I have been asked to make gingerbread men/lady cookies with R class.
I will be working with small groups.
Only ever had experience baking with my own children.
Any tips, pitfalls I should look out for?
Brilliant recipes that work?
Princess Debs

first thing I always do is teach the children how to wash their hands properly and then talk about hygiene. You'd be surprised how many children you'll notice picking their nose with their very clean hands.

pitfall......eating the produce!

i used to eat the year 11 products every week as part of taste testing and then had to fill in a questionnaire!!! the pitfall was...my expanding waistline! it was always cakes and cookies!!

you have to taste everyones or they get upset!!

maybe you will then have to join us in Dieting Dilemma princessdebs!!!

I work in Reception and I love cooking with them. We wash our hands and if anyone picks their nose they go and wash them again. In my experience whatever recipe you use the kids will eat the finished product.

There is a super sponge cake one that you can do with the counting teddy bears, thats Ok as long as none of the children pocket any teddies because it messes up the measurements. Let us know how you get on I am sure you and the kids will enjoy yourselves.

The sponge cake that you can do with the counting teddy bears, I might sound daft, but where do the teddy bears come into it? For weighing???

Dumbprincessdebs

hi relax its all good fun just remember to ask if there are any food allegies before you start. hygiene a must. make sure all utensils are at hand I ALWAYS forget something.ALways offer one to other members o f staff if you do too many it goes down well. Let us know how you get on

I always love baking with the reception children - the amount of speaking and listening that gets done is fantastic.
Hygiene is very important especially if you are having to taste and we always pick a couple of the children to deliver a cake or gingerbread man to someone in the school - HT, caretaker, secretary.
Most important - have fun because if you're enjoying it, whatever the outcome (and I have been known to set the smoke alarm off regularly) the children will enjoy it too.

Ditto to all

Pizzas are fun to !! Do them on muffins. and if you can't ( or just don't ) want to cook them ! then send them home with

cooking instructions!! ( we used to do this in pre-school because we had no cooker )


IM NOT A GOOD CAKE BAKER !!!! SEE BELOW

This was in year1 but i remeber the first time i did cooking ( in golden time ) with the new teacher i work with now i was

sooo impressed when she made the cakes from scratch ( i was gonna do them from a box mix )

Hi

How did the baking go Princessdebs?

Baking on Thurs and Friday, but other ta that works those days is not going to be in, so it might be all for one and one on its own....

talk about in at the deep end........
PD X

GONE AND DONE IT NOW!!!!

After postponing this activity a couple of times, got round to doing it yesterday, and all went well, all enjoyed it, all ate them on the way home apparently, and staff finished off the ones made from the left over dough.

A good time was had by all, including me, and if anyone needs a really good recipe for gingerbread men I think mine is very straight forward and easy.

Thanks for all the advice.
PD
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I am cooking with the Reception Class and I have just got 'the little book of cooking from stories' . Its fab. It uses the language needed for the little ones and it has even got in all the elg's to save me looking them all up.

can you post the ISBN number for that Jac? sounds interesting

Abbey the number is 1904187048

I love these books the ideas are great I have one or two.