Meeting Uncle Aiden III

Kiyo didn't want to hide from Akira about marriage. She didn't want him to feel I didn't care about him anymore. She didn't want him to feel uneasy with Irin when they met for the first time, and for that to happen, I needed to have a nice talk with Akira and hope he took it in a good way.

Hmm, I should prepare his favorites first before we have our talk. Should I introduce Irin as her boyfriend or as her husband? What if Akira doesn't like him? No matter what, I must tell Akira about my relationship with Irin, so he won't be surprised when he meets Irin in the evening.

With the plans ready, she went to the apartment in a good mood, and when she went in, she saw Akira in the living room sleeping on the sofa while the book fell at his feet at some point.

Looking at him like this, Kiyo signed before and went near him, and took him carefully in her arms, trying not to wake him up in the process and took him to his room, laid him on the bed, and covered him with a quilt before leaving the room.

Kiyo went to the living room, sat on the sofa, and closed her eyes. She stayed like that for a while, thinking about Akira.

I almost forgot that he hadn't gone out for a year because Akira feared someone might find him. He was adamant about not going out. Whenever I asked him, he always refused to play outside, saying he needed to study.

Now think about it. I hadn't spent much time with like before, but he never seemed to complain about it. If it were before a year, he would have made a ruckus asking me to spend some time playing with him.

He has changed when she hasn't noticed. He seemed to have grown up. She prefers him to trouble her like he usually did when their parents were around.

Hmm, maybe I should spend some time with him more from on. Wait, didn't that uncle of mine want to meet with us? I could use this opportunity to our advantage.

This way, Akira doesn't have to hide in a shell, and I could take him out to play once the deal is finalized.

Once Irin gets here, we need to prepare for the upcoming meeting with my uncle. Oh, I am going to enjoy this.

She slowly opened her eyes and went to the kitchen to make some cookies and cake that Akira loves to eat.

Kiyo took out the ingredients needed for the spiced pumpkin cookies and checked whether anything was missing. Started whole-wheat pastry flour, all-purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, ground cinnamon, ground ginger, ground allspice, freshly grated nutmeg, eggs, light brown sugar, canned unseasoned pumpkin puree, canola oil, dark molasses, raisins okay we have everything so let's make the cookies first. After ensuring she had everything she needed, she preheated the oven to 350 degrees F and coated three baking sheets with cooking spray.

Kiyo first started whisking whole-wheat flour, all-purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, allspice, and nutmeg in a large bowl. After that, she started whisking eggs, brown sugar, pumpkin, oil, and molasses in a second bowl until they were well combined. Next, she stirred the wet ingredients and raisins into the dry ingredients until they were thoroughly mixed.

Then she dropped the batter by level tablespoonfuls onto the prepared baking sheets, spacing the cookies 1 1/2 inches apart.

She baked the cookies until firm to the touch and lightly golden on top while switching the pans back to front and top to bottom halfway through, for 10 to 12 minutes. After doing all that, she transferred it to a wire rack to cool.

Before doing the Orleans nut cake she wanted to make some Lemon, Raspberry, and cream cheese oatmeal cake she hasn't had them for a long time now her mother used to do it often when she had time.

So she started to set the oven to 375°F coating a 12-cup muffin tin with cooking spray. After doing that she started to whisk cream cheese, jam, and lemon juice together in a small bowl. She combined oats, milk, 1/2 cup raspberries, brown sugar, apple sauce, eggs, baking powder, vanilla, lemon zest, and salt in a large bowl, breaking up the raspberries to distribute them throughout the batter. Finishing all that she filled each of the prepared muffin cups with 2 to 3 tablespoons of batter, then topped with a dollop of the raspberry cream cheese and some of the remaining 1/2 cup of raspberries and covered with the remaining batter. After baking for about 25 to 30 minutes she runs a knife around the edges of the muffin cups to release the oatmeal cakes and let it cool in the pan for 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack.

For the Orleans nut cake, she first placed a shallow pan of water at the bottom of the oven to add moisture and generously coated a 10-inch tube pan with cooking spray at 300°F.

She started to beat sugar and butter in the bowl of a stand mixer until they were well combined, about 1 minute. And added eggs, one at a time, beating until they were smooth about 1 minute. After that, she mixed flour and salt in a medium bowl; and added to the butter mixture alternately with 1 cup bourbon, starting and ending with the flour mixture and beating well after each addition, about 2 minutes. She folded in raisins and pecans and scraped the batter into the prepared pan. After baking it for1½ to 1¾ hours, she let it cool in the pan for at least 2 hours.

After 2 hours, she removed the cake from the pan to a plate. Use a fork to poke holes all over the cake and sprinkle with the remaining two tablespoons of bourbon. She arranged apple slices on top of the cake.