CHRISTMAS LESSON DECEMBER Love baking or cooking? Try out this Christmas cupcake recipe with us! Reindeer cupcakes

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1 CHRISTMAS LESSON DECEMBER 2014 Love baking or cooking? Try out this Christmas cupcake recipe with us! Reindeer cupcakes

2 Preparation time: 15 minutes Cooking time: 30 minutess Makes: 12 INGREDIENTS 175g butter 165g caster sugar ½ tsp natural vanilla extract 2 eggs, at room temperature 110g self-raising flour 150g plain flour 160ml buttermilk 500g fondant icing coloured brown, 100g/4oz of it a paler brown 50g fondant icing coloured red 25g fondant icing coloured black twigs or wire for the antlers and spaghetti for attaching the ears For the ganache 140g chocolate, chopped 75ml double cream

3 METHOD 1. Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Line the holes of a 12-hole muffin tin with paper cases. 2. Beat the butter, sugar and vanilla in a medium bowl using an electric mixer until light and fluffy. 3. Beat the eggs into the butter mixture one at a time. Add half the sifted flours and half the buttermilk, and mix on low speed until just combined. Mix in the remaining flours and buttermilk. 4. Divide the mix evenly among the paper cases. Gently smooth the tops (this will help the cupcakes to rise evenly). 5. Bake for mins or until lightly golden and cooked when tested with a skewer. Allow to stand for 5 mins in the tin before transferring to a wire rack to cool. 6. To make the ganache, put the chocolate in a bowl, bring the cream to a simmer and pour it over the chocolate. Stir until smooth. Cool until firm. 7. Ice the cupcakes with ganache, then with brown fondant icing. Use the rest of the colours for the ears, eye and nose. Attach ears to the head by pushing a 3cm piece of spaghetti a little way into the ear, then pushing the other end into the head. See below to download more detailed instructions. Remember to warn people that not every element of the decoration is edible!

4 Check the definitions of the highlighted words and do the following exercises. Exercise 1: Which part of the speech are the words? Put them into a proper column. plain film caster sugar chop bake wire stir fluffy simmer ganache divide heat evenly beat buttermilk sift fondant icing pour twig skewer self-rising edible antler VERBS NOUNS ADJECTIVES ADVERBS

5 Exercise 2: Match the verbs with the pictograms. stir pour simmer divide beat heat sift bake

6 Exercise 3: Cover the names of the nouns. Look at the pictures and say the words. caster sugar buttermilk fondant icing twig wire antler ganache skewer

7 Exercise 5 speaking: Think of your favourite recipe. Write it down and then say it to your partner. Hungry for more? Check out this Christmas turkey recipe! Bon Apetit! & Enjoy your meal!

8 CHRISTMAS DICTIONARY: heat beat sift divide bake simmer to make something become hot or warm, or to become hot or warm to hit against something hard, making a continuous or regular sound to put flour, sugar, etc through a sieve (= wire net shaped like a bowl) to break up large pieces to separate into parts or groups, or to make something separate into parts or groups to cook something such as bread or a cake with dry heat in an oven to gently cook a liquid or something with liquid in it so that it is very hot, but does not boil pour to make a liquid flow from or into a container stir to mix food or liquid by moving a spoon round and round in it chop to cut something into small pieces glish-polish/heat_2 glish-polish/beat_1 glish-polish/sift glish-polish/divide glish-polish/bake?q=bake+ glish-polish/simmer glish-polish/pour glish-polish/stir_1 glish-polish/chop_1 caster sugar white sugar with very small grains, often used in cooking buttermilk fondant icing the liquid that is left after taking the fat from cream to make butter a thick, soft, sweet food, made mainly of sugar and used to cover cakes, or a small soft sweet made mainly from sugar: a sweet mixture used to cover or fill cakes, made from sugar and water or sugar and butter twig a small, thin branch on a tree wire thin, metal thread, used to fasten things or to make fences, cages, etc itish/buttermilk itish/fondant glish-polish/icing glish-polish/twig glish-polish/wire_1 antler a horn that looks like branches on the head of a male deer glish-polish/antler from the French word for "jowl" is a glaze, icing, sauce, or filling for pastries made from chocolate and cream a long, thin metal pin used for holding together pieces of food, especially meat, during cooking itish/skewer ganache skewer self-rising flour flour containing a substance that makes cakes swell when they are cooked plain simple and not complicated fluffy made or covered with soft fur or cloth evenly into equal amounts, or in a regular way firm not soft, but not completely hard edible safe to eat and not harmful itish/self-raising-flour?q=self-rising glish-polish/plain_1 glish-polish/fluffy glish-polish/evenly glish-polish/firm_1 glish-polish/edible