#sweetbiscuit

Promptoween 2024 Day 30

Vegan Iced Gems are colorful and delightful treats that are perfect for any occasion. These small, biscuit-like cookies are topped with sweet icing, making them a delicious and fun snack for kids and adults alike.

Ingredients: 150g all-purpose flour. 50g vegan butter. 50g powdered sugar. 1 tsp vanilla extract. 1-2 tbsp plant-based milk. Food coloring optional. 100g icing sugar. 1-2 tbsp water.

Instructions: Preheat the oven to 350F 175C and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. In a bowl, cream the vegan butter and powdered sugar until smooth. Add the vanilla extract and mix well. Gradually add the flour and mix until a dough forms. Add plant-based milk as needed to bring the dough together. Roll the dough into small balls and place them on the prepared baking sheet. Flatten each ball slightly. Bake for 10-12 minutes, or until lightly golden. Remove from the oven and let them cool completely. In a small bowl, mix the icing sugar with water to make a thick icing. Add food coloring if desired. Dip the cooled cookies into the icing, allowing any excess to drip off. Place them back on the baking sheet to set. Once the icing has set, store the iced gems in an airtight container.

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Cook Time: 12 minutes

Jungkook stares with a soft smile on his lips, leaning against the doorframe and waiting until his smaller lover realizes he’s being watched. He doesn’t. But one of the kids does.

“Mr.Jimin. Your friends is looking you again.” A little girl giggles in what she thinks is a whisper, Jimin turning around swiftly to look at where she’s not-so-discreetly pointing, smile lighting up his slightly red face.

“Hey, Jungkookie! I didn’t know you were going to stop by today.” Jimin states the sentence with a questioning lilt, tilting his head to the side as he squints at Jungkook.

Jungkook shrugs, dropping his messenger bag on the table by the door and moving to sit with Jimin and the thirteen children at the round table, smiling when the same little girl scoots over to allow him to sit next to Jimin and herself. “I just wanted to stop by on my way to class since I knew it was art day and all.”

“Oh! Oh! Did you bring your workbook with you, Mr.Jungkook? Did you? Did you?!” A boy across the table asks excitedly, pushing himself up to kneel on the table to look at Jungkook closer, eyes wide,  “Because. Because! Because Mr.Jimin brought his today, too! He showed us the pictures he drawed today, too!”

Raising an eyebrow at the way Jimin smiles at the young boy, Jungkook leans back on his hands, stretching wildly in the direction of his bag on the table, fingers brushing against the leather strap a few times, letting out a triumphant “ha!” when he finally gets a finger slipped under, tugging the bag to fall on the floor and towards himself and begins rifling through it, smiling widely as he pulls his main sketchbook from the piled together books. Sitting up and rounding back to the table, Jungkook suppresses the flush when he sees all of the children staring at him with wide-eyed shock before looking at Jimin with cheeky smiles and giggles, Jimin just smiling softly with his head resting on his closed fist propped up on the table. “What?”

Shaking his head, Jimin taps the shoulder of the young man to his right, “Can you tell Jungkookie our rule about getting stuff we can’t reach?”

The boy nods enthusiastically, “If it’s too high ask Mr.Jimin, don’t climb because you can hurt yourself. Don’t pull things off of any tables before checking to make sure nothing is there. You never know what can fall off and hurt someone.”

Jungkook gives a small pout, feigning hurt, “But I didn’t drop anything, though. So I won’t get in trouble, right, Mr.Jimin?”

Jimin rolls his eyes, blushing softly at the look Jungkook is giving him, “I don’t know. You aren’t setting a very good example for my children, now are you?”

Jungkook hums, straightening his book out on the table, directly in the middle and gives Jimin sad eyes, “But what if I show all of the kids my drawings? Will that get me off the hook?”

With chorus of yeses from the children coupled with Jungkook’s mischievous smile Jimin can’t really say no, sighing in defeat Jimin just nods. Jungkook opens his book, slowly flipping the pages so every one of the kids can get a good look at them, “What do you guys think?”

“You’re a good drawer!” The boy who’d initially asked Jungkook about his sketchbook smiles, glancing at Jungkook happily before gently touching the page they’re on. Jungkook slowly pulls his own hand away, trusting the small group of five and six year olds to be careful with his workbook. They always are. Smiling at the way they’re talking excitedly about the pictures Jungkook leans into Jimin’s space, glancing quickly at the kids once more before pressing a soft kiss to Jimin’s smiling lips, lingering a bit to allow himself a playful nip to Jimin’s bottom lip. “You should’ve woke me up before you left. You know I like having breakfast with you.”

Jimin smiles, looking at the kids briefly, “You had to stay up late to work on one of your essays. You needed your sleep, Kookie. I didn’t want to bother you.”

Jungkook presses his forehead to Jimin with a soft sigh, “Doesn’t matter, babe. I would’ve woke up for breakfast and then went back to sleep. With all my exams, your exams and your class, we haven’t really seen each other outside of sleep.”

Jimin sighs, smiling at the particularly loud exclamation of a picture by one of the children, “I know. I miss you.”

Pulling away from Jimin, Jungkook shuffles closer to the table, smiling at the way the children are pointing excitedly at a picture Jungkook has drawn of Jimin when the older man had fallen asleep on their couch.

“That’s Mr.Jimin!”

“It is. What do you think? Does it look the same as him?” Jungkook smiles, lacing his fingers with Jimin’s under the table.

“Yes. Mr.Jimin has a picture of you in his pictures, too.”

Smiling at Jimin cheekily, Jungkook nudges him softly, “Does he now?” Laughing at the red hue on Jimin face, Jungkook lightly tugs the sketchbook back towards himself, glancing at the clock above Jimin’s desk, “Unfortunately I have class to get to. I’ll try to stop by next art class, too, okay?”

“Okay! I want everyone to take out their sketchbooks and draw their favorite animal. It doesn’t have to be accurate colors, or even a real animal. It can be pink and purple striped dragon or a yellow unicorn. I don’t mind as long as you can tell me why that color and why it’s your favorite. And, no. You can’t say ‘because it’s pretty’ or ‘because it’s cool’. Actual, real, reasons.” Jimin instructs with a firm smile, eyeing the rambunctious group of boys across from where Jungkook was sitting. When the children nod in an acceptance and start pulling their own workbooks out to follow orders Jimin walks with Jungkook to the door, pushing himself up on his toes to press another quick kiss on Jungkook’s lips.

Jungkook leans in for another kiss as Jimin pulls away, “I want to take you out to dinner tonight. It’s Friday and I only have my art class and our dance class today. After class we’ll go home and shower and then go to an actual restaurant for dinner. Just the two of us. We’ll tell everyone else from class they can find their own food. I want you all to myself tonight. Okay, baby?”