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BUTTER COOKIES, by Helder Sekiguchi

BUTTER COOKIES

Ingredients:

• 400g wheat flour
• 400g cornstarch
• 2 packets of butter
• 200g sugar

Method:

    First of all, put the butter in the microwave oven for 30 secs until it gets melted.
    Next,mix all ingredients with your hands (in a bowl)  until they become a big ball. It should be homogenous and it cannot crumble in your hands.
    After that, you must make small balls with your hands (they cannot be very big, otherwise the cookies will not be cooked inside). After doing it, press the balls with a fork.
   Finally, bake them in the oven for 40 mins, and your butter cookies will be ready.

BRIGADEIRO, by Ramon Torres

BRIGADEIRO

Ingredients:

• 1 can of condensed milk
• 1 tablespoon of unsalted butter
• 7 tablespoons of instant chocolate or 4 tablespoons of chocolate powder
• chocolate sprinkles

Method:

1. Mix the condensed milk, the butter and the chocolate powder in a deep saucepan.
2. Cook on medium heat and stir with a non-stop movement.
3. Stir until you can see the bottom of the pan.
4. Let it cool, then spread butter on your hands and roll the mixture into balls, coating them with chocolate sprinkles.
5. Put the balls in mini cupcake holders.

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CARROT CAKE - Barbara Campelo

Barbara's recipe:
CARROT CAKE

Ingredients:

• 4 carrots
• 200 ml oil
• 80g butter
• 4 eggs
• 500g flour
• 500g sugar
• 80g baking powder


Method:

First, peel the carrots and chop them. Wash the carrots, drain thoroughly and put them into the liquidizer with the oil, eggs and butter. Mix the ingredients.

After that, mix the flour, sugar and baking powder in an oven-proof glass bowl.

Finally, mix the flour, sugar and baking powder with the liquidizer mixture.

Bake the cake for almost 45 minutes.

After the cake is baked, you can spread chocolate cream on it.

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Suggestions for songs

What kinds of music do you like?

Please suggest some songs you'd like to listen to in class. There are some good suggestions on the Cultura site (Music Mix)

Looking forward to your comments!

A nice web site to practice our english Skills

Hi all, here is a nice web site of English exercises... I have checked the whole site, and there are no problems there... it is totally safe hahah

here is the link
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/index.htm

It explains grammar, then there are a lot of exercises... and of course it is free...

Hope you like.. xD

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