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Homeschooling Series: Coffee Cake

9/13/2017

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I love my homeschooling groups. We have such a nice time baking together. In our homeschooling series I let the kids decide what we bake each week. I feel like it is a good way for them to think about what they want to put in their body and what they are inspired to do. Also it gets them thinking about recipes and possibilities and some of the time crazy recipes show up that even I had never tried making before. I encourage creativity and brain storming. 
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We begin our day by writing down the recipes. Just a simple ingredient list and basic directions. I do not worry about spelling or who it is formatted as long as they can understand it afterward. 
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After writing down the recipe, the kids go ahead and get all the ingredients together. 
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We talk about mixing methods and the properties of the ingredients used. 
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One of our students is gluten free so we are making gluten free Pumpkin coffee cake.
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I think it good for them to practice writing recipes down, there is a rhyme and reason to how recipes are structured and I want them to be able to start seeing that! 
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Once all ingredients are in separate bowls, I help them by double checking that everything was measured correctly. 
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Our classes are always hands-on!
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The other two groups made either a pumpkin or banana coffee cake. (One of my students said she didn't like pumpkin flavor) :) 
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Some of our cakes. 
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Yes and the kids do clean up their stations. It is part of the process! 
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And then they packed up their treasure to take home.

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Before we parted, the kids tasted each flavor of the cakes and we discussed the difference. This is important to me, because I want the kids to become aware of flavors and mouth feel. 
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And if you need proof.... yes your kids do the dishes here too! :) 
​I can't wait for next week. We will start making Fairy houses! 
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PETIT FOUR CLASS

9/9/2017

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Today we made petit fours.
Petit fours are sweet little cakes, decorated with a poured icing and in this case marzipan flowers.
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One of the cakes the kids made was chocolate and the other one vanilla. 
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We filled the cakes with raspberry jelly and butter cream, cut them into 1.5" squares and cooled them in the freezer for a while so that they became hard.

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Here the kids are making little delicate flowers out of marzipan that we dyed with food coloring. The smaller the decorations the fancier the petit fours look.
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Very carefully the cakes are drizzled with a poured icing and then decorated.
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I think they turned out really nice! Bon appetite! 
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    Before founding Bake Austin, Pascal Simon earned her degree as a Pastry Chef from the prestigious Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts. A mother of two, Pascal is passionate about cultivating the next generation of bakers and welcomes children from all schooling backgrounds, whether public, private or homeschooled. 

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