Equipment:

• A large bowl.
• A fork.
• A wisk.
• A knife.
• Some bowls.
• Some plates.
• A tablespoon.
• A sieve.
• A cake tin.
  

Ingredients for the Victoria sponge:

• 200 (two hundred) grams of butter.
• 200 (two hundred) grams of caster sugar.
• 4 eggs.
• 200 (two hundred) grams of self-raising flour.
  

Instructions for the sponge:

• Cream butter and sugar together until pale.
• Beat in eggs one at a time, adding 1 teaspoon flour each time.
• Fold in remaining flour with metal spoon.
• Grease tins.
• Bake 150º-180ºC (it depends on the oven) for 25-30 minutes.
• Leave the cake to cool.
• Decorate the cake.
  

Ingredients for the butter cream:

• 100 (a hundred) grams of butter.
• 225 (two hundred and twenty-five)grams of icing sugar.
• 30 (thirty) millilitres of milk.
• Few drops of vanilla essence.

Instructions for the butter cream:

• Beat butter until soft.
• Gradually beat in sugar and milk.
• Continue beating until light and fluffy.
• Stir in vanilla.
• Leave in fridge to become thicker.
  
  

Ingredients for the decorations:

• 225 (two hundred) grams of icing sugar.
• 3 tablespoons of warm water.
• 1 drop of blue/… food colouring.
• Writing icing or chocolate.
• Small sweets.
  
  

Instructions for the decorations:

1. Mix the icing sugar with three tablespoons of water.
2. Mix until it is between paste and liquid.
3. Add a few drops/ a drop of blue food colouring. (or a drop of the colour that you choose)
4. Spread it over the cake.
5. Use writing icing to draw the glasses and lines on Miquelet.
6. Press on sweets for the eyes.
7. Cut two pieces to make the arms.
8. Add the arms to the body.
9. Cut two pieces in the shape of shoe.
10. Add the shoes to the bottom of the Miquelet’s body.
11. Our Miquelet cake is ready!

FEM POESIA (POEMS)

The Months
by Sara Coleridge

January brings the snow,
makes our feet and fingers glow.

February brings the rain,
Thaws the frozen lake again.

March brings breezes loud and shrill,
stirs the dancing daffodil.

April brings the primrose sweet,
Scatters daises at our feet.

May brings flocks of pretty lambs,
Skipping by their fleecy damns.

June brings tulips, lilies, roses,
Fills the children's hand with posies.

Hot july brings cooling showers,
Apricots and gillyflowers.

August brings the sheaves of corn,
Then the harvest home is borne.

Warm September brings the fruit,
Sportsmen then begin to shoot.

Fresh October brings the pheasents,
Then to gather nuts is pleasent.

Dull November brings the blast,
Then the leaves are whirling fast.

Chill December brings the sleet,
Blazing fire, and Christmas treat.

The months

Thirty days has September,
April, June, and November;
All the rest have thirty-one,
Excepting February alone,
And that has twenty-eight days clear
And twenty-nine in each leap year. – Anonymous

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy birthday, dear Haida
Happy Birthday to you!