ninjago oneshots

all these flavours and you choose to be salty

requested by: kenore_s
ship: bruise
type of fic: fluff with a tiny element of angst
(also enjoy a recipe on how to make a chocolate cake)

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It's Cole's birthday in 54 minutes and my gift for him still has to arrive and as far as I'm concerned he has no birthday cake yet so here I am up at Six past Eleven making a cake for him when everyone is asleep (I think).

I pre-heated the oven to a hundred and seventy degrees celsius and I grabbed two twenty centimetre round baking tins and lined the bases with baking parchment. I then grabbed a large bowl and threw in two hundred grams of caster sugar and softened butter. I then cracked four large eggs into the bowl.

Fuck.

I looked down at the egg yolk laying on the floor in the midst of a broken egg shell.
"Jay?"
I nervously turned around to see Kai standing in the door frame rubbing his eyes.
"Ha ha wassup Kai!" I said.
I never stood up so fast. Sweat was forming and dripping down my forehead and making my palms feel moist. "What are you doing up?" I sheepishly asked him.
"Came to get some milk but I saw you on the floor." He responded.
He looked over at the counter and saw the mess of a cake I was making.
"Why are you making a cake?" He asked blankly.
"It's for Cole's Birthday." I replied.
Kai walked over to the fridge and nodded, he unscrewed the milk top and gulped it down and screwed the top back in and practically threw it back in the fridge.
"Enjoy your cake making!" He joked as he left.

I let out a little chuckle as I turned back to my "workspace". I then poured in two hundred grams of self-raising flour and two table spoons of cocoa powder. I dropped in one tea spoon of vanilla extract and one tea spoon of baking powder. I carefully put a pinch of salt in and two table spoons of milk.

I mixed the batter until there was no bumps and lumps in the mixture. I then picked up the bowl and very carefully poured it into the two cake tins. I probably made too much batter since there was so much left in the bowl.

"Are you making cake at nearly midnight?" A voice behind me asked.
I turned around to see Nya bent down getting something from the fridge.
"Yep, wanna help?" I offered.
"I would but I have 113 minutes left of A Silent Voice left to binge." Nya joked.
"Ha ha, don't start crying at it 'cos I did." I laughed.

Nya walked over to the bowl and dipped her finger in the batter just to taste it.
"Don't take this personally but this tastes salty...or maybe I just don't like cake, I don't know but add more sugar maybe?" Nya said.
"It'll taste better when it's done, don't worry." I responded.

I watched as she walked away out of the kitchen. I looked over at the oven and opened the oven door and I placed both tins inside for twenty minutes.

I wandered around the kitchen for a bit and looked at my phone.

I didn't realise that it was half past midnight already. I suddenly jumped at the timer going off. I walked over to the oven and took both of the cakes out and then placed them on a cooling rack for about ten minutes.

While I waited for the cakes to cool down I grabbed another bowl and chopped up one hundred grams of milk chocolate in it and placed in the microwave for about a minute or so and let it set for five minutes. 

I mashed up two hundred grams of softened butter and four hundred grams of icing sugar with a fork. I sifted in five table spoons of cocoa powder and a tiny pinch of salt and two table spoons of milk in the melted chocolate and I mixed until smooth to make some butter cream icing.

I removed one of the cakes from the tins and placed it onto a cake stand. I covered it with the chocolate butter cream and then I placed the second cake on top and pressed it down very lightly to sort of sandwich I guess? I then decorated the top of the cake in a flower pattern with the butter cream. Cole is going to love it!

I then placed the glass top on the cake stand and carried it to the dining room and placed it on the table. I then wrote a little note saying "Happy Birthday Cole!" on it and placed it slanted on the stand.

I walked into my room and got comfy into my bed.

"Jay wake up!" I could hear Cole squeal.
"What time is it?" I groaned and rolled over so I was next to him.
"Five AM." Cole smiled.
"Did you seriously wake me up at five?" I laughed.
"Yep!" Cole said as she sort of tackled me into a hug. I hugged him back and embraced his warmth.
"You're like a warm teddy bear." I stated as I wrapped my legs around his.
"I know and I'm your teddy bear." He kissed the top of my head.

Cole and I both got dressed (earlier than Zane somehow) and met each other in the hallway after. It was only half past six AM now so not long until everyone else is awake.

Only a few hours later at around lunch time everyone was dressed and we were all sat in the living room.

"Cole put the party hat on!" Lloyd laughed passing him one of the weird cone with a string hats saying "Happy Birthday" on it. 
"I have to take a picture of this!" Kai said as he was laughing his head off. 
"You sure you wanna do that?" Cole threatened as he stood up hitting his phone.

Before something escalated into an argument Zane was able to stop it.
"Cole here's my gift!" Zane said as he passed a neatly wrapped gift to Cole. I watched as Cole somehow teared the wrapping paper into one of the messiest ways I've ever seen.

"FUCK YES MORE DEMON SLAYER FIGURES" Cole cheered.
"Why are you so obsessed with Demon Slayer?" Kai asked. Cole didn't respond just death glared him.

After everyone gave Cole their gifts we all wanted to try some cake. We all walked down to the dining room and sat down for it. I watched as Wu carefully cut out eight equal slices for all of us and placed them on our plates.

"Wait." Wu commanded.
"We have to sing happy birthday to Cole." he laughed.
"Oh god" Cole groaned.
Nya grabbed out her phone and started filming everything   

"Happy birthday to you..." Everyone apart from Cole started screeching "Happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear COLEEE!" 

Cole tried his best to contain his laughter in but ended up bursting out and wouldn't stop laughing. Finally, we could eat the cake though. I watched as the others bit into in as as soon as the flavour hit them they had a sort of disgusted look on there face -even Cole.

"Jay not to be rude but this cake is disgusting like jesus christ man did you shit in it?" Kai rudely remarked.

I knew Kai had to say something he always did. I stood up and left the room and went to my room. As I was leaving I could hear someone following after me and Nya scolding Kai for being rude.

I flopped down on my bed and laid there. I stuffed my face into the pillow. I knew I'd mess up and ruin things, this is all my fault, I made a terrible cake and now Cole will hate me because I ruined one of the things he enjoys the most-

"Jay." I felt a hand tracing up and down my back, I could tell it was Cole.
"What do you want." I turned around and faced him.
"Why did you run off like that?" Cole asked in a gentle voice. Before we both said anything else I launched myself into him and hugged him.
"I'm so sorry, I ruined the cake for you, I don't even know what I did, I'm so sorry." I kept apologising.
"Jay you didn't ruin anything for me, it was a simple mistake and Kai was being a deckhead." Cole comforted.
"Why can't you call him a dickhead?" I joked.
"Doing a bet with Nya to see if I can go a week without swearing." Cole laughed.
"How's that going?" I snickered. 
"Crud." Cole replied.
We both started laughing in each other's embrace. Until Cole asked...

"What do you think went wrong with the cake then?"
"I have no idea- ohh wait, I know now I added salt instead of sugar." I responded.
"How did you do that?" Cole asked.
"Zane puts them in really similar containers so I got confused." I laughed.
"Understandable." Cole snickered.

"I'll make another one tomorrow." I offered.
"Yeah and I'll help so you don't get confused about sugar and salt."

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