Dec Holiday Camp - Cooking Party

Does your child want to be Chef of the day? In Dec, we had a really fun cooking party for our school children as well as outside children for a week.

Who's the instructor? I'm proud to say that it's me. Yes! Another hidden talent that I have which is baking. The children, all between the ages of 5-12, grouped into two, have a great time creating and baking, as well as playing fun games, watching pastry and bakery videos and taking home some nifty treats!

We did a lot of prep work buying all the ingredients, cooking utensils, aprons sewn and pre-making our adequate mix of recipes - banana muffins, easy cheesy chicken dippers, cupcakes, cookies, crepes, pizzas, etc to ensure that everything will turn out well on the actual lesson. On the actual day, everything that the children do started from scratch. They weight, measured their ingredients, they made the dough and broke the egg all by themselves with little help from adults. It's time to get messy !

We had the children assembling their own individual pizzas - bowls of sauce, cheese and toppings were passed around the table and yes, I think some of the children weren’t really thinking that they’d be eating these as they piled on loads and loads of tomatoe.

They were so creative with their cookies and seemed to have a great time making little treats that then went into the oven marked with their name, and into goodie bags to take home after the party. We ended our cooking party with lots of party treats eg strawbery ice-cream crepes, melon skewers and jellies.