After School Apple Cake

6 apples

2 tsp. cinnamon

3/4 cup vegetable oil

4 eggs

1 1/4 cups sugar

1 tbsp. baking powder

1 cup all-purpose flour

1 cup whole-wheat flour

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 13-by-9-by-2 inch baking pan. Peel, core and slice the apples, set them in a large bowl, and sprinkle with cinnamon.

2. In the bowl of an electric mixer, blend the oil, eggs and sugar. Add the baking powder, flour and wheat flour, and blend until combined.

3. Pour the batter over the apples, gently stirring until the apples are just coated. Pour this mix into the prepared baking pan, arranging the apples in an even layer, and bake for 35 to 45 minutes, or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean. When the cake is cool, cut it into small squares. Makes 18 pieces.

You need a parent to help you with the oven and the mixer.

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Polar Bear Cupcakes

Recipe Ingredients:

Light-colored cupcakes, 1 regular and 3 mini

White frosting

Shredded coconut

3 large and 2 small white gumdrops

1 Junior Mint candy

Chocolate chips, 4 regular and 4 mini

1.  First, frost the top, sides, and bottoms of both a regular-size cupcake and a mini cupcake with white frosting. For each cupcake, frost the bottom first; then use a fork stuck into the bottom to hold the cupcake while you frost the rest of it.

2.   Roll the cupcakes in shredded coconut; then, working on waxed paper, set the cupcakes on their sides with the top of the smaller cupcake stuck to the bottom of the larger one to form the bear's head.

3.  Add 2 horizontal slices from a large white gumdrop for ears, a Junior Mint candy for a nose, and 2 chocolate chips for eyes. For each cub, frost a mini cupcake and a large gumdrop, then roll them in coconut and arrange them on their sides as shown. Add 2 horizontal slices from a small white gumdrop for ears, a chocolate chip nose, and 2 mini chocolate chip eyes.

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Dirt Pudding

Here's what you will need to make it:

instant chocolate pudding

chocolate wafer cookies

gummy worms

a wooden spoon

a cup (or a medium-sized plastic flower pot)

aluminum foil

a plastic flower

Here's what you have to do:

1. Check with a grown-up before you start.

2. Make the instant pudding according to the instructions on the box.

3. Crush your chocolate cookies into small bits using the back of a spoon.

4. Stir most of the crushed cookies into the pudding, mixing well. See how much it looks like dirt? But be aware, you can't grow real flowers in this dirt.

5. If you are using a plastic flower pot make sure it is clean and that you line the bottom with foil.

6. Pour the pudding into the flower pot, then stick the fake flower in the pudding to make it look real.

7. Top off the surface with the remaining cookie bits and a few Gummy worms and there you have it... Dirt Pudding!

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