4 EASY BAKE

CHAPTER FOUR EASY BAKE Franny listened to some music as she stirred together cookie ingredients inside a big blue bowl. "Seriously, Igor, how difficult can baking be? You take some flour, add some sugar, toss it in the oven, and boom! You have delicious cookies, right?" Igor smiled and nodded. He had total faith in Franny's baking skills. Three hours later, the kitchen was a mess, and most of the cookies Franny had made were either raw,

burnt, or just plain nasty. Only one of them had turned out okay. She dropped it in Igor's dish and let him eat it. "I give up," Franny said. "This is too hard." Igor ran and got a painting he had recently finished and waved it at Franny.

"You're reminding me that this is all about the art, right?" Franny said, taking off her apron. Igor nodded. "And how I told them I would help…" Igor barked.

"Okay," Franny said. "I get it. We won't let our art friends down. But it's clear that I'm not much of a baker. If I'm going to do this, I'm going to have to do this MY WAY. Igor, to the laboratory!" Igor gulped. Franny always got that look in her eye when she was about to do something experimental.