Bicicletta Cook-Off

This week we had a cook-off in Bicicletta! We started off by splitting into our home groups, each with the same list of ingredients:

· self-raising flour

· cocoa

· salt

· bananas

· eggs

· butter

· icing sugar

· milk

Then we:

- revised what we already knew about procedural texts

- brainstormed options for what we could cook with these ingredients

- voted on which option to cook (democracy!)

- made a list of verbs which we might need

- wrote our recipes

Whilst writing our recipes, we did lots of maths:

       · estimating

       · ordinal numbers

       · halves and quarters

       · ways of measuring quantities, eg cups, grams, spoons

Ideas about what we could cook with these ingredients (Nerida’s home group)

Some cooking verbs.

Bicicletta Chocolate Cake

(Nerida’s home group)

Ingredients

· 3 cups self-raising flour

· 5 tablespoons cocoa

· 2 eggs

· 1 ½ cups caster sugar

· 150 grams butter

· ¾ cup milk

· Icing sugar

Method

1) Turn on the oven in the middle of maximum and gentle.

2) Melt the butter.

3) Put the wet ingredients in a bowl.

4) Mix the wet ingredients together.

5) Sift the flour and cocoa into the bowl.

6) Add the caster sugar.

7) Mix the ingredients together well.

8) Oil the tin and line it with baking paper.

9) Pour the mixture into the tin,

10) Bake for 40 minutes.

11) Sprinkle with icing sugar.

Bicicletta Marble Cake

(Genevieve’s home group)

Ingredients

Cocoa

Banana

Milk

Eggs

Butter

How to make:

1. Break 1 egg into a bowl.

2. Mix ¼ stick of butter into the eggs.

3. Mix flour, sugar, and cocoa in another bowl.

4. Get a big bowl.

5. Mix flour mixture and egg mixture together in the big bowl.

Banana half

1. Break 1 egg into a bowl.

2. Mix ¼ stick butter into the eggs.

3. Cut 2 bananas in half.

4. Put bananas in egg mixture.

5. Mix flour and sugar in another bowl.

6. Mix flour mixture and egg mixture together in a big bowl.

7. Spoon the banana mixture and the cocoa mixture into a cake tray carefully.

Tomorrow after lunch we will follow our recipes and cook our cakes. On Wednesday morning, we will revisit the genre of reviews, taste our cakes, brainstorm adjectives and write reviews.