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Showing posts with label cook. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

food tech

Y5 made sugar mice today - they've been looking at 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' by Roald Dahl and have embarked on a short quest to produce their own sweets, which they hope, at a future date, to recreate and sell to their schoolmates. Mixing the icing sugar into a paste was tricky, the plastic spoons we used weren't really up to the task. Must put metal spoons at the top of my next shopping list - all the school ones seem to have disappeared.
 
 

Shaping wasn't too bad,


even though the end result looked a bit flat!


We used chocolate sticks for the tails (we couldn't find any liquorice laces in the local shop), white chocolate buttons for ears and raisins for eyes. Mmmmmm, tasty!

Friday, February 11, 2011

baking

We've been 'doing' instructional texts (!) in Literacy this week which gave us an excellent excuse to do some baking. Groups followed a simple cup cake recipe to create batches of buns. The results were very varied but edible! They thoroughly enjoyed the experience though I'm not sure we have any budding chefs in our midst.