5 hours of volunteer work

I spent my 5 hours of volunteering at the Fat Cat Children's Festival.

Most of my time was spent cutting out cat noses, dragon ears, and eye brows from construction paper. The kids would use these body parts to make hand puppets. It's pretty safe to say that if I was ever going to do that again, I would have to be a hobo being paid a lot of money to do it, or else become Edward Scissorhands. My hands were quite sore after all that cutting so I really hope the children appreciated it. On a positive note, my group was in a tent like structure which protected us from the little bit of rain we had as well as the wind.
It wasn't my idea to do this kind of volunteer work but my school planned it.
What I did last year was dinging trenches.

cookies

chocolate chip cookies
First we mixed flour,oatmeal, and baking soda in a bowl. Then we combined butter and shortening.
Then we added sugar to the butter mixture and beat it. Next we added eggs and vanilla.
After that we added the flour mixture to the butter mixture and mixed it up well.
Then we added the chocolate chips to the mix and stirred them in. After that was finished we rolled the dough into little balls and put them in the oven for about 10 minutes.
They turned out really well and tasted really good.
I would probably make them again.

Cappuccino cookies
First we mixed butter, coco powder, brown sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, and instant coffee powder.
Then after everything was mixed we added some egg white, yogurt, and flour.

We poured some white sugar and cinnamon in a bowl and rolled the dough into little balls. Then we rolled the balls in the white sugar and cinnamon and placed them on a baking sheet. We baked them for 10 minutes and took them out.
At first when we took them out they were really soft, but after sitting out for a while they became more hard.
These were probably the best cookies that we made. I am planning on making them again soon.

Apple pie

First we put flour and salt in a bowl and mixed them together. Then we cut in some shortening until it was just little bits of shortening with flour surrounding them. Next we added some water and kneaded it until it became dough. Then we put the dough in the fridge over night. The next day we cut the dough into two parts. The first part we rolled out and put on a pie plate and the second part we put aside. After that we started on the apple filling, for that we mixed lemon juice, white sugar, brown sugar, salt, Cinnamon, nutmeg, flour, and chopped up apples in a bowl. Then we willed the pie plate with the apple mixture and put a sheet of dough on top of it.
Then we put the pie on a baking sheet and put it in the oven. We put it in the oven for 15 minutes on high temperature, and then put it in again for 45 minutes on a lower temperature. when we took it out it was brown and crispy and it tasted really good. All it needed was some ice cream to go on top. I will probably make it again some time in the future.  

Apple tart

We rolled out a block of puff pastry and cut it into four circles. Then we chopped up some apples into small cubes and added some cinnamon, nutmeg, and brown sugar to them.
Next we put the apples on the pastry and put them in the oven for about 20 minutes.
When we took them out, the dough had puffed up and become really crispy, and they tasted really good.
I would definitely make these again.

rice and beans

                             
                                                                  Rice and Beans.
First we fried unions and peppers in a pot, then we added garlic. Once they were cooked we added some tomato paste, black beans, oregano, cumin, bay leafs, and vinegar. We cooked them together for about five minutes. then we added vegetable stock, salt and pepper, and rice. We let it boil for a bit, then we turned down the heat and let it sit for 20 minutes or so. Once the rice was cooked we took it out of the pot and tried it. It could have used some more beans then it had, I was defiantly expecting more beans, but it was still good besides that.  I am probably going to make it again.

fuit pizza

                                                                fruit pizza
We spent 2 days making the fruit pizza. The first day we made the sugar Cookie dough and the second day we made the cream cheese sauce and finished the pizza.

We rolled out the dough for the crust and placed it on a pan. Then we baked it for 20 minutes or so.
Meanwhile we made the cream cheese topping. We mixed a block of cream cheese with icing sugar, and then we mixed in vanilla to give it some flavor.
When the crust came out of the oven we let it cool for 10 to 20 minutes. After that we spread the sauce all over it and then cut up grapes, strawberries, and other fruit and put them on top.
we also fried up some apples with butter, Cinnamon, and brown sugar to put on top.
I didn't think I would really like it but it was surprisingly good. I will probably make this again.

Coffee cake

Coffee cake

For the coffie cake We started with mixing flour, cinnamon, and sugar. Then we cut in the butter until it was like crumbs. We took out a cup of the crumbs for later. After that we added eggs and vanilla. Then we mixed it until it was smooth.  Next we added more flour, baking powder, and baking soda. Then we mixed in the apple sauce and stirred it until it was smooth. We poured the batter into a buttered pan, and we sprinkled the crumbs on top of it and put it in the oven.

It tasted much better than I expected it to, and It had the same texture of carrot cake.

I would defiantly make this cake again.