The girl stuck in books

Cake pt.2

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Ingredients
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1 cup all purpose flour
1/2 cup cake flour
1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 1/3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup unsalted butter (softened)
4 large eggs
1 cup plain Greek yogurt
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

I read off all the ingredients and watched as Alex grabbed them and placed them neatly on the counter.

"What's the first step?" Alex asked out of breath from running back and forth finding the ingredients.

"Preheat the oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit" I tell him. He's like my slave, I read what to do, and he does it. But I love to bake so I'll only make him do things I don't enjoy doing. Like mixing.

I hate hand mixing, our electric mixer is broken so I tire myself out trying to cream the butter and sugars. Good thing he's a football player.

"Now what?" He asks, excited to actually bake. Little does he know he's gonna grease the pans also. I smirk at him.

"Grease the pans" I point to the three 8 inch circular pans on the counter. He sighs and starts working.

"I regret asking you if you need help" I grin up at him and he gives me a small smile back. My heart flutters. Snap out of it.

"Next" he says. While I do love baking, I love watching his obey my commands. "Mix all the dry ingredients together" I sit on a chair and start fanning my face. "All this work, I'm exhausted" I say out loud. He glared over at me as I laugh at my own joke.

The next 30 minutes contains me telling him what do to, and him not doing it correctly. Just when I thought he couldn't get dumber.

"Do I crack the eggs into the dry ingredients?" He asks after i specifically told him to crack it in the wet ingredients. "No in the wet ingredients" he point to the larger bowl that contains the flour and butter. I sigh and walk over and show him the smaller bowl which has the sugar, vanilla, yogurt, and what is supposed to have the eggs.

He nods his head like he understands but continues to crack it over the larger bow. My eyes go wide and I take the egg from him and professionally crack the egg with one hand and dump it in the smaller bowl. He looks over at me impressed as I do another one.

"Teach me" he demands. "First you do this" I say and lightly tap it on the bowl to form a crack, "then you do this" he watches as my fingers spread apart there's another thing I want him spread apart for him ew what the fuck did I just think I shudder next to him. The egg plops in the bowl and I look over at him with a satisfied smirk on my face.

He does exactly what I told him but somehow better. I gasp and cover my mouth like I was shocked. He smirks, "my mom taught me how to do this a while back, I just forgot until now" how could someone beat me at my own hobby. Possibly my future career.

After having him mix all the ingredients together, I start pouring the batter into the three pans evenly. I have a fear of ovens so I have him put the pans in. It's not like I'm terrified of them, I just don't trust myself because I get burned way too many times on those things.

He takes the spatula from me and starts licking it off and raising his eyebrows up and down. I have something else you can lick- STOP

I scrunch my nose at him. "Salmonella" I say and he gives me a confused look. He doesn't know what salmonella is.

I grab the dishes and start to wash them, Alex comes up behind me, his front to my back. We were almost touching, I could feel his body heat radiating off on me. If I just took a step back- nope not gonna happen

He grabs other dishes and starts washing them and help loads them into the dishwasher. After we are all done cleaning we sit and wait for the cakes to come out.

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After 36 minutes the three cakes were waiting on the stove. "Time to make the frosting" I grin when he moans. I know something he can- ughhhhhh

2 cups raspberries
6 egg whites
6 cups granulated sugar
2 cups insulated butter (softened)

I read him the ingredient, but he didn't do anything. "Hey I told you to get the ingredients" I say, I was flabbergasted. He grabbed my phone and started reading off the ingredients. The nerve this man has.

Grabbing the ingredients together, he tells me what to do next.

I use a food processor to purée the raspberries, then I use a metal strainer to separate the seeds from the juice. Then I cooked the juice on medium low heat until it was the consistency of jam.

I whisked the egg whites until I couldn't feel my arms anymore. Adding the rest of the ingredients I re-whipped until I felt like I wanted to pass out. In the corner of my eye I could see Alex laughing at me. I wanted to punch his face.

The whole process was worth it once I spread the frosting on the three cakes. It looked professional to me. Topping with raspberries and a pattern if frosting on the bottom side, I grabbed a gel frosting and piped "I hate U" and stared in delight at my masterpiece.

I showed him the cake and he punched me in the arm, ow

I rubbed my arm where he hit me. I knew he didn't mean to hit me that hard but he did. I placed the cake in the fridge and cleaned up the kitchen again.

"We did such a good job" I look over at Alex who was closer than I though he was.

Actually he was standing right next to me. His breath fanning my face. I stared at his eyes, and watched as his trailed down to my lips. I parted my lips and my breath hitched.

The tension in the room was crazy. Until we heard footsteps coming down the stairs. We leapt apart from each other, his eyes still lingering on me as I looked everywhere but at him. Blush took over my face as Josh walked in. "Dude what took you so long I was waiting for you to come up there, I ended up falling asleep" he looked suspiciously between the two of us.

"We were baking a cake" he responded and glanced at me. "Cmon dude" Josh pulled Alex upstairs and I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding.

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