Les Petits Chefs baking club made a favourite bake last week – and an appropriate one, given that ANZAC Day was last Friday. Wait, what… What is ANZAC DAY ? This day commemorates the anniversary of the ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) landing on the shores of Gallipoli in 1915. Every year, ANZAC … Read more
Les Petits Chefs baking club made a favourite bake last week – Blueberry Galettes! I love galettes because they are MEANT to be rustic so there’s no worry about the pastry needing to be perfect. Weird shape? It’s meant to be like that! Hole in the pastry Patch it up – noone will notice! I … Read more
Les Petits Chefs baking club is back for the term! We had a “trial run” session last week where we made a simple but delicious cookie – Sablés Bretons. Because I didn’t know how many kids to expect in the trial week, I stuck to a recipe that doesn’t use many ingredients and ones that … Read more
A couple of weeks ago, Les Petits Chefs baking club ventured into working with choux pastry (some of them for the first time!). Choux pastry is the base for cream puffs (profiteroles), éclairs and cheese puffs (gougères), and many people find it intimidating, but actually, it couldn’t be easier! For this session, we worked with … Read more
A couple of weeks ago, Les Petits Chefs baking club worked with sweet shortcrust pastry – always a popular item to work with because “it’s just like Play Doh, only tastier” 😉 Lots of people are intimidated by pastry but it’s actually much easier than you think and kids, particularly, are fearless, so they just … Read more
Recently, Les Petits Chefs baking club welcomed our first in-person guest to the school since March 2020! Those of you who have been reading this site since at least 2010 will know that the cooking club used to host guest chefs and food enthusiasts to work with the students and we were even lucky enough … Read more