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
Want to make your own? Get the recipe here! Last week the Petits Chefs baking club made cupcakes! But not any ordinary cupcakes – strawberry yoghurt cupcakes with a strawberry cream cheese frosting! This was a recipe I developed a few years ago for National Cupcake Day and as I was looking back at my … Read more
Last week the Petits Chefs worked on a favourite recipe of mine – Mini Jam Tarts with a Crumble Topping! A previous iteration of the club (pre-pandemic when we had a proper space to work and much more equipment) made this recipe but I realised that I hadn’t actually written up the recipe properly so … Read more