Crazy Cake Recipe

Category: Non-fiction

Ingredients

  • Crazy cake Wacky Cake Recipe Tutorial 2Photo from www.sweetlittlebluebird.com1 1/2 cups flour 
  • 3 tbsps cocoacocoa  
  • 1 cup sugar 
  • 1 tsp bakebaking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp white vinegarvinegar  
  • 1 tsp vanillavanilla essenceessence  
  • 5 tbsps vegetablevegetable oil
  • 1 cup water

Directions

Step 1: PreheatPreheat oven to 180 degreesdegrees C (350 degrees F).

Step 2: Mix first 5 dry ingredientsingredients in a greased 20 centimetrecentimetre  (8 inch) square bakebaking pan.

Step 3: Make 3 depressionsdepressions in dry ingredients - two small, one larger.larger. Pour vinegar in one of the small depressions, vanilla in the other and the vegetable oil in the third larger depression.

Step 4: Pour water over all.

Step 5: Mix well until smooth. 

Step 6: Bake on middlemiddle rack of oven for 35 minutes. Check with toothpicktoothpick to make sure it comes out clean.

Step 7: Cool. Top with your favouritefavourite iceicing.  

Step 8: Enjoy! 

Comprehension

Clarify these words: ingredients, tbsps, tsp, directions, preheat, degrees C/F, dry ingredients, greased, depressions.

Retell from memory the instructions, trying to get the sequence correct so that you can help a friend.

What features do procedural texts (instructions) have?

List the busy (imperative) verbs that start each instruction.

Make inferences or give opinions about:

  • Why you preheat the oven.
  • Why there are alternatives for temperature and area measurement.
  • Why you would mix it until it is smooth.
  • What makes this recipe different from others.

 

What suggestions could you make to improve these instructions?

Word Study

Verb endings: What happens when we add s, ed, ing to: grease, make, bake, ice.

Other affixes: What happens when we add other prefixes and suffixes like pre, centi, er to these words: heat, metre, large. 

What two words make up these compound words: toothpick.