Cooking Club

For the past few years in Ruru we have been doing Cooking Club.
Cooking club is a reward for students who have been doing the right thing. It is a great reward because you get to have fun baking food and treats and then you get to eat them.
Here are some of the recipes from this term.

Last week some of us made Churro Mini Muffins. They were light and fluffy! DELICIOUS!

Truffles
1 packet wine biscuits
One tin condensed milk
One block of chocolate (we used caramilk)
Coconut to roll balls in.
Whiz the biscuits to crumbs. Melt chocolate over a double boiler, stir in the condensed milk and biscuits.
Roll into balls and coat with coconut.
Refrigerate until firm.

Chocolate Brownie
2 cups chopped dates
1 tsp baking soda
3⁄4 cup boiling water
1 cup dark cocoa sifted
200g/6 1/2 oz finely diced butter at room temperature
4 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 cups caster sugar/ superfine sugar
1 cup flour
1⁄2 tsp baking powder
250g 8 oz dark chocolate chips or chopped dark chocolate

Preheat oven to 160 degrees and line a 30cm x 24cm/ 12 x 9 inch slice tin with baking
paper. Put dates in large bowl, add baking soda and boiling water stir to combine.
Add finely diced butter and stir until melted. Leave to stand for 20 minutes.
Mash softened dates with a fork to break them up to a creamy consistency. Stir in the eggs
and vanilla until well combined. Stir in the sugar, then add the cocoa until smooth.stir in the
chocolate chips or chunks.smooth into prepared tin and bake and bake until it is set in the
middle and begins to come away from the sides of the tin, about 50 minutes cool before
cutting in to squares.