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Cookery Club

Homemade Pizzas

This week in cookery club, the children made their own personal pizzas. They made their own pizza bases, tomato sauce and had a selection of toppings to choose from. If you’d like to make your own personal pizzas, please follow the recipe below.

Serves 4

Prep: 25mins

Cooking: 15mins

Ingredients (dough)

  • 1 1/2 teaspoons yeast
  • 1/2 teaspoons salt
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
  • 500g plain flour

Ingredients (toppings)

  • 1 can chopped tomatoes
  • Pinch of dried thyme
  • 2 mozzarella balls
  • Any choice of topping, such as peppers, mushrooms, pepperoni, ham or even pineapple!

Method

  1. In a large mixing bowl, mix the yeast, salt and sugar with a wooden spoon. Make a well in the ingredients and pour in the olive oil and 400ml of warm water.
  2. Slowly add the flour whilst mixing to bring to a smooth, wet dough.
  3. Now, cover the bowl with cling film, and allow to rest at room temperature until dough rises.
  4. To make the sauce, mix the chopped tomatoes and dried thyme together in a bowl or jug.
  5. Heat the oven to 240°C/fan 220°C.
  6. Place the round pizza pans in the oven to get hot.
  7. Divide the dough into quarters. Stretch one-quarter of the pizza dough into a large circle by holding it up in front of you and turning the dough clockwise, grabbing quickly with one hand after another or by tossing the dough. If this is too hard, you can roll it instead.
  8. Place the dough on parchment paper. Repeat this three more times until you have four round pizza bases.
  9. Remove the pans from the oven and transfer the dough to the pan.
  10. Using a spoon, spread evenly a quarter of the sauce onto each of the bases.
  11. Add all of the toppings that you’ve chosen to tahe pizzas. Add the mozzarella cheese last over the toppings.
  12. Bake the pizzas for 6-8 minutes. Remove from the oven and allow to cool for 2 minutes before cutting

Cookery Club - Pizza

 

Apple and Blackberry Crumble

Who doesn’t enjoy a warm crumble with the choice of custard, ice cream or cream? This week in cookery club, the children made a traditional apple and blackberry crumble. For this recipe, the cooking skills included: peeling and coring apples, stewing fruits and using the breadcrumb method to make the crumble topping. If you’d like to make your own Apple and Blackberry crumble at home, please follow the recipe below. 

 

Apple and Blackberry Crumble
(This recipe serves 12-13 people)

For the filling:

  • - 10 Bramley cooking apples.
  • - 4tsp cinnamon
  • - 200g caster sugar
  • - 600g blackberries

For the topping:

  • - 350g plain flour
  • - 180g caster sugar
  • - 360g cold unsalted butter

Method

  1. Peel and core the apples and cut into chunks.
  2. Put the apple chunks into a saucepan with cinnamon and sugar and a couple of spoonsful of water.
  3. Cook over a low heat until the apples have become fluffy. Stir occasionally.
  4. Make the crumble topping. Sift the flour into a bowl and add the butter, cut into small cubes.
  5. With your fingers, squash each chunk of butter into a flake.
  6. Rub the butter into the flour until the mixture looks like breadcrumbs.
  7. Stir in the sugar.
  8. Spoon the apple filling into a pie dish and stir in the washed blackberries.
  9. Gently sprinkle the topping mixture onto the fruit so it is completely covered.
  10. Cooking in a preheated oven 170 degrees Celsius for 30-40 minutes.
  11. Serve with ice cream, cream or custard.

Vegetable Spring Rolls

This week, the children had a go at preparing and making some healthy, savoury vegetable spring rolls. They practised their peeling and cutting skills and carefully applied the skill of folding the Filo in the correct way.

 

 If you’d like to have a go at making the vegetable spring rolls, please see the recipe below.

Ingredients

  • - Filo pastry
  • - A variety of vegetables
  • - Five-spiced seasoning.
  • - Vegetable oil

Cup Cakes

 For our first cooking session, the children baked and decorated vanilla cupcakes. They made some delicious fluffy cupcakes, prepared the icing and selected from a variety of decorations.  

 

If you’d like to have a go at making the cupcakes. Please see the recipe below.

Cupcakes (makes 24) 

Ingredients  

  • 200g caster sugar  
  • 200g softened butter (for cakes) 
  • 200g softened butter (for icing) 
  • 200g self-raising flour 
  • 4 eggs  
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract 
  • 400g icing sugar  
  • Food colouring, sprinkles, marshmallows and other decorations.

Method 

  • Turn the oven on at 180°C. 
  • Prepare the cupcake cases in the trays.  
  • Put the sugar and butter in the large mixing bowl and cream together.  
  • Sift the flour into a separate bowl. Fold the flour into the sugar and butter mixture. 
  • Break the eggs into the small mixing bowl.  
  • Add the vanilla extract and the eggs to the butter, sugar and flour mixture and mix together. 
  • Divide the cake mixture evenly between the 24 fairy cake cases.  
  • Put the tray in the oven for 20 minutes. The fairy cakes should be golden once cooked. 
  • Whilst the fairy cakes are cooking. Place the icing sugar into a bowl and carefully add water until a thick and glossy consistency. 
  • Once the cupcakes have cooked, let them cool on a cooling wire. When the cakes are cool, decorate with icing and your choice of sweets or sprinkles. 
  •  Serve and enjoy your yummy cupcakes!