by Retha Basham | 27 Nov 2017 | Cupcakes, January, Recipes
With our beach cupcakes, the recipe is about having fun. We usually do this close to the December holidays. We bake a cupcake from the dough the children mixed and decorate it with blue icing, “sand” (cookie crumbs) and a small cocktail umbrella on top....
by Retha Basham | 11 Sep 2017 | Cupcakes, Recipes
With our vanilla cupcakes recipe we teach the children where vanilla comes from. Vanilla is harvested from the yellow vanilla orchid, a beautiful flower. The green seedpods are dried and we find vanilla paste inside, which is further processed into vanilla essence and...
by Retha Basham | 28 Jun 2017 | Cupcakes, Recipes
When we do the red velvet cupcakes lesson, we teach the little ones about beetroot. We take a beetroot with leaves to the class. We cut the beetroot open and show the children the colour, as well as the colour of the leaves and educate them about how beetroot is...
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...
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