Making breakfast muffins
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can use food skills to make breakfast muffins for my school friends.
Key learning points
- Recipes can be modified to better suit an occasion or person, such as breakfast or a party, and friends or grandparents.
- Breakfast muffins can be sweet (containing fruit) or savoury (containing vegetables and/or cheese).
- The food skills used to make breakfast muffins are measuring, grating, mixing, dividing (spooning) and using the oven.
- We can rate how we worked by: being hygienic, following the recipe, working tidily and using food skills.
Keywords
Modify - to make changes
Sweet - a taste like sugar or honey, not sour
Savoury - a salty or spicy taste, not sweet
Common misconception
Recipes cannot be modified.
Recipes can be modified, for different occasions and the needs of people. Ingredients can be changed and other ingredients added.
Teacher tip
Allow pupils to modify the breakfast muffin recipe, changing the cheese, courgette and herbs for other ingredients. Have a selction from which pupils could choose, helping with the practical management in the classroom.
Equipment
For ingredients and equipment see the recipe in additional materials.
Content guidance
Risk assessment required - may contain allergens
Risk assessment required - equipment
Supervision
Adult supervision required
Licence
Lesson video
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What is Laura doing before she cooks?
Q2.Which weighing scales are showing 100 g?
Q3.When baking cookies, why is it important to divide the mixture equally?
Q4.We might __________ how we work to improve next time.
Q5.Where should fresh milk and cheese be stored in a kitchen?
Q6.Put the parts of the recipe in the correct order:
Assessment exit quiz
5 Questions
Q1.True or false? Recipes cannot be changed.
Q2.What ingredients might a sweet muffin contain?
Q3.What food skill is about to happen here?
Q4.Match the measuring equipment to the correct ingredients:
flour and cheese
milk and oil
mixed herbs and sweetcorn
Q5.Sort this recipe for muffins into the correct order:
To help you plan your 4 cooking and nutrition lesson on: Making breakfast muffins, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your 4 cooking and nutrition lesson on: Making breakfast muffins, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
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The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
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