Recipe For Disaster

Recipe For Disaster is the ninth book in the Franny K. Stein book series.

Plot
Franny learns that her classmates Mona and Vincent are running a bake sale to try and secure funding for the school's music and art classes. Franny is initially dismissive of this, but agrees with her friends that art and music can be just as important as science.

When her own attempts at baking do not turn out so good, Franny finds a solution when she takes the school's old furnace, which she already intended to make into something else, and uses it to create a robotic baker called the Muffin Man, who is then instructed to bake the best thing he possibly can.

The Muffin Man ends up creating a batch of very delicious muffins, which prove successful in getting the music and art classes the money they need for new supplies. Unfortunately, Franny soon sees that everyone, including her dog Igor, are becoming addicted to the muffins to the point that they are neglecting their other pursuits just so they can continue eating more muffins. Not helping matters is the Muffin Man deciding to put everyone to work in order to make more muffins.

Franny gets the idea on how to save the day when she uses her Visualizer Helmet to show everyone how hollow and depressing their futures will be if they don't stop eating or making muffins. Even the Muffin Man sees the error of his ways and ultimately turns his life around by remodeling himself into a kiln and teaching children to make pottery.