The year 9 girls made “happy cakes” again – after slightly tweaking the recipe. This is a low-fat, high protein cake, with a polenta base, a creamy almond custard filling and fresh fruit set in organic apple juice jelly on top. Beautiful decorating girls!
The girls will also start being assessed on the cake from next week. Both groups will make their cakes indepedently, and complete a write-up on the processes they have used. Continue reading
The junior students at MANUKURA enjoyed a Masterchef style challenge last week – each group of students was given 9 whole baked kumara to turn into tasty stuffed kumara, and they also had to prepare 9 servings of salad (no lettuce allowed) and dessert.
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The MANUKURA juniors thoroughly enjoyed making “instant ice-cream” today from frozen berries, mango and banana. With a dash of milk and a squirt of honey, and a blitz in the food processor they all had their own flavour of ice-cream. We then calculated the sugar content of regular ice-cream (around 6-7 teaspoons per 100g), versus the honey content of ours, (around 2 tsp per 100g).
Last Thursday the Manukura juniors made yummy nutritious muesli bars which are great for pre and post sports. 1.5 cups of rolled oats, the main ingredient, have a whopping 22.8g of protein, the 1 cup of almonds add another 26g protein and the half cup of pumpkin seeds another 26g.
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On the last day of the term we had our final Vegan Not-Cheese Cheese Cakes assessments at MANUKURA. While some students were challenged with the practical part; others had to write down the steps describing how they processed their cakes, also including the health and safety regulations.
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It was a pleasure to be invited to Manukura School last Wednesday where the respect between students, teachers and strangers alike meant that a lot could be achieved in one day.
It was the students turn to make lunch for the kitchen staff and teachers and as the photos below show; they were enthusiastic to try something new.
Introductions
Work stations ready to go
Demonstration how to work with the dough
Demonstrating how to roll out the dough
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