Faelora Leafy Greens


Gather and prepare the ingredients.


Start by pan-frying the bacon and sweet potato first as they take the longest.


Add in the mushroom and zucchini.


Drizzle the soy sauce over the mix and stir it through.


Wash half a bag of baby spinach and add one handful to mix, stir it through and let it reduce in size a little bit before adding the remainder of the spinach. Let the remainder reduce a little bit then remove from heat.


All done, enjoy! ^^

Okay. I have my ingredients, time to get started.


Would you like to help, Vash? Okay. Go ahead and chop the cherries.


Maybe not so much uh vigor? No worries. Besides, it's yummy.


Hey Vash! Lookit! Three yolks out of two eggs. Huh. I wonder if that counts as three eggs or still just two? I think your right. It's probably only two still.


Got everything mixed together. Just gotta put it in the oven. Where you going Vash? For a flame thrower, you certainly do not like ovens.


Well I guess Vash is not coming back to keep helping. He really doesn't like ovens. No biggie. Cake needs to cool anyway.


Frosting didn't work out like expected but I can't argue with the end result. I mean I could but I won't. Now I don't have to feel guilty about portion sizes.

"Ah, is this a baking contest I see? I've always dreamed of entering in of these! Hm, and there just happens to be one day left!"

"Flynn, do we have a free afternoon today? We do, you say? How about we put our meager baking skills to create the most delicious, creative chocolate cake we can? We may not win the biggest prize, but I think eating the final product is a prize in and of itself!"

"Hurry, we don't have much time left! Let's get started!"



"Flynn, what do we need to make this delicious treat? Wow, that's a lot of ingredients! Let's get them all out so we don't forget anything."

"Okie dokie, here's all of our dry ingredients!"



"And here's our wet ones...Flynn, remember that we're both lactose intolerant, so don't forget the lactose-free milk!"



"Don't forget the equipment! It's much too hard to mix everything by hand; thank goodness we have our very own mixer!"



"Hey Flynn, what's the first step? Let's see...preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and prepare our pans. Let's dust ours with cocoa powder, for extra chocolate-y goodness!"



"Then we mix our dry ingredients together! Mmm, it already looks like it's going to pack a heck of a lot of chocolate flavor!"



"Next, we add all of our wet ingredients to the dry ingredients. It looks very liquid-y, but I'm sure that it's going to ensure that we end up with the most delicious, moist chocolate cake!"



"30 minutes later, and the cakes are all done! Now, we get to sit back and relax while they cool in the refrigerator...can't frost 'em while they're still hot!"



"While we're waiting, let's make the frosting! Flynn and I's all-time favorite frosting is cream cheese--not too sweet, and oh-so-creamy and scrumptious!"



"Don't you love fresh fruit, Flynn? Let's pile the middle with freshly grown strawberries from our backyard, so that every bite of cake will be full of sweet, delicious strawberry! Even if we eat a lot of cake, it's still healthy since it's chock-full of fruit!"



"And here's our finished chocolate cake! We decorated the top with even more strawberries--intricately cut out into roses and, as the centerpiece, carvings of Flynn and his best friend, Bluebell!"




"Flynn and I had so much fun making this cake together! Even though it took a long time and effort, we're so glad we had a chance to enter this contest! We hope you can enjoy this cake with your friends, Sereia! :D"

"Here is the recipe that Flynn and I used to create this cake, if you're inspired by it and would like to make it yourself!"

Ingredients

Cake:
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups sugar
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon espresso powder homemade or store-bought
1 cup milk buttermilk, almond, or coconut milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil canola oil, or melted coconut oil
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup boiling water

Cream Cheese Frosting:
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter softened
8 oz cream cheese softened
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon salt
4 cups powdered sugar

Instructions (Cake)

1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Prepare two 9-inch cake pans by spraying with baking spray or buttering and lightly flouring.
2. Add flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, salt and espresso powder to a large bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer. Whisk through to combine or, using your paddle attachment, stir through flour mixture until combined well.
3. Add milk, vegetable oil, eggs, and vanilla to flour mixture and mix together on medium speed until well combined. Reduce speed and carefully add boiling water to the cake batter until well combined.
4. Distribute cake batter evenly between the two prepared cake pans. Bake for 30-35 minutes, until a toothpick or cake tester inserted in the center of the chocolate cake comes out clean.
5. Remove from the oven and allow to cool for about 10 minutes, remove from the pan and cool completely.
6. Frost cake with cream cheese frosting.

Instructions (Frosting)

1. Combine butter and cream cheese in the bowl of a stand mixer (or you may use an electric mixer) and beat until creamy, well-combined, and lump-free.
2. Add vanilla extract and salt and stir well to combine.
3. With mixer on low, gradually add powdered sugar until completely combined.

"Enjoy!"

*chocolate cake recipe
*cream cheese frosting recipe

Thank you to everyone who participated in this fun and new contest! It was awesome to see all of the submissions and it was really tough to pick winners. So, we decided to do the breakdown a little differently and basically picked a couple Grand Winners and then also picked Winners for each specific Recipe. A few of the Recipes didn't get as many submissions as the others, so they had less Recipes Winners selected.

Regardless, everyone who participated will also receive a nice bundle of Participation Prizes.


Grand Winners
Prizes: [2020 Patriotic Event Bundle]


Lenore



Wisiro



Recipe Winners
Prizes: 2,000 , [Peerless Avatar Token] x1, 3-Visible Patriotic Event Themed Pet of Choice, Patriotic Service Bundle of Choice

Umbra Forest Gateau


Lenore



Silverstream616



Whiterabbit14



Bulbori Drop Cookies


Mikazukichan



Morkko Claw Pastries


Vineyiea



Faelora Leafy Greens


AliceHearts



Galaxea



Malas120



Ny'vene Flame Chili


Stupic



Tigress



Wisiro



All Valid Participants
Prizes: Title: Fairy Sous Chef, [Sylestian Service Bonus Themed Pet] x1, [Masterful Snare Trap] x1, [Philter of Trait Disruption (Themed)] x1