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Home made gummi bears!

I’m going to take a wild guess that you like gummi bears and should KEEP READING to find out how to make them!

This recipe is really simple all you need is…

  • 1 cup of berries
  • chocolate mould
  • food processor
  • juice of 1 lemon
  • 1 & 1/2 tablespoons of gelatine
  1. Squeeze the lemon and process it with the berries.
  2. Sieve the seeds out of the liquid into a pot.
  3. Cook until it starts to simmer stirring occasionally.
  4. Pour into moulds and place in freezer.
  5. Take them out in 15 – 30 minutes ( we did 25 minutes ).
  6. Pop out and EAT!!!

Thanks for reading!

(pictures below)

 

FINAL OUTCOME!!! = YUM!

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strawberries are berry nice in a smoothie!

hello everyone, spring is finally here! if you want a delicious drink (like me!) follow these instructions to make your own strawberry and banana flavoured smoothie!

strawberry-smoothie

strawberry, banana and vanilla smoothie!

serves 3 people.

you will need:

  • 1 banana
  • 1 cup milk
  • 5 strawberries (without leaves)
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1/4 cup of yogurt
  • 1 tablespoon of honey
  1. cut green parts of strawberries.
  2. put all of the ingredients in the blender.
  3. blend until smooth
  4. serve!

enjoy your spring drinks that should put a spring in your step!

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Happy Easter!!!

Do You Absolutely Love Easter?

try our fun filled crafts and recipes for an easter to remember!

craft 1: origami!

for this craft all you need is…

  • 20cm square of paper or 1 origami sheet of paper
  • origami book (because we know how hard origami is without pictures) or search for how to make an origami bunny online
  • pens

(if you are stuck on finding a book or website here are some sugestions, wild and wonderful origami is the book i used but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAhe0FNviu8 is a pretty good video to watch but it might be tricky!)

  1. follow origami instructions
  2. draw a cute bunny face on it
  3. find the perfect place to put the bunny

 

craft 2: im not sure what its called but it involves marshmallows and bunnies!

for this craft all you need is…

  • mini marshmallows
  • pencils
  • pipe cleaners
  • glue

 

  1. draw a bunny and colour it in
  2. glue the pipe cleaners on like whiskers
  3. and glue  marshmallows around the outline of the bunny

and you have your marshmallow bunny drawing!!!

warning: do not eat the marshmallows after they have been glued on!!!

craft 3: bunny cup

for this craft all you need is…

  • light cardboard 
  • pipe claeners
  • pen
  • pink foam
  • glue
  • paper cup
  • cotton ball

 

  1. cut the cardboard into two rabbit ears
  2.  glue them onto the cup
  3. cut out the foam into a nose and slightly smaller ears
  4. stick the foam inside the ears and glue on the nose
  5. use pipe cleaners for whiskers and glue them on
  6. draw on some eyes and a mouth
  7. glue a cotton ball on the back of the cup for a tail

                         bunny complete!

Easter Cookies!

you can make some super cute easter cookies, if you are interested read on! the recipe is coming!

you will need…

  • 110g butter, softened
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 cups flour, sifted
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • Icing: 1 cup icing sugar, sifted; 1 egg white; food colouring.

    Method: Cream butter and sugar then beat in egg and vanilla. Sift in dry ingredients and mix well. Shape dough into a flat brick, wrap with plastic wrap and refrigerate for about 1 hour. Heat oven to 175oC and line baking trays with baking paper. Roll out dough on a lightly floured surface to about 3mm thick (try using a piece of baking paper placed over the dough.) Cut into shapes. Place shapes on trays and bake for 8 minutes until cooked but not brown. Cool biscuits on wire racks.

    Icing: Beat or whisk icing sugar and egg white together until thick enough to hold a peak. Divide mixture between small bowls and use food colouring to make different colours. Pipe icing on cooled biscuits.

 

craft 4: easter nest

or this craft all you need is…

  • wool or yarn
  • bowl
  • cotton balls
  • easter eggs
  • double sided tape
  1. start by getting your bowl and wrapping double  sided tape all the way around it
  2. peel off the backing and start winding the wool around the bowl
  3. when the wool covers the whole bowl fill it half way up with cotton balls and put small easter eggs on top

and there you have it an easy 3 step easter nest! (its super easy to take it apart, just unwind the wool and take off the tape)

chocolate nest

easter hens

Good luck with your easter crafts!

 

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scrambled eggs

eggs

 

do you love scrambled eggs?

well their simple to make all you need is

  • 2 eggs
  • tablespoon milk
  • salt
  • pepper
  • a small pan
  1. beat the 2 eggs together
  2. add the milk to the eggs and gently stir them together
  3. grind in some pepper and a pinch of salt
  4. pour everything into a small pan
  5. set the cooktop to medium heat
  6. slowly keep stirring the whole time its cooking
  7. when it looks like the picture tip it out and and its ready to eat

we hope you enjoy our scrambled eggs!

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LEMONADE!!!

now its Summer, and its the perfect time for ice cold lemonade!

these are all the things you need for making 2 glasses of lemonade but if you want more just double it!

  • 50g sugar
  • 50ml of lemon juice from freshly squeezed lemons
  • 250ml water 
  • ice cubes to keep it cold when its finished
  1. stir lemon juice and sugar together until all the sugar has dissolved.
  2. pour in all the water and stir it 
  3. then tip it into a jug and add the ice
  4. pour it into glasses and it is ready to drink!

this lemonade is delicious and we hope you like it and have a great summer!

lemonade

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its time to bake some delicious cupcakes!

on sunday i found a cupcake recipe so i decided to try it. i checked i had everything and i did apart from some sugar so i raced of to the supermarket to get some.

here is the recipe:

  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp of vanilla essence
  • 125 g of caster sugar
  • 125 g of soft margarine
  • 125 g of self raising flour
  1. heat the oven to 180ºc / 350ºF and put all the ingredients in a bowl and beat them together until the mixture is smooth and lighter in colour.
  2. line a bun tin with paper cake cases and half fill them with the cupcake mixture.
  3. cook the cupcakes for 18 to 20 minutes.you can tell when they are done when they have risen up and spring back into place when pressed.

so there is the recipe i hope you try it at home!!!

( by the way we found a vanilla and butter icing recipe and put it on the cupcakes along with some colourful sprinkles! )

cupcakes

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smoothies!

so if you want a healthy filling snack try our smoothie recipe heres how to make them

what you need:

  • banana or fruit
  • milk
  • honey
  • vanilla essence 
  • yogurt

first you cut up the banana and put it in the blender but don’t whiz it then poor in some milk and add a tiny bit of vanilla then put in some honey and yogurt then blend it al together and enjoy your SMOOTHIE!!!

smoothie

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breakfast for dinner?

yummy pancakes, if you like pancakes you should read this because

on friday we had pancakes for dinner because it was breakfast-for-dinner day! it was fun and yummy too. try this at home, we’ve got a yummy pancake picture and recipe for you. If you like you can add maple syrup, bacon, banana and blueberries – just put on whatever you would like. Enjoy your meal!

  • 2/3 cup flour
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 egg
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 tbsp melted butter

Mix flour and salt and make a well. Whisk egg and milk together and whisk into well. stir in the melted butter. Cook mixture spread thinly over base of pan. Cook until edges start to colour, flip to colour the other side.

Enjoy your yummy pancakes!

pancakes pancakes for dinner

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Happy Valentine’s Day

Today is Valentine’s Day so we decided you can’t have Valentine’s Day without some sweet treats. We’ve already made these cookies, but this time we made them heart-shaped, put on some pink icing (we’ll tell you how to make that soon) and added some sprinkles and made the best Valentine’s treat ever. So scroll down to see how to make the icing …

click here to find how to bake these cookies: Recipe

To make the icing, mix the following ingredients:

  • I cup of Chelsea berry-flavoured icing sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla
  • 2 – 3 tablespoons of warm water

Enjoy your cookies and have fun baking!

heart cookies

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home made ice cream :)

Here’s how to make some delicious home made ice cream. You can choose your own flavor. We got this recipe off a website called teachnet.com. 

1/2 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 tablespoon sugar
4 cups ice
4 tablespoons salt
1 small zip-loc plastic bag
1 big zip-loc plastic bag

Mix the milk, vanilla and sugar in the small bag, and seal. Mix the ice and salt in the large bag. Put the small bag inside the big bag of ice and shake, shake, shake for five minutes.

They’re delicious with vanilla, or with coconut, or any other flavors. If you want a coconut one, mix in a splash of coconut milk instead of the vanilla

Hope you enjoy your ice cream, it will taste delicious!

ice cream

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