How to bake a cake

                                                    Home made is best!


Bakeries, the place where you get all of your special occasion treats. Even though most of them are easy to do, we don't realize it. Home baking is the best activity to do, for parties, sleep over activities or just for fun. If you think about it, all the materials needed to bake a cake cost less than the cake itself in the store. So why not start to save?

What you need!

All the materials you need are easy to get at any shop rite store. You will need one box vanilla cake mix, one bottle of vanilla extract, a tub of icing of vanilla icing, and if you wish, two boxes strawberries. Also you will need a mixing bowl, A knife, a spreading spatula, a mixer, a mold for the cake (your size and shape choice) A measuring cup or measuring spoons. Flour,  3 eggs, butter, and water or milk. ( milk will make your cake softer. Lastly, you will need an oven big enough for your cake mold and a flat plate big enough to ice and place you cake on. I will show you how to make a vanilla cake with chocolate icing and strawberries on top.

Get baking!

First, put all of your materials down somewhere they are not able to be knocked down. Next, you must prepare your mold. Take the butter and with a spoon cover all of the inside of your mold in a layer of butter. After your mold is covered, take some flour and pour it in the bowl with butter. Make sure the flour covers the layer of butter. Take off all of  the butter that did not stick on to the sides and dump it off the mold. You should have the inside of your mold covered in a thin layer of butter with a thin layer of four on top of the butter. Put your mold aside. Put away flour.  Put your butter to the side.
Next, pre-heat your oven to the instructions on the back of your cake mix box. Next take your mixing bowl and place it on a flat surface in your kitchen away from your other materials.  Open up your cake mix and the bag that is inside of your cake mix box. Pour the contents of the cake mix bag into your mixing bowl.
 After, crack the eggs one by one and put the yolk and egg whites of the egg in the bowl with the cake mix and throw away the shells. Add a table spoon of butter and one cup of milk.  Plug in your mixer electronic mixer (if you are using one) and place the whisk of the mixer in the bowl. Also add a table spoon of vanilla extract. Start your mixer on low. As you are mixing, if the mix looks too dry, add more milk or water into the mix, slowly to make sure you do not place too much.

Once the mix is liquid batter, turn off  taste the a little bit of the mix to make sure that it tastes all right. Fix if needed. Once you are done fixing it, you may cut up some of the strawberries in little cubes and put it into the batter. Once it is ready to be baked, place the bowl down and get the molding for the cake. Pour the batter into the molding for the cake. You may also use your spoon to put it in.

Once your molding is full of batter, carefully place it in your oven. Then wait until the cake is a golden brown. Once it is that color take your knife and puncture the cake with the whole blade. If you take out the blade and it comes out clean, your cake is ready! Let it cool in the oven for a few minutes so that it does not flatten.

Once you have let it cool off, take your cake out of the oven and place it on a flat surface. Trim off the top of the cake with your knife, just a few inches, so it is flat. Wash and dry your knife. Lastly, you decorate! Carefully, with your spreading spatula, Scoop some icing onto the top of your cake. Spread all over the sides neatly and evenly. Once your cake is completely covered with icing, place your strawberries on to of your cake for decoration. Voila!

Now, you have your perfectly delicious cake, ready to eat! It may not be absolutely perfect, but baking does take practice, so don't be discouraged! Everyone takes time to learn. Now that you know how to bake, you have saved money, had fun and learned something new! Have fun with your baking and good luck!

How to organize your homework/binder

A clean binder is best!

I think that everyone is tiered of  so many papers and things in your binder and they always forget where everything is. Losing homework and important papers is NOT a good thing to experience. Trust me. You leave your papers in other places, in other folders. Then you start to forget when things are due.

I know it is very hard, but I am here to show you how to over come that. First, you gather your materials. You need a cluttered binder. A planner, a folder to keep your papers in and of course, a garbage/ recycling bin. All these materials are used to create your perfect binder.


How to clean up your act!


First, you have to clean out your cluttered binder. Take absolutely everything out of it. Once you do that, go through all of your things and see which of the papers and materials you still need, and the ones you don't.  Separate them into two piles. The things you don't need will go into your garbage can/ recycling bin. Good bye, mess. Next, you sort everything into the order of your classes/ events. For example, I have English for homeroom and first period, place the things you need for that class on the first slot in your binder, neatly organized. Next, separate and neatly organize your next event/ subject and so on. After you finished putting everything in order, put your planner right in sight were you can see it as soon as you open your binder.

Now, everything is easy to reach and organised. You will never have to lose any papers again as long as it stays neat. And the best part is, you can arrange and rearrange it to your liking, as needed. Your binder is now clean and perfect. If your results are not as good as promised, go back to the steps and review what you have done. Good luck!

Why?!

Today I wondered how everything came to be. Its a strange concept to think about because once you start all the possibilities never end. That's not the strangest part. You even start thinking about things differently, and then it sounds insane to others and then if you think about what you thought before it seems like non sence again, which starts you onto a new train of thought.


One thing I thought about was words and symbols. Like why does the letters of our alpha bet have to be the way they are? I mean think about it. English might as well be a secret made up language that little childen used. It could make no sence at all. A language consists of an alphabet of its own and sounds we learn and they make sence because everyone uses it. But that's about it. You know, that's so weird. If we wanted to, we could write scratches on the ground and make weird noises and say its a language. This is only one small detail of what I have reviewed in my life... I shall explain more in other posts.

Typical Guys

Sorry for not doing my posts lately, but my internet sort of died. So I was thinking about how annoying boys can be. Their dumb questions of not getting girls and all that. Its annoying. It gets me angry, since these things are so obvious.Like when I'm moping around like an emo girl and a boy comes up to me and says are you okay and I say fine they are like okay whatever. It's not OKAY! I just said that to see if it was worth telling you! It is just a slight chance that they say," I know something is up, so tell me."

It's very important when they say that. My friends and I all feel the same way. We all hate it. The girls know what to do. Is it too hard to ask? So we started ranting about it until be finally realized that thee was always like only one out of ten times that they ask. So usually we live with it. It would only be a matter of time until they mature and finally get what's up with us. They will care eventually. Maybe. What do you think? Boys a litte immature?