Johanna Speaks

Me and Sophie made a fort! It’s in our house and upstairs on the bridge. It’s really cool! I put our actual bed matras inside the fort! And we have been sleeping in there for about five days or more! It’s just really cool!! And you can see what’s happing down stairs because we have a window! Except the ceiling keeps coming like almost down at us. So I always have to bring it back up again. But I am still figuring it out to have it stop falling down all the time!

Me and Sophie sometimes play dogs in there. :) 

And when my mom says to put the fort away we beg her to keep it up! And she lets us! And now we basically live in it!! :) I sometimes read at night in there while Sophie is trying to sleep! 

Here’s a little video of the fort!! (It’s with InShot!) 

I am going to be making more donuts! This time they are going to be pumpkin spice donuts! 

I am making them on Friday night because my parents and Sophie and I are going to our friends house, the Eschens on Saturday morning and staying one night there. It is in Ripon. So it’s about three and a half hours from here. And Ezra and Simeon are going to our brothers house and staying the night because we all don’t want to have to squeeze and have somebody double buckle since there is six of us and only five seats in the car. So that’s why. 

So yeah I am going to make donuts on Friday night and bring them on Saturday morning. The donuts get hard really fast. Like the next day they are already hard. I wish it would not get like that though. Maybe I could wake up super early in the morning and make them! I don’t know. 

This recipe is actually different from the regular one. This one is where you don’t have to proof it. You actually put the donuts on the pan and put it in the oven! So hopefully I don’t mess up. 

Here’s the recipe for them! 

I made a cake two days ago. 

But I messed it up. I messed up on the frosting part. How I did it was I think I put too much butter or didn’t let it mix longer and just did something with it. The texture of the frosting was like eating butter. I really didn’t like it. I really wanted to redo it but I couldn’t because I just went out of the powdered sugar. So I just left it how it was and put a pretty design on it. 

Here is the picture of the cake!

The cake itself I didn’t really like too because just something about it. Well I did kind of messed up on the recipe. I was putting all the dry ingredients in the mixing bowl like it said and when I was still putting the dry ingredients, I accidentally put the milk in! And I didn’t want to throw away anything so I left it like that. I was pretty sure it was ok. But when I tasted it I think it was just not fluffy enough. I don’t know. I still ate it because it wasn’t too bad. 

And the next time I make a cake I want to put some lemon in it or something instead of a plane white cake. And I want to get fondant for the cake so it will be nice and smooth! And not mess up on the frosting and put a beautiful design for the cake with the frosting!

This week and last week I made, two batches of donuts, carrot cake, and the white cake that I just made too. 

I have a picture of the carrot cake I made!

The carrot cake was really good!!

Whenever I just finished baking something or decorating something I just want to bake another thing! And I don’t really want to eat it, I just want to bake and decorate! Actually that could be a great t-shirt or apron! I just want to bake and decorate!!

I have been listening to," The Green Ember" series! All the books are really good!! I am almost done with all the series though. :( A few people died in it and I actually started to almost cry!! And when I mean people, I mean rabbits! Its a AMAZING story it just has rabbits instead of humans.

I get so sucked in to it that I am going to be so sad when its done!! :( In one book they left it at a cliff hanger!! We already had the next book after that because my family already bought it on Audible. I was so eager to listen to the next one! After I finished that one I was a little sad because somebody died and that person( meaning rabbit ) was a good person. But if you listen to it, I will guarantee you will feel sad when that person dies! But anyways its such a good series to listen too!!

If you have not listened to it please listen to it now! :) Its probably my favorite book series!

If you go on YouTube and search up, the green ember songs. There is songs about a rabbit named Picket. First go and listen to the story then go on YouTube and search it up. But it is just so much fun to listen to!

I made my first batch of donuts yesterday! And today I made it again! They taste really good!! I am really happy about it!

They were really easy to make too! I did have a little bit of trouble with the dough. I thought the dough was too thick. But I still did it without adding anything else to make it better. And they still tasted really good! Today I made it and the dough was perfect! I love making it now! I made my donuts that were with chocolate and powdered sugar! One batch would be with powdered sugar and the other with chocolate. They are just so good!!

Here is the recipe!             

1 cup warm milk.                                

1 large egg.

1/8 cup sugar.

2 tsp yeast.

2 and 3/4 cups bread flour.

1/2 tsp salt.

2 tbsp butter.

In a mixing bowl add, milk, egg, sugar, and yeast. Then mix. Then add bread flour and salt and mix until doughy. Then add butter and of course mix it. Mix it for about 4 mins and then take out and cover and proof for 1 hour or until doubled its size. After it's done, punch all air out of it and shape it into donuts. Get a small pot and pour olive oil. about 2 cups or more. It depends on the size of the pot. How you know it's ready to be put in oil is, get a little bit of water in your hand and sprinkle it on top of the oil and see if it makes a sort of like this crackling sound then you know its ready! When the donuts are a little bit crispy brown that's when you know it's also ready! :) Then if you have chocolate chips in your house you can melt those and drizzle them on or do it however you want! Or if you want to put powdered sugar just sprinkle it on! Do whatever you want with your donuts!!

Here is a picture of me just finished doing some donuts!!