Archive | January 2016

My Perfect Place

My perfect place would be Candy Land. In this land, the rivers would be made of chocolate. The bears, bunnies, and worms would be gummy bears, gummy bunnies, and gummy worms. The fish in the chocolate rivers would be Swedish Fish. On the apple trees would grow caramel apples, and orange trees would have candied oranges growing on them. The trees would be huge lollipops in different colors. The clouds would be made of different flavors and colors of cotton candy. All of the buildings would be made of gingerbread and decorated with candies. Rocks would be made of jawbreakers. This would be a yummy place to live!

Home Made Red Velvet Cupcakes

Jan15

Red Velvet Cupcakes and Cream Cheese Frosting
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Mix flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt in medium bowl. Set aside. Beat butter and sugar in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed 5 minutes or until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Mix in sour cream, milk, food color and vanilla. Gradually beat in flour mixture on low speed until just blended. Do not overbeat. Spoon batter into 30 paper-lined muffin cups, filling each cup 2/3 full. Bake 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted into cupcake comes out clean. Cool in pans on wire rack 5 minutes. Remove from pans; cool completely. Frost with Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting. Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting: Beat cream cheese, softened, butter, sour cream and Pure Vanilla Extract in large bowl until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in confectioners’ sugar until smooth.

Ingredients
Cake ingredients:
1 cup sour cream

2 ½ cups flour
½ cup milk

½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder 1 (1 ounce) bottle of red food coloring

1 teaspoon baking soda
Cream Cheese Frosting ingredients:

½ teaspoon salt 1 (8 ounce) package of cream cheese, softened

1 cup butter, softened
¼ cup butter, softened

2 cups sugar
2 tablespoons sour cream

4 eggs
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract 1 (16 ounce box) of confectioners’ sugar

My New Years Resolutions

Jan8

Do you want to know about my New Year’s Resolutions? They are:

1. Be nice to my brother, even if he teases me.

2. Be a better friend by being nice and sharing.

3. Write more on blog posts.

4. Be nice every day by thinking about others and filling buckets.

5. Have a smile everywhere I go.

6. Listen to my parents by paying attention.

7. Remember to brush my teeth every morning and night.

8. Play with my sister when we both have free time.

9. Eat more veggies like carrots and broccoli.

10. Read 90 minutes a day.

Coral Reefs

Jan1

Coral reefs are some of the most divers ecosystems in the world, housing tens of thousands of marine species. About one third of all fish species live part of their lives in coral reefs. Reefs in Florida keys for example, hold at least 45 species of stony coral, 37 species of octocoral, 5 species of sea turtles, 500 species omullusks and hundreds of species of sponges. In addition to their incredible value as wildlife habitat coral reefs protect coast lines from storms and provide billions of dollars of food and jobs every year to people around the world.

Happy New Year!