Oh gawd - I have volunteered to do a cooking class at school. Please tell me what to cook...

[SilentBoob]

A class of twenty 6 yr olds. Proper school learning kitchen - ovens and fridges etc (ie not just an assembly job in the classroom).

Previously they have made cookies, muffins, sandwiches, ice-cream, pizza, various National dishes.

What shall I make with them? Must be something doable, but also hold their interest. Dd wants me to do pancakes, but that is rather concentrated on an adult doing the hot bit I feel.

Scones? Bread? Anything that involves icing and decorating.

What about fruit kebabs with a hot chocolate sauce-good opportunity to pratice knife skills

Both good ideas! I like the scone suggestion because dd is the only English girl in the class so we can do cream and jam and say it's a traditional English dish.

Fruit kebabs might be more hands-on for the kids though.

How about carrot or squash soup? It's easy and cheap maybe bake the veggies first the L.O's can teach their parents afterwards and if the onions are plentiful and the stock is good quality it's tasty and nutritious too .

Carrot soup??

When last week's mummy iced gingerbread houses??

My daughter would never forgive me!

AAh but lets not make stereotypically stodgy english food eh! Maybe make chocolate brownies for afters?

Anything that involves measuring and mixing and is sweet is usually a winner. As you say, the hot bit should just be bunging it in the oven at the end.

Yorkshire puddings! Lovely to see them rise!! :-)

Pizza
Burgers
Meatballs
Fish skewers

Will they take the food home or eat it at school.

I personally would like to see more cooking done at school rather than just baking all the time. I think learning to cook savoury would be a far more useful skill.

Like the idea of Yorkshire puddings, but think you need to make something to go with it really as well.

Toad in the hole or individual pies (steak & mushroom / chicken etc)?

Or my home ec teacher used to have us bake cakes in empty clean tin cans and we then took the cakes home in their cans. We used to love it!

OP, have a look at cbeebies site for I Can Cook - lots of age (and time) appropriate recipes but not just typical kids food.

Apple crumble-they can get their hands nice and clean.

Cheese scones, Irish soda bread or melting moments (our school do these a lot!)? If they are all 6 then the whole weighing measuring thing can be a bit of a challenge alone though!