Food Blogging

I chose to prepare a coffee cake because I know that my mom really likes coffee cakes and was already asking me to make her one so she could try it. I did not need to overuse or underuse and the amount of any ingredient because I had all the ingredients that you needed to make the coffee cake. It was quite easy for me. I simply made the coffee cake that we made in cooking class and I think it is a good thing that I chose to do the coffee cake because when we were making it in class, my partner and I had kind of messed up the recipe, so it was good for me to make the recipe properly. I also did make a couple changes to the recipe, one of the main ones being that I simply had added more brown sugar to the toppings than you were supposed to add because my mom likes sweet things so I thought that it would be good to make the cake a bit sweeter and to test out if it would taste good. It turned out amazing because the cake itself wasn’t too sweet but the toppings were a good amount of sweet, so they both went well with each other. When I finished the cake, I gave it to my family members which consisted of my dad, mom, sister, grandmother, and me. My mom and dad really liked it, so did my grandma. My sister adored it. She had multiple slices, almost finishing the entire thing! I really liked how well the cake turned out, it tasted very good in my opinion too. While cooking this time, I learned that it’s always good to try a recipe again that didn’t go quite exactly like how you wanted the first time you tried it. I fixed the mistakes I made the first time baking the cake and paid close attention to what I was doing. I also do not have any photos of me baking the cake because this was something I already baked a while ago.

Food Photography

For all of the photos, I tried different angles when rotating the camera to take the pictures to see which would look best. I really liked that I used the camera flash when taking the photos because it makes it focus more on the food, rather than anything else in the background. My favorite photo would’ve probably been the one with the red velvet cake because I like how I put the ribbon on it, as well there was a ribbon at the back that added a bit of a finishing touch to the photo. For the picture with the scones, I tried playing with the lighting and contrast when editing the photo a little bit, and I think it looks really nice but not as natural as the others.

Smart Device Idea

When identifying the problem, my partner and I had agreed that feeding our birds in the morning or refilling their food tends to be a bit difficult. We whether end up forgetting or we are simply a bit too lazy. We both have a pet bird that we own, so we can kind of relate when it comes to feeding them, especially in the morning. Of course, we can come home after school and feed them then, but I think that after school, most of us tend to be a bit lazy as well. Some of us just want to come home, finish homework, and then relax, and I don’t blame them because that is me and my partner as well. With this machine, it will really benefit us and any student or worker that owns a pet bird. It requires little to no effort to use, you just have to refill the food container once in a while, but it lasts longer than if you were to just refill the box or bowl that your bird eats out of.

What My Device Might Look Like

My partner and I have decided to make a bird feeder. Although we both do not own any of those materials to make it look as professional or as strong and sturdy, we have to work with the materials that we already have at our houses and make use with them. We have decided to mainly use cardboard for most of our machine instead of expensive pieces like metal. The cardboard will be the outside, as the space on the inside will mostly be taken up by a plastic bottle or container. The plastic bottle or container will hold the bird seeds that we will feed the birds and the rest of the space will be taken up by the Microbit. We have decided to add a light sensor so that it is able to detect sunlight, and when it does, the food will dispense on its own. We have thought about adding other things like sound, but we aren’t exactly sure yet.