On occasional late nights when he's tryna figure out the Decepticons' next move and stressing about everything, he'll take a break to sneak out of the Autobot base and seek out a place to get a box of maybe 12-13 donuts and just....eat them quietly at the computer station. He doesn’t do it very often, wanting to keep it almost like a novelty of sorts. 

One time he had to physically restrain himself when Minerva brought a box of donuts from her house and the other members of the team got all excited and ate them all and Hawk was so sad no one had told him or offered him any until he walked in on Slapdash wolfing down the last two while Ginrai, Cab, and Shuta cheered him on,,,he just quietly went back to monitor duty,,,visibly disappointed

“Is,,,is he ok??” Ranger asks. Waverider just shrugs. No one else knows. 

“Maybe he was just checking on us!”

“Yeah, we were being pretty loud..” 

And then they laugh. Hawk overhears them and laughs to himself. He doesn’t mind as long as everyone’s happy :)

Hawk eats them with some class, doesn’t like to wolf them down like he knows--for example--Ginrai might. He also takes small bites out of each one, just wanting to savor every bite. He knows a box can last him a whole week if he saves them, but the man just loves these so he ends up eating almost half the box by accident (its ok he knows it won’t impact his appearance since his true form is Cybertronian)

Oh, and he takes special care to hide the leftovers somewhere very safe where they will not be found so he can finish them off the next evening; he refuses to let anyone else do monitor duty late into the night anyway sir take a nap pls I worry about you and Dont start with But I’m Actually a Robot I dont Need sleep shh you need sleep 

and so while things might be stressful and terrifying because he wants so badly for earth to be safe and peaceful but the Decepticons are upredictable jerks and blow up a factory at 2 am for no reason so he has to rush out and deal with that,,,,, he’s thankful for the existence of these little donuts...the chocolate ones.....that he wouldn’t have known about had he never come to earth, and had he never chosen a human body as his other form. 

The others would be like "dude the ship can make the food automatically, that's what it did for Daniel, why do you need to learn this" but then Chromedome would explain that earth customs are interesting and there's no harm in learning the art of cooking. Highbrow would probably join in to say he's read some cool stuff about it and then ask if Cab can teach him sometime.

"Cab's cooking is not a thing to be trifled with!" Ginrai would semi-jokingly chime in, flashing the boy a thumbs up.

"If Shuta here doesn't eat it all first!!" Cab jokes, still beaming from the praise he so appreciates.

Shuta jumps on him, shouting indignantly and trying to defend his honor. As the adults laugh at the play-fight, they proceed to eat, and the food is surprisingly really good!! The boys abruptly end their fight and scramble over to the table after Minerva and Waverider joke about nearly eating everything.

At this moment Hawk joins them after his usual extra hours monitoring the city, wearing something other than that brown suit he always wears because it's a warm summer night and he is going to have fun hsjsjsj Hawk ily but please wear a normal thing for once because if you don't I'll draw you in a normal thing myself and it'll be a Hello Kitty t-shirt I mean it,,

They praise Cerebros for an awesome first try at cooking!! <3 

Hardhead, eyeing the colorful feast set out on the table, immediately asks if he can do anything to make Energon taste interesting, so the Autobot commander starts thinking about that...

"Calm down, buddy!" Brainstorm and Chromedome pat their aggressive friend on the back.

"But it looks so good!!"

"Commander will cook for us sometime, don't worry!"

Cerebros nods. "Yes, that I will do, Hardhead."

"...fine."