Week beginning 29th June 2020

Cooking with Chocolate

This week we have been looking at recipes and doing lots of cooking with chocolate. 

• We made Rice Krispie Cakes and Chocolate Brownies. 
• We looked at different ways of melting chocolate and what happened when it cooled again. 
• What do you think makes chocolate melt?
• What do you think might happen to the chocolate when it cools down?
• We talked about the ingredients and measured them out, then took turns to mix them in a bowl. 

If you would like to make one of our recipes you can find them here:

Rice Krispie Cakes

You will need:

• 60g/ 2 oz unsalted butter
• 3 table spoons golden syrup
• 1 x 100g bar milk or dark chocolate
• 90g/ 3 oz Rice Krispies

How to make them:

1. Melt the chocolate in small bursts in the microwave or over a bain-marie (in a bowl over a saucepan of simmering water)
2. Add the butter, cut in to small pieces, stir until melted
3. Add the syrup, stir
4. Add the Rice Krispies and stir in to the chocolate mix, gently
5. Spoon in to 12 bun cases
6. Leave to cool

Chocolate Brownies

You will need:

• 140g unsalted butter
• 4 large eggs
• 1 x 100g bar milk or dark chocolate
• 340g light brown sugar
• 140g plain flour
• Pinch of salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• Chocolate chips/broken biscuits/Smarties: anything you like!
• 25cm Square cake tin, lined with foil

How to make them:

1. Melt the chocolate in small bursts in the microwave or over a bain-marie (in a bowl over a saucepan of simmering water)
2. Add the vanilla essence and butter, cut in to small pieces.  Stir until melted and leave to cool
3. Beat the eggs and sugar in a bowl
4. Add the chocolate mixture
5. Sift the salt and flour into the bowl.  Gently stir in
6. Fold in the chocolate chips or whatever you have chosen
7. Pour the mixture into the tin
8. Bake in a preheated oven at 170 C (325 F) Gas 3 for about 35-40 minutes

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Story of the Week

​Our story this week was Jasper’s Beanstalk by Nick Butterworth.

• What did Jasper do on each day of the week?
• How tall do you think the beanstalk was at the end? 
• Can you make a beanstalk with blocks that is taller than you?
• Where did the beanstalk go?
• What was Jasper looking for at the top of his beanstalk?
• If you had a beanstalk, what do you think would be at the top?  Can you draw a picture of it?

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Planting seeds

• We planted our own beans in little pots. 
• We are checking them every day, just like Jasper, to see how tall they will grow. 
• We also planted some cress seeds.
• Which do you think will grow quickest, the beans or the cress?

Growing cress at home
You will need:

• Cress seeds
• Paper cup/plant pot
• Some Paper towel/tissue
• Water

What to do:

1. Scrunch up the paper towel and place in the bottom of the cup
2. Then add a small amount of water to wet the paper towel
3. Sprinkle on some cress seeds and place in a warm bright spot, preferably a windowsill.  
4. Check every day to see if anything has started to grow
5. Remember to keep watering too​

Maybe you can guess how tall the cress will grow or how many days it will take to grow
You could draw a chart too
Have fun!

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