Baking With OP Men
Headcannons of what it would be like to bake with OP men cause I love baking and thinking about this made me so soft
Characters: Portgas D. Ace, Roronoa Zoro, Sanji, Monkey D. Luffy
CW: Mostly fluff, written with a romantic relationship in mind, pretty clean the most they're doing is kissing lmfao
Ace
Is not very helpful I’m sorry but it's true
Listen okay Ace tries but he has a very short attention span (and narcolepsy 💀) so he has trouble focusing on and remembering your instructions
Will absolutely volunteer to help you though, partly to keep you company but mostly because he loves to steal the batter
“Ace you’ll get salmonella!”
"It’s worth it!”
If you assign him small tasks like mixing the ingredients together, then he usually does alright
You can’t give him more than one task at a time though or else he’ll get confused
Do NOT let him measure ingredients. He believes in measuring with his heart, and while I love Ace his heart is NOT good at baking
He does best when you two make something quick and easy like cookies. If you try to tackle a longer project, like cinnamon buns, he gets bored with all the waiting around in between steps and will forget about it to go do something more exciting
While baking isn’t really his favourite he LOVES decorating
He's not very good at it but he gets so excited and it's so cute
Decorating gingerbread cookies in the winter, he goes all out
“Look y/n i made it look just like you!!”
*cut to a mess of icing and candy thrown onto a cookie in a totally abstract way*
“uhhh yeah… Looks great, Ace!”
His favourite to decorate though is cake
He likes how much freedom he has
Usually you just bake for fun, so you let him go crazy with the decorating because you like to see how giddy and creative he gets
If you’re baking for a special occasion or a birthday or something a little more formal, you’ll work together to decorate the cake
He’s shockingly good at getting little details with the icing
He’s not great at the rest of it but boy does he shine in that one specific area
You always end up with way less batter than you’d expected because Ace sneaks fingerful after fingerful of batter while you’re not looking
The kitchen is an absolute disaster after you’ve finished, but you two are laughing the entire time, even while cleaning it up
Baking with Ace is never serious, and he always makes the experience even more enjoyable for you
Zoro
Like Ace, is not very helpful
The difference is that Zoro doesn’t even try
He’ll sit at the counter to keep you company, and he doesn’t mind watching you work
He thinks its cute how your brows furrow when you’re focusing on what the task at hand
Will let you talk his ear off as you explain what you’re doing
Won’t contribute much to the conversation but he nods and makes little noises to let you know that he’s listening
Zoro will participate if you make him, but he’ll put up a good fight and complain the whole time
Secretly he doesn’t mind because he likes doing stuff with you, but he’s very stubborn so he'll never admit it
He’s surprisingly good at following your orders
It’s the only time you can boss him around
If the baking goes well he’ll accept compliments but if it doesn’t turn out he will not hesitate to put the blame squarely on you (jerk)
Zoro's weirdly good at math so the best task to give him is measuring the ingredients
Especially if you’re messing with the size of the batch
He can do the fractions so quick in his head it’s really impressive
Will always eat what you make whether it turns out good or not
Even if it’s burnt Zoro will eat it without hesitation and he’ll tell you how much he likes it
Sanji
Will be over the MOON if you ask him to bake with you
Sanji loves you and he loves cooking; it’s literally the perfect combination
He’s better at cooking than he is at baking but this man is a perfectionist and he did not spend years at the Baratie without learning how to bake well
Unfortunately Sanji's a bit of a control freak in the kitchen and has trouble letting you do anything
“Oh angel be careful of your fingers with that knife I don’t want you to hurt your beautiful skin!”
“That pan looks a little hot mon amour, shall I turn it down so we don’t risk burning the butter?”
“We want to be careful not to overmix the batter, right y/n-swan?”
“SANJI, I KNOW WHAT IM DOING I SWEAR”
“Of course, of course! I’m sorry my darling its just–”
“NO!”
Eventually he’ll back off (reluctantly) and let you lead
Is obviously very good at baking so you can get him to do anything without worrying about him messing up
It also means you can tackle harder projects like macarons (my worst enemies...)
You two love to experiment in the kitchen, testing the limits of what you’re able to make
Follows directions very well because Sanji just wants to make you happy (this man loves being bossed around)
He is SO GOOD at decorating its fucked up
He doesn’t even try either it just comes naturally to him
Sanji's only downfall (other than his control issues lmfao) is that he is easily distracted by you
You’re just so pretty!! And look at how focused you are!! How could he not give you a kiss?
No you don’t understand he HAS to kiss you right now it would be a crime not to
“Sanji, I’m in the middle of something”
“So sorry, my love!”
He is not sorry at all he’s grinning like an idiot while apologizing
Even if the outcome is bad Sanji refuses to waste food
He’ll eat it and shower you with compliments for a job well done even if its awful because he doesn’t want to hurt your feelings
(Worst case scenario though he’ll just give it to Luffy)
Luffy
Is so eager to spend time with you it doesn’t matter what you’re doing
Also he loves food so a date with you in the kitchen??? His favourite room on the ship??? there's nothing better than that
Will be of no help at all but its not for a lack of trying
“Luffy, could you grab me the eggs?”
He’s pulling out the leftover scrambled eggs from breakfast
“Uhh nevermind actually I’ll get them myself.”
He’s clueless the whole time
He’s either hovering over your shoulder or falling asleep there’s no in between
If you want to keep Luffy engaged, you need to use bright colours to convince him that it's fun because he gets bored of the beige batters
His favourite part is when he gets to mix dough with his hands and when he gets to shape the cookies
(of course he loves the messy parts)
Luffy is so bad about hygiene though he will be eating that dough with his whole hand in his mouth and then immediately going back to kneading it
You have to force him to wash his hands before you start
Its honestly so much work baking with him because you spend half the time yelling at him
“LUFFY NO THE BURNER IS ON–”
Its too late he’s already burned his entire hand
Like his brother he is so bad about eating batter
He’s totally shameless with it too he’ll grab a fistful of cookie dough right in front of you
You have to smack it out of his hand
It's worth it to keep Luffy in the kitchen though because he’s cracking jokes the whole time and you’re just having so much fun
He does get bored pretty easily
Sometimes he’ll sit at the counter with his head resting on his arms as he completely ignores what you’re doing and just focuses on how pretty you look while he's drifting off to sleep
Other times he’ll just leave the kitchen without warning when he decides he’s done
He loves everything that you make he’ll eat it up
You could feed him actual rat poison and he’d still shower you with compliments lmfao
Luffy loves food so when the person he loves is feeding him something it's automatically perfect okay that’s just how it works
You have to fight him off of the food to leave some for the rest of the crew
Luffy makes baking so much fun because he loves seeing you laugh so he does his best to entertain you the whole time
Part 2 with Shanks, Mihawk and Law here


















