5th grade Election

This year we had a 5th grade election. Anyone could run for rather governor , president , or vice president.

Macy ran for vice president, and Emily ran for governor. Macy lost, but Emily won.  the governor of Cornell is Nikhil, and the vice president is Aaron . the president is Ella. and governor of Princeton is Emily. New  Elections are coming up soon , but we our both not running for any thing.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thankgiving tables

Family Dinner

Beautiful

Pumpkin sticks!

Royal!

Recipe month is now over, for this next week we will post stuff that is going on at our school or what's going on in our lives and what we're doing .  Like this year we have a new P.E teacher and new art teacher and a new I.T teacher. We're in 5th grade and so far this has been a good year. So, this week we will keep you posted on new stuff and exciting news. Talk to you later, by.

chocolate raspberry tart

I made this and I loved it you have to try it. I found it at laurainthekitchen.com

Ingredients:1 ½ cups of Chocolate Graham Cracker Crumbs
1 Tbsp of Sugar
½ Cup of Melted Butter
1 ¼ cup of Semisweet Chocolate Chips
1 cup of Heavy Cream
¼ tsp of Salt
About 3 cups of Fresh Raspberries

Process,

1) Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9” tart pan with non stick cooking spray and set aside.

2) In a large bowl, mix together the crushed chocolate graham crackers, melted butter and sugar. Press this mixture in the tart pan making sure you press it very evenly. Place it on a baking sheet and refrigerate it for about 20 minutes. 

3) Bake it at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes. Let it cool completely. 

4) Place 1 cup of the raspberries in a blender and puree it. Pass it through a fine sieve and get rid of the solids. 

5) Place the chocolate chips in a bowl and set aside. Place the heavy cream in a small sauce pan and bring it to a simmer. 

6) Pour the heavy cream over the chocolate and let it sit for a few minutes. Stir until the chocolate is all melted and then stir in the raspberry puree and salt. 

7) Pour the chocolate mixture into the baked tart shell and chill it in the fridge for about an hour and a half. Arrange the raspberries over the top and place it back in the fridge for another hour or so. 

Zucchini Parmesan Crisps

I made this and it was so good you have to try it 

Total Time:
50 min
Prep
20 min
Cook
30 min
Yield:
4 servings, serving size 1/2 cup
Level:
Easy


Ingredients

Cooking spray
2 medium zucchini (about 1 pound total)
1 tablespoon olive oil
1/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan (3/4-ounce)
1/4 cup plain dry bread crumbs
1/8 teaspoon salt
Freshly ground black pepper
Directions
Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F. Coat a baking sheet with cooking spray.

Slice the zucchini into 1/4-inch thick rounds. In a medium bowl, toss the zucchini with the oil. In a small bowl, combine the Parmesan, bread crumbs, salt, and a few turns of pepper. Dip each round into the Parmesan mixture, coating it evenly on both sides, pressing the coating on to stick, and place in a single layer on the prepared baking sheet.

Bake the zucchini rounds until browned and crisp, 25 to 30 minutes. Remove with spatula. Serve immediately.

Per Serving:

(serving size, 1/2 cup)

Calories 105; Total Fat 6g (Sat Fat 2g, Mono Fat 2g, Poly Fat 0g); Protein 5g; Carb 8.5g; Fiber 1.5g; Cholesterol 1mg; Sodium 222mg

Excellent Source of: Molybdenum, Vitamin C

Good Source of: Calcium, Manganese, Vitamin B6, Protein

Read more at: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ellie-krieger/zucchini-parmesan-crisps-recipe/index.html?oc=linkback

Cookies

Check out How to Make the Best Chocolate Chip Cookies by Kim Kramer on Snapguide.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Brownies

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• Prep Time 15 Min
• Total Time 2 Hr 5 Min
• Servings 42

INGREDIENTS

1

box (1 lb 2.4 oz) Betty Crocker® Original Supreme Premium brownie mix

Water, vegetable oil and egg called for on brownie mix box

1

pouch (1 lb 1.5 oz) Betty Crocker® chocolate chip cookie mix

1/2

cup butter or margarine, softened

1

egg

1

container Betty Crocker® Rich & Creamy chocolate frosting, if desired

• 1Heat oven to 350ºF (325ºF for dark or nonstick pan). Spray bottom only of 13x9-inch pan with cooking spray, or grease with shortening. Make brownie mix as directed on box. Spread in pan.
• 2Make cookie mix as directed on pouch, using butter and 1 egg. Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls evenly onto brownie batter; press down lightly.
• 3Bake 42 to 47 minutes or until toothpick inserted 2 inches from side of pan comes out almost clean. Cool on cooling rack 30 minutes. Frost with frosting. For brownies, cut into 7 rows by 6 rows.

EXPERT TIPS

This is one of those little secrets we know you’ll love! Cutting brownies or any bar with a chewy and dense texture is much easier when you use a plastic knife.

Got questions? Our experts have the answers. Ask Betty now.

NUTRITION INFORMATION–

1 Brownie

 

Calories

130

 ( 

Calories from Fat

50),

 

Total Fat

6g

 

(Saturated Fat

2 1/2g,

 

Trans Fat

0g

 ), 

Cholesterol

15mg

Sodium

105mg

 

Total Carbohydrate

19g

(Dietary Fiber

0g

 

  Sugars

13g

 ), 

Protein

1g

 ; 

% Daily Value*:

 

Vitamin A

0%;

Vitamin C

0%;

 

Calcium

0%;

 

Iron

4%;

Exchanges:

1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 Fat; 

Carbohydrate Choices:

1 

*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

Choc-malt banana milkshake

Choc-malt banana milkshake

Difficulty

 

Easy

 

Servings

 

2

ingredients

• 2 cups reduced-fat milk
• 2 large scoops chocolate ice-cream
• 2 tablespoons malted milk powder
• 1 large banana, peeled, chopped
• Grated milk chocolate, to serve

instructions

1. Step 1
   Blend milk, ice-cream, milk powder and banana together until smooth. Pour into chilled glasses. Top with chocolate. Serve.

Chocolate Fudge Marshmallow Cupcakes

125g butter

1/3 cup cocoa powder
2 eggs
1/2 tsp vanilla
3/4 cups caster sugar
1/2 heaped cup plain flour
a pinch of baking powder
1/2 cup chocolate chips
150g large marshmallows (24 in total)
1/2 cup chocolate chips, extra
extra cocoa powder to decorate, if desired 

Chocolate Fudge Marshmallow Cupcakes

Ingredients

125g butter
1/3 cup cocoa powder
2 eggs
1/2 tsp vanilla
3/4 cups caster sugar
1/2 heaped cup plain flour
a pinch of baking powder
1/2 cup chocolate chips
150g large marshmallows (24 in total)
1/2 cup chocolate chips, extra
extra cocoa powder to decorate, if desired 

Makes 24.

Method

Preheat oven to 180C.
Melt the butter and the sugar in a saucepan and stir. Sift flour, baking powder and cocoa into a bowl. Pour the butter mixture, eggs, and vanilla into the flour mixture and combine thoroughly. Add the chocolate chips and stir through. Spoon the mixture into a 24 hole silicone mini muffin tray (alternatively muffin cases) and cook for 20 minutes or until firm. Leave to cool for 10 minutes before removing.
Place the extra chocolate chips in a microwave proof bowl. Heat on high for 20 seconds at a time, stirring between intervals so as not to burn, until almost melted. Stir until smooth and place a teaspoon of melted chocolate onto the top of each cupcake. Before the chocolate sets, place a marshmallow on top of each. Sprinkle with cocoa powder to finish off, if desired.

 

forth of July cupcakes

Forth of July swril cupcakes

Ingredients

Makes: 12

Prep time: 35 mins

Cooking time: 30 mins

Total time: 1 hr 5 mins

Skill level: Easy peasy

Costs: Cheap as chips

150g unsalted butter (room temperature)
150g golden caster sugar
130g self-raising flour
20g cornflour
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 tbsp milk (room temperature)
3 eggs
Golden syrup, to drizzle
For the buttercream
400g icing sugar
200g unsalted butter (room temperature)
1 tsp vanilla extract
1-2 tbsp milk
red extra and navy blue paste food colourings
You will also need
Muffin tray
12 cupcake cases
4 piping bags
Large open star nozzle

Method

• Preheat your oven to 160°C/320°F/Gas Mark 3. Line a 12-hole muffin tin with paper cases.
• Beat the sugar and butter with the vanilla extract until light and fluffy (about 5 minutes). Add 1 egg, 1/3 of the flour and cornflour and 1/3 of the milk. Beat until just combined then repeat twice more until all the eggs, flour and milk have been added.
• Divide the batter between the 12 cases and bake for 20-25 minutes. Drizzle about a teaspoon of golden syrup over the hot cakes and cool on a wire rack.
• To make the buttercream, place the icing sugar, butter and vanilla extract in a large mixing bowl. Mix with an electric mixer for about 5 minutes until soft, smooth and creamy, adding a little milk only if the mixture is too stiff. 
• Divide the icing into 3 equal portions and colour 1/3 red, 1/3 navy and leave 1/3 white.
• To decorate, place the star nozzle in one of the piping bags and put to one side.
• Spoon each of the 3 icings into separate piping bags, pushing all the air out as you squeeze the icing to the end of the bags. Snip the end of each bag and place all 3 bags into the fourth piping bag with the nozzle.Twist all 4 bags at the top of the icing.
• Pipe a star in the centre of one cake then pipe around the star to form a swirl. To finish push down slightly then pull up quickly. Repeat with the remaining cakes.

Chocolate Vanilla Cream Cakes

Chocolate Vanilla Cream Cakes

Ingredients

3/4 cup self-raising flour
3/4 cup plain flour
1/3 cup cocoa powder
1/2 cup caster sugar
1/2 cup extra light olive oil
3 eggs
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 medium (200g) granny smith apple, peeled, grated
1/4 cup fresh raspberries
1/2 x 250ml tub Philadelphia cream for desserts
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1/2 teaspoon icing sugar mixture
Fresh raspberries, to serve

Method

• Step 1Preheat oven to 180°C/160°C fan-forced. Grease a 12-hole, 1/3 cup-capacity muffin pan.
• Step 2Sift flours and cocoa into a large bowl. Add sugar. Stir to combine. Place oil, eggs and buttermilk in a medium bowl. Whisk to combine. Add oil mixture and apple to flour mixture. Stir until just combined. Spoon mixture between prepared pan holes. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes or until a skewer inserted in centre of 1 cake comes out clean. Stand in pans for 5 minutes. Turn onto a wire rack to cool completely.
• Step 3Place raspberries in a bowl. Lightly crush with a fork. Add cream and vanilla. Stir gently to create a rippled effect.
• Step 4Cut cakes in half horizontally. Reserve 1 tablespoon cream mixture. Spread 1 cake base with 2 teaspoons of remaining cream mixture. Sandwich with cake top. Repeat with remaining cakes and cream mixture. Using a little of the reserved cream mixture attach 1 raspberry to the top of each cake. Dust with icing sugar. Serve.

Recipe week

This week is recipe week today through next Sunday we will be posting recipes. I hope you enjoy and  if you want at the end tell us your favorite!

Green velvet cupcakes

Green Velvet Cupcakes

Ingredients

- 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 cups of sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tbsp cocoa
- 1 tbsp salt
- 1 tbsp baking soda
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup oil
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 tbs vinegar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 oz green food coloring
- butter cream frosting
- shamrock sprinkles

Method

1. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Grease your cupcake pan
3. In a medium sized bowl, whisk the eggs, one at a time. Slowly add wet ingredients, then dry ingredients, and mix both on medium-high. Once the mixture has been whisked into a thick green batter, let it settle.
4. Fill the cupcake liners about halfway full.
5. Bake about 10-15 minutes or until well formed (use the toothpick trick).
6. Let the cupcakes cool completely before frosting with butter cream frosting.
7. Decorate with shamrock sprinkles, green M&Ms, or candies!

How to make a turtle cupcake toper

How to make a turtle cake topper

Ingredients

Gum paste
Gel paste color for the turtle + black paste color for the eyes
Tylo glue
Small paint brush
Cocktail stick
Small knife + plastic bag (not showing on the photo)

Method

Step 1:


Color your gum paste in desired colors for the “body”, the shell and the dots. Place the rest of the gum paste in a plastic bag. Take the color that you have chosen for the “body” and roll it into a sausage. Cut 4 pieces in the same size (feets) and save the rest for the head. Take the “feet” parts and roll them into a ball and shape them like a teardrop.
Note: It is possible that you need to adjust the amount of gum paste for the feets and the head.
Step 2:

Glue all 4 feets together with Tylo glue.
Step 3:


Take the gum paste for the shell and roll it into a ball. Form it into a toadstole shape and make it a little hollow at the bottom.
Step 4:


Brush a little tylo glue at the bottom of the shell and place it over the feets.
Step 5:

Take the “head” part and roll it into a little ball. Shape it so that it looks like a “golf club”.
Step 6:

Use the paint brush to make and indentation where the head will be.
Step 7:

Brush a little tylo glue in the indentation.
Step 8:


Attach the head. I have used my cornstarch duster as support for the head while it dries.
Step 9:

Roll very small balls of gum paste. Flatten them slightly and glue them on randomly over the shell.
Step 10:

All you need now is to make the eyes. Do that with a little black gel paste on a cocktail stick. Your cute little turtle cake topper is now ready to be used.

Quiz #4 Are you a Psychic

Are You Psychic?

Have you ever wondered if you have psychic powers? No? Why not take this silly quiz anyway? Even if you can’t tell the future, it’s good for a laugh!

Are You Psychic?

Have you ever wondered if you have psychic powers? No? Why not take this silly quiz anyway? Even if you can’t tell the future, it’s good for a laugh!

1. Close your eyes. Hey! No peeking! Now, imagine that you’re gazing into a crystal ball. What do you see?
    I see a scene…I’m in school! I just bet that’s where I’ll be tomorrow!

    Ugh! I see my own reflection—look at that zit on my nose!

    I see swirly colors—cool!
2. The phone’s ringing! What’s your reaction?
    It’s Uncle Robert. I don’t know how I know, I just do.

    Huh? It is? I was so busy taking this quiz I didn't even hear it…

    I’ll bet it’s for me. Lemme just check the caller ID…
3. You’re on the computer, putting the finishing touches on your social studies report, when suddenly the power blinks off and the screen goes blank. You think:
    Wow—it’s good thing I just saved all my work!

    Oh, no—I haven’t saved yet! I think I’m gonna cry…

    I’m so glad I make a habit of saving every half hour.
4. When playing cards with your friends:
    You always seem to know what card you’re going to get before you draw it.

    You just play ‘em as you get ‘em!

    You feel like you’re super lucky at choosing the right ones.
5. After dreaming that the cute new boy at school asked your BFF to the dance on Friday, you think:
    Cool! She’ll be so excited! I’d better call and tell her she needs a new outfit!

    I should have known eating that triple-dip double hot fudge banana split with extra whipped cream right before bedtime would give me weird dreams…

    Wouldn't it be cool if that really happened?

Quiz #3 Do you speak your mind

Do you speak your mind?

Do you keep your thoughts to yourself, or shout them out for the world to hear? Take this quiz and find out just how big your mouth is!

A little quiz-taking tip: Don't just pick the answers that you think are 'correct' - be honest with yourself and pick the answer that you would be most likely to do in reality. Then you will actually find out something useful about yourself, and learn how to improve!

1. It’s the first day of school, and your teacher wants everyone in the class to introduce themselves. You:
    Wish you could crawl out of the class without saying a word.

    Sit quietly and think of something interesting to say.

    Raise your hand, wave it around, and ask if you can go first.
2. Your best friend wants to know what you want to do after school. You:
    Ask her to make the decision - you don’t want to sound bossy.

    Give her a few suggestions, then ask her what she thinks.

    Tell her that she is coming over to your house - you’ve already decided.
3. Some girls you know are spreading rumors about your best friend. You:
    Keep this hurtful information to yourself.

    Don’t say anything to them, but tell the teacher or your mom when no one else is around.

    Walk right up to them and tell them they’d better stop - or else.
4. You’re at your best friend’s house, and your friend is trying to persuade her mother to let you sleep over. You:
    Stay out of it. This is your friend’s battle, not yours.

    Quietly announce that you think it would be all right with your parents - if it’s okay with your friend’s mom, that is.

    Join in with your friend’s chorus of “Please, please, please,” and offer up lots of reasons why you should get to sleep over.
5. A friend wants to know what you think about her new sweater, which looks like something your grandma would wear. You:
    Tell her it’s really cool - you love it! - even though you don’t.

    Say something like, “That color is really popular this year,” and then quickly change the subject.

    Let her know there’s no way you’d be caught dead in such an ugly thing.
6. You’ve accepted an invitation to go to the movies with your friend and her parents. They haven’t decided what to see yet, but they’re considering a movie you’ve already seen and didn’t like. When they ask your opinion, you:
    Shrug your shoulders and say, “I don’t care.”

    Mention that you’ve seen the movie before and you weren’t crazy about it, but if that’s what everyone else wants to do, it’s okay with you.

    Loudly announce that their selection is the worst movie that was ever made, and there’s no way you want to see it again.
7. Your class is putting on a play and you can audition for any part you want. You:
    Ask your teacher if you can be in the chorus. That way, your voice will always be joined by many others.

    Read for a part - but only a small one.

    Go for the lead. You want to be the star of the show!
8. A boy in your class insults you when the teacher isn’t looking. You:
    Walk away with a lump in your throat.

    Tell him, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.”

    Call him every bad name in the book and make him cry.
9. Your mom says she is going to make cherry pie, and that’s your least favorite dessert! You:
    Don’t say anything.

    Quietly ask if she could make a different kind of pie.

    Make a face, then loudly proclaim that you hate cherry pie. Can’t she make apple instead?
10. Your teacher asks a tough question in class, and you’re the only one who knows the answer. You:
     Sit quietly. Then - when no one else is around - tell your teacher that you knew the correct answer all along.

     Raise your hand and wait to be called on.

     Shout out the answer!