shelf so it wouldn’t get knocked over, and put on their joint playlist. 

The two of them made a bit of a flour and cocoa mess on the counter, what with singing into their spoons like they were pop stars and having a small bit of a flour fight, but the dough got made–with a minimum of Aelin swiping tastes–and scooped onto a baking sheet. 

Aelin checked the recipe card for the oven temperature. “Ells!” 

“What?” 

“We’re supposed to bake these at 375, right?” 

“Yes bitch, can you read?” Elide rolled her eyes, snickering. 

“Bitch!” Aelin threw an oven mitt at her. “Well we have a ton of cookies to bake and it’s going to take forever,” she complained. 

“So what are you suggesting…” Elide looked a little suspicious. 

“If we bake them at a higher temperature, they’ll be ready a lot faster, right?” She grinned, so damn proud of herself. 

Elide grabbed the baking sheet right out of her hands. “Do not touch the oven!” she commanded. “We don’t want the house burned down.” 

Aelin gasped in mock affront. “I’m not going to burn the house down!” she protested. 

“Mhmm,” Elide deadpanned, sliding the cookies into the oven and setting the timer. “You keep telling yourself that, Ace.” 

Aelin grumbled something crude under her breath and went over to the sink to help clean up the dirty dishes. She couldn’t let Elide do everything, even though she knew that if she left the dishes unattended, the petite girl just couldn’t help herself. 

The oven timer beeped ten minutes later and Aelin crowed with joy, hurrying over to take out the pan. Elide beat her there, swatting her hands away. 

“No touching!” she said in her very best mom voice. 

Aelin stuck out her tongue. “I’ll touch whatever I want to touch.” 

“Not with me, you won’t.” Elide winked lewdly, waggling her brows. 

Aelin, who’d just taken a gulp from her water bottle, spewed her water all over the kitchen floor. “ELLS!” she screeched, her face flaring red. 

Elide howled with laughter as she took the cookies out of the oven and put the next pans in. “You telling me I’m wrong?”

“Hell no,” Aelin returned, wiggling her own brows. “You better believe I touch whatever I want to touch when Rowan stays over.” 

“Okay, okay, enough!” Elide groaned, covering her ears. “Fuck, I did not need to know that!” 

“That’s what you get for oversharing about you and Lorcan,” Aelin teased. 

“Oh, trust me Ace, I’m not the one who overshares.”

“Right,” Aelin nodded sagely, “that would be Dorian.” 

Elide cackled as she transferred the cookies to wire cooling racks. “Damn straight.” 

“Which he is not,” Aelin declared, giggling helplessly. 

Elide laughed harder, almost dropping the cookies. “Makes for some interesting stories, it does, the kind of men he flirts with.” 

Aelin agreed. She finished up the dishes and strolled over to the cookies, swiping a warm one off the rack before Elide could smack her hands away. “Fuck,” she groaned through her mouthful, “these are so yummy, Ells!” 

“Save a few of them for the guys,” Elide reminded her as she stacked five more onto a small plate. “They’ll want their sweets too.” 

“Their sweets are right here,” Aelin smirked, gesturing to herself and Elide. “And you better believe they’ll get these sweets when they come home.” She winked broadly. 

And both of them collapsed into helpless laughter, wheezing at their own hilarity and their wicked wicked plans for surprising their boyfriends when they came back from their trip. 

~~~

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