little horrors... party food
mini-roll martians
you will need:
Miniature chocolate Swiss rolls
Assorted sweets
Tubes of coloured writing icing
1 quantity of chocolate buttercream
i.e.
25g (1 oz) softened butter
45g (13/4 oz) icing sugar
1 tbsp cocoa powder
what to do:
1. To make the chocolate buttercream, sift the icing sugar and cocoa together.
2. Put the butter into a small bowl and add the icing sugar and cocoa.
3. Beat with a wooden spoon until smooth and thoroughly mixed.
4. Place the chocolate rolls end up on a plate.
5. Using the chocolate buttercream decorate the rolls with sweets so that they look like monsters. E.g. use gummy teeth and lips, liquorice allsorts or smarties for eyes etc.
6. Add antennae, hair or hats and use writing icing to add the final touches.
So is there life on Mars? Well we need to see what the conditions are like on this planet. It probably got this name due to its red color; Mars is sometimes referred to as the Red Planet.
While the average temperature on Mars is about -55 C, Martian surface temperatures can range from -133 C to almost 27 C. Though Mars is much smaller than Earth, its surface area is about the same as the land surface area of Earth. It is also home to Olympus Mons: the largest mountain in the Solar System rising 24 km (78,000 ft.) above the surrounding plain. Mars has a very thin atmosphere composed mostly of carbon dioxide (95.3%). The average pressure on the surface of Mars is less than 1% of Earth's. However, it is thick enough to support very strong winds and vast dust storms that can engulf the entire planet for months. A Martian year is equivalent to 687 Earth days and the force of gravity is less than half that here on Earth.
For more Mars facts check out:
http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/facts/
and
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/dlc-me/zoo/zslmain.html
Shortly after Mars was formed, it may have had more atmosphere, more water and more heat - all conditions that would make it more likely to support life. Today, Mars is cooler, has little water, and has a thin atmosphere composed mostly of carbon dioxide. All these conditions are unlikely to support life. So no one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eaters after all … unless Spirit and Opportunity from the Mars Exploration Rover Mission tell us otherwise.
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