How to make cupcakes

Not to long ago I posted about cupcakes. I make cupcakes a lot and I love them here is the recipe I use to make these awesome treats.............................

Ingredients

125g butter, room temperature
1 cup  White Sugar
1 ¼ cups self raising flour
2 eggs
½ cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
Pinch of salt

Icing
¾ cup  Icing Sugar
5g butter
1 tablespoon boiling water

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease and flour a 12 x ½ cup capacity cupcake tin.
2. Place all the ingredients in a large mixing bowl and beat for ten minutes or until smooth.
3. Divide mixture between prepared cake tin and bake for 10-12 minutes or until cakes spring back to the touch.
4. Remove and transfer to a wire rack to cool.
5. For icing, sieve icing sugar into a bowl, ensuring to remove any lumps. Place butter and boiling water in a small bowl and mix until butter has melted. Pour into icing sugar, a little at a time and stirring well between each addition until icing reached the desired consistency.
6. Spread icing sugar over cupcakes and decorate with icing flowers and edible glitter if desired.

 

How To Make Afghans.

Lately I have been making Afghans a lot and I also made them for food spec. Here is the recipe on how to make them.

Ingredients

200g butter, softened
½ cup  Sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 ¼ cups plain flour
¼ cup cocoa
1 ½ cups cornflakes, lightly crushed
Icing:
1 ½ cups Chelsea Rich Chocolate Icing
1 Tbsp butter (softened)
1-2 Tbsp boiling water

Method

Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease or line a baking tray with baking paper.
In a large bowl beat butter, sugar and vanilla until light and fluffy. Sift in flour and cocoa, stir thoroughly with the butter mixture until combined before stirring in the cornflakes.
Place heaped teaspoonfuls onto baking tray, squeeze mixture together gently if necessary then press lightly with a fork.
Bake for 15-20 minutes. Cool on a wire rack before icing.

Icing: Mix chocolate icing sugar, butter and 1 Tbsp boiling water at a time until combined, adding more hot water if necessary until icing is a spreadable consistency. Ice biscuits and top with half a walnut.

How the world started.

Have you ever wondered  of how the world started? I have  thought about it a lot  and it really makes me think.

 I get really confused because people tell me that god created the world but if he did then how did god get here in the first place? Some people tell me that monkeys and apes were here before we were but I still get confused. Sometimes I think that the world just appered out of the blue.
But then a  leaf turnrd into a dinosaur and had baby dinosaurs. Although it makes me think because how did the first ever cave man get here everything is really confusing.

There are some things in life that you just can not work out and maybe this is just one of those things.

Sustainability movie!

Ruby, Renee, Be, Arielle and I have been working on a movie about sustainability to enter for the Outlook For Someday movie contest. We have filmed nearly all of our movie and Ruby is working very hard on editing it, so far it looks great!

 Our movie is about water pollution. Me Renee and Be are news reporters. And Renee who is a fish interviews fish about how they feel about the water pollution and how it  is not good for life under water. Then me and Be say some facts about the water pollution.

Making the movie was really fun but it took a lot  of time and hard work. Our first idea was about something different but that did not really work so we had to do it on something else. We had to do all the storyboarding and planning the fun bit was making the fish for our heads to go through then the filming!

 For our whole movie we had to use the green screen and that was really fun. We thought that we filmed all of it but we had to re film most of our movie because we were not very good fish.I 
 think that we have a really good chance on winning this and that so far our movie looks really good and it will look even better when it is finished.

Out look for someday movie reflection:
Something that I learned from this project that I did not  know before was some of the Information about water pollution like:  How long different objects  took to degrade when there dumped in water.

process?
I learned how to work a camera.

The part of this project that was most challenging for me was:
The green screen and trying to see what worked with the green screen and what did not.

The part of this  project I found most rewarding was:
When we were the first group to finished our movie.