The Ereri Project!

Chocolate

"Motherfuck!" Levi curses, accidentally knocking the measuring cup off the table again.

"I'm home!" Eren calls from the front door. When he peeks into the kitchen, Levi feels like a kid caught with his hand in the cookie jar. Eren smiles. "What are you doing?"

Levi frowns, looking back down at the bowl of ingredients that at the moment only holds flour. "I was trying to bake you cupcakes," he mutters.

Eren smiles, looking at all the ingredients spread out of the table. "You should have asked Petra for help, she's helped me often enough to know how to do this."

Levi crosses his arms. "I wanted to do it myself."

"Judging by your clothes this isn't the first attempt."

Levi pouts and Eren laughs as he takes off his shoes. "Box mix is just fine, you know," he says, walking over to Levi. "Alright, how much flour is this?"

"One and three-fourths cups, just like your recipe says."

"Good," Eren says. "Now add the sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, and salt."

"Why dry things first?"

Eren shrugs. "Just the way I do it."

Levi adds the sugar and the cocoa powder but when he goes to measure the baking soda Eren shakes his head. "What?" he asks.

"Teaspoons, not tablespoons."

"I thought this was a teaspoon."

Eren points to the size mark on the spoon. "There's a little 'b' see?"

"Oops," Levi replies, going to find the teaspoon.

He adds the baking soda, baking powder, and salt before looking at Eren again. "What now?"

"Eggs, milk, oil, and vanilla."

"Why do we need vanilla in chocolate cake?" Levi asks.

"Makes it taste better."

As Levi goes to pick up as egg, Eren makes a displeased noise so Levi stops moving. "What?"

"Always crack your eggs in a separate bowl."

"Why?"

Eren gets a small bowl from a cabinet. "It's easier to get the shells out if you drop any. Better safe than sorry, especially in a kitchen."

Levi cracks his eggs, annoyed that Eren was right about it being easier to remove shells this way, before adding the other wet ingredients. "So we mix now?" Levi asks.

"For three minutes."

Levi makes a face. "But that'll kill my arm."

Eren snorts. "That's why we have a stand mixer, babe." He plugs in the device and dumps the bowl of ingredients into the larger bowl of the mixer before turning it on. "Have you already greased the pans?"

"Pans? Plural?"

"Yes, this recipe works best with two nine-inch pans."

Levi frowns. "Seriously? The first time, I tried with your weird pan with the hole in the center and it overflowed when it cooked."

Eren laughs. "Oh yeah, that one's too small for all this."

Eren gets out the proper pans and sprays oil on them.

When the batter is done getting mixed, Eren watches Lev pours it in and put them in the oven. "Now we wait thirty minutes," Eren says, sitting down.

Levi pouts and sits on his lap. "You just spent all day around baked things, I'm sorry you had to come home and help my sorry butt."

Eren shrugs, wrapping his arms around Levi. "No biggie, unlike other people I don't mind bringing my work home with me."

Levi smiles and kisses him.