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Chocolate Cup Cakes

Im sure everyone would enjoy these. I found this recipie on allrecipes.com. Since most votes went towards cake, I decide to make cupcakes for this week. Here's how to make Chocolate Cup Cakes from scratch:

INGREDIENTS
1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons butter, softened
1 1/2 cups white sugar
2 eggs
3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup milk

DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a muffin pan with paper or foil liners. Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa and salt. Set aside.
In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well with each addition, then stir in the vanilla. Add the flour mixture alternately with the milk; beat well. Fill the muffin cups 3/4 full.
Bake for 15 to 17 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean. Frost with your favorite frosting when cool.

Hope all of you try these at home and enjoy them!

Making Brigadeiros is a Challenge

Hi everyone! Happy Spring Break!

I have tried to make brigadeiros twice already. They come out too sticky when trying to roll them into shape. But not to worry, the third time is a charm. I will try them again. The recipe came from a popular cookbook in Brazil: Dona Benta.

Ingedients:

1 can (14 ounces) sweetened condensed milk
1 Tbsp butter
4 Tbsp powdered chocolate
granulated chocolate to roll the brigadeiros.

Directions:

Stir together milk, chocolate and butter over medium heat until mixture leaves sides of pan.

It should look like a thick paste.

Let cool just long enough for you to be able to handle it.

Shape into walnut size balls and roll them in the granulated chocolate.

Enjoy!

I'm happy to see people have already voted on my poll, so please dont' forget to vote!

Chocolate Lovers & Brazil

Sometime this week I will make a brazilian dessert called Brigadeiros.

If you are a chocolate lover, or just want to try this one I recommend you come back and check for when I post up the recipie!

It's a very simple once, with a few ingredients and it's fun. I learned about it from a friend from Sao Paulo, Brazil.

So I thank her for this recipie and I hope you will also like it!

I will post again very soon.

P.S. I recieved a recipie from one of our classmates.

It's a cake recipie, i will try to make that one too!

Cookies & Milk

My first recipie is Chocolate Chip Cookies. They are my personal favorite and that is why they are first on my list of desserts to make. I believe this is the all-time favorite American cookie. Here's how to make them.

Ingredients:

2 1/4 cup All-purpose flour
1 tsp Baking soda
1 tsp Salt
1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
3/4 cup Granulated sugar
3/4 cup Firmly packed brown sugar
1 tsp Vanilla extract
2 Eggs
One 12-ounce Pkg (2 cups) Nestle Toll House Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels
*1 cup Chopped nuts (optional)

Preperation:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a small bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt; set aside. In large mixer bowl, beat butter, sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract until creamy. Beat in eggs. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in Nestle Toll House Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels and nuts. Drop by rounded measuring tablespoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake 9-11 minutes until edges are golden brown.

My cookies before they went into the oven. These are my cookies after, ready to eat...

These cookies are easy to make and they always taste great. They come out wonderful everytime! Comment and let me know how yours turn out!

My first blog

Hi Everyone! This is my first blog. In this first blog I am going to talk about citizen journalism. You may be wondering what citizen journalism exactly is. Well, it's precicely what I am doing right now...bloging and posting my ideas on what I believe the world should get to know a little bit more about in a way most journalists do. I say that this is a good thing. Amateurs get to write and talk about about anything they love to do, and others that share their same passion can respond.
Blogging is something new to me. This really is my very first blog and I am learning a lot about it. "Amateur Hour" by Nicholas Lemann, is an article written for The New Yorker. He writes about citizen journalism and explains this fairly new concept of blogs, blogging, and the internet as a gateway for amateur to be "journalists" for the world. He informs that there are about 12 million bloggers in the United States. This means that an increase in this profession has occured. This will create more creative ways to speak our minds about not only what we love but about serious issues and political issues. This is good because we will now have everyone's view on these subjects. How personal will newspaper articles become and how will their information compete with these new bloggers? My question is: Where will this take the profession of journalism next?