Baking & Pastry Arts

Foods & Nutrition PowerPoints, Worksheets & Links

Foods & Nutrition PowerPoints, Worksheets & Links

Lesson Plans Foodborne Bacteria (Word) Analyze Meals & Snacks by Food Guide (Word) Chemical Leavening 101-Baking Powder Reaction Dish Washing with Sanitizers (PDF) Do More with Maple Lesson (PDF) Handwashing Lesson (PDF) PowerPoints JWU Plate Presentation (PPT) Managing the Family Dollar (PPT) Nutrients Jazz (PPT) The Safe Foodhandler (PPT) Welcome to Foods I (PPT)...

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Ratio App

Ratio App

I have a standing offer from my husband since the release of the iPhone 3GS to buy an iPhone but I keep turning him down because, "I don't really need one." How serendipitous is it that I stumble upon two iPhone apps in one day that I can use in the classroom?...

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Homemade Candy Bars

Homemade Candy Bars

Have you ever wondered how they make candy bars? The scientist in me was so intrigued I just had to figure it out. Nothing can get students more excited than the prospect of making candy. They often remark, "you can make your own candy bars?" "Yes" I say, "its magic." But really all it...

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How to Measure Correctly

How to Measure Correctly

Since I teach semester culinary classes, Valentines Day comes up around the time that I am going over how to measure correctly. I use this lab for my culinary II students who already have learned how to measure correctly so instead of demonstrating the techniques I have them show me that they remember how...

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Baking & Pastry Textbooks

Baking & Pastry Textbooks

The latest textbooks for baking and pastry arts courses.

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Make Your Own Cereal Lab

Make Your Own Cereal Lab

I always have my students look at cereal labels and compare two different kinds. We'll this lesson takes it to the next level by allowing students to bake their own cereal, make an accurate nutrition label for their cereal, create advertising, and delve into FDA regulations on food labeling.

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Elements and Principles of Design The Gingerbread Way

Elements and Principles of Design The Gingerbread Way

Teaching the elements and principles of design gets monotonous. There are always the traditional standbys like having students find a magazine picture and label the elements and principles, but I was looking for something more creative. With the holiday season in full swing I wanted to make a gingerbread house for a friend so...

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Homemade Vs. Box Mix Cupcake Lab

Homemade Vs. Box Mix Cupcake Lab

Which are better- cupcakes made from a box mix or made from scratch? In starting a cake unit I like to facilitate this experiment making boxed cupcakes and from scratch cupcakes to allow students to draw their own conclusions about which one tastes better and calculate which one is cheaper.

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Christmas Cookie Fundraiser

Christmas Cookie Fundraiser

Another great way to teach students how to bake in mass quantity, maintain quality control, and market food attractively is to sell boxes of several kinds of Christmas cookies. My students made boxes of 3 dozen Christmas cookies including peanut butter kisses, chocolate crinkle, Russian Tea Cakes, gingerbread, sugar, raspberry thumb prints and coconut...

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Food Network Cake Project

Food Network Cake Project

Food Network is very popular among my students so I decided to have them create their own show! I specifically have them demonstrate how to make a cake in front of the class but this idea can be tailored to any unit that lends itself to student demonstrations.

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