How to choose a healthy muesli bar

I analysed the food labels and it helped me determine weather the muesli bar is healthy or not. Then I tasted the muesli bars and I could taste the sugar that was in the bars. I learnt how to read labels and what their meanings are. I also learnt how to decide weather a muesli bar is healthy or not.

Making butter chicken at tech

On Friday at tech I made butter chicken with my friends Nunia and Danielle. Here is how we made it.

Purpose:- To make butter chicken

Ingredients:-

Chicken
butter chicken paste
potato or rice
Onion
coconut  cream
cooking oil
salt

Equipment:-

Wooden spoon
sharp knife
two chopping boards
pot
frying pan
sift
plate

Steps:-

1. First you dice the onion carefully ( using the chopping board).
2. Second you peel the potato ( using  a chopping board) then chop it into squares or wash some rice and cook it to eat with the butter chicken.
3. Third you clean the potato and put water into a pot and boil the potato to eat it with the butter chicken.
4. Fourth you fry the onion until it turns brown.
5. While the onion is frying chop the chicken into squares and once the onion turns brown add the chicken and cook it together with the onion.
6. After the chicken is cooked add the butter chicken paste and stir.
7. Then add the coconut cream and stir.
8. When the potato or rice is cooked sift out the water for the potato.
9. Once the butter chicken is done serve with your potato or rice.

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Vanilla cake

Purpose:- To make a Vanilla cake

Ingredients:-

100g of self raising flour

110g of butter

110g of caster sugar

2-3 drops of vanilla essence

2 large eggs

1tsp of baking powder
Icing sugar
Cream

1. Sift the flour and baking powder into a bowl.
2. Add the sugar to the baking powder and flour.
3. Make sure the butter is at room temperature and beat that in with a electric whisk.
4. Add the two eggs and  the vanilla essence using the electric whisk whisk it.
5. Pour into appropriate size tins, and bake in a pre heated oven at 180 C degrees.
6. While the cake is cooking pour cream into a bowl and whisk it to make whipped cream.
7. Insert a skewer into the cake, and if it comes out clean it's ready, and if it isn't bake for an extra five minutes.
8. When it is cooked cut it in half and add whipped cream in the middle then top it with icing sugar.

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Yummy Shortbread biscuits

In the weekend my family and I made some short bread biscuits. First I got all the materials to make the cake.The first thing I did was preheating the oven. Then I mixed the butter together with the icing sugar. It looked like creamy melted chocolate but it wasn’t dark brown rather it was a creamy colour. The next step was to add in half a cup of flour and a cup of corn flour. When I started mixing the mixture it turned from nice and creamy to a dough.

Once it turned into a dough it felt soft as a furry animal. I started rolling it 10mm thick. Next I got star biscuit cutter and made star cookies. When I put the biscuits into the oven I had to wait  for 30 minutes to cook. They came out golden brown. After that I pressed on some Coffee Sugar Crystals and put them on the table to cool down. Later when they were finally cooled down they was nice and crunchy.

If you would like to make Shortbread Stars here is the recipe
175g butter, softened
½ cup Chelsea Icing surgar
1 ½ cups plain flour
½ cup corn flour
Pinch of salt

Preheat oven to 150C. Greased or lined an oven tray with baking paper.

Beat butter and surgar until light and fluffy. Sift in flour, cornflour and salt and mix thoroughly with the butter mixture until it forms a dough.

Knead dough, then roll out to 10mm thickness on a floured surface. Press out shapes using a biscuit cutter cutter or cut into triangles and place on oven tray. Press remaining dough together and roll out again, press out shapes until mixture is used up. Bake for 30 minutes or until pale golden.
Makes:30 biscuits
Optional:Press on Coffee Sugar Crystals or Dmerara Surgar for a crunchy topping.