6.10.2015

not just nourishment: MINI COURSE food fun


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Yesterday was like the best day.

The last week of school is a “fluff week” including all kinds of fun activities like mini-courses, a field day, an all-school picnic and an awards ceremony. But yesterday was mini-course day, and as I spent the year doing the Food Fun after school activity, I chose to do a baking mini-course. I was excited because I had more time and freedom to do the things I love to do in the kitchen. So we baked cupcakes from scratch, something we could never do at school.
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After making the mini-course a competition like Cupcake Wars, six sixth graders (two teams) and I headed to the grocery store to pick up the essentials and decorations to fit into the chosen theme: Summer. Fifteen minutes of searching the aisles and brainstorming resulted in some super fun, creative and delicious results.
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The misshapen (though scrumptious) chocolate cupcakes became the canvases for summer scenes and warm-weather themes. There were marzipan suns with rainbow sprinkle features, Swedish fish surfing on sweet boards, and fish swimming in clear blue waters dotted with marshmallow fluff foam lined by graham cracker  beaches.
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Sour red and white gummy life preserver rings rested on waffle cone sand, while summer drink inspiration led to pina colada cupcakes with tropical pineapple skewers and rich butter cream frosting slid down the wide waffle cone like ice cream melting on a hot summer day.

I was supposed to declare a winner. But I couldn’t. They all won at summer!

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