I can hardly believe I am writing a Petits Chefs post so late in December! In all my career as a teacher (that’s many more years than I care to admit here!), I don’t think I have ever still been teaching so close to Christmas. I think I am safe in saying that we are all so very ready for 11.45am to come today 🙂
In an effort to keep the boys focussed until as close to the end as possible, I chose to keep Petits Chefs going until the last Monday of school and I managed to coerce convince my boss, the boys’ Headmaster, Mr Beatty, into coming in to cook with the boys. Mr Beatty is an alum of the school and has only been with us since the summer in his role as Head but already has proven to be an amazing role model for our boys – I was excited to find out that he is quite the whiz in the kitchen so of course I invited him to come and be a very special guest chef for our last session of the year.
Mr Beatty chose to make one of his specialties – banana pancake/ crepes filled with frozen berries and chocolate chips. Whilst he commandeered one half of the kitchen lab, I took the other half of the group and we prepared a little holiday treat.
The boys measured and mixed. It took a lot of muscles!
And about 15 minutes later, the boys were cooking up amazing looking crepes…
I mean, really – who could resist this?
Clearly some of the Petits Chefs couldn’t wait to get home as I turned around to find some of them digging in before they even left the building…
Meanwhile, over the other side of the lab, my group of Petits Chefs worked to make dry pancake mix to bring home to their families for the holidays… The Magic Bullet got an invitation to the party (because it’s always a party with the Bullet around!). We used our own Ms Stephenson’s awesome multi-grain pancake mix…
After we’d finished the dry mix, the boys got to work decorating labels for their jars. Such concentration…
And the result?
I mean who wouldn’t want one of these?
(and no, I didn’t correct the spelling because that’s not what this was all about. I love the joy and pride the boys took in making their labels!)
An easy multgrain pancake mix - great for emergencies or for last minute holiday gifts!Multigrain pancake mix
Ingredients
For the dry mix:
To prepare: 1 egg
Instructions
Make the dry mix:
To prepare pancakes:
Thanks to Charles for the lovely label on my jar. Neil and I will be enjoying this on Saturday morning 🙂
Happy holidays from Les Petits Chefs. We’ll be back, by popular demand (I normally take one term off but so many boys are interested in the club) in January!
Thanks LPC in advance for my Christmas-day breakfast!
Mmm and they were SO good!
Perfect pancakes! Top secret…love it.
I am not sure what’s so top secret about them but I love it too!
Your petits chefs can make me crepes anytime!!! Excellent gift idea (love the labels!).
The labels are my favourite part!
Very cute idea for gifts. Happy Holidays!
I love this for gifts!
Top marks to the headmaster…
Mr Neil does well again.
Well done Mardi & LPCs this year.
🙂 thanks!
Love the labels!
Aren’t they cute?
Great way to wrap up the semester with Les Petits Chefs. I don’t I could wait to try those crepes either. Their jar labels are adorable, how proud they must be of them all and deservedly so!
They are incredibly proud of everything they do – I love that about kids!
The jars are so adorable! 🙂 I bet the kids had lots of fun!
They did have a lot of fun that day!
So adorable!
Happy Holidays
Thanks! I enjoyed this one!
These top secret pancakes would make a delicious breakfast!
Happy Holidays Mardi!
Oh they did indeed!
Love this, Mardi! What a fun project for Les Petits Chefs. Can’t wait to see what they are cooking up in January!
Neither can I LOL!
Such a nice idea…. I like edible gifts
They are the best!