Hot Cross Buns

On 27th of March, we made Hot Cross Buns. They had cinnamon in them for spice and they tasted pretty good.  We worked well as a group and finished well before we needed to be. This time, time management was perfect. The dished were washed' dried and put away before the buns came out of the oven.

Ingredients List 

• Flour 
• Baking Powder 
• Salt 
• Shortening/ Butter
• Honey 
• Cinnamon 
• Raisins 
• Milk 

We also made the frosting for them out of:

• Icing Sugar
• Milk
• Vanilla Essense 

This was hard because we had to add the milk in bit by bit. It was very good though once we had finished. It was thick and wasn't runny. We thought that we did a pretty good job and worked well as a team. I will most probably make these Hot Cross Buns at home because they tasted so good.

Evaporating Coke

Aim:  To distill Coca-Cola and to evaporate it

Equipment: Conical flask, heatproof mat, bung, delivery tube, Bunsen burner, tripod, retort stand gauze mat, boss head and clamp, boiling tube, and three different kinds of Coca-Cola. We used  Diet Coke, Coke with no sugar and regular Coke.

Method: 

1. Set up that experiment as shown below 

2. Using a measuring cylinder measure out around 20mls of Cola and the carefully tip it into the test tube.

3. Clamp the test tube in and the light the bunsen burner. Turn the air hole until the flame is blue. For our experiment, we used a blue flame with an orange tip.

4. Heat the Cola until most of is has disappeared. You should be left with a solution of what smells like burnt caramel. 

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We did 3 types of coke but we only had time to do 2. We got the No Sugar and normal coke ones done. The normal Coke evaporated faster and burnt to the sides of the test tube. The coke with no sugar evaporated slowly and and left us with a stick toffee solution.  

Chocolate Cupcakes

This is an ingredients list for the cupcakes. 

Caster sugar 

Egg

Flour 

Butter

Milk

Cocoa 

The icing was a lot harder to do even though it had fewer ingredients 

Icing sugar 

Butter 

Vanilla essence 

Food coloring 

This was one of my favorite cooking classes. The cupcakes turned out great and not undercooked like or muffins last week. The icing took a while to get right as we didn't melt the butter first. Instead, we just dumped in the icing and started mixing. Since we failed we made another batch. This time we melted the butter and it came us a lot better. One thing we could do better is time management. We rushed out the class and our tray wasn't washed properly. The mixture was a good consistency and it worked pretty well. They rose and were a little bit crunchy when you pressed down on their tops. We needed to make more icing to cover all of the cupcakes but other than that I think this was one of the best cooking classes we did as a group as we actually worked together for once.

Spicey Apple Muffins

We made the yummiest muffins yesterday. We had to figure out though what procedures we had to do.  Such as whether we had to sift the flour or not. But in the end, they were really good. Our oven wasn't working so we had to use the neighboring oven so they were a little bit undercooked when it came time to leave but they still tasted like heaven. I'm glad that we made these. The only thing I found hard we the time maintenance and the cleaning up 

PIZZA SCROLLS

For Home Ec yesterday we made pizza scrolls

So far this term we have been working on identitiy in social studies. This unit has helped me learn a lot about my family and where we come from. I loved doing this unit and it was interesting to find out all the facts behind my family.