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Dauntless: Party Food

Are you deciding to have a Divergent theme party? Will here is some food ideas that will make people happy!

1. Dauntless Cake! Recipe is in the second post!

2. Dauntless Burgers! Tris never has seen a hamburger in her life. What! Make some hamburgers for the new people joining Dauntless.

3. Erudite Soda! Add some ice cream to your soda because Erudite can't work in the kitchen so this is easy. 

4. Muffin Targets for Dauntless! Make classic banana and walnut muffins

5. Amity bread! There was happy serum in this bread so make sure that it makes the guests happy. 

6. Factionless scrambled eggs in tin cans! Even though this is a breakfast item you will never go wrong with making eggs. 

7. Abnegation plain breast chicken, green beans, and brown bread! Not a fun dinner for Abnegation but it is what it is.  

8. Candor Ice Cream! They need to calm off their steam of course. 

Divergent: Dauntless Cake Recipe

Dauntless Chocolate Cake recipe by Rosanna Pansino

I used this recipe myself many times and loved it. I also reworded and deleted some stuff to make it shorter. 

Ingredients:
- 2 cups of regular flour
- 3/4 cup of unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 and 1/2 cups of sugar
- 1/2 a cup of dark brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon of baking soda
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 a cup of sour cream
- 1 cup of water and a cup of butter
For decorations:
- 2 cups of regular sugar
- 2/4 corn of corn syrup
- food coloring
- 1/2 cup of water
- saucepan
-thermometer


The first thing that we’re gonna do is whisk together all of our dry ingredients. OK, so you’re gonna take your flour, put it in the bowl, and your sugar, and the cocoa powder, and some mo’ sugar A little bit of salt, boom! And baking soda once you’ve got your dry ingredients mixed together, you’re gonna take a saucepan and your 1 cup of water, pour it in there And your cup of butter. You’re gonna put it on the stove and bring it to a boil

Now we’re gonna slowly mix everything together, starting with our dry ingredients into our electric mixer, then we’re gonna add the butter and hot water. We’re gonna add our 2 eggs, vanilla, and our sour cream. Now we’re just gonna mix it up until everything is smooth and combined. Once your batter is all mixed up, you’re gonna take 2-8 inch round pans and a little bit of butter, and you’re gonna use the butter to grease the inside of your pan, because we don’t want it to stick. We’re gonna make a layered cake

Now I’m going to attempt to evenly pour the batter between the 2 pans. You’re gonna want to fill them about 3/4 full, allowing them a little bit of space to rise in the oven. Now you’re gonna put these cakes in the oven at 350 and bake them for about 35 minutes. And, while these are baking we’re gonna make some decoration flames, for Dauntless!

The 1st thing that you’re gonna do is combine your sugar and your corn syrup, and water into your medium sized saucepan. Then you’re gonna take this pan over to the stove and bring it to a boil at 285 degrees, and as soon as it’s done boiling you’re gonna remove it from the heat and we’ll add a teaspoon of orange extract and food coloring. Once your hot candy is ready you’re gonna take a baking sheet and I took a piece of aluminum foil, put it down so that it won’t mess up your baking sheet And you’re gonna spray it with baking spray, so that it’s nice and smooth.

Then you're just gonna pour your liquid glass candy onto the sheet. Now you’re gonna let this sit for 30 minutes to harden at room temperature, and while it’s hardening, we’re going to frost our cakes. Our cakes are fresh out of the oven and I’ve leveled both of them, make sure they’ve had plenty of time to cool before you do this, otherwise, they will just fall apart! And now we’re gonna frost them and stack them

Here I’ve got a bunch of milk chocolate buttercream frosting. I’m gonna spread it around And then, I’m gonna take a little bit of Oreo crumbs What you do is you separate your Oreos, you take out the middle part, Then you blend them up in the blender. I’m just gonna sprinkle, just a little bit, not too much

And, I’m gonna flip it upside down so that the flat, the bottom of the cake is gonna be facing up. Now we’re just gonna frost the entire cake, I’m just gonna squeeze out the frosting and then smooth it out with my spatula Once you’ve got your cake all frosted, We’re just gonna stick it in the freezer for about 10 minutes to chill While our cake is in the freezer, we are gonna break up our glass candy, this is the fun part! You’re gonna take a piece of wax paper, put it right on top, and this is so you’re not directly slamming your hammer on top of your glass candy This makes it OK

Alright here we go, you’re just gonna do 1 or 2 big hits to get big pieces of glass candy Here’s the 1st one Oooooooh! That was good! And 2 OK, now you’re just gonna take your little pieces and put them over here, oh these look awesome! Time for my favorite part! It’s time to decorate! I love this! So we’ve got our chocolate Dauntless Cake and then we’ve got some rock candy, they look like this I found these at the grocery store but if you can’t find ‘em, that’s fine, ‘cause we’ve also got some ground up Oreo crumbs that will look like coal, very Dauntless

And then we’ve got some cream filled wafers, these are filled with fudge chocolate So they look just like campfire logs! So I’m just spooning a little bit of Oreo crumbs, and I’m putting it all the way around Now I’m gonna take some Oreos and put it on top of the cake because we’re gonna build a little fire up here Now we’re gonna take a bunch of these, and we’re gonna cut them in half and we’re gonna put them all around in a circle Alright, we’ve got camp logs on there, now we’re just gonna pick up our little fire glass candy, and put it straight down into the cake. You are finished!

Divergent: Book vs Movie

Book vs. Movie

I'm not hating on the movie because I actually loved it. Even though it missed some parts I was fine with it. I would have still loved it a lot if the book wasn't written. Let me know if my list is wrong in the comments and I will fix it. I also did some research on this. :)

The List:

- In the movie, Dauntless wears different colors like red but in the book, it mentioned that they only wear black. 

- In the book, Tris' aptitude test included both the dog and her entering a bus after but in the movie it's only the dog. 

- Uriah is mentioned in book 1 but Uriah comes in the 2nd movie.

- Peter is crueler in the books but in the movie he mostly makes mean jokes. Ex: Peter attacks Edward to be #1 but not in the movie.

- In the movie Tris has 5 fears but actually, she has 7 fears which is why her nickname is also Seven.

- Myra and Drew don't exist in the movie.

- Tori is mentioned to be a little older with gray highlights. 

- No one dies while jumping off the train in the movie.

- In the book, Dauntless use paintball guns but in the movie they use dart guns. ouch.  

- In the movie there is no visiting day. 

- Jeanine is in the movie a lot. (probably because they wanted the antagonist in there so that the story could flow)

- A factionless man tells Tris to make the right choice at the end of the movie.

Divergent: Review

*This review is in my own words*

Review: 5 stars
This book helped me start my YA reading and reading in general. It helped me love books more because of the amazing dystopian story. I love Tris and Four's story and it took me less than 2 days to read because I was hooked. By today I have read the series over 3 times and am trying to read it in a different schedule. The world structure was fantastically built and there was so much that was going on that you couldn't stop reading. Veronica Roth did an amazing job with the story and brought it to life by both book and movie.

Divergent: Welcome Post

Title: Divergent (book 1 of Divergent Trilogy)
Author: Veronica Roth
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Published: Feb 28, 2012

Summary (from Goodreads): 
In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is—she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.


During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threatens to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her.

About the author (from Goodreads):
Veronica Roth is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Carve the Mark and the Divergent Series (Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant, and Four: A Divergent Collection). Her short stories and essays have appeared in Summer Days and Summer Nights, Shards and Ashes, and the upcoming Three Sides of a Heart. The Divergent Series was developed into three major motion pictures.

Veronica grew up outside of Chicago and graduated from Northwestern University. She now lives in Chicago proper with her husband and dog and writes full-time.