HAHAHAHA

Found this on the internet:

The Chemical Engineer's Chocolate Chip Cookies
1. 532.35 cm3 gluten
2. 4.9 cm3 NaHCO3
3. 4.9 cm3 refined halite
4. 236.6 cm3 partially hydrogenated tallow triglyceride
5. 177.45 cm3 crystalline C12H22O11
6. 177.45 cm3 unrefined C12H22O11
7. 4.9 cm3 methyl ether of protocatechuic aldehyde
8. Two calcium carbonate-encapsulated avian albumen-coated protein
9. 473.2 cm3 theobroma cacao
10. 236.6 cm3 de-encapsulated legume meats (sieve size #10)

To a 2-L jacketed round reactor vessel (reactor #1) with an overall heat-transfer coefficient of about 100 Btu/F-ft2-hr add one, two, and three with constant agitation.
In a second 2-L reactor vessel with a radial flow impeller operating at 100 rpm add four, five, six, and seven until the mixture is homogeneous.
To reactor #2 add eight followed by three equal portions of the homogeneous mixture in reactor #1. Additionally, add nine and ten slowly with constant agitation. Care must be taken at this point in the reaction to control any temperature rise that may be the result of an exothermic reaction.
Using a screw extrude attached to a #4 nodulizer place the mixture piece-meal on a 316SS sheet (300 x 600 mm). Heat in a 460 K oven for a period of time that is in agreement with Frank & Johnston's first order rate expression (see JACOS, 21, 55), or until golden brown. Once the reaction is complete, place the sheet on a 25 C heat-transfer table allowing the product to come to equilibrium.


Oh. My. Gosh. To think that it's actually written in english.
I googled the ingrediants; they're actually:
1. Flour
2. Baking soda
3. Salt
4. Shortening (butter)
5. White sugar
6. Brown sugar
7. Vanilla flavoring
8. Eggs
9. Chocolate chips
10. Crushed nuts

Anyway, gotta stop procrastinating :P

Tell Me How Anybody Thinks Under This Condition

I'm getting braces. For two years :(
I was incredibly annoyed. But now I'm not. Sugar does that to me. And after that mango cheesecake, two chocolate muffins and countless choc chip cookies, I have enough sugar in me for the next few days.
So if you want to tell me you hate me, now's the time. I'm feeling very mellow :)
When actually I shouldn't. Loads of homework after that wasted weekend. *SIGH* And now the braces news. I can't believe I have to go through graduation, my 18th, first year uni and most of second year, with braces. Eeeew.
Ok I'll stop whinging now. I guess if braces are the only thing I have to complain about, I'm pretty lucky :)

Love, Julia

P.S Happy hundredth blog to me :) Ahaha talk about a summer-holiday-boredom-filler that went way overboard.

Got Nothing But Time On My Hands

Wagged JWalk last night. Well not technically since I had no lift back. But yeah at least it was productive? Made nutella cupcakes and gosh NUTELLA IS SO YUM! Couldn't stop eating it from the jar :P No pics, camera dead.
Zero sacs next week makes for a very relaxing weekend. Melb Uni open day tomorrow and then Linley and her family's coming over :) Minimal amounts of homework so yay. Found this recipe on the internet I want to try out... caramel apple cupcakes. And it has nothing to do with chocolate which is good...gotta break that addiction of mine :P Not that caramel is much better. But still.
Everyone seems sick...Dad, Andrea, Julie...get better soon! And don't make me sick either :P
Good luck to everyone doing the 40 hr famine this weekend!

Love, Julia

I ♥ Cupcakes

Baking is so much fun. And relaxing. These are chocolate cupcakes with chocolate strawberry filling, chocolate glaze and vanilla buttercream frosting. I think I added an extra cup of sugar into the frosting by accident...recipe said 2 cups...I think I did 3...oops. Oh well. If they're really too sweet I can always scrape it off. They're for tomorrows bake day :) Everyone in our group (hopefully) is making something and bringing it to school to share...it's going to be so yummmm.


This weekends been pretty good. Went shopping yesterday and bought a belated bday present for Amy. Monash Uni open day was todayyy...I think I'm gonna make med at Monash my first preference. But they confirmed my worst fears...interviews are given based purely on your UMAT result and not enters. So. Chance of me getting an interview is very slim... Nevertheless if God wants me at Monash, I'll get in. Otherwise I guess thats not where I'm meant to be. Trust and obey right? I guess it was silly to think that getting into med would be easy. Nobody said it'd be a piece of cake.

Ah back to cake. I can't wait for tomorrow :) Results are out too! Finally!

Love, Julia

It's Over!

The worst part of the week is over! English sac sucked...but it's over nowwwwwwwww. Only one more english sac for my ENTIRE life!! I am so unbelievably excited for the end of year 12 :D Amy found out that COLDPLAY is coming this summer!!! And we are definately going. Ahh they're so good. Tickets will be expensive though. I'm so excited! Seems like year 12 is already almost over :)

Wasted the entire day today :) Was fun though. I made mini chocolate cupcakes. They're so yum...I would post pictures but the cameras dead.

Love, Julia

Sugar Hit

MMMMMM

Finally a Productive Day

Can you believe it...I actually did some work today :D Got most of methods done and most of spesh...only chem left now plus a few questions I didn't finish. I also baked THE best chocolate cake/muffins EVER. It's the "Mother of All Chocolate Cakes"...recipe in previous post.

These tasted SO much better than the other cupcakes I made, even though they don't look as good.

Anyway...going to school tomorrow :O but not to go to school. As in I'm going but not going going. If you get what I mean :P Saving a locker and picking up textbooks. Might stay for scriptwriting if I can be bothered.

Time for bed!

Love, Julia

Linley and Julia Smell Like Poo

Tiger and Cookie had their second vaccination today...they were so good, no struggling or scratching at all :) They have both double in weight since the last time they went...fat cats hahaha. Was going to go to church after that to help out with some craft stuff but the Wades came over like 5 seconds before I was going to leave (sorry Jackie forgot to text).
This is what Linley and I made:

The "Give Her What She Wants Double Fudge Cake" with chocolate frosting. Oh man. The richest, chocolatiest cake I have ever had. It is SO good. And really easy to make too. After that we went for a bike ride to burn off the sugar in that cake and to motivate Mum to excercise since she has weak bones. Bike riding is so much fun :D We came back pretty late (it was already dark) to find this in the rumpus room:

Talk about disgusting *shudders*. I hate cockroaches more than spiders and snakes and anything ugh. Would have stomped on it but we weren't wearing any shoes so Linley and I caught it in a plastic container, slid a piece of paper under it and chucked it outside. High five Linley, we rock :D

So that was our day. Linley's sleeping over and we're cooking a three course dinner tomorrow which will be mad fun :D

Love, Julia

Lazy Day Half Spent In Bed

Ahahahah Tiger is seriously the funniest and strangest cat in the world. As if anyone could go to sleep under the tv!

Today was a boring day. Got up at like 12, went to Link the bookshop to get Angela's textbooks...ended up getting some study guides for English which reminded me again of all the holiday homework I still haven't started...ahhhh. Went grocery shopping with mum then came home. Should have started homework but I didn't :P hahahaha. Ooh also got the coolest pens ever. I love stationery.


But the thing I'm most excited about...chocolate cake recipes I found on the web! Oooh yeah :) Gonna try them out tomorrow...if I have ingrediants. I'll take pictures if I do :D
Here are the recipes:

Holy Mother of Chocolate Cake
Layers:
3 ounces semisweet chocolate
1 1/2 cups hot brewed coffee
3 cups sugar
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups unsweetened cocoa powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1 1/4 teaspoons salt
3 large eggs
3/4 cup vegetable oil
1 1/2 cups buttermilk
3/4 teaspoon vanilla

Frosting:
1 pound semisweet chocolate
1 cup heavy cream
2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons light corn syrup
1/4 cup unsalted butter

You’ll need:
Two 10- by 2-inch round cake pans
Wax paper
Electric Mixer
A good attitude

For the layers:
Preheat oven to 300°F. Grease those pans. My grandmother lines the pan bottoms with wax paper, too. Finely chop the chocolate. Then, in a bowl, mix the chocolate with the hot coffee. Stir until smooth.
In a large bowl, sift together the sugar, flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. In another large bowl, beat the eggs for about 3 minutes. An electric mixer works best. Then, slowly add the oil, buttermilk, vanilla, and melted chocolate mixture to the eggs, beating until it’s all combined really well. Add the sugar mixture and beat (on medium speed). Finally, divide the batter between your pans and bake them in the middle of your oven for about 65 minutes.
When that’s done and your kitchen is smelling really, really good – Cool the layers completely in their pans. Run a thin knife around the edges of pans and invert the layers. Carefully remove the wax paper and cool the layers completely.

For the frosting:
Finely chop the chocolate. In a saucepan, bring the cream, sugar, and corn syrup to a boil over moderately low heat, whisking until the sugar is dissolved. Remove the pan from the heat and add the chocolate, whisking it until it’s all melted. Now would be the time to whisk in that butter until smooth. Put the frosting in a bowl and allow to cool, stirring occasionally.
Then, spread the frosting between your cake layers, over the top and around the sides.


Insanely Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cake
For this one, you can opt to use the same frosting from my grandma’s Holy Mother of Chocolate Cake. This cake also works pretty well without any frosting at all. It’s up to you.

2 cups flour
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 cups sour cream
3/4 cup butter, softened
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 eggs
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 (6 ounce) package chocolate chips (I like the mini kind)

Heat your oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 13 x 9 pan. In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, sour cream, butter, vanilla and eggs. Mix all of that goodness together. You can use a mixer at medium speed for about 3 minutes.
Then, pour half of the batter into your pan. In a separate small bowl, combine the sugar and cinnamon. Sprinkle half of that sugar mixture and ½ cup of your chocolate chips over the batter. Repeat with the remaining batter, sugar mixture, and chocolate chips. Bake it all at 350 degrees for 30-35 minutes.
If you want to add the frosting from my previous recipe, you can do so now. If not, no worries.


Give Them What They Want Double Fudge Cake
Again, you don’t have to use frosting on this cake if you don’t want to. If you do, use the frosting from my first recipe.

6 ounces semisweet chocolate
3/4 cup butter
1 cup sugar
4 eggs
1 cup cocoa powder (not drink mix)
1 teaspoon finely ground black pepper
1 pinch salt

Preheat oven to 350° F. Prepare an 8 inch round pan by greasing its bottom and sides. Cut a circle of waxed paper and fit it around the bottom of the pan. Grease that, too.
Coarsely chop your chocolate. Then, melt the chocolate and the butter over simmering water. Stir the sugar into the chocolate. Beat the eggs (fast and hard), one at a time, into the chocolate. Next, add your cocoa, pepper, salt, and stir. Pour the batter into your prepared pan and bake about 40 minutes.
Cool about 10 or 15 minutes. Then run a knife around the edge to loosen, and invert on a plate.

Ahahahahh gotta love the names of the cakes :P Can't wait to try them out!

Love Julia

Death By Chocolate

Angela and I made them this morning :) If that wasn't bad enough, we went to Koko Black this afternoon. Enough said.

Julia