Amethyst’s Blog

While working on my 20% project this week I finished baking chocolate cake. This week I wanted to do something with frosting because with all the things I’ve made I haven’t made a good frosting. Anyways, this week I have accomplished baking chocolate cake with the most perfect frosting on it. Some successes I had this week were taking the cakes out and letting them cool before I put the frosting on them. Some struggles I have this week were when I was trying to frost the cakes and I was trying to take out one of the cake pans it didn’t come out how I wanted it to, so I just used the other cake instead of putting them together, but overall, it turned out amazing. Since this is our last week of doing 20% projects, I will not be baking every week now, but I will at least be doing it twice a month if not more than that, I really enjoy doing this because I got to try new things and I am very excited on what I can make in the future. Thank you for reading. Hope you enjoyed.

I have three favorite memories from this school year. One out of the three memories is from my core class. This memory is about making new friends in class. On the first day of school I came in hoping I had friends in this class and luckily I had some. Another fun memory I have is Knight at the Museum. I did a project on medieval art work. I made a tri-fold and presented to the community. I felt very nervous but after awhile I felt not as nervous as before. Lastly, in PE I made new friends when our class was divided into college teams. We played Hula Hut Throw Down and we had the best time playing and laughing. It was so fun playing something new.

While working on my 20% project this week, I finished baking chocolate chip cookies and this week I wanted to do something easy, but last week I said was going to bake a cake but I change the plans. Anyways this week I have accomplished baking chocolate chip cookies with a different recipe than the one I usually use. Some successes I had this week were cooking the cookies perfectly so that they were a crisp soft chewy light brown coloring. Since this week, I had nothing gone wrong, so I did not have any struggles, thankfully unlike last week when I had quite a few, but the whole reason of this project is to learn about yourself so it was a good thing that I had some failures. Next week I think I want to bake a cake pacifically a chocolate cake with vanilla frosting or brownies which ever I do I hope I do then pretty good. See you next week hope you like it.

For this month, I read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Quentin Blake. Charlie Bucket, a boy living in poverty with his parents and grandparents. They live in a town that is home to a famous chocolate factory. Charlie is one of five children who win admission to tour the mysterious chocolate factory, alongside its owner Willy Wonka.

I recommend reading this book because the story has fantasy objects like singing and dancing Oompa-Loompas, chocolate rivers, and gum turning people big and blue. This story also has so interesting things. For example, the Oompa-Loompas always break into a song when someone say something to remind them on a song or Mr. Wonka tells them.

My favorite character is Willy Wonka. Willy Wonka Is my favorite character because he reopened up his chocolate factory to 5 lucky kids and there guardian. One of his character traits is playful. A quote that proves this character trait is, “A little nonsense, now and then, is relished by the wisest men”. This quote proves that Willy Wonka is playful because he is messing around kids but in a joking way. For these reason Willy Wonka is playful and my favorite character.

My favorite quote from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is, “You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of it.” This is my favorite quote because it is very true what Mr. Wonka said. For this reason it’s my favorite quote.

My mom is the most amazing woman in my life. Why she is the most amazing mom? It’s because she does everything I ask her and or gets me anything I want. A memory I have with my mom is one time when we were shopping, I saw this cute bracelet and I was going to get it but then some other person got it before I could so I was kind of bummed out. It wasn’t going to ruin my day or anything but I was bummed. My mom noticed how I was feeling and later that night she was looking online for the same bracelet. Then a couple days later my mom hands me a little bag that has the bracelet inside of it! When I think about that day I always have a smile on my face. My mom and I always talk about anything and everything. When she sees something or hears something that has a good story or a good life lesson she always tells me about it and tells me to do the right in the situation and not make a bad decision. That’s another good reason why I love my mom.

while working on my 20% project this week, I finished baking funfetti cupcakes. This week was amazing and I accomplished learning how to make vanilla buttercream that tasted amazing. Some struggles I had were not letting the cupcakes fully cool before putting the icing on it so the icing melt. Another struggle I had was not making the icing thick enough but it did tasted good but it was not thick enough to be like the ones in the store. My last struggle is not having sour cream so when I realized that I did not have any I have to look up alternatives for it one of them was Greek yogurt it really did not change the recipe but it probably would have tasted better if I had it. Because I did not have sour cream I had to change it by using Greek yogurt instead. Next week I am going to do some tipoff cake but I don’t know what kind. Thanks for reading see you next week.

while working on my 20% project this week I baked brownies with chocolate chips cookie in it. This week was amazing and I accomplished learning how to do different dishes in one as making brownies and then adding in chocolate chip cookie dough inside. This week was great I did it amazing so I did not need to fix any thing. I did not have any struggles this week but I have to say adding vanilla ice cream would have made it taste better but by its self is fine. Also if you do not like chocolate things this dish is not for you. Since this week was amazing I did not have any adjustments I need to do. Next week i am thinking of making so type of cupcakes either chocolate, vanilla, or funfetti I don’t know which one yet but is will be one of those but I would probably do vanilla or funfetti. Thanks for reading see you next week.

while working on my 20% project this week, I finished cooking churros. This week was amazing and I was able to accomplish cooking churros that got a 10/10 from my family. But last week was like a 8/10 not that bad but I could have done better. I had a struggle that was when piping the churro I did not have the right piping tip to make the ridges a regular churro has but they still tasted like a churro. Because I did not have the right piping tip, I had to make the changes of not having the ridges on the churro so it was just straight looking. Next week I will be baking chocolate chip cookie brownies called brookies I am excited to make them because I love chocolate chip cookies and brownies so this will be fun to make and to eat when I am done I also love to get my family to eat it first just in case they don’t like it then I don’t have to eat it. Thank you for read see you need week.

my favorite room in my house is my own room. The reason I picked my room is because it has my vanity which has all my things in it like my makeup, hair supplies, and nail equipment. Another reason why I picked my room is because my bed I love my bed it has like a million blankets and a lot of stuffed animals and lots of pillows. Another reason why I like my room is because it has a mini fridge so I can put any of my favorite snacks inside. Another great reason why I love my room is because it has can share it with my dog so when I am sleeping I can have my dog in there with me. My last but not lest reason why I love my room is because it has a tv that I can watch anything I like.

hello my name is Amethyst. For my 20% project i am doing baking. This week my goal was to make a carrot cake, I accomplished that goal and i also learned that I can make cream cheese frosting. I found a website that showed an amazing and easy recipe. Some of the other recipes were confusing so the one I found was easy to comprehend but challenging to make. Most important my amazing mom helped me with making sure I did all the steps correctly. Some struggles I had was that I almost forgot to put a timer on put like five minutes later I got reminded by my mom to put a timer on. To help me remember I would continue reading the direction before thinking I am done and putting it in the oven. So far, I have learn to bake a dessert that I really love. When you are baking it’s very fun because you get to work hard for something and then get a treat afterwards. I am so glad that I choose baking for my project. Thanks for reading see you next week!