Tobias is very glad, in that moment, that he's a hawk. It's easy for him to hide the disappointment when she says she's not very good at baking.

<That sounds like it's really hard to do. Making pasta, I mean. I've only ever made it from the box, but maybe I could help, sometime,> he could even adopt a human form, if she insisted. Or maybe even Andalite. That was a morph he was fond of, at least. <Have you ever made french fries?>