This week in Les Petits Chefs baking club, we made a favourite recipe from French Food for Everyone: le goûter (after-school snacks)! Torsades au Chocolat (Chocolate Custard Twists) are the sort of thing that always catches my eye at the bakery in France when I’m only supposed to be picking up bread 😉 Inevitably, one … 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
The Petits Chefs are back this week with one of my favourite recipes from In the French kitchen with kids! When I was developing the recipes for the book, I was fortunate enough to be hosting in-person cooking club in a perfect space for it and the kids spent a term testing recipes for the … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Baking with Dorie. Double-Decker Salted Caramel Cake wasn’t one I was particularly fussed about (especially a whole cake serving 10) but it turns out that I had a recipe to test for Leite’s Culinaria that went perfectly with this – a salted caramel frosting, slightly different from Dorie’s … 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