Cooking Space Classic Chocolate Brownies

Age range 14 to 17 years old

Lesson aims By the end of the lesson sts will have:

made and tried Classic Chocolate Brownie;
taken photos for social media using the hashtag #vivaacultura;
Completed the recipe so they can reproduce it at home.
Target language - Cooking Verbs, kitchen utensils and ingredients

Ingredients The ingredients should be displayed in diferent stations in rough quantity without being
measured. Each station will be the working place for each group. Do not exaggerate on
the amount displayed to avoid waste and misusing of the material. Each recipe will give
you 10 nice squares of brownie. Ideally, we should have two groups so that 2 trays could
go into the oven at the same time (and our groups hold a maximum of 20 students).

3/4 cups of butter

cups of dark chocolate

3 eggs lightly whisked

1 and cups of white sugar

cups of plain flour

3 tablespoons of cocoa powder

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

A pinch of salt

1 cup of any type of nuts ( optional in case you decide to do it, theyll go into the dry
ingredients mixture of the recipe method )

Kitchen utensils To be provided to each group:

A cup for measuring ingredients;
A bowl;
A wooden spoon;
A tablespoon
A baking tray;
A smaller bowl and pan for melting the chocolate (or it can be done in the microwave
30 seconds, take it out, mix it and put it back for another 20 seconds, take it out again and
finish the melting by mixing it)
A sieve for the dry ingredients
 A copy of the recipe/worksheet printed for each student;

STAGES/ PROCEDURES Materials Timing

AIMS

Lead in Start the class by asking students: Do you like 5

cooking? Who cooks in your house? Whats your minutes
favorite kind of food? Which adjectives do you
usually use for describing desserts? Accept some
contributions from the whole group and add some
that are not so commonly used (rich, indulgent,
sumptuous, voluptuous, devilishly good, divine) and
proceed to the next stage.

Stations with
Warmer 1- Grab each of the ingredients and drill them ingredients 5
saying its name out loud and asking for a minutes
repetition. When finished, show the
ingredient and ask them to say what that is.
If time allows, tell them the ingredient and
let them show it to you.

2- Using your body language, teach the verbs to

be used while cooking this recipe: STIR,
ADD, BAKE. Drill it using gestures and let
them guess what action you are miming.

1- First of all, students must measure and melt Ingredients and

Transition the chocolate. Ask 3 students from each Utensils 15
group to take care of this part while the
others move on with the recipe. Youll tell minutes
them what to do but they wont have any
contact with the recipe at this point. While
these students are busy working the melting
 of the chocolate and the butter, separate the
ones who were left in 2 small groups: dry
ingredients and wet ingredients.
2- The group with the dry ingredients must
sieve the white sugar, the plain flour, the
cocoa powder, the pinch of salt and mix it all
together.
3- The group with the wet ingredients must
lightly whisk the eggs, add the vanilla extract
and mix it all together.
4- Now, after the melted chocolate is cooled
down, (it must be warm and running liquid
but not hot or it will scramble the eggs) add
the wet ingredients while mixing and dont
stop. Ask another student to mix it now
because youll incorporate the wet
ingredients and believe me, the dough will
be very thick and hard to mix. Add the dry
ingredients little by little not to create any
lumps until its a uniform mix.
5- While it rests, students must prepare the
baking tray greasing it with butter and lining
it with baking paper.

Controlled While the trays are in the oven they should be there Handouts
Practice until the borders of the brownie start getting harder 25
and as a skewer is inserted in the centre and it comes minutes
out with moist crumbs clinging (the skewer or knife
shouldnt come out clean as in a cake) - 200C for
around 25 minutes. In the meantime, distribute
handouts with the recipe and ask students to
complete it with the missing words. Give them some
time to perform this group activity and class check.

Freer Let them post pictures with the hashtag

Practice/ #vivaacultura while they are eating. Brownie is 10
Wrap up generally served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. minutes
Make sure you recap some adjectives you talked
about in the begining of the class and have them use
it to give their opinions about the brownie.
 CLASSIC CHOCOLATE BROWNIE

INGREDIENTS:

3/4 cups of ___________________

cups of dark chocolate

3 _______________ lightly whisked

1 and ___________ of white _______________

cups of plain ____________________

3 tablespoons of ______________ powder

1 teaspoon of vanilla ______________

A pinch of _______________

1 cup of any type of nuts ( ___________________ )

_______________________________:

1- Preheat ______________ to 200C. Grease a 20cm (base measurement) square cake

pan and line with baking paper.
2- Place butter and chocolate in a heatproof bowl over a saucepan of simmering water. Stir
with a metal spoon until melted. Remove from heat. Quickly stir in egg, sugar, flour,
cocoa powder, vanilla and salt until just combined. Pour into prepared pan. Bake for
_________________ minutes or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out with
moist crumbs clinging. Set aside to cool completely.

TWENTY BUTTER OPTIONAL EGGS OVEN SALT - CUP

METHOD EXTRACT SUGAR COCOA - FLOUR

 ANSWER KEY:

CLASSIC CHOCOLATE BROWNIE

INGREDIENTS:

3/4 cups of butter

cups of dark chocolate

3 eggs lightly whisked

1 and cups of white sugar

cups of plain flour

3 tablespoons of cocoa powder

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

A pinch of salt

1 cup of any type of nuts ( optional )

METHOD:

1- Preheat oven to 200C. Grease a 20cm (base measurement) square cake pan and line
with baking paper.
2- Place butter and chocolate in a heatproof bowl over a saucepan of simmering water. Stir
with a metal spoon until melted. Remove from heat. Quickly stir in egg, sugar, flour, cocoa
powder, vanilla and salt until just combined. Pour into prepared pan. Bake for 20 minutes
or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out with moist crumbs clinging. Set aside to
cool completely.