Making Chocolate Chip Cookies!

CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Ingredients

Recipe:

• 100g Butter
•  ½ cup Chelsea White Sugar
•  ½ cup Chelsea Soft Brown Sugar
• 1 egg
• 1tsp Vanilla Essence
• 1  ½ cup Flour 
• Pinch of salt
•  ½ tsp Baking Powder
•  ½ cups Chocolate Chips

Method:

Melt butter and add both sugars and cream these together. Beat in the eggs and vanilla then mix in the dry ingredients. Roll into medium-sized balls, making sure the mixture is not too wet! Put on a well-greased baking tray. They shouldn't spread too much so flatten slightly. Bake at 180° for 8-10 minutes. 

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Last week for HEC practical lesson we had to make chocolate chip cookies, it was a fun practical so as long as we follow the methods we were done with a great finishing product. Here's how we did it, we did the Mis en Place so we know we have all ingredients on the table and ready to start the next process.

Next, we were given butter so we melted it so we can make the dough soft and not too wet or too dry. We added flour, brown sugar, white sugar, salt and baking powder in one big bowl to work in. In a separate bowl, we added the wet ingredients which were an egg and vanilla essence.

We mixed it with a wooden spoon until it looked creamy, soft. The wet mixture was quite thick but was okay to work with so we added it to the dry ingredients. Forgot to mention that we had to preheat the oven to 180° for around 10 minutes and then adjust it to fanbake for about 7-8 minutes.

Once it was baked we took it out of the oven and the end product turned out very well, the colour was golden brown and the texture was soft on the inside and not too chewy itself. The sweetness was a bit too high for my taste since I don't like too much sweetness. Although the product was good but I would like to improve more and learn how to make them better.

Gym Activities

This term for P.E we had been doing some physical activities that include sports and fitness, first activity we did was Table Tennis and Juggling. For Juggling, we used different coloured scarves to juggle shown in the picture below...

We first did the basic for juggling by only using two scarves on both hands and slowly progressing until we can juggle at least 2 in one hand and 3 in both hands. It was difficult at first but we slowly made progress and we were fine so we moved on to table tennis.

For table tennis, it was easy because most of us had already had the experience so we just practised more and did a few challenges that we were given by the teacher which made it more competitive for us and get us more hyped if that makes sense. After those activities we then did Speed Stacking which I found so cool and competitive, speed stacking is basically sticking cups the fastest so our class did the competition of who can stack the fastest. The fastest was 4.1 by Gerald, Mine was 4.4 but I was about to get 4.3 but I kinda failed mid-way. It was a whole lot of fun and I enjoyed it and I know my whole class did as well. It was quite a practice at first but we gave our best shot so this was what we did in P.E... 

Camera Shots

Today for Film Studies we have been studying about different "Camera Shots" and what is the reason they are used for within the films, I and my partner Richard have been working on a slideshow showing different camera shots and the reasons for them. It was fun learning about these shots and researching about them especially putting all of the information together.

What I am currently learning is the camera shots and other things in film like costumes, make-up, scene and etc. Sharing my learning with you is good so that you guys can also learn something from it as well. Here is my presentation and I hope you learn something from it if I made a few mistakes please comment on what should I improve in my future blog posts. Hope you enjoy and have a great day...
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Identifying Camera Shots:

What is Bacteria?

What is Bacteria?

Bacteria are microscopic living organisms, they can be found everywhere. They can be
dangerous which they can cause infection. It is a large group which have cell walls but lack
organelles and a shaped nucleus.

What do Bacteria need to survive?

Like all living things, bacteria need food, water and a proper environment to live and grow.
By controlling nutrients, water, time, temperature, air, acidity and salt you can eliminate or
reduce the rate for bacteria growing.

Give 3 examples of how we avoid spreading bacteria?

• Sanitary Kitchen
• Cover your face if sneezing, coughing or blowing their nose
• Clean Hygiene

What does the term cross-contamination mean and what is it’s effect on you?

The illness or disease from one person to another which is known as cross-contamination.
This is often used specifically to refer to the transfer of the bacteria from one object or person
to another especially carrying it into food.

Colour Coded Cutting Boards:

Personal Hygiene

Today I will be explaining some things about personal hygiene and how to keep yourself safe including others while cooking. Personal Hygiene is important for us to teach us to stay healthy and preventing any disease while cooking, I was told to make something that includes the "Personal Hygiene" words and then explain the reasons why it is important and how we prevent bad things from happening while cooking so here is a wordart I made that's all related to our Personal Hygiene...

Personal Hygiene WordArt:

So first off the first key things for my group in cooking which we are going to work on together are that we make sure we clean our hands all the time and remind them unless the forget and other things to keep our hygiene safe. So during and after cooking or practicals, make sure you clean your tables so you're able to work on a clean surface. Before touching any ingredients wash your hands so you don't spread germs or get anyone sick with those germs, also you must have different coloured cutting boards for specific food as shown below on the picture.

COLOUR CODED BOARDS:

The reason why we don't use the same boards is so that we don't mix for example "RAW FISH" with "VEGETABLES" or else the vegetables will start smelling like fish, it also helps you reduce the risk of cross-contamination which is transferring bacteria from one object or food to another which can often cause harm to our health and make us sick or even getting an infection. 

Another thing to keep in mind is not to use the same towel over and over again so collect new towels because some towels may have germs in them if used for a week or so, it's better to wash it and use it later after dried up because if you use that same towel your basically spreading more germs from other people and we don't want that. So these were the basics and if you found this helpful leave a comment and hope you enjoyed or learned something from this post. Stay safe and have a great day😄👍...

Cupcakes

Before lockdown, I didn't get my blog finished about cupcakes so today this blog post will be about our baking on the cupcake, me and my group finished the cupcake but we did the icing the day after and decorated it. Firstly my group and I started making the cake, it took some effort to get the cakes right and finish the day off, we added all the ingredients and followed the recipe step by step. Once we finished our cake the day after we started our icing decorations.

We had to first take out our cakes and put it on the table. We then got to choose different flavours to add to our icing, my team chose to do strawberry flavour so we went with it and started decorating it. It didn't take too long to finish the decorations but in the end, the results were ok.

My team and I were exhausted from all the pressure and the work but we were relieved it was finished and we enjoyed that practical. I shared my share of cupcakes and my family enjoyed it so I was happy if they were and that was it. I hope you enjoyed my post and have a great day.

My Strength

In my Wananga class, we have been looking at what our strengths are. These are my top 5 Strengths: Fairness, Teamwork, Hope, Kindness & Spirituality. We were then told to make posters about our strength and explain what they mean.

This is my poster showing them and on side of the poster show the definition of the words I chose and what I am good at. I had fun making this poster and I wanna share it with all you guys to show my learning. Hope you like my post...

My Poster: