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Year 4 Cakes
The Great London Fields
Bake Off
The Great London Fields
Bake OffOur challenge: Produce two baked
products per class good enough to sell at the summer fair!
Background Research
First we looked at many cakes, to decide which we would like to make. We looked at cakes such as sponge, fruit, lemon drizzle and chocolate before rating how delicious
they looked.
Market Research
Once we had narrowed it down to a few cakes, we sent out questionnaires to ask our potential customers (consisting of parents/carers, teachers and children) what kind of cake they would like. We asked questions such as:
• What filling would you like?• How much would you be willing to spend? • What shape would you like your cake?
We used the answers to inform our design.
Specification
This was an incredibly important part of the DT week process. After analysing our questionnaires, we had to use that
information to decide five key requirements that our cakes needed to have. This would ensure maximum sales at the
Summer Fair!
Focussed Practical Task
We practiced making cupcakes and decorating them with fillings. The cupcakes were mini versions of some cakes that we would potentially be producing at the end of DT
week, ready to sell at the Summer Fair. It was great fun to practice the baking skills that our teachers had taught us!
Focussed Practical Task
Designing
In order to produce a design of our desired cake, we used our specifications to fill in a blank cake template. Everybody brought different ideas to the table which was incredibly
helpful because it gave us lots of inspiration to help us decide on our final product.
Selecting the final product
After a lesson of designing, we compared the designs against the specification that we had already drawn up. It was
important to find a design that closely matched our specification to ensure our customers were satisfied and to
ensure excellent sales at the Summer Fair.
Preparing Final Product
Once we knew how what kind of cake we wanted to produce, all that was left was to make it! After checking our recipes, we
gathered all of the ingredients and equipment together.
Making the final product
Once our cooking stations were set up, we washed our hands to get ready to make our cakes. Following our recipe closely, we placed flour, sugar and cracked four eggs into the mixing bowl
before creaming it all together in a figure of eight with a big wooden spoon. We then put it into the cake tin and into the
oven for thirty minutes on a low heat.
Evaluating
Finally we thought about what had worked about our final products and what we could have improved. Each class came
up with different ideas about how to improve their design. Some included different types of decoration, different coloured
icing or adding different fillings into the middle of the cake.