Easter holidays! At last!
Here’s the yummy cupcake recipe we promised last week. These are called Gargoyle Cakes because they look like gargoylz. YOU WILL NEED A TAME GROWN UP TO HELP YOU. (You can let them have a cake at the end if they’re good.)
You need
• 115g margarine
• 115g caster sugar
• 115g self-raising flour
• 1tsp baking powder
• 2 large eggs
• cake cases
• a large bowl for mixing
• a metal spoon
• a wooden spoon
• a hand whisk
• a baking tray
For the topping you need…
• Chocolate spread
• A bag of small sweets or sprinkles or whatever you can think of to make a face on your cakes.
What you do
1. Preheat the oven to gas mark 4 (180°C, 350°F).
2. Put cake cases onto a baking tray.
3. Put the butter, sugar, flour, baking powder and eggs in a large bowl and whisk with it up until it’s all mixed in and looks nice and creamy.
4. Spoon the mixture into the cake cases.
5. Get your grown up to pop the tray into the oven.
6. Bake the cakes for 15-20 mins until they have risen and are golden brown.
7. Get your grown up to take them out of the oven. Let the cakes cool down.
8. This is the best bit. Spread some chocolate spread onto the cakes then use the sweets or whatever you’ve got to make a really ugly gargoyle face on each cake!
9. Eat them.

There should be enough for lots of people or one gargoyle called Barney!

Sunday is April Fool’s Day! Don’t forget to play tricks on your family. We are definitely going to play a cool trick on Bart but we haven’t decided what it will be yet…

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Getting ready for Mother’s Day was exhausting for Ben and me! We’re glad it only happens once a year.
After reminding you lot, we then totally forgot about it till Ben came round on Saturday. We were going for a bike ride with the gargoylz but Mum stopped us. She wanted to plant some bulbs in a pot for Nan as a Mother’s Day present. Although Nan’s a nan, she’s Dad’s mum too, of course! And Mum wanted us to do it for her as she was busy. Ben and I looked at each other in horror when we realised that we needed to get to the shops and buy gifts for our mums or they’d never let us forget it. So we decided to stuff the bulbs in the pot really quickly and then head off.
Well we’d forgotten we had the gargoylz to help! It took hours to do the job. We had to persuade Ira not to rain too much on the bulbs, stop Zack eating them and make sure that Azzan didn’t set them on fire in his excitement!
At last they were finished and we had five minutes to dash down to the shops before they closed when the phone rang and Mum said it sounded like Mrs Hogsbottom and she wanted to speak to me. I could feel my face going green with shock. And Ben pointed up to the clock. We were going to be too late to buy any presents. We were in big trouble. I picked up the receiver as if it was a poisonous snake.
But it wasn’t Mrs Hogsbum, it was Nan! She’d put on a false voice because she wanted to talk to me in secret. She suggested that Ben and I go round to her and make some cakes to give our mums as their present. Awesome. We didn’t have to get to the shops after all. We set off right away. And good old Nan. Not only did we make cupcakes for our mums – their favourite – we also make cupcakes for us. And the gargoylz of course.
And the next day, all the mums were delighted with their cakes and bulbs, although Nan was a bit surprised to find an extra display of thistles and nettles in her pot. The gargoylz had given her some of their favourite flowers as they were so pleased with the cupcakes!
Barney says we should tell you how to make cupcakes because they’re Dangling Drainpipes Delicious but that will have to wait until next week.

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I’m on one of the computers in the ICT room so I’m secretly putting the blog on early!

We tried all week to play a trick back on Bart. On Saturday morning we saw he was inside the church, nibbling at the flower arrangements. They were made of prickly holly and gargoylz love eating prickles, as we all know.  Time for secret plan – Trick Bart. We opened the church door a little and balanced a wet sponge on the top. We knew that he have to push the door open a bit more and then he’d be splatted!  So we called to him to come and hear a new joke. But he took the long way round over the roof and just as he appeared on the gutter above us, Aggie and Doris the Demon Flower Arrangers turned up. They scowled at us and threw the door open. The sponge splatted Aggie, bounced off her nose and splatted Doris as well. We ran!

Time for secret plan – Trick Bart number two.  We decided we’d better not go back to the church until we were sure that the Demon Flower Arrangers had gone so we left it until the afternoon.  We got Cyrus and Jelly to help us. We got them to cover the roof of the church porch with washing up liquid so that when we called Bart over, he’d go skidding on it and land in the hedge.

We stood ready for action but suddenly it began to rain just over the porch. The washing up liquid went all foamy and slid down on top of us! When we’d fought our way out of the bubbles we saw Bart and Ira laughing at us. Ira had used his special power to make it rain. We still haven’t managed to play a trick on Bart. Any ideas?

Hey, don’t forget it’s Mother’s Day on Sunday. We had to explain about giving presents to our mums to the gargoylz as they don’t have mums to give presents to!  Barney wasn’t listening properly and thought that we had to give our mum’s press-ups!

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Barry the Basher was horrible this week. Well he’s always horrible but this week he was a fiend. Every playtime he went round asking people if they wanted to see his stamp collection. No one dared to say no as they’re all too scared. Every time anyone said yes he stamped on their feet. Me and Max spent all our playtimes keeping away from him. We couldn’t even play football! In the end there was only one thing to be done. We sneaked over to the church wall and called to the gargoylz.

Zack and Neb agreed to help as they can’t be seen when they use their secret powers. Then we challenged the Basher to show us his collection. His face lit up with an evil grin. ‘Wait a minute!” I told him. “We’ve got our special force field socks on so you can’t stamp on our toes!”

Barry grinned even more horribly and raised his foot up high to stamp down. But Neb and Zack grabbed hold of it and held it still. Barry went red with the effort but he couldn’t move his foot.

“We told you we had force field socks,” laughed Ben. Barry clenched his fists and screwed up his eyes, trying to get all the strength he could. Just at that moment, we whipped our feet out of the way and the gargoylz let go of his shoe. Barry slammed it down, lost his balance and went head over heels into the flowerbed. Mrs Hogsbum was furious. He’d broken School Rule number 820: Boys must not do gymnastics through the tulips!

Bart played a trick on us this morning. We were just lining up to go into class when he burped some spiders down our necks!  So we’ve got to think of a way to trick him back.

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We had the most awesome day on World Book Day yesterday with our favourite author in the history of favourite authors – Troy Brawn! Enoch, our owly gargoyle friend, was just as excited as we were. His special power is imitating voices – especially voices from stories, and even more especially all the villains in Spy-boy so we made sure we sat by a window in the hall and opened it a bit when no one was looking. Enoch crept in and sat under the radiator next to us. The hall was decorated with Spy-Boy posters and there was a pile of books on a table at the front. Enoch started hooting in excitement. We told him he mustn’t make a sound and we had to hold his beak to stop Mrs Hogsbum hearing him.
Then the amazing Troy Brawn came in. First he asked us questions all about Spy-boy and me and Max shouted out all the answers until Mrs Hogsbum zapped us with her killer glare. Then Troy read a bit from his latest book, ‘Spy-Boy and the Giant Jellyman’. It was brilliant.
When he got to the bit where Spy-boy is in the underwater cave and the Giant Jellyman is creeping up behind him and just about to strangle him with his millions of tentacles, we all heard the voice of the Jellyman. But it wasn’t coming from Troy Brawn – it was coming from under the radiator. Enoch was doing the voice! Everyone thought it was us!
“Outrageous!” shouted Mrs Hogsbum. “You are breaking School Rule Number 357 – boys must not join in with stories when famous authors are reading them.” Enoch immediately disappeared in fright out of the window.
But Troy Brawn was grinning at us. “That’s so cool!” he said. “You boys do the voices much better than me. Come out and help with the rest of the story.” Before we knew what was happening we were out at the front with a book each and the whole school gawping at us. We were terrified. We knew we couldn’t do the voices like Enoch. We were going to be in big trouble. Troy carried on with the story. “And the Giant Jellyman said, in a loud jelly voice…” We opened our mouths but nothing came out except a feeble croak. Troy looked at us. The whole school looked at us. Mrs Hogsbum glared at us.
Then a loud jelly voice echoed round the room. “Ho ho ho Spy-boy. You cannot escape my tentacles.” It was Enoch! We quickly mouthed the words as he said them. “You are about to be squeezed into the squidgiest, squashiest jelly in the world.”
At the end of the story Troy Brown was so pleased he gave me and Max a whole set of signed Spy-boy books each and some stickers and posters!
After school we found Enoch to say thank you. The other gargoylz were with him. They’d just come back from a school where Cyrus had got so excited listening to the World Book Day story that he burst out singing and sent everyone to sleep with his special power – including the author who was reading the story. The other gargoylz were so desperate to hear the end that they ran around trying to shake everyone awake. But of course they had to wait until Cyrus’s power wore off so they while everyone was asleep they found some face paints and made the teachers look like gargoylz. Was that your school? What did you do for World Book Day?

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