Excuse the iPhone photos, I forgot to take my fancy camera to Brownies
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For reference, Brownies are aged 7-10
Break the girls up into their Sixes, with one leader per Six
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Flag cakes
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Equipment:
Clean
hands
Antibacterial
spray for tables or placemats that can be washed
One
traybake sponge cake
Glace
icing
Coloured
fondant icing: red, yellow, blue, green and black
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Cake ingredients – one batch for a
unit of 12
4oz
butter (Sainsbury’s economy butter is the best and cheap)
4
oz caster sugar
2
large eggs (beaten)
4oz
self raising flour
Glace icing
100g
sieved icing sugar
2
tbsps water
Preheat
oven to 170 degrees
Beat
the butter and sugar until light and fluffy
Add
the egg, and beat to incorporate, using a spoonful of flour with each egg.
If
it’s not quite a dropping consistency, add some boiled water (just a spoonful
or two)
Baked
in a greased and lined roasting tin, for about 20-30 minutes this makes a
flattish sponge (hence no additional raising agent) which, when cut into
squares is a perfect base for flags.
Top
the cake with the icing, make by beating the water, little by little into the
icing sugar until you get a white paste. Smooth over so you can portion up
the cake into 12 flag shaped pieces
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If
doing this with Guides it is an ideal Patrol cooking activity. Because
Brownies is a shorter session and you need the cakes to cook to ice them, we
made the cake and did the glace icing.
Allergy
notes:
We
use a dairy substitute (normally Pure or sunflower spread) if we have any
dairy allergies.
This also works with gluten free flour, but may need some extra liquid – milk or water. Just add an extra tablespoon and see how you go.
Usual
kitchen safety rules/ washing up apply
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Olympic
rings
Give
each girl a small peice (about 2cm square) of coloured fondant icing, one
red, green, blue, yellow and black.
Sprinkle
some icing sugar in front of each girl for her to dust her hands and
placemat/ clean portion of the table with
Get
each Brownie to roll out her icing into a sausage shape and then make that
into a ring
Lay
the rings on the iced cake in the same order that they do on the Olympic
flag. The girls can overlap their rings if they want to be authentic, but don’t
worry if they don’t want to – it’s just about doing their best.
Put
each ‘flag’ onto a slightly bigger square of greaseproof paper and ask each
girl to write her name on hers. Put to one side, and make sure they remember
to take them home!
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