2016/03/06

Baking Blue Berry Muffins !!

Hey!!

So, on Friday, right after school, my mom  and I went shopping to get some ingredients for the delicious muffins we were going to make. Here's what we needed...

1/2 cup of flour
3/4 cup of sugar
2 tsp of baking powder
1/2 tsp of salt
1/3 cup of vegetable oil
1 egg
1 cup of milk
2 tsp of vanilla extract
Blue berries!!

Here is what we bought...

Eggs
Fruit
Whipped Cream
2 Cake Mix Packets
And some other stuff I don't remember... :D

Now, you must be wondering why we bought the fruit and other stuff right? Well, I wasn't the only one on a mission. My sister was determined to make truffles all by her self. If I'm not mistaken, I'm pretty sure she is writing a post about her truffles too. Oh yeah here's the link if you want to check that out ww.cyberslk.net/2016/03/how-to-make-truffles.html

Anyhow, the recipe I mentioned above only made 8 muffins so we tripled the recipe ;D. I would finish 8 muffins in 2 seconds! :D

So, I got right down to business. I first washed my hands, very VERY thoroughly. I mean, I'm not a germaphobe or anything, but my mom INSISTED, so I complied.

Anyway, then I preheated out oven to 400 degrees.

Next, I mixed all of the dry ingredients (the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt) with a hand mixer, or basically anything you can mix things with :D.

Then, I mixed all of the wet ingredients in a SEPARATE bowl. Notice the emphasis on SEPARATE. I actually don't know what would happen if you mixed the wet ingredients into the dry, but the recipe said to separate them at first, so that's what I did.

After mixing all of the wet ingredients thoroughly, I added them to the dry ingredients. I guess separating the two would probably help mix the ingredients properly.

 When you mix the dry and the wet ingredients DO NOT over mix. This will make your muffins SUPER hard and crunchy; definitely not what you want in a muffin!

So, after mixing the wet and the dry, you can add the blue berries into the batter. Make sure you don't squish the poor blue berries while you are mixing them in!

After you think the blue berries are mixed into the batter properly, take a muffin tray and lay out the muffin cups. leave a few of the muffin holder thingies empty so you can pour water into it, to make the muffins nice and moist.

Then, pour equal amounts of batter into the muffin cups, and bake for about 15-20 minutes, or until they are thoroughly cooked.

The muffins won't taste the best when they are hot, since the blue berries will taste like lava. So be patient and let it cool! I was too eager to eat them and found that it tasted horrid! I was honestly thinking of throwing them out, but I left it for Saturday, in case I was really desperate for a snack.

It turned out after it was cooled, it tasted AMAZING!!

Do try this recipe, the batter is absolutely DELICIOUS!

I ate three whole muffins today! I better go and work of all of the calories I gained!

Wait for my next post!
Dinithi

PS. I'm so so so so sorry about not writing for a few days! I had two exams this week so I had to STUDY,STUDY,STUDY!! Actually I didn't study all day, but I also had a piano recital and was practising for that too!

PPS. Did you notice how many times I said "thoroughly"? I sound very professional :D...not!

PPPS. Sorry about all of these post scripts :D, but if you ave nay questions about the recipe or just feel like commenting, please leave a comment below!

How to make Truffles

    Ingredients:

  • 2 packets of strawberry Jello
  • 2 Packets of Lime Jello
  • 2 packets of Vanilla pudding
  • Whip Cream
  • 3 cups of mixed fruits
  • lemon cake
  • 1 cup of fruit syrup (you can use the syrup from a can of fruits)

Directions:

1.)  Put the two packet of Strawberry jello into a bowl and then, add 1 and a 1/2 cup of hot water. Mix it well. Let it cool for for about 10 minutes. 

2.)  Once the jello has cooled, add 1 and a 1/2 cup of fruit into the jello. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap, then place this in the fridge for 4 hours.

3.)  When the Jello is done, place a thin layer of lemon cake on top. Add about one cup of fruit syrup over the lemon cake.

4.) Make the vanilla pudding, pour this on top over top of the cake. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and put it in the fridge.

5.) Make the Lime jello, and then put in fridge from 15-20 minutes. 

6.)After 15-20 minutes take the jello out and add 1 and a 1/2 cup of mixed fruit.

7.) Add the Lime Jello on top of the Vanilla Pudding. Place this in the fridge to set.

8.) After the Lime Jello has set add some whip cream on top of the truffle, and decorate with fresh strawberries.

             
This is how it looked after I finished making it

Here is a side view of my Truffle 
       
    
   Enjoy!
                                                              
                                                                 -Mithili                      



2016/03/01

Long Time, No Posts!!

Hey,

I'm really sorry about not writing for this week! I had a lot of things to do!

Since I posted on Monday, I won't describe that day :D but in this post, I will cover most of the things I did throughout this week.

Okay so lets start with Tuesday. On Tuesday, I spent the WHOLE day preparing for the Math Contest that was coming up. It was fun and stressful, since I wan't a 100 percent sure of all the question that would be on the test. So I prepared for every possibility. Well, probably not EVERY possibility...but still! I slept at around 11 o clock that day...I think ;D.

My Pool Family!!
Then, on Wednesday, I had the Math Contest on period 3.  I was very VERY stressed! I think that probably messed me up a bit. There were about 8 people writing the test. Once the clock started, the time literally flew by! There were a few questions I didn't understand so, I skipped them. Then when the time was up, I handed my paper in. Only, after handing it in, did I realize that I FORGOT to answer the questions I skipped!!! So I spent the rest of the day stressing about the test. And I also, decided to get a few more volunteer hours.I volunteered to help out at the curling rink. There was a big game going that day! I was very excited!! I already have 180 hours, from volunteering at the community pool for the WHOLE summer! It was VERY fun!!!

On Thursday, I worked on the science project I was talking about a few posts ago. One of my very best friends and I were partners for this project. There are 23 people in my class so, there were two people that chose to be by themselves, since it was a choice of individual or two people group. My partner and I wanted to make something that didn't use syringes, because it was very inconvenient and we also wanted to beat these two other people, that stole our first idea. After a lot of trial and error, we managed to get the engine of our boat to work! It was A LOT of work, i tell you! A LOT!!! We were so happy!! After that, my friend stayed at our house for a few more minute, by which time, we had played three songs on Just Dance 2014. It was fun, but VERY exhausting!!

Only after noon did I realize that I had a piano recital, just a few minutes before I agreed to volunteer at the curling rink. So, right after school, I sprinted my way home, grabbed an apple and my mom quickly drove me to the church. I was hoping since I was in a hurry, that I will be done soon, but it took longer than I hoped it would. So, by the time I was home, I had to meet my friend at the rink, because we were both volunteering, since they needed two people. I was hoping the apple would last until 7:30, but fortunately, my mom gave me some money, so I could buy some food from the rink. \

We were a bit early, well...I mean, we were a few seconds early...but still!! They people doing their shift before us got up as soon as were came through the doors, but we went straight to the rink to watch and cheer on our team. After about 60, seconds, our shift begun. When, my ELA, Health and Phys. Ed teacher ( who asked me about volunteering) came out, she bought us two cookies and told us what to do. She is so sweet! And the cookies were AMAZING! I decided to buy 2 more of those DELICIOUS cookies and some poutine (which is fries with gravy) . In the end, I felt like puking because there was WAY too much gravy on my fries. So, I ended up throwing away some of the poutine.

After our shift was done, I sent my dad a message saying I was done, and went into watch the game. They had lost their first game BY 1!!! They are AMAZING, but I guess today wasn't their day. Halfway through the second game, my dad said he was outside. So I told, my friend to keep me updated on the game and I went home with my dad. In the end, THEY WON!!!! This meant that they were going to PROVINCIALS!! I was so excited for them!! So I congratulated them! They were very happy! So was I!! After all of that, when I got, home, we decided to watch a movie. It was a very exhausting day!!

Then on Saturday. I mainly slept, because on Thursday, I stayed up until 12:30 trying to fix up the engine and then I had stayed up a little past 12 on Friday night as well. So I slept until about 10 am. After I woke up, I made breakfast for my sister and I and begun to work on some homework. I had to study for the science test, finish my CAD assignment, finish my french assignment, study for social and finish my health newspaper article. I know that sounds like a lot, but I managed to finish studying almost halfway through the day, so I finished my newspaper article and then my french. I decided to leave the CAD and the social for Monday.

On Sunday, my friend came over to my house to finish up our project. We took a long time deciding on the color that we wanted to paint the boat. Then, once we finally decided, it didn't look too pleasing to the eye, so we covered it up with tin foil, which seemed to work....until we put it in water! As soon as the boat made contact with the water, it began to leak, so we fixed that up and left it to dry.

Then today, nothing out of the ordinary happened. The most exciting this that happened was that we began the badminton until in Phys. Ed. It was fun, but we only got to play badminton for a few minutes, since people kept talking and the teacher had to stop and explain everything OVER and Over gain. I was very frustrated with those people!!!

After Phys. Ed, I walked home with my other best friend.  It was quite cold out today; -29. I was hoping it would be warm today since it was warm on Friday and Saturday; +6. But my hopes were crushed. Anyway, I ate rice and a few peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Then I went downstairs to work out for a few minutes. i ended up watching this TV show called Forensic Files and burning 410 calories. It was fun.

Then I started to work on my CAD, which I just finished a few minutes ago. I left the social for tomorrow

Right now, my back is Burning from sitting in this position for a VERY long time. So I think I'm going to finish this post up and go to sleep.

Catch you later!
Dinithi