Year 10 Food Fabulous Food

Do you want to learn how to create amazing meals and develop your baking and cake decorating skills? A range of savoury and sweet dishes will be created. There will be a focus on piping, chocolate work and cake making skills and these will be showcased in the production of a unique drip cake. Students will also explore the science of baking. Questions such as "Why do cakes rise? Why is yeast added to bread? What makes a good pastry?” will be answered.

Learning Activities

• tear and share bread
• drip cakes and cake decorating
• pastry dishes

Key Skills

• carry out a range of processes accurately, consistently, safely and responsibly using a range of tools and equipment
• Be able to explain decisions about the suitability of the materials and techniques used
• produce a production plan with logical sequences of the production stages
• create the finished product and explain any modifications

 Assessment tasks of this unit are made up of the following tasks:

• Folio tasks
• Topic tests
• Assignments
• Contributions to class discussions and completion of class work will also be considered