


{"id":1842,"date":"2012-06-17T21:40:27","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T11:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2014-09-30T10:36:48","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T00:36:48","slug":"kids-school-holidays-activity-idea-recipe-invention-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/kids-school-holidays-activity-idea-recipe-invention-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids School Holidays Activity Idea &#8211; Recipe Invention Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1845\" title=\"invention test school holiday activity\" alt=\"kids school holiday activity idea nsw\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/invention-test-school-holiday-activity-1024x674.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/invention-test-school-holiday-activity-1024x674.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/invention-test-school-holiday-activity-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/invention-test-school-holiday-activity-60x39.jpg 60w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/invention-test-school-holiday-activity-400x264.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/invention-test-school-holiday-activity.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Need something to do with the kids on a rainy day this school holidays? \u00a0This one is a winner &#8211; let the kids make up their own recipe, plate it up and present it for &#8216;judging&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the boys started with five eggs, half a block of chocolate, a cup of cream, a small bowl of flour, cocoa powder, sugar and some mixed frozen berries. \u00a0(I would definitely recommend limiting the ingredients &#8211; otherwise they tend to keep pouring more and more in).<\/p>\n<p>They had 1 hour on the clock, no recipe books and could invent whatever they liked. \u00a0They did not have to use all the ingredients but if they wanted to use anything extra that was not provided then they had to ask first. \u00a0I let them do this the day BEFORE my cleaning day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1846\" title=\"school holiday activity idea\" alt=\"school holiday activity idea kids cooking invention test\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_6859-224x300.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_6859-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_6859-300x402.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_6859-764x1024.jpg 764w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_6859-60x80.jpg 60w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_6859-400x536.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_6859.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was very surprised at how much they got into it &#8230; after an hour of cooking they both wanted to keep going with their leftover ingredients. \u00a0I loved their creativity, especially the plating that they came up with.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1844\" title=\"kids cooking school holiday activity idea invention test\" alt=\"kids cooking school holiday activity idea invention test\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_6869-764x1024.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_6869-764x1024.jpg 764w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_6869-300x402.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_6869-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_6869-60x80.jpg 60w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_6869-400x536.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_6869.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/> Chocolate cake with custard, berries, fresh basil (picked from the garden) and a sugar net.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\"><\/h6>\n \n<h4 align=center>My Cookbook<\/h4>\n<p align=center>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/cook-crazy-sweet-creations-cookbook-ann-reardon\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"40%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hardcover-book-mockup-of-a-woman-reading-3409-el1.png\" alt=\"ann reardon crazy sweet creations cookbook\" title=\"Crazy Sweet Creations Cookbook\" style=\"opacity: 0.8; -moz-opacity: 0.8;\" class=\"fade\" \/><\/a>\n<\/br>\nStores that sell my book listed by country:  \n<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/ARcookbook\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/ARcookbook<\/a>\n<\/br>\nAll recipe quantities in the book are in grams, ounces and cups.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/kids-school-holidays-activity-idea-recipe-invention-test\/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_6859-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignleft tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"school holiday activity idea kids cooking invention test\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_6859-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_6859-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_6859-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_6859-1200x1200-cropped.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" data-wp-pid=\"1846\" \/><\/a><p>Need something to do with the kids on a rainy day this school holidays? \u00a0This one is a winner &#8211; let the kids make up their own recipe, plate it up and present it for &#8216;judging&#8217;. Each of the boys started with five eggs, half a block of chocolate, a cup of cream, a small bowl of flour, cocoa powder, sugar and some mixed frozen berries. \u00a0(I would definitely recommend limiting the ingredients &#8211; otherwise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[31,227,163,22,863,861,862,865,864,868,867,866],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6062,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions\/6062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}