Wednesday, January 8, 2014

My Short Healthy Cake Recipe


This cake is actually a strawberry shortcake, but in general I like to call it different than the name of the cake. This cake is actually 2 layers. For this cake you need a special pan, not a normal cake pan. It is called a spring form pan. Why you need a spring form pan is because this cake is very fragile and will stick to other cake pans.

Ingredients: 2/3 cups sugar, 2/3 cups flour, 1 teaspoon of baking soda, 5 eggs. Put the sugar and eggs into a bowl, mix it up with an electric mixture until it gets real fluffy. When you think the sugar and eggs are finished mixing write TAY in the batter and if the T still stands out after writing the AY then the mixture is ready. (by the way Tay is my dog's name). Sift in the flour and baking soda into the eggs and sugar batter. Do not use the electric mixture to do that, use a spatula. When you are finished stirring, put the batter in the spring form pan. But before that, butter the pan and preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Bake it for 35-45 minutes, until it is golden brown. 

While that is baking, take two cups of strawberries and 1 1/2 cups of sugar (or a sugar and maple syrup mixture, like I did) into a bowl. Smash the sugar and strawberries until it becomes a nice saucy mixture. Put that in the refrigerator.

When the cake gets out of the oven, let it cool. While it is cooling, we make the cream. Get one pint of heavy cream and mix it with one heaping tablespoon of sugar and dash of vanilla. Let that whip until thick and creamy. 

While that is stirring, cut the cake in twos. Then take your strawberry mixture out of the refrigerator. First put a lot of strawberry sauce on the top layer, soak for 20 minutes. While that is soaking, put strawberry sauce on the bottom layer then put whipped cream on top of the strawberry sauce. Now carefully, put the top lawyer with soaked strawberry on the bottom layer. Frost the top and sides with the whipped cream

Let you enjoyations begin!!!






Sunday, January 5, 2014

My Mustard Mess Chicken


As you can see, I have a video and that is why I am not going to write as much because I am going to talk in my video. First of all these chickens are very tasty. Particularly I am an eight year old kid making chicken and that is very impressive because I have never seen another eight year old kid make chicken for her or his family.





(CRUNCH)

YUMMY!!!!!






Friday, January 3, 2014

Zeynep's Lion / Vegan cake (but the frosting is not Vegan)



This cake is two layers as you can see. The frosting is chocolate and vanilla. I made this cake for my dad. I call him Baba. That is why it says Baba on it. I put a lion on the cake because my dad's favorite animal is a lion. I put walnuts on it because my dad's favorite nut is walnuts. Then I put chocolate chips because that is my favorite (and I need a treat for myself.)


A bird's eye view is always helpful to see how the cake looks.

The most tastiest cake! Even though it is very small, it lasted for a whole week. Everything on that cake is made by moi!


Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Prep: Zeynep's Vegan Cake

I am making a cake. First, put all the dry ingredients in a bowl: 1.5 cups of flour, 3 tablespoons of cocoa, 1 teaspoon of baking soda, 1 cup of white or brown sugar and a pinch of salt.

Mix these all together until they are a mixture.


Then make 3 deep holes into the dry mixture. Into one of the holes, pour in 5 tablespoons of canola oil or olive oil. Into the next hole pour in one tablespoon of white vinegar or apple cider vinegar. And in the next hole pour in one teaspoon of vanilla. Like I am doing in the pictures below.



After you put all the ingredients in the three holes, pour one cup of cold water all over even inside the three holes.

Mix the batter together until there are no lumps then put it into your baking pans. Bake at 350 for about a half an hour. Wait until our next post to find out how we frost it!