Today would have been my mum’s 82nd birthday. Sadly, this is the first birthday she’s not with us to celebrate and I’d be lying if I said it isn’t a hard day for us all. Mum was the baker, the cook in the family and she relished this role. It wasn’t a chore to cook … Read more
This week in Les Petits Chefs baking club we made Strawberry Cheesecake Cake Cups – an easy, no-bake dessert that’s a riff on a recipe I shared last year. That recipe uses mascarpone and a strawberry sauce where you cook the strawberries but today’s recipe is simplified a little – using cream cheese and a … Read more
This week in Les Petits Chefs baking club, we made muffins! Primarily because last weekend I had excess blueberries and bananas at my house and wanted to use them up so some food-waste avoidance became recipe testing for this session with the students! I riffed on my easy banana chocolate chip muffin recipe and subbed … Read more
This week for Les Petits Chefs baking club, I had planned to teach them how to make ANZAC Biscuit Squares – an easy recipe that is basically one bowl and doesn’t take long to bake. But when I was making a list of ingredients to shop for I realised that coconut is rarely sold without … Read more
Today, April 25th 2024, I’m bringing you a “controversial take” on ANZAC Biscuits (according to my fellow Aussie colleague lol!). Controversial because they’re SQUARES and more like slice than a biscuit (cookie). Wait, what… What is ANZAC DAY ? This day commemorates the anniversary of the ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) landing on … Read more
Oh my, it’s been a long time since a Petits Chefs post, hasn’t it? In-person cooking club came to a halt in March 2020. We had online cooking club right up until March 2024 at my school with a brief interlude into a baking club in Term 2 last year. I didn’t manage to write … Read more