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only-lonely-stars · 4 days

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Hair As Gold As Straw (Prologue)

[Prologue - you are here!] // [Chapter 1 of 9] – (FFN) (AO3)

Part of the @ninjago-fairy-tale-au!

Summary:

Once upon a time, Princess Vania of Shintaro lived in an ivory castle in an ivory city. Her father, King Vangelis, kept her safe in her tower, where no one could hurt her and she could not hurt herself... until the day when she ran away. A Colania Snow White retelling.

It was the middle of winter in the Kingdom of Shintaro, and the queen sat in the window. She gazed out the window at the slowly-falling snow. The snowflakes shrouder her kingdom in a welcoming blanket, concealing the ivory and gold in purest white, as if to erase them. Stars twinkled through the gaps in the clouds, silently gazing down. The queen smiled at the sight.

In the arms of the queen laid a baby girl, snoring near-silently. Her wispy, straw-yellow hair barely concealed the top of her head, and her skin was pale as ivory. She happily slept, unconcerned with the world outside the window. Her mother rocked her gently, humming quietly. The snow muffled all outside sound in its gentle embrace.

There came a quiet knock at the door. The king came inside the room and greeted his wife.

"Dearest, there you are. The doctors said you were not in bed."

The queen smiled. "Vangelis, you worry too much. I simply came to watch the snow." She rocked the baby gently, enjoying the smile it elicited. "I had hoped that Vania would be lulled to sleep by it, and I was right."

"I worry the right amount, my love. You have been weaker by the day since our daughter's birth. I do not wish to see you suffer."

"My husband, I am not suffering: I am caring for our child." The queen smiled. "If it will please you, I will come to bed, but only if you join me."

"Very well," the king conceded. He took Vania from her arms, gently lifting her with the care of a father's love. "It is late, in any case."

For the next few years, the king and queen of Shintaro. lived happily with their daughter. Peace and love reigned over the ivory kingdom of Shintaro, and prosperity touched every man, woman, and child. However, after a few years and as winter's cold grip weakened to springtime, so did the queen's health.

"Vangelis," the queen called weakly from her bed. "You must promise me."

"What must I do?" the king asked his wife. He took her hand in his.

"I have one final wish, husband. Protect our daughter; she will be rash, and curious. Unknowing of the world. Keep her safe, here in Shintaro." She breathed weakly. "Our child must not grow up in the knowledge of our world's hatred."

"I will take care of her, my love." The king kissed her. "I will keep her safe from herself."

The king stayed with her until her breath ran out, and then she lived no more. All of Shintaro mourned their gracious queen, rich in mercy and compassion.

So it was that Princess Vania of Shintaro grew up in the loving watchfulness of her father, King Vangelis, knowing no pain nor suffering, nor anything of the outside world. She grew up to be a beautiful young woman, with skin as fair as ivory, and hair as gold as straw. She dreamt of new worlds, of open skies, of flight with wings that she was denied, and of freedom.

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ninjago-shipping · 8 months

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VanillaCake = Vania x Cole

Cole is known for liking cake, and some would say that vanilla sounds like “Vania”. Another reason is that Vania gives vanilla cake vibes.

#vanillacake #vanillacakeshipping #cole brookestone #cole ninjago #ninjago cole #vania ninjago #ninjago vania

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leva1 · 8 months

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Chocolate Cake with Strawberry Flavor

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masalamingles · 3 months

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Strawberry Shortcake

Certainly! Strawberry Shortcake is a classic and delicious dessert. Here’s a simple recipe for you:

Ingredients for Strawberry Shortcake:

For the Shortcakes:

2 cups all-purpose flour

1/4 cup granulated sugar

1 tablespoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 Half a cup of chilled, unsalted butter, divided into little pieces.

2/3 cup milk

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

For the Strawberries:

4 cups fresh strawberries, hulled and sliced

1/4 cup granulated sugar

1 teaspoon lemon juice

For the Whipped Cream:

1 cup heavy cream

2 tablespoons powdered sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions Strawberry Shortcake:

Preheat the oven: Preheat your oven to 425°F (220°C).

Prepare the strawberries: In a bowl, combine sliced strawberries with sugar and lemon juice. Toss gently to coat the strawberries in sugar, then set aside to let them release their juices.

Make the shortcakes: In a large mixing basin, stir together the Sugar, Flour, baking powder, and salt. When the mixture resembles coarse crumbs, add the cold, cubed butter and cut it into the dry ingredients with a pastry cutter or your fingertips.

Add the vanilla extract and milk. Mix until barely incorporated. Keep in mind that the dough should be somewhat sticky and avoid overmixing it.

Place the dough onto a surface dusted with flour. Work the dough lightly several times until it comes together. Pat dough to a thickness of about 1 inch.

Cut the dough into the shape of shortcakes using a round biscuit cutter. Transfer the rounds to a parchment paper-lined baking sheet.

Bake the shortcakes for 12 to 15 minutes, or until they turn golden brown. After letting them cool a little on the baking sheet, move them to a wire rack to finish cooling.

Make the whipped cream: Beat the heavy cream, powdered sugar, and vanilla extract together in a refrigerated basin until stiff peaks form.

Assemble the Strawberry Shortcakes: Cut the shortcakes in half lengthwise. Spoon a small amount of the strawberry mixture onto each shortcake’s lower half. Place the other half of the shortcake on top after dolloping a good amount of whipped cream on top.

Serve: Serve the strawberry shortcakes immediately and enjoy!

This recipe makes a delightful and classic Strawberry Shortcake. Feel free to adjust the sugar quantities based on your preference, and enjoy this delicious treat!

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suicidesiren · 2 years

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dulce perfume oil by rosie jane is so delicious and the best vanilla fragrance i’ve smelled in a WHILE with good lasting power but you didn’t hear that from me

#coquette #perfume #perfume oil #vanillacake #sweets

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mlsaltyginger · 11 months

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(via Vanilla Traybake (Sheet Cake))

#baking #vanillacake #frosting

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basedla · 9 months

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#graphicdesign #digitalart #art #rhode #rhodeskin #skincare #haileybieber #haileybaldwin #vanilla #vanillacake #peptide #lipgloss #liptreatment #glaze

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winnikhagaul · 1 year

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WINNI CAKES

WNNI CAKES has taken a renowned place in the world of online cake shops and has won the hearts of million. WINNI CAKES is a bakery that serves delicious cakes and other bakery products (snacks, cookies, cup cakes, chocolates) in Khagaul Road, Patna .

#cake #bakery #cupcakes #pancakes #buttercreamcake #vanillacake #chocolatecake #chocolate #chocolatelovers #cakedesign #cakelover

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trashnotfound · 18 days

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✨Vanillacake headcannons✨

- Cole and Vania write letters to eachother due to communication between ninjago and shintaro being difficult

- Vania likes to bake chocolate cake for cole when he visits her

- vania once snuck away for a weekend so cole could show her around Ninjago city

- Vania doesn’t like chocolate (because they don’t usually have it in shintaro) but she makes sure to keep some for cole

- their favourite thing to do when Cole visits shintaro is spending time in the palace gardens, Vania usually reads one of her many books on the ninja cole lays his head on her lap and listens

- cole braids Vanias hair

- even tho Vania is queen Cole’s fav nickname to use is princess (trying to make him calling her princess in crystallised something good 💀)

- cole brings Vania hydrangeas everytime he sees her (their her fav flower and are the ones used to commemorate her mother by her statue)

- cole calls their daughter “my little hydrangea” (pink ones have a saying of “you are the beat of my heart” others promoting pride, gratitude etc)

#ninjago vanillacake shipping #vanillacake #vanillacake shipping #colnia #ninjago colnia #cole x vania shipping #cole x vania #ninjago cole x Vania #conia #ninjago conia #ninjago conia headcannon #trashnotfound head cannons #ninjago headcanons

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nosauce · 1 year

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I cannot stop singing the joys of a cake topper! It makes everything feel festive and fun and - spoiler alert - it makes frosting your cake so much easier!!!! This one is from @ahlouisstore - I hard a really hard time deciding what to get because they have so so many amazing ones! However sometimes its@just time to Treat Yo Self!!!!! 🎂 🍰 🧁 . . . . . #treatyourself #treatyoself #cake #caketopper #caketoppers #caketopperideas #vanilla #vanillacake #buttercream #buttercreamcakes #dairyfree #nodairynoproblem #nodairy #milkfree #nomilk #sinleche #sinlactosa #nolactose #dairyfreedessert #lactosefree #allergies #allergyfriendly #allergysafe #foodallergies #foodallergyfriendly #cakesofinstagram #cakes #cakedesign #cakecakecake #cakestagram (at Hoboken, New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkDhnBhr1sl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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war4utv · 2 years

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Do you like Red velvet pastry . . . #redvelvetcake #redvelvet #cake #birthdaycake #chocolatecake #cakesofinstagram #cakes #cupcakes #cakedecorating #chocolate #homemade #brownies #vanillacake #homebaker #dessert #weddingcake #cakestagram #anniversarycake #cakelover #baking #cheesecake #yummy #bakery #cakedesign #foodporn #creamcheesefrosting #birthday #instacake #homemadecake #buttercreamcake https://www.instagram.com/p/CjmanVDPAbb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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only-lonely-stars · 2 days

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Hair As Gold As Straw (Chapter 1 - Yearning for Freedom)

[Prologue] // [Chapter 1 of 9 - you are here!] // [Chapter 2 of 9] – (FFN) (AO3)

Part of the @ninjago-fairy-tale-au!

Summary:

Chapter summary:

Princess Vania, knowing only her gilded cage, begins to explore... and to dream of adventure.

Princess Vania of Shintaro lived in beautiful ignorance in her ivory kingdom. Servants and guards waited on her, and her people showered her with love. She was given accolades and taught all the lovely things of the world– literature, poetry, music, theater. She was educated in the highest manner, too, with great levels of mathematics and philosophy. She lived as all would dream to.

However, Vania found herself continuously restless. Despite all the opportunity availed to her, she found herself awash in boredom. Life had no meaning; she could not leave Shintaro, no matter how she wished. She was a princess, shut away– forced to live in beauty, yet hidden from all the smaller things in life. Even her people's gift of flight was denied to her, for fear that she might hurt herself. She only had access to her wings when she was allowed, and never freely.

Vania dreamed of freedom and of open skies, but most of all, of adventure. When she was a child, she asked her father if she would be allowed to leave Shintaro one day.

"My child," the king answered, "one day in the future, when it is possible to assure that you will always be safe no matter how far you go, you may explore to your heart's content, but not today. You are not old enough, yet."

Such was his continual answer: "someday when you are older, but not today."

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When Vania was seven years old, she snuck out of her bedroom late at night. It was the night before her eighth birthday, and she was unable to sleep. She took her dolls and toys into the throne room of the castle to play in the moonlight, pretending to be queen.

As she played, she did not see a dark-skinned creature approach her. It touched her shoulder, and she cried out in fear. When she turned, she saw it running away to behind a column, where she could not see it. After a minute, it peeked its head out, looking to see if the coast was clear. Vania was frozen.

After a few minutes, she approached the creature. "Hello?" The creature shied away, and she pressed, "who are you?"

It stepped out into view, showing off its short stature and purple skin. Its ears were pointy, like Vania's, but they were tilted back and already pierced. It wore simple, ragged clothing.

"I am Gleck."

"Hello, Gleck," Vania said. "I am Vania."

"Hello," it said. It fidgeted with a locket necklace that it wore.

"Are you okay?" Vania asked the creature, and it nodded. "Why are you here? Do you not have a home?"

The creature shook its head. "I have a home, but we are forbidden from coming up to the surface." It shied away again, like it wanted to run.

"To the surface? Do you live underground?" Vania asked it.

"Yes. You live on the surface?"

"Yes." Vania hugged her doll tightly to herself. "It's my birthday."

"What is a birthday?" Gleck asked.

"I was born today."

"You do not look like a baby."

Vania laughed. "No, I was born today, eight years ago."

Gleck paused. "I was also born eight years ago, but I don't know the day." He seemed to relax.

"You don't know your birthday?" He shook his head, and Vania frowned. "That sounds awful."

"We do not have 'birthdays,'" Gleck said.

"Do you want to share?" Vania asked. She held out her doll. "Today can be your birthday, too."

Gleck took the doll hesitantly. "Is it a good thing?"

"Yes!" Vania said. "It is good."

"...Okay." Gleck smiled. "Today can be my birthday, too."

Vania and Gleck played for a while that night, until the sun came peeking over the horizon. He disappeared from the Castle, and Vania did not see him for several days. When he next appeared, they played again, and for several years they made a habit of it. However, it did not last.

One fateful night, Gleck came to visit Vania in her room. However, not more than a few minutes later, her father's knock came at the door, and he entered and saw Gleck.

When King Vangelis saw the creature, he was full of rage. He cast the creature out of the castle, telling him never to return. Vania was likewise told never to speak to him again, if he ever came back. A new guard named Hailmar was posted at her door, and she was unable to ever leave at night again. She and Gleck were separated on that day, and she lost her closest friend forever. As the winter snows began to fall, loneliness was not far behind.

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Over the years, Vania's restrictions became ever tighter. She left the castle less and less, always being told that it was not safe outside Shintaro. Her father became distant, being wrapped up in work and obligations. The seasons turned, and even the pure white snow that fell on the city did not bring her comfort, like it had before.

One of the few shining lights in Vania's life was her personal guard, Hailmar. He was a young man, with ivory skin like all Shintarans (although less so than Vania) and rich brown hair that showed itself when he rarely took off his helmet. Hailmar made himself Vania's friend, and as she grew up, he took care of her needs and protected her. Many a time, he would play her games with her, and he would tell stories about the outside world.

Vania's favorite of Hailmar's stories was one he told her about the outside world: Ninjago. He spoke of an order of ancient knights, ninja, and samurai, trained in their respective arts. They were Ninjago's protectors for centuries, guarding the people from evils of all manners. Some of them rode dragons, or harnessed the powers of the elements, but all were honorable and lovers of peace. However, their order was lost a long time ago, and memory of them was slipping away as they became legend.

Vania adored hearing about the knights. When she would play with her dolls, she would pretend that they were these protectors, and she told and retold herself their stories. As she grew older, her dreams of them shifted from faraway protectors to adventurers, and she dreamed of going on one. She would meet a knight who would sweep her off her feet, and together they would ride a dragon to unknown worlds, full of adventure and danger.

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One day when she was sixteen, Vania asked her father again when she might be able to leave Shintaro and visit Ninjago. Unbeknownst to her, that day her father had flown into a terrible rage after receiving unfavorable news, and he assailed her with it, speaking terrible things. He shouted and lectured, telling her about how she was ungrateful for everything he provided for her. He sent her to her room, stationing Hailmar outside with the express orders not to let her leave for any reason until he came back.

Vania cried for hours in her room, unable to compose herself. Her father, never before treating her this way, had shocked her, and she was unable to cope.

After she regained her composure and reconstituted herself, it was evening. However, suppertime came and went, and she was left undisturbed. She asked Hailmar when supper might be, and he answered that he had orders not to let her out until her father came back. She went to bed hungry that night.

When morning came the next day, Vania was still undisturbed. The day passed with her remaining inside her bedroom. At some point, another person had come to her door, and she burst out hoping it was her father, but it was only Hailmar being relieved of duty by another guard, betraying her loneliness for his own needs. She excused herself back to her room, and it for many hours she waited for Hailmar to return, eventually falling asleep to fitful dreams.

Vania awoke in the middle of the night to being shaken. She saw Hailmar, standing above her with a bag.

"Your Highness, you must wake up!"

"Hailmar?" Vania asked. "It is the middle of the night. Has my father returned?"

"No," he said. "Your father has shut himself in his room for all but meals, saying you are unwell. He intends only to return when he receives news that you have begged for forgiveness, to teach you a lesson. You must leave."

Vania got up, filled with dread. "What? My father would not do that."

"He already is, Highness." Hailmar gave her the bag. "Dress yourself in your most practical clothes, and prepare yourself. You must leave the castle."

"Where will I go?" she asked. "I know nothing about Shintaro, or Ninjago for that matter!"

"You will find somewhere, I am sure. Be swift." Hailmar put the bag on her bed and left the room, taking the post in front of her door.

Vania dressed herself quickly, her mind racing. She looked in the bag to see some travel essentials; a knife, rope, a blanket, a torch, and food and water enough for several days. Once she was ready, she came out to see Hailmar.

"Am I to eat this food now?" she asked.

"No," he said. "We will take a detour through the kitchens, and then will go out through the gardens. There is a side door there, near the mines' grate."

After Vania had eaten her fill, he escorted her to the gardens. After saying farewell, Hailmar went back to take his position in front of her bedroom door. He would trick her father, telling him that she had run away in the night. Meanwhile, she would be safely away where he could not find her.

Vania looked between the door and the grate. Where would she go? She had met Gleck all those years ago, and although everyone told her that she had imagined him she knew that he was real. On the other hand, she could go into the city, and look for a compassionate family to keep her safe. She could also leave Shintaro for Ninjago, and see if she could find the knights the stories spoke of if they were real. However, nothing seemed as familiar as Gleck, and she had missed him sorely for years…

After a few minutes of deliberation, she stepped to the grate. It came off with a little bit of tugging, and once it gave way she snuck into the tunnels below the castle.

The tunnels were cold, seeping into Vania's bones. The darkness was immense, lit only by the torch she carried. Moisture dripped from the ceiling, and the rocks cast menacing shadows, but she continued on. Eventually, she came to a great cavern, lit by stalactites that were covered in bioluminscent moss. Ladders were leaning against them, and small purple creatures were scraping the moss into buckets. They chattered amongst themselves, until one of them spotted Vania and fell off his ladder. She gasped.

"Are you okay?"

The creature stared at her and pointed. "A Shintaran! They have invaded the caves!"

"No!" she protested. "I'm not here to hurt you!" She watched it get up. "I know what you are."

"You do, do you?" another asked. "You know of the Geckles? What kind of Shintaran are you?"

"I used to know one of you," she said. "His name was Gleck."

The creatures muttered amongst themselves, and one of them came up to her. "Who are you?"

"Prin- Vania. My name is Vania."

"Very well, Vania," it said. "I am Grendle. We will take you to the Geckle Parliament so you may state your business… unless you are one of the Munce?"

"What's a Munce?" Vania asked. The creatures began muttering again, but Grendle held up his hand.

"Silence!" He turned to Vania. "Very well. Come with us."

Vania followed Grendle and the other Geckles through the caverns. The air became colder and colder, and she shivered. Eventually, they came to a great pair of doors, which towered over all of them. Vania stared up at them, and she felt small, already regretting leaving home for this cold, unwelcoming world.

Grendle knocked on the doors. "A stranger has come into the caverns and must come before the Parliament!" he cried.

"Bring him in!" another voice called from inside.

The doors creaked open, and the other two Geckles took Vania's arms, pulling her inside. Once she entered, doors slammed shut behind them.

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