by Retha Basham | 25 Apr 2017 | Muffins, Recipes
Ingredients Dough 1 small banana 1 tbsp vegetable oil 1 tbsp milk 1 egg 2 tbsp coconut 4 tbsp self-raising flour 4 tbsp sugar (white or brown) ΒΌ tsp cinnamon Pinch of saltIcing 400 g icing sugar 130 g butter or wooden spoon 2 tbsp milk 1 tsp vanilla essence Sliced...
by Retha Basham | 25 Apr 2017 | Pizza, Recipes
With our mini pizza recipe, we do a lesson about tomatoes. We show a tomato plant to the children, and they learn that plants need water and sun to grow well. We show them that one gets different shapes and colours tomatoes, and that we make a sauce from tomatoes...
by Retha Basham | 12 Apr 2017 | Pizza, Recipes
When we make the Pinwheel Pizza recipe, our lesson focuses on wheat. We show the children what the wheat plant looks like, and that we can grind the wheat to form flour for baking. We usually take a mortar and pestle to class to demonstrate this. We show photos of a...
by Retha Basham | 10 Apr 2017 | Cupcakes, Recipes
When we bake our chocolate cupcakes, we do a lesson about cacao. We show the children what the cacao tree and cacao pods look like, as well as the cacao beans. We explain that cacao beans are crushed to form a fine cacao powder that we use in baking. The children...
by Retha Basham | 10 Apr 2017 | Cookies, Recipes
We use coconut in our jam thumbprint cookies. During the this lesson, we take a coconut to class. The children learn what a coconut tree looks like. They feel that a coconut is rough with hairs on the outside, not smooth like a banana, that the coconut is brown , but...
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