This week saw Year 4 take on ‘Adapting a Biscuit Recipe’ for our topic in Design Technology for this term!
Firstly we looked at what exactly is a biscuit and explored ideas around what they can look like, taste like and smell like. We even saw a video which showed how chocolate is added to digestives and given it’s distinctive lines. We then looked at packaging and how companies specifically target children with their designs with bright colours and funny rhymes or titles to attract buyers. After this we learnt that our target audience would be Breakfast Club and that we had to make a healthy biscuit for them to test and let us know their thoughts.
We then got into groups and decided on a product name and logo. We also had to decide which additional ingredients we would be adding to our recipe so that it would be tasty. We had a certain budget and had to pick 3 additional ingredients which were raisins, honey and oats.
The very next morning we got started on making our biscuit recipes so that Breakfast Club could taste them in the morning! First, we made sure that we followed food hygiene and safety rules by washing our hands, putting on aprons and making sure any long hair was tied back!
Next, we had to read the recipe together so that we knew the steps we needed to take to achieve our task. We began by combining together the sugar and butter and adding some plain yoghurt! Then we added our flour by sieving it into the mixture so that the flour didn’t have any lumps in it and mixed it to create a dough. Finally. we added in our additional ingredients from the designs we created the day before.
We then put the dough to chill in the fridge and got on with some cleaning of our equipment. After 15 minutes we were ready to roll out and cut the dough using our chosen biscuit cutter shapes. Miss Akhtar and Miss Iziamova then kindly baked out biscuits and finished cleaning up the creativity room! Thank you for all of your help!
We then evaluated our biscuits with our groups and reflected on how suitable they were for our target audience and what we would do differently next time!
Well done Year 4 on making some tasty biscuits!
What did you enjoy when you were making your biscuit recipe?
What ingredients would you add next time?
