The ‘Love Cake Recipe’, provides a step-by-step process for making the cake; however, it is very much up to you as to the extent of pupil involvement in the baking session. Below we have outlined some additional points you might like to consider and share with the group.
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Explain that the success of a recipe depends on accurate measuring and the use of proper equipment. Stress the importance of safety and hygiene, eg. washing hands, using oven gloves and clean equipment, and not licking fingers/spoons.
Ask pupils to wash their hands and supply each with a photocopy of the ‘Love Cake Recipe’ or write the ingredients/method on the board.
Ask the pupils to check that all the ingredients are there, ticking them off on their handouts and recapping the country of origin for each ingredient.
Click for the ‘Love Cake Recipe’ and method.
The finished cakes could become the subject of a whole school assembly or shared in public within the school on Peace Day 21 September.
Follow up: Click here for extended work and further ideas for this lesson.