Fifth class baked up a storm today, filling the school with the delicious smell of chocolate cake! Our theme for the month of September is Europe, so we began our studies into European food with a Swedish chocolate cake, based on the traditional kladdkaka. The recipe below can be served with whipped cream and blueberries, but we just ate it straight from the oven!
The class used this recipe from DonalSkehan.com. It gave us a good opportunityto revise our work on the procedural genre of First Steps writing, the excellent literacy programme that all classes use in St Peter’s. Procedural writing helps to give instructions, from recipes to putting together IKEA furniture.
The recipe is a simple one, making it an excellent introduction to baking! First, Ms Sexton demonstrated the recipe. Then we split into groups and made the recipe independently. We focused on the importance of preparation, especially measuring ingredients carefully, on hygiene and on cleaning up afterwards! We also made a little instructional video showing our experience of making one of the cakes. It was a really useful oral language activity to explain our work to the camera. And best of all, the cake was delicious!
Swedish Gooey Chocolate Cake (recipe by Donal Skehan)
Serves 8
100g butter
200g sugar
2 eggs
70g flour
3 tablespoon cocoa powder
1 teaspoon vanilla extractFor the topping:
500ml of double cream
150g of blueberries and raspberriesThe Method
Preheat the oven to 175oC. Grease and flour a cake tin 24cm in diameter with a removable base and set aside.
Melt the butter in a saucepan. Remove the saucepan from the heat. Add the sugar and the egg and mix well.
Add in the rest of the ingredients and mix until combined. Pour into the greased cake tin and place in the oven for 20 minutes. The cake won’t rise dramatically but you should be left with a set top and gooey middle! Allow to cool while you whip the cream until it becomes stiff.
When you’re ready to serve, spoon generous dollops of whipped cream on top and then decorate with blueberries and raspberries.
Anyone have any other suggestions for our next stop on our European adventure? Make sure to check out the recipe. And families of 5th class? Test their new skills out!
8:56 pm on September 8th, 2013
It was absolutely delicious, good job 5th Class!
8:45 pm on September 16th, 2013
That was a very nice cake!
10:00 am on September 19th, 2013
Nice Swedish chocolate cake!
10:03 am on September 19th, 2013
I made the swedish choclate cake at home – it was so nice!
10:04 am on September 19th, 2013
I made 2 cakes and they were lovely.
10:04 am on September 19th, 2013
It was really nice and I made it a few times at home.
10:04 am on September 19th, 2013
I made it at home but it turned out flat – it was not as nice as in school!
4:06 pm on September 19th, 2013
Davy, Alan and Sam – well done on trying it out at home!
9:14 pm on September 19th, 2013
It looked and tasted so nice to eat
7:11 pm on September 27th, 2013
Hi 5th class,
After reading your blog I am definitely going to try Donal’s recipe. I was his teacher when he was in 2nd class!
Keep up the baking!
Emer