Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Yummy veagan GF chocolate cupcake recipe

Ingredients: 

1 1/2 cup of gluten-free flour
1 cup of sugar
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1/2 cup of vegetable oil
1 cup of soy milk
1/4 cup of cocoa 
3/4 tablespoon of vinegar
1 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla 
1 teaspoon of baking soda

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350' F. Prepare pan with cupcake liners. Whisk together flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, and cocoa. Add vegetable oil, soy milk and vanilla. Whisk using a wooden spoon until no lumps appear, and batter is smooth. Add vinegar, stir 7-10 times, and quickly pour into cupcake tray.

Bake for about 30 minutes, until cupcakes begin to pull away from the sides and/or a tooth pick inserted into the center of cupcake comes out clean.

THE CUPCAKE BATTER



Tuesday, December 4, 2012

All about me: chocolate

All about me: Chocolate

Hi, my nickname is chocolate. I have a mom, dad,  brother named Caden, and a dog named Jackson.  I moved from CA to CT. 

Favorite singer: Taylor Swift
Favorite sport:  Horseback riding
Favorite instrument to play: Piano 
Favorite things to do: bake, and hang out with my friends, and designing fashion
Favorite holiday: Christmas
Favorite book series: Harry Potter, The Winnie years, and the amazing days of Abby Hayes.
Favorite animal(s): Pandas, and dogs
Favorite food: Pasta 
Favorite movie(s): The amazing spider-man, clueless, the three musketeers 
Favorite month: December
Favorite songs: Mary's song (oh my my), Starlight, Who says, Come back be here

All about me: Fudge

All about me: Fudge

Hi, this is Fudge also known as Ava.  Here are some things about me.  I have a mom, dad, a brother named Owen, two cats Oscar and Fifi, and I have a guinea pig poppy. My brother has a Lizard  named Quincy.

Favorite food: Indian food
Favorite drink: hot cocoa 
Favorite singer(s): Adele, and Taylor Swift
Favorite band : The Killers, and green day
Favorite animal(s): guinea pigs, and cats
Favorite month: December because it's by birthday month and Christmas.
Favorite thing to do: field hockey, climbing, gymnastics, and piano
Favorite movie(s): Opposite day, The secret world of Ariety, and The Princess diaries 

Friday, November 30, 2012

All about me: Strawberry

All about me: Strawberry

This is an all about me page so you can get to know me!

Cupcake related stuff:

Favorite cupcake: Vanilla 
Favorite cupcake frosting flavorChocolate

None cupcake related stuff:

Favorite movieWreck It Ralph 
Favorite singer: Taylor Swift
  
Three of my favorite songs by Taylor:

I knew you were trouble (Red), Christmas must be something more (Taylor Swift holiday collection), and Change (Fearless).

Favorite season: winter
Favorite food: cheese ravioli 
Favorite animal(s)Dolphins and dogs
Favorite color: dark purple
Favorite book series: The Books Of Elsewhere

Things I like to do:

Plan LCC meetings, Play piano, Rock climb, draw, Watch movies,
Work on my two blogs, Play with my dogs, and swim.

Favorite holiday: Christmas

My pets:
Jake + Daphne (dogs), Henri (beta fish) Taylor + Ralph (frogs) 

P.S. 
I named Taylor and Ralph before I knew about Taylor Swift, and before I saw Wreck It Ralph. :p

Daphne: Small pug mix
Jake: large golden-doodle


Thanks for reading my all about me! Comment if you have any questions! :) 

Keep reading later on to hear Chocolate and Fudge's all about me!

~Strawberry

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

VFW


LCC goes to VFW

VFW is a place were Veterans go to hang out. VFW stands for Veterans Of Foreign Wars. They can go there to talk, drink, eat, and hang out. On Saturday they went there to eat cupcakes!

Saturday Fudge, Chocolate and I made two different kinds of cupcakes. We made vanilla cupcakes and RAINBOW cupcakes. We decided to keep the vanilla cupcakes and give away the rainbow cupcakes.  After the cupcakes were baked, we decorated them, tasted them, packaged them, and drove them to VFW. 

At VFW the Veterans that were there were really happy. I really hope they enjoyed their cupcakes. 

Back home we tasted our vanilla cupcakes. They tasted wonderful. 

The vanilla cupcakes (we dyed them pink).

The rainbow cupcake batter.

Rainbow cupcakes after decorating

Ready to go!
I really enjoyed going to VFW and making Veterans happy. 




Monday, November 12, 2012

Peace Love and Cupcakes


One of my favorite books is Peace Love and Cupcakes (written by Sheryl and Carrie Berk).  After I finished Peace Love and Cupcakes an idea sparked in my head. That idea was LCC.

A short summery of Peace Love and Cupcakes:

Kylie Carson always gets teased at her new school. She has lots of trouble making friends. Kylie comes up with a ‘sweet’ idea to make friends. She should start a cupcake club! 

Soon Kylie has lots of good friends and is making tons of tasty treats, but Meredith, the schools meanest bully tries to ruin the club’s big cupcake party. Will the cupcake club survive? Read it to find out!


If you enjoy reading Peace Love and Cupcakes the next book in the series is already out!


Peace Love and Cupcakes ( book 1 )
Recipe for Trouble ( book 2 )

I look forward to reading this!

Written by
 strawberry


Saturday, November 10, 2012

LCC goes to the fire station

Our first LCC trip was to the fire station! We made vegan (so strawberry could eat them)  peanut-butter balls, decorated Chinese take-out containers, filled them up, and brought them to the fire station.  Here is the recipe for the peanut butter balls.


PEANUT BUTTER BALLS:

Ingredients:

2 cups of peanut butter
1stick of earth balance buttery spread
3 cups of Rice Krispies  
1 bag of powdered sugar
12 ounces of chocolate chips

Directions:

Mix butter and sugar. Add peanut butter and Rice Krispies. Roll into one inch balls. Melt chocolate on stove top. Dip balls into chocolate and let them cool.




Our trip to the fire station was really fun and great. It was fun because we got to see the inside of the fire station. We saw their lounge room, kitchen, bedrooms, and entrance. 

It felt really good to help somebody that helps us all the time. 


The Chinese Take Out Containers
 Here are some pictures of our trip!
The Peanut Butter Balls

Us outside the Fire Station